So what's in your 'Subbed' forum list?

swiss

This isn't intended to be just a spammy "list out your subbed forums list". I would just like to find out which boards are particularly entertaining or informative - or at least entertaining or informative enough to warrant someone to actually subscribe to that particular board.

At the moment I have subscribed to 12 boards, which I check pretty regularly. There are perhaps a furthur 10 that I would visit on a regular-ish basis. I check the others once every blue moon or so.

Subbed forums (In alpabetical order):

After Hours:
Yes, this board. Full of inane ramblings just like this one, but you occasionally stumble onto some comedy goldmines.

Feedback/Suggestions:
All the "FIGHT TEH POWAH!" style postings are here. Typical threads include "Why was I banned from X?" and "Forum suggestion: Obscure hobby #32". This board is also the soap opera of boards, the clashing personalities alone make it worth reading.

For Sale General:
Yes, I am a for sale junkie. I think I've only bought one item from someone from boards in all my time here, but it's still nice to check up on what people are selling, and what the expected asking price is. It's always amusing when someone posts up something with a guideline price of ~€100 and gets offers of €5.

Humanities:
This, after politics is the 'serious' discussion board. The controversial issues of the day are thrashed out here. Such issues as abortion, prostitution, divorce, racism etc crop up time and again. Moderated stongly by amp & co. ltd.

Humour:
It's in my subbed list, but I hardly ever check it anymore. All the stuff that's doing the rounds in emails at the moment turns up here. Again, it occasionally has some class threads, but these are becoming increasingly few and far between

IrelandOffline:
Find out why you should hate Eircom here. The nitty gritty of the state of the telecommunications industry of Ireland is discussed.

Lan Parties:
I lan. Roll on the next Darkside.

Lesbian Gay Bisexual:
How queer! What's this one doing here?

Personal Issues:
Full of teenage angst. In other words, comedy goldmine. Such classic threads include "How do I know if she likes me?" and "Medical Problem: HELP!" as if we are all qualified doctors here.

Politics:
If you have an argumentative temperment, stay away. If you do drag yourself over you'll find one of the busiest forums on boards. Politics is essentially a philosophy on how one should govern lives. I find it fascinating.

Technology:
I just use this to keep abreast of more recent technological developments. Threads usually fit into either "Recommend me <Hardware component>" or "<Hardware component> failed". The former threads usually contain interesting information on emerging technologies.

The Illuminati:
A private board. I could tell you more, but then I would have to kill you all.

zAbbo

Emulators
Old skooly

Games
To read mindless drivel about how someone cant get by some random boss on level 23

Music/Radio
Only noticed this gem recently, good for a "my bands better than yours" topic

Quake
For all things quakeage

Security
Good for security alerts and general AV stuff, that is if you weed out the "My PC says it will shutdown after 60 seconds"

The Illuminati
hmmmm

Unix
Beardyness

Windows
As a contrast to unix, i go there for giggles

Mossy Monk

too many things atm. must cut it down to below 20 at least

angelofdeath

Beruthiel

angelofdeath
if it's not too complicated, can you tell me how did you post that up?

Victor

Originally posted by Beruthiel
if it's not too complicated, can you tell me how did you post that up?

Using the mouse, hover over your subbed list.

On you keyboard, hit the "Print Screen" button (may be "Prnt Scrn" or similar).

Run mspaint or other graphics program.

Paste

Trim to size

Save

Attach

angelofdeath

put cursur over subbed tab at top, press 'print screen', open microsoft paint, edit - paste, drag a box around the subbed forums list, right click, cut, file - new, edit - paste, drag the bottom right corner of the image till it fits nicely around the subbed forums list, then save as jpeg, upload to file manager, right click on the file, copy shortcut, reply to this thread, hit the image button, right click - paste, hit ok, et voila

not complicated at all

Victor

'ere

scojones

Rabies

don't use the subbed list. but do have regular forums i visit.

Tippi Inst --> if it wasn't for taking the piss out of Memphis i wouldn't go there.
Games
Programming
Films
For Sale --> Only bought one thing in the 2yrs I'm here.
After Hours --> Gotta love those pointless polls
Humour --> Sometimes there are some great jokes in there. Lately it seems dried out
Admin
Feedback & Suggestions

After that i never check out the sport forums and hardly ever the music forums unless i see a thread of interest about a gig.

uberwolf

cycling
mod
illumanti

short sweet and simple.

leeroybrown

I'm sub'ed to more than these but these are four I definitely wouldn't unsubscribe:

Unix
Technology
Programming
Motors

bizmark

Star trek
Broadband
Tig


im sad

Johnny_the_fox

File Sharing
Mod
North
PearTree House

Senor_Fudge

i have battlefield 1942 in my folder because its a class game and i play it everyday mostly the mod desert combat , anyone interested in a good shooting driving flying game check it out now

i also have horror in there too as i love horror films and have tonnes of dvds and divx vids here

im thinking of adding for sale to it too because i spend so much time in there lately!

Lafortezza

Why would you add forums like AH, Humour, PI to your subbed list?
They get so many posts that they'll always have new posts and that little * beside them. Why not just use the normal drop down menus.
I just have some of the smaller forums I'm interested in subbed, especially ones that are a bit hidden away, like file sharing, just so I can easily see if there's been any new posts since I last logged in.

Bacchus

How do you add forums to your subbed forum list?

Giblet

Open the forum you want to add, and then click the Subscribe to this Forum link under the new thread icon on the top right.




Changes all the time though.

WezzyB

[Legend: *** Favourites ** Good]

Art / Anim / Photo **
Bargains ***
Broadband ***
Cable / MMDS / Broadband
Commuting / Transport **
Fitness
FS General **
Home Entertainment **
HW Tweaking / Modding
IrelandOffline ***
MIJAG
Mobiles / PDAs ***
Nets / Comms
Satellite
Technology
Wireless

Johnny Versace

I have subs turned off.

...

Yes, I'm a control freak.

azezil

kaimera

damn you az...

add "Windows" and "Wolfenstein" to that list aswell

Makaveli

After Hours
All Things Retro
Dance / Electronic
Films
Football Management
FS General
Games
Home Entertainment
Horror
Mod
Music / Radio
Openline
Rap / Hip-Hop
Satellite
Soccer
Television

mike65

I dont use subs, instead I scroll through pages of threads here-

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=349216&sortby=&sortorder=&pagenumber=1

and see what catches my eye.

Then I close in on the usual suspects - Motors, Soccer, Politics, IOFFL and a few others.

Mike.

Barry Aldwell

Yes, I browse the spamfest that is CTYI. Pity me

eirebhoy

What exactly are Subscribed forums for?

eirebhoy

All this time and I never new what that "subbed" thing was for.:dunno:
I've just added my most visited forums to the list now.

After Hours*
Bargains*
Broadband*
Feedback / Suggestions*
Football Management
FS General*
FS Mobiles*
IrelandOffline*
Mobiles / PDAs*
Personal Issues*
Rugby
Satellite*
Snooker / Pool
Soccer*
Television*
Wanted*
Work

Woden

Battlefield
The Irish Guard
Star Trek

that is all

i get emails of new threads in star trek and engineering which is handy so i don't miss anything there.

ecksor

Admin / Support
Athletics
Biology / Medicine
College Work
Deutsch (German)
Distance / Part-Time Learning
DMZ
E-Voting
Engineering
English
Feedback / Suggestions
Fight the Power
Hack Attack
IRC
Irish Skeptics
Mathematics
Mod
Newbie FAQ
Nordic
Physics / Chemistry
Prison
Root
Science
Security
Subscribers

For subscribeaholics, I'm developing http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/subbed.php
Not pretty now, but merges subscribed threads not from your subscribed forums along with threads from your subscribed forums. Will have options such as "show all since I last visited" or "all in last 2 days" or "last 50 threads" etc.

Giblet

And now you get a little star beside each forum that has a new post in it!

Puck

Here's mine at the moment, (but it does change quite a bit):

Big Chief

After Hours : stopped reading it as much as i used to due to alot of it just being things redone over again, occasionally still post here though

East : incase anything happens in dublin that is of any intrest

Films : Im a self confessed dvd junkie and always willing to chat about films or read reviews on newly released ones

FS General : prowl around here looking to pick up anything of intrest (which mostly is either computer parts or games, also sold a fair few things on here aswell)

Games : im a gamer, i like to read about games..

Gigs/Events : Like to see whats up and coming here in dublin, dont read the ticketmaster site often and if anything of importance is coming up ive noticed it to be in here

Half Life : not very active atall, hopefully when hl2 comes out this will be an active board again, mostly read it for TFC stuff

Humanities : not read this in a while, think i put it there so i could follow up on the cigarettes ban/littering streets discussion, not contributed much afterwards

Humour : prowl this board in work to see if it can give me a few laughs while im sitting depressed in my crappy job

Mod : to see rants from unhappy mods ofcourse

Personal Issues : To remind me my life isnt as bad as it may seem sometimes, often just used as a cheering up factor, also give my advice if its of any relevance to me

Pix 'n' Mix : subbed it when it was first created and very active, dosent seem as active as it once was and im not in there much nowadays

Reaver : private tfc board, how i came about boards was due to this, havent played tfc in god knows how long but still talk on here to alot of the members

Soccer : if most of the rants by man utd v arsenal things keep continuing i will no doubt remove this board, everything that has been in there recently seems to sound like a broken record (in text form ofcourse..) some good posts and threads though so not all bad

Technology : always up for some computer talk, and had some good advice from people in here, and i always try to help people out with comp problems if i can

TV : i watch tele, so i dont mind discussing it..

Travel/Holidays : asked for some advice in here before is when i originally subbed it due to the sound advice that people offered me

V-TFC discussion : just to see whats happening in the world of tfc

Wanted : check it to see if i have anything that people are looking for and help out when i can, also managed to get a couple of items myself here by asking so subbed it out

i also use the bargains forum but keep meaning to sub it but dont... ahh well

Big Chief

Originally posted by ecksor

For subscribeaholics, I'm developing http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/subbed.php
Not pretty now, but merges subscribed threads not from your subscribed forums along with threads from your subscribed forums. Will have options such as "show all since I last visited" or "all in last 2 days" or "last 50 threads" etc.

seems a great idea so

thumbs up from me

Kalina

After Hours- good mix of stuff in here, never anything too serious
Films- have to keep up to date with whats going on in the cinemas
LotR- the forum is a bit quiet now since all the films have been released but still plenty of good stuff
Motorsport- I'm a huge F1 fan and there are plenty of other F1 buffs on boards with loads of news and opinions
PearTree House- interesting place, you never know what's going to be said there
Personal Issues- sometimes humourous but occasionally interesting topics being discussed
Television- loads of 24 discussion going on here
The Illuminati- as PearTree House

The_Goose

eirebhoy

Originally posted by Big Chief
Soccer : if most of the rants by man utd v arsenal things keep continuing i will no doubt remove this board, everything that has been in there recently seems to sound like a broken record (in text form ofcourse..)

Aye, it does seem to be getting out of hand.

UnrealQueen

After Hours
Carlow IT
Films
Games
Horror
Rock/Metal
Unreal

Giblet

Ah now ecksor thats just classy.

/backs up sig.

Catsmokinpot

call me a n00b never knew what subbed meant so i just ignored it! i didnt know you could "subscribe" to forums this makes it a hell of a lot easier on me doh!:rolleyes:

eirebhoy

Originally posted by Giblet
And now you get a little star beside each forum that has a new post in it!

And when you put your mouse over one of the forums in your Subbed list it tells you the time of the last post and by who it was posted down at the left bottom corner of the screen. It was probably always like that though.

swiss

And when you put your mouse over one of the forums in your Subbed list it tells you the time of the last post and by who it was posted down at the left bottom corner of the screen. It was probably always like that though.

Actually, you used to be able to do that for every forum on boards. However it turned out to be very CPU intensive as each time someone posted the DHTML had to be regenerated for each user. Hence Regi initially got rid of this feature. It was reintroduced for the Subscribed forums list since this meant that there was significantly less CPU overhead than previously.

BTW, good idea ecksor with the subscribed forum/thread page.

koneko

embee

After Hours
Humanities
PearTree House
Personal Issues

eirebhoy

Originally posted by embee
PearTree House

Anyone willing to tell me what this forum is for?

byte

After Hours
All Things Retro
Bargains
Booth 08
Broadcasting
Films
Games
Home Entertainment
IrelandOffline
Mobiles/PDAs
Mod
Motors
Music/Radio
Nets/Comms
NorthWest
Rip Off Ireland
Rock/Metal
Satellite
Soccer
Sports
Technology
Television
Terrestrial
The Illuminati
Wireless

:rolleyes:

smoke.me.a.kipper

admin / support - dunno why really... find out new stuff about boards i guess.

after hours - full of interesting and un-interesting crap really. i love it!

all things retro - im only 22 but some of the stuff i remember.

comeonbanus - award winning!

feedback / suggestions - 'why am i banned' - classic fun.

films - because i like them.

games - because i like them but i dont post here much

mobiles / PDAs - interesting to me.

mod - because im a mod?

personal issues - giving me laughs everyday.

television - it knows you like to watch.

the illuminati - fez-tastic!

tipp inst - i used to go there, and im mod so thats kinda handy.

embee

Originally posted by eirebhoy
Anyone willing to tell me what this forum (peartreehouse) is for?

I have no idea.

Its great though.

feylya

Instruments.