Equivalent of Boards.ie in other countries?

briany

Boards.ie seems to be the top level discussion forum website in Ireland or at least I can't find one that's busier. It got me wondering why doesn't there seem to be an equivalent in other countries. I don't mean the offshoots that were created from here and I can't find any big general discussion board like boards.ie from the UK or the US and I've searched around google for it. I'm sure they exist though but does anyone know what they are and do those of you living abroad post on them?

Michellenman

Boards.co.uk
I would imagine is the English equivalent.

Saibh

Michellenman wrote: »

Boards.co.uk
I would imagine is the English equivalent.

Boards.co.uk doesn't seem to be working atm going by this thread

briany

The UK is preoccupied with windsurfing. Fascinating.

Insect Overlord

Considering Boards.ie grew to what it is out of a video-games (Quake) discussion forum, I think it's fairly safe to say it's unique as a major national discussion forum.

My name is URL

Digitalspy.co.uk's forum is one of the busiest there is, even though it's mainly focused on broadcasting

here's a list of the biggest forums in the world - http://www.big-boards.com/

citizen_p

it tend to be alot more small specific forums.... where as on the ireland internet scene... we have all the specific things in one
(just not as specific in some areas)....

this could easily be broken up into a lot of smaller seprate forums.

Gummy Panda

In japan, I think its an anon forum called 2channel or 2ch.

Don't know about others

brummytom

Boards.org.uk


*stifles laughter*

briany

A one stop shop forum-wise is not a bad idea though. A free market is nice but there's a pretty good thing going here.

Mayoegian

Well in Norway I think it's Noards.com

brummytom

My name is URL wrote: »

Digitalspy.co.uk's forum is one of the busiest there is, even though it's mainly focused on broadcasting

here's a list of the biggest forums in the world - http://www.big-boards.com/

Yeah Digitalspy seems big... I lurk on there a lot, mainly round the TV section though.

Message boards are still very much an 'internet nerd' thing though.

briany

My name is URL wrote: »

Digitalspy.co.uk's forum is one of the busiest there is, even though it's mainly focused on broadcasting

here's a list of the biggest forums in the world - http://www.big-boards.com/

That list makes me sad. I should have known the biggest boards would be about sex and anime......

Takk

http://rankings.big-boards.com/?sort=traffic

Sorted by unique visitors daily, of all the sites listed on Big Boards, boards.ie is 9th. One place above Grass City, a marijuana growing and smoking community.

IM0

Irelands so small it would be a county/state thing in other bigger countries

liah

Takk wrote: »

http://rankings.big-boards.com/?sort=traffic

Sorted by unique visitors daily, of all the sites listed on Big Boards, boards.ie is 9th. One place above Grass City, a marijuana growing and smoking community.

Third if you change the language to English-only.

...that said, Stormfront isn't far behind at number 9.

Aidric

My name is URL wrote: »

here's a list of the biggest forums in the world - http://www.big-boards.com/

Absolute lol @ the 4chan tagline. I'm sure it's the first port of call for all Japanese culture enthusiasts.

briany

Very interesting Takk. Lists like that make for interesting reading. Stormfront, a white nationalist website is on that list with 45101 unique visitors daily. Scary stuff indeed. One place behind it is a dutch forum discussing horses.

crapcountry

toytown germany but i think its more for middle class immigrants or should i say 'expats':rolleyes:

citydata is the american one, its basically exact same as boards.ie just more dynamic.

Johnny Weasel

Stormfront is a great site.

Overheal

Never found a board thats as interesting, sane, or all-encompassing as boards thats centric to anywhere else. And certainly not as properly laid out: you would think a lot more sites would have ripped off the boards.ie navbar by now.

AckwelFoley

www.lolocaust.org

Massive i tell you. Massive

brummytom

snyper wrote: »

www.lolocaust.org

Massive i tell you. Massive

Shiit.. I signed up to that last week and completely forgot! :eek:

Overheal

snyper wrote: »

www.lolocaust.org

Massive i tell you. Massive

Some sick, twisted individual has stolen my username there.

and it wasnt me.

edit: Or hagar carried **** over from .lm and kept my name and email with a scrambled pass. Good viking. Good viking.

Corkfeen

Rome has a forum I think, will add the link.
http://www.spiritquesttours.com/globus/catholicitaly2010/_Media/roman-forum.jpg
*Prepares self to lose all respect.*

marzic

Mayoegian wrote: »

Well in Norway I think it's Noards.com

Noards.com > Fjords:)

Wibbs

Takk wrote: »

http://rankings.big-boards.com/?sort=traffic

Sorted by unique visitors daily, of all the sites listed on Big Boards, boards.ie is 9th. One place above Grass City, a marijuana growing and smoking community.

Jeebus when you see Skyscraper City forum is the biggest for unique visitors it seems to show that the unique visitor thing is not much cop as a judge really. Eh shíte actually, which I always suspected. Too much smoke and mirrors in a lot of these click stats for websites in my humble. Hey maybe it is. Underground hi rise types may be a big deal.:D

Boards seems uniquely Irish. In both very good and slightly I'm not sure ways. We can talk like bastids for a start(yea feck off:)). So a place like boards is a beaut for us. We also like structure in that talk. We may talk about the Irish rebel heart, but I'd say as a culture we're not particularly like that at all. We like structure and a framework and maybe wriggle room within that. We do seem to like the hierarchy keeping us "on topic" as a very general thing. EG there are often complaints that Boards is too heavily modded(and not just by the "fight the powah" muppets either), yet people keep posting.

Then again maybe Boards is literally the start of a new thing world wide in online communities and other places will cotton on to to this way of dong things. People that think 4chan and youtube is for fcukwits who rarely get out of the house and think they're some butch comic character made flesh.


I would judge Boards by it's content which is one of the best I've seen. I would judge it by how it's moved into the real world of non nerds and gamers. Where it's got football teams and a drama group and photographers and cycling teams and running teams wearing Boards tee shirts. It's a pretty long list. For me that's where the growth lies. That's were the real stats will follow the often makey uppy web 2.0 stats. I've seen a guy on a bike wearing a boards jersey. That's where its at. It's in the transition from online to I dunno nonline * I reckon is where it has to tread carefully. Hopefully it will. There are some damn good people and communities here. That shít will translate into other regions IMHO.



*we need the smiley:)

The_B_Man

We were only talkin about this last week in the australia\new zealand board.

Best we could find was www.dingostew.com !!

Capt'n Midnight

isn't there a huge one in Korea ?

Lolocaust.org is the best, this is second.

ScumLord

Wibbs wrote: »

I would judge Boards by it's content which is one of the best I've seen. I would judge it by how it's moved into the real world of non nerds and gamers. Where it's got football teams and a drama group and photographers and cycling teams and running teams wearing Boards tee shirts. It's a pretty long list. For me that's where the growth lies. That's were the real stats will follow the often makey uppy web 2.0 stats. I've seen a guy on a bike wearing a boards jersey. That's where its at. It's in the transition from online to I dunno nonline * I reckon is where it has to tread carefully. Hopefully it will. There are some damn good people and communities here. That shít will translate into other regions IMHO.

I just noticed there's a boards China which makes this all sound very sinister. The Chinese are out to get us so they are don't you know.