What has made you Angry Today???????

[TPC]

I’m with you Tony, it would be great to get the traffic back. There is a small skeleton crew of members here still posting away. But the “what’s new” doesn’t show everything that has been posted since you last refreshed like it used to. The system has changed. It’s fucked now. We have been commenting and asking about this for ages and getting nothing back from the powers that be. If it’s a money thing then just tell us! We can work together to fix it! We are (or were) a tight-knit community and we still can be if open communication can happen again.
Don’t get me wrong. Tony I know you have gone through some seriously hard times in your life. How do I know? You leant on us when you needed to. I am now going through somewhat of a life situation that I’m not adjusting to very easily, and I know other members here are going through tough times as well. This is exactly when we need each other. This is when maybe we don’t spill it all out publicly on the forum, but we can have each others backs like we used to and use Private Messages, phone calls, texts, etc, all because we met here with a common interest!
Let’s get back to the community we used to be here. It’s not too late. Come on guys, and come back!

The forum helped keep me sane when I was going through the shit 10 years ago, feel free to lean on me.

[mudski]

I believe the what's new showed what was posted since you last checked, there used to be a lot of posts every time but unfortunately a lot of members and ex members are probably spending their time on Facebook. I really miss the way this forum was before and would love to see it again but I do not believe it is the fault of mods. Anyone that reads this, please try to post more and I will make the same effort.

I think a lot of people have simply moved on and interests in life have changed. I still keep in contact with quite a few members who no longer come onto the forum and i can see that their lives are differnet to what it was when they were an active member, gotten families, moved houses, changed jobs etc which all impacts on the daily things they were used to doing.
I for one spend more time here than FB. I hate FB, its just full of mind numbing crap, and my thumb gets sore from scrolling too much. I wish I could spend more time on here, but im doing 10-11 hours days at work and all i want to do when i get home is veg out on the couch, then the weekends are just chocka block full with house reno's, which never end. I get the spare 5 minutes or every few days to jump on and see whats happening, then work wants to get in the way with that. Lol.

My 2c

[mudnut]

Face ache sucks. I only joined it to sell stuff. Even that is a chore I don't want to repeat, but must, as the old ways of doing things are dying out.

If you want to talk, Plassy, P.M. me.

[MudRunnerTD]

Are you actually pulling my pud? 4 months after an observation was made by a daily signed-in member, an absent mod (like all the others) replies and says maybe you’re not using the forum right? Are you actually kidding me? This forum has crashed. It’s no longer a social platform like it was, because those that run it (and evidently most of their mates) now socialise elsewhere and have abandoned what was the greatest Nissan Patrol forum in the world. The ballroom here is vacant and the band is packing up. Not because the public didn’t like it, it’s because the lights were turned out on us. Now, I would never try to undermine the ALMIGHTY work that AB undertook to create, grow and eventually flourish this (his) forum, but it’s on its knees now and needs some good old caretaking, some watering and a bit of mowing to spruce it back up again. I’ll put my hand up to help if I’m asked. But don’t swing in here twice a year and tell us dailies how the place runs.

Thats a bit harsh Plas, Yes i am not here anywhere near how much as i was in the glory days and thats a shame. Yes Social Media has fuked this place and just about every forum with this type of format on the Net which is scary because Social Media is full of flogs and mis-information and there is no structure.

I come here far more often that you think mate. I would do a Spam sweep 2 or 3 times a week. Trust me there is Plenty of that. I generally use the same "Whats New" List as you do to chase down the spam and find plenty. As soon as i sweep the Spam out the Whats New list halves because there were actually No New posts there, just spam. That is Constant. I dont wait for Reports and probably ignore the reports anyway, i just sweep up a couple of times a week. The role of the Moderator here has always been the Sweeper, there is generally no Conflict to Moderate and there never really has been. A credit to the Members. The day i posted the above comment i removed a Spammer that had 120 spam posts on the forum! I'd never seen anything like it! blew my mind to be honest!

I think Mudski put it best, Life rolls on and people's priorities change.. New cars, Babies, New houses, Marriage, New Jobs. All of these things change our behaviours and our Priorities.

For me, I lost a 22 Year Job that i was going to Retire doing 2 years ago mate and lost an un-fair Dismissal that cost me my entire Long Service and payout to Loose. I did 22 years and Never took a sick day or any of my long service leave. Then had to figure out what i was going to do to save my fucking house as my wife is 5 Years on Workcover and No Income or compensation. I did Commission Only for 12 months and was 4 months between pay checks. I was working 16 hours a day for scratch, self funding everything to finally see a Commission a month before running out of Mortgage payments...What Forum!

I now work at a Partner level for a company and im still at my desk. 60 to 80 hours a week is pretty standard so logging onto the forum at 7:30pm is a Luxury i rarely take. Mortgage, Family Both trump the Forum.

My "Mates" have all got things happening in their lives that mean i dont see them much. I have a small group in a 10yo chat and thank fuck for those guys. half of those guys go missing in action off a group chat which is a safe space. If i cant find them there they aint gunna be here. Life took them in a different direction. A couple of those Mates have had some pretty heavy shit to deal with too that you are aware of, that aint their fault and it means they aint Here.

This place has help ground me many many times. Im not sure what life would look like if i had never come here. My closest and Dearest Friends are guys on met on the Internet... Some of their kids call me Uncle.

If you would like Moderator Access i can arrange that for you no problem. @AB can you sort out Mod Access for Plas please.

Dont Tell me i Dont Care mate.

[jack]

Unfortunately what happens is f you have auto signed out and or auto signed in then the "Whats New" list is basically Whats New since you last signed in. If there has been no traffic then there is No List. I agree, it would be awesome if the whats New list retained the 50 most recent interactions so you always had that list of commons. Because we all use the Whats New list that way we dont navigate the forum so its easy to lose stuff for sure.

Thanks for the explanation Darren, this has been bugging me for ages. I check the forum from a couple of devices and couldn't understand why I only saw a couple of posts and nothing over a day old.
I went back and checked a couple of threads to find heaps of unread stuff, I haven't stayed logged in on any device so will see what happens if I stay logged in.

[Plasnart]

Thats a bit harsh Plas, Yes i am not here anywhere near how much as i was in the glory days and thats a shame. Yes Social Media has fuked this place and just about every forum with this type of format on the Net which is scary because Social Media is full of flogs and mis-information and there is no structure.

I come here far more often that you think mate. I would do a Spam sweep 2 or 3 times a week. Trust me there is Plenty of that. I generally use the same "Whats New" List as you do to chase down the spam and find plenty. As soon as i sweep the Spam out the Whats New list halves because there were actually No New posts there, just spam. That is Constant. I dont wait for Reports and probably ignore the reports anyway, i just sweep up a couple of times a week. The role of the Moderator here has always been the Sweeper, there is generally no Conflict to Moderate and there never really has been. A credit to the Members. The day i posted the above comment i removed a Spammer that had 120 spam posts on the forum! I'd never seen anything like it! blew my mind to be honest!

I think Mudski put it best, Life rolls on and people's priorities change.. New cars, Babies, New houses, Marriage, New Jobs. All of these things change our behaviours and our Priorities.

For me, I lost a 22 Year Job that i was going to Retire doing 2 years ago mate and lost an un-fair Dismissal that cost me my entire Long Service and payout to Loose. I did 22 years and Never took a sick day or any of my long service leave. Then had to figure out what i was going to do to save my fucking house as my wife is 5 Years on Workcover and No Income or compensation. I did Commission Only for 12 months and was 4 months between pay checks. I was working 16 hours a day for scratch, self funding everything to finally see a Commission a month before running out of Mortgage payments...What Forum!

I now work at a Partner level for a company and im still at my desk. 60 to 80 hours a week is pretty standard so logging onto the forum at 7:30pm is a Luxury i rarely take. Mortgage, Family Both trump the Forum.

My "Mates" have all got things happening in their lives that mean i dont see them much. I have a small group in a 10yo chat and thank fuck for those guys. half of those guys go missing in action off a group chat which is a safe space. If i cant find them there they aint gunna be here. Life took them in a different direction. A couple of those Mates have had some pretty heavy shit to deal with too that you are aware of, that aint their fault and it means they aint Here.

This place has help ground me many many times. Im not sure what life would look like if i had never come here. My closest and Dearest Friends are guys on met on the Internet... Some of their kids call me Uncle.

If you would like Moderator Access i can arrange that for you no problem. @AB can you sort out Mod Access for Plas please.

Dont Tell me i Dont Care mate.

Ok I’m just going to say this: Darren I apologise. I don’t think I said you don’t care, but that you and the leadership team here in general were absent. I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that from the public face side of the forum.

@AB I apologise for maybe causing some offence to you. It wasn’t my intention and I only have admiration for what you have built here. I love the place and wish it was as vibrant as it was in its glory days.

I know there are guys here that have gone through, and are going through some serious shit way worse than what I have. But as for me, well I’m ok but nearly not. The past 12 months has been a train crash coming in slow motion. It hasn’t happened yet but it’s got to the last braking point before the bend so for me I need to get a few things right again. One of those things is working on an ever shrinking short fuse and the underlying causes for it. So for the time being I’ll be off air for a while getting some things sorted.

Thanks mudnut and TPC for the offers, appreciate it.

[Hodge]

My short stab at the forum/s, becoming digital empty hotel rooms. A lot of good points were mentioned above already.
I've been a piece of furniture in 3 different forums, one of them literally for 2 decades now. A Computer geek one, Plane spotters and this one (Patrol).
All of them have diminishing activity in recent, I'm gonna call it , 6-7 years or there about. Including this one!
People come and go. Some stay, some move on. Some poke their head in once in a while. Some people, cut the forum's interest out of their lives, and feel like they don't belong or nothing more to contribute to the forum. (For example if some sold their Patrol, they feel like they don't belong here no more). And a lot of them have... And then there is the obvious, social media, FB etc... A lot have moved to that platform.
I have a few folders or photos, taken from all the meetups Ive attended and 4x4 runs at Tallarook, Wombat etc...
And there's so many people in the photos and their Patrol, that were stout members here and regulars. And then all but vanished...
Natural progression of life I call it.

I my self have been generally quiet around here. Bit of lack of time, and bit of shit going on in life... Some may be aware of it, and have been PM-in back and forth, in the past. But as mentioned by a few of you above. People are going through shit. Some rough, some not so much.

I had a heart episode 2 weeks ago. Rapid Atrial Fibrillation, which led to a cardiac arrest an hour and a half later. Lucky I was already amboed to resus unit before that happened so they had the zappedy dooh-daahs to correct that.
Bit of a scare and an eye opener for a generally fit and healthy bloke in early 40s...
Life is short and can suddenly shovel shit in your face, so you gotta make the most of it every day!!!

So, in saying that... It would be amazing to have a forum meetup somewhere!!!

[timbar]

the old Q has electrical problems and my turbo gave up ffs

[mudnut]

Some of you may remember me leaving the handbrake on when towing and I stuffed a wheel bearing on my old caravan, yonks ago. Well, I stopped in Hamilton and grabbed a new bearing kit. (Had to buy one Ford kit and one Holden kit, thanks to a decision by Windsor's engineers.) The only ones they had were made in China. I wacked that set in and promptly forgot about it. I took the van out for a shake down run today, and the Chinese set of bearings is running hot! And before you think it, I do know how to fit new races, pack the bearing grease and adjust them properly.

I popped the hub cover off and sure enough, the brand new Inox MX8 grease has already gone to grey metalllic paste. I had to buy two more kits, this time Japanese. Yup they came at twice the price, plus twice the price. Gaaaaaaahh!

[Touses]

Ah, the old adage!!
Ya get what ya pay for.