I'm fairly new to Nkorho, Djuma... and enjoy all of it. I think Cat has hit it squarely on the head. There is something to please everyone, and no one should have to feel infringed upon. I can see where the repetetive and sometimes irrelevant chat would be irritating to some, but the numbers speak and obviously many people prefer freer format.

Personally, I will quickly scan the sighting postings when I first come on. Just to see what I may have missed. Then I head to the chatty forum so I can exchange more ideas and tidbits with folks. I don't, however, try to read every page I've missed! Getting to know people's personalities a little, rather than just Jane Doe from OK saw a hippo at 3 a.m., is more fun and interesting for me. What could be better than connecting with nice people from all over with a common interest?

As far as Djuma and Nkorho and upcoming cams are concerned- being as they are similar in location and overall topic, it is hard to say folks can't post about one or the other. I feel that the more people that discover and appreciate the cams, forums, and MOST OF ALL develop an interest and affinity for South Africa and all the precious wild life the better. Let them chat away and become aware of the world out there!

I think Cat has hit the nail squarely on the head. :D

Well, I'm really sorry for adding to the confusion. I thought Campbell's project was just up and running early to get the bugs out. So sorry for making more trouble!!

As for the added forums, the cam discussions often slipped into chat, especially when people were on but nothing was happening. The mods and some members wanted it to stay simply about sightings while others wanted to be able to extend the convo from "Hyena at 12 o'clock" to "I see it, wonder what it's doing. What did they do yesterday, do they have babies, did you see any on your trip to Africa?" Still about hyenas, but more than just the facts. Also saw no harm in hello, good-bye, and I've lost the picture. So Some of the members created a chat forum about the sightings. Mods said it was ok. THEN.......Djuma came up and everyone wanted to talk about it. Not everyone, but many. So Ingwe created a forum for that.

Does that make any sense now? It you want sightings with chat, go to the chat forum. If you want sightings without chat, stay on the old cam discussions.

Elephant Plains and Djuma are two different entities. Elephant Plains will be doing some game drive cams and another wh cam later this month. :D Someone just posted the game drive from Djuma by chance and we now get to enjoy that.

I have to agree. Really confused by the whole thing and the fragmenting of the site.

Ingwe, I guess I'm really confused. There is an announcement on Waterhole, signed by Campbell, telling about 2 new waterhole sites and drive cams coming soon. Is this something separate from Djuma? Is it Elephant Plains and they are not related, Elephant Plains and Djuma? The projects sound alike, I guess I leapt to the conclusion that they were the same project. Sorry for the misspokes then, I though it was all the same .

Don't like this new arrangement, don't like it at all. More does not always mean better.

Here's my view on this subject...

All these new threads popping up in the Watering hole gets a bit confusing at times. I understand people don't want to jump between boards to post but they still have to jump between threads (topics) to post.
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The Watering hole as I understood was for streaming cam discussions and the Campfire for all off topic chat.

The only suggestion I can think of is adding sub boards for the additional chats and discussions we have curently going on. It may make it easier to find the proper thread (topic) to post in and make it easier for the staff as well.

I like many of the others appreciate the great staff as well as the members here and the chance to view what I call wildlife at it's best. :)

Campbell is not affiliated with Djuma. I think he has made a very generous gesture in allowing discussion of that cam on this forum.