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But I can see a point in the, dare I say, minority groups having their own pages. Facebook is SO ephemeral that a, say, FWD owner can ask a question on one of the main pages and it'll be lost and unanswered within a day or two, whereas on a dedicated model page with less traffic and more members model familiar it's more likely to get a result.
Of course there is this Forum which I recommend to anyone who asks where to pose any Dolomite related query. But not everyone seems to share my enthusiasm for it. I don't know why, as there is more knowledge and a monumentally bigger archive here, than in all the FB pages put together. But there you go, nowt as strange as folk!
Steve
Therein lays the issue. Younger people mostly interact via mobile phone/social media and view 'forums' as old fashioned and think they get 'Free' and quicker answers to questions via social media but never think to 'search' the internet (or the FB group their posting in) to see if the answer to their question is already out there (in 90%+ of cases it already is). Often the answers they get though are dubious and sometimes downright dangerous, but that's 'social media' for you
Having said that the archive here is far far bigger than on FB, the actual search facility on all php based forums leaves a lot to be desired with good old Google still being the better way to search versus the basic search engine default in different browsers. My default browser atm is 'Brave' but I had to change the search to Google because of the cr*p results via Brave search. I do use MS Edge, Chrome and Firefox as well (plus Safari on my phone) if looking for an obscure answer as all search engines give different results....
PhpBB itself does look 'Old Fashioned' compared to the likes of XenForo
https://xenforo.com/ which may also be part of the problem but they often cost $$ - There is a good discussion on the pros and cons of different forum software from the younger community here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/r ... rum_today/
However, whether changing to something different would make a difference these days is pretty doubtful so all you can do is keep posting on the FB groups and pointing people to this club forum.