I meant to post this earlier but just am getting around to it. We Launched the forum April 9th of last year and I wanted to show how the year looked as far as forum activity goes. I’m VERY PLEASED with the growth we are seeing and all of the new users that are actively participating in the 2A community.
Here is a breakdown of some basic stats from 2021.
48.4k Likes Given
2.4M Pageviews
6.5k Signups
1.7k Topics
I want to ask all of our users: What are things you like to see in a Forum? What are your needs / wants? How can we continue to make this a place that members of the 2A Community want to engage in?
I love this forum and everyone here. I like to come here for a laugh, especially to learn, help where I can, and share.
I’ve been on forums since the late 90s, as my interests have shifted over time. One thing I have noticed since I became active in forums, and that I have no idea how to fix, is getting youth involved. While there are some exceptions, for the most part, there doesn’t seem to be a steady influx of youth. Maybe that’s firearms in general?
Young people will sit around all day and waste time on YT, TikTok, Snapchat and the like, but don’t get involved in forums. I don’t understand…nor am I advocating that this place turn into anything even remotely like the aforementioned.
I got my oldest to sign up here. I think he posted exactly one time. Very disappointed. He couldn’t believe “all the reading”
Even more disappointed. Maybe his passion will develop in time.
The youth are being brainwashed by the left. We need more youth involvement to keep this movement, and the passion alive.
I like the folks here on the PSA forum. There’s a lot of threads that I don’t know exist unless I stumble upon them. I usually try to read through every post in a thread, but don’t always. Learn a lot, there are people here way more into firearms than I, but there’s more than just stuff about guns here. So something for just about everyone. Sometimes I get a little carried away, so you gotta take me with a boulder of salt🤣. Sarcasm, I put that ■■■■ on everything…
I love the PSA forums because there are so many people here with such diverse backgrounds. Most people here offer great advice and help….and it doesn’t necessarily have to be about firearms.
There are good people here……some of the best I’ve ever encountered in an online community. It’s a little hidden secret….it’s a great place spend a little time each day and visit.
It would be great if there were a dedicated customer/tech support team for the forum. By decentralizing support from being phones-only, it will lessen the burden on the phone agents.
This is definitely something I can do. It might even be something that is built in to the forum natively. Give me the end of the week and I should have something for you.
Since Palmetto in most cases is both dealer, distributor, and manufacturer the quality control is far better and consistent in quality, fit and finish than most other online gun shops. My point is there is not much to complain about than maybe other online gun stores, but that wouldn’t make much sense on this forum. But belive me there is allot of issues out there that buyers are forced to put up with if an item is not in inventory here on trusted PSA. Example I’ve bee looking to buy a Rem XDMe compact in 45 ACP “NEW” but its a minefield out there between online gun stores that have there own store front “new” inventory mixed with range gun inventory that have been tested by the public still considered “new”, and distributors that have return inventory as refurbished “new”. The poor buyer cant catch everything at the counter of their FFL until you get home and bore scope the gun or use a gauge. The buyer is either blissfully ignorant or if in the know left having to get the manufacturer to help you out on a new heavily used gun. For me none of this has ever happened with PSA where I have bought most of my guns, and frankly I’m getting to the point where fir me its just better place a “back in stock” notification on PSA than take another chance crap-shoot and after-action hoop jump too often required elsewhere. IMPO
PS… I may be missing it, but it would be great to have an easy button that takes you from the forum to the store and vise versa.
I don’t post a lot, but enjoy reading the different views all of you have. I have assembled several firearms I bought from PSA, and my PA10 (308) is one of my favorite rifles, in fact, after shooting mine, my Grandson couldn’t wait to purchase his own. That costs me a LOT of ammo!
