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The Campfire / Re: changes?
« Last post by RobD on Today at 06:35:47 AM »The core goal of the TMA has always been the sentence at the top of every page ...
The TMA is dedicated to preserving the rich and fascinating heritage of the traditional muzzleloading firearms of early America.
For more than a few reasons, TMA forum participation has dwindled over more than a few years.
"Ya can lead a horse to water but ya can't make it drink."
We all at the TMA officer level have done a buncha things over the last few or more years to encourage participation in our organization. IMHO none have been effective at bringing in new forum registrants let alone contributing members. This may be due to other like minded forums that have a longer established membership, and that the TMA was more of a physical "localized" get-together organization that lost some or most of that local group. I dunno exactly.
Add to this the continuing trend of social media leaving forums for linear "fast food" media such as Facebook, Instagram, Tic Tok, and the like.
What we have now is a TMA club of sorts where the forum is more of a loose gathering of like-minded folks sitting around a campfire and chatting. Not a thing wrong with that.
What it takes to keep this virtual campfire going is the website forum server space and domain name.
What next, you say?
The TMA is dedicated to preserving the rich and fascinating heritage of the traditional muzzleloading firearms of early America.
For more than a few reasons, TMA forum participation has dwindled over more than a few years.
"Ya can lead a horse to water but ya can't make it drink."
We all at the TMA officer level have done a buncha things over the last few or more years to encourage participation in our organization. IMHO none have been effective at bringing in new forum registrants let alone contributing members. This may be due to other like minded forums that have a longer established membership, and that the TMA was more of a physical "localized" get-together organization that lost some or most of that local group. I dunno exactly.
Add to this the continuing trend of social media leaving forums for linear "fast food" media such as Facebook, Instagram, Tic Tok, and the like.
What we have now is a TMA club of sorts where the forum is more of a loose gathering of like-minded folks sitting around a campfire and chatting. Not a thing wrong with that.
What it takes to keep this virtual campfire going is the website forum server space and domain name.
What next, you say?

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