I am just giving up on the forum ... I,ll google If I want to get information .

Perhaps all the chats (Djuma included) could be located in the Campfire forum? I long for the pure Water Hole daily discussions--minus the chat.

My Tips on forum viewing from my time here.
1)If you want to see what you missed look at Streaming cam pics as most things seen are posted here maybe 99% off them.

2)If you what see movie off what you missed and seen in Streaming cam pics, look in the weekly movies and post asking for movie someone might have one.

3)If you want to ask about what was seen post in the NKORHO SIGHTINGS DISCUSSION

4)If you want a running chat sightings/sounds and mostly waterhole chat check out the NKORHO WATERHOLE CHAT . This is not the place to look for what you missed, you will do better looking at the Streaming cam pics.

5)If you want to chat about how to bake a cake pop over to the The Campfire..

Too many Forums/Too many Topics etc......
....is that what you mean wannabethere?

I have difficulty in following some threads and forgetting 'where' I saw 'what'!
Yes, I can do a 'search' to find what I am looking for but these searches can produce so many options that I often give up as I don't have the time to read them all.

I (think?) that is what I was trying to say smalldog - I truly appreciate the efforts of Admin and the Moderators in 'trying to please everyone here' but by splitting the topics in the Waterhole Chat they have just made it more confusing and difficult, not only for new members, but also for those of us who have been here since the beginning?

The sheer numbers of Forums and Topics here puts me off a tad.... I would love to have the time to read (and respond) to them all but it is not possible.... and I am worried that Africam and the Moderators may yet add even more Forums/Topics in the future, which may put off others, besides myself, from posting as it may become a bit overwhelming?

To Admin, and the Moderators (a personal view):
Please try to keep the Boma 'simple and user-friendly' for the very many viewers here who do not have the time to read all of the forums/post here.
I believe (rightly or wrongly) that the majority of viewers do not post here because they are intimidated (maybe that's not the right word but it is the only one that comes to mind at the moment) by the (too) many Forums/Topics that they have to trawl through; and because they are limited for reasons of work or internet time to do so.

:P

One solution would be for everyone to have followed the original "rules" and used the daily Campfire chat thread.

I think I understand what motivated the change, but it's going to be hard. I suspect that what will happen is that most people will only post in the "chat" thread and the sightings thread will end up missing a lot of the day's action..

For example, early Monday morning, a pair of beautiful brown headed parrots were spotted in the bushes, and the camera person followed them in the air and to the WH. (Have a look at the great photos that were taken!). I ended up posting in both threads to discuss these beautiful birds, and someone posted a great video of the birds, and I don't remember which thread that ended up in.

People were chatting in the chat thread when they arrived, and so most of the discussion/identification happened in that thread, with some in the sightings thread. But it's hard to go back and forth quickly with a sudden and unexpected sighting, and so a lot of stuff got repeated in each thread..

So I think there may be a lot of duplication and repetition. For the person who likes to skim these threads to see what they missed, I don't think they will be confident that everything will be reported in the sightings thread, so they'll need to skim through the chat thread. It will end up being less efficient, not more, if you need to go through two threads to make sure you caught everything..

I really am not sure what the solution is, and perhaps this will work with practice. I love chatting with people about what we're watching together on camera, and I hope this can continue..

Thanks to everyone who is trying to make this work!

First of all, thank you for all the effort you put in to try to make this site user friendly and a success. I think you have done well, which is difficult to do with so many viewers. I was confused when I first saw the two waterhole chats. I am primarily a waterhole chatter, with only a few excursions to the campfire. Now it seems I have to follow both waterhole chats to get the input I was seeing in the single previous chat. I am willing to continue reading both, however, one seemed more simple. Thank you.

That's part of what seems to be a problem with this new Nkorho Chat outside the Campfire forum. I don't know where to look, what to read, where to comment, what's appropriate what isn't in which of those two threads.

That "chat" thread seems to be filled with lots of comments about the sightings and thoughts about what is seen and heard--all of which seems totally appropriate (to me anyway) for the "sightings" threads.

But you can't go by me. I don't understand at all why an additional chat thread was instituted--folks just had to join the daily Campfire threads where we say hello, goodnight, whatcha doin, whatcha thinking, whatdidja see, etc.