There doesn’t appear to be the will to organise this which is understandable if people are busy with other things, but does prevent many farmers from getting involved.
I receive fairly regular messages from people who just don’t know where to start with this and I’m still digging through advanced searches to get information.
As an example, I have spent weeks trying to understand why my base is drifting and found a 60+ post thread which details PPP.
Post 15 gave me the information I sought, but this post is two years old and took some finding.
The information is here, the quality of it is often excellent and some of the members are genuine experts in their area, but I defy any “average farmer” with average IT skills to locate a simple set of procedures by which to get this working.
Even the manual often only describes what buttons / functions are, not what they do, it’s more “tool tips” than explanations.
It must be acknowledged that AOG is not a commercial product and I’ve heard it said that if a farmer wants an off the shelf, well documented and well supported product, then go and buy one for £20k, but this kind of flies in the face of the mission statement here, “Farmers helping farmers.”
Having said this, I am eternally grateful for the time and efforts that people have freely given to this project and I am very happy to say that I have got my machine working. However, this is because I’m an IT engineer who doesn’t mind staying up until 3AM studying technical data, then publicly asking very basic questions to ensure I understand things. That’s not to mention the number of PMs I have sent to members picking their brains.
And finally, I should probably stop moaning and just help to update the manual.