Is Boards.ie the only successful .con in the world???

DeVore · 19-01-2001 10:10am #1

We've been 9 months running and in the last week we've had our busiest time ever breaking all sorts of records.... (I blame the CSer's

)

Cloud's little baby-board that started sooo long ago is reaching some sort of maturity...
*sniff*

We've just passed 3 Million impressions (we want to catch the 3 Millionth page served and give a little prize to the reader but we missed it, it shot past us and I'm shagged if I'm counting back 50K in the logs

)

We've also broken our own records for most impressions in one day (13,000 beating the previous record day, when Shinji made some 'comments' about the Quake National Team and all hell broke loose

)
and our average impressions per day has broken 10K...

Congrats all, amazing isnt it that a small band of merry gamers can out last vocal.local.ie and operate on a shoestring budget.

One last thing, a big shout out to our moderators who work for nothing (revenue? we dont need no stinkin' revenue!).
Is we didnt have the Kharns, Castor Troys, Mindphucks and all the rest of the guys watching our backs we, as a community, wouldnt have this little home on the internet. There is a pint around here somewhere for ye

The Boards Team.
Cloud, DeVore, Regi, Tr1n1ty, Vexorg.

Frodo@work · 19-01-2001 10:25am

Well done lads, you do a super job.

LegacyUser · 19-01-2001 11:10am

Well I am a recent person to the boards but all the work that has been done is great and I would like to give u all a big thank u If it was not with out these boards I think we all would be lost and a thank u to regi for puttin up with my stupid questions

u guys do a great job. I have looked back over a few posts and they really have been funny and I think this one has to take the first prize to make u laugh for some one actin like such a muppet http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum1/HTML/000819.html Well done lads keep all the hard work up.
What was the prize hopefully not a date with one of u

Also if there is prizes Castor r Hobbes has to win it for the most wierd'est links r pictures.

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Lenny · 19-01-2001 4:44pm

the 'for sale' board is really good I think

quite handy

richindub2 · 19-01-2001 6:14pm

I'd just like to pitch in and say nice job guys and thx for providing the service

UP DA DUBS!!

bubbles · 19-01-2001 6:46pm

Hobbes is American, and works for Lotus - so that explains that.

Yup, the boards still rock, and just want to say thanks to Dev, Regi, Vex, Cloud and anyone else who take thier own time to give us all a place to moan, slag, and post badly edited sexually explict pictures of people and DeVore.

Cheers lads.

Oh while I'm here is there any chance of having the old interface for surfing the newsgroups back? The newer one is crap compared to it imo.

bubbs

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Shinji · 19-01-2001 6:49pm

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">We've also broken our own records for most impressions in one day (13,000 beating the previous record day, when Shinji made some 'comments' about the Quake National Team and all hell broke loose) </font>

Glad to be of service!

I'll wager that last weeks record breaking may have been something to do with the various ruckuses (is that a word?) on the CS boards...

Congrats on 9 months, Boards.ie folk - a hell of a lot of .cons don't even make it to full-term.

If you go right the way back to the start of the boards, past the Cloud Boards and to the ones on Quake.ie and so on, how old does that make the whole thing?

sutty · 19-01-2001 6:50pm

Wayhay!!!!!

we'er number 1, we'er number 1

Good going to all that make this happen......

Ciaran Sutcliffe
aka: sutty
[HIV]sutty
For a good time goto:
http://www.hotinternetvirgins.com

Mills · 19-01-2001 6:58pm

Hurrah for boards.ie! Thanks to all the guys who bring us this service, it's much appreciated

logic1 · 19-01-2001 7:32pm

/me kisses some ****

Good job lads.

.logic.

[Neil0r] · 19-01-2001 7:49pm

yah fair play
gg and all that..

nethousegames

pat kenny · 19-01-2001 8:29pm

The population of the boards is sky-rocketing,we have a police force in the form of the moderators,we've had civil war on the old half-life board which led to a split,so tell me when do we get to vote

,o and soon we'll need an army.
WELL DONE!

Dont make me He-B1tch Man Slap You!!!!

LegacyUser · 19-01-2001 8:33pm

Yeah lads, played. Long live boards.ie

Agus anois ar TG Ceathair, ROBOT WARS!
[ www.clan-bse.co.uk ] [ littletinyman@clan-bse.co.uk ]

[SN]JAG · 19-01-2001 8:33pm

hobbes is irish and works in the states

but wow this has to be one of the most succesful irish websites i know of
(of course if the fallen quake news had of kept goin twould be diff)

Irelnad will never be the same

Monty - the one and only · 19-01-2001 9:04pm

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by pat kenny:
split,so tell me when do we get to vote
</font>

Vote? I thought we were considered "friendly dictatrors"

Anyway wll done to Dev and co'. With out the boards, the communites that have developed would never have existed.

Unexpected acts of kindness...are common among our group

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Net House Games

Daneel · 19-01-2001 9:23pm

I also want to say thanks to the lads, they are the best masters I have ever had.

SantaHoe · 19-01-2001 10:57pm

/me hugs daneel, whispering - "where's that Ernott of ours fècked off to anyway?"

Cake Fiend · 20-01-2001 1:10am

pld all

Lump · 20-01-2001 1:56am

Well done and stuff.

John

Bard · 20-01-2001 2:14am

This'll probably sound all ar$e-kissey, but that's not the intention... I've been here since April 2000 myself, and seen the site develop nicely over that time. I now must check in regularly every day just to keep up with what's going on. It's good people that make bulletin boards fun and useful and you lot are a good, diverse bunch, making boards.ie an essential daily read

. It deserves the awards it was runner-up for - and more. Well done and continued success to boards.ie and all involved in it. I'm glad to be a part of it...