Alternative to boards.ie

Dean820 · 23-01-2010 2:23pm #1

During the downtime of the forum, I felt Ireland needs another proper big forum like boards as an alternative. This is really our only option for a big forum. It would have been nice if we had somewhere else to go while things were being fixed. Just say, boards.ie went out of business tomorrow, where would everyone go? There's no real alternative in Ireland.

Obviously there's billions other forums on the internet. But you know what I mean. No?

Random · 23-01-2010 2:33pm

try http://betterthan.boards.ie

brummytom · 23-01-2010 2:36pm

http://www.boardsireland.com

*snigger*

alwaysadub · 23-01-2010 2:36pm

If Boards went out of business tomorrow, people would be so devastated that they wouldn't even dream of looking for another forum..

mikom · 23-01-2010 2:37pm

www.icantbelieveitsnotboards.ie

My name is URL · 23-01-2010 2:39pm

http://twitter.com/boards_ie/status/8029180563

They don't hold a candle to here though, imo

bluefinger · 23-01-2010 2:41pm

Here's an alterative

TPD · 23-01-2010 2:48pm

Why not just have a secondary boards on another server, same usernames as here, for posting in emergencies?

actuallylike · 23-01-2010 2:49pm

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

omahaid · 23-01-2010 2:50pm

http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/

Dean820 · 23-01-2010 2:52pm

omahaid wrote: »

http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/

In fairness, its probably boards biggest rival.

brummytom · 23-01-2010 2:52pm

actuallylike wrote: »

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

The biggest is digitalspy.com; but it doesn't really have the same community feel boards does.

Buford T Justice · 23-01-2010 2:52pm

You could try Faceboards.ie

Ann22 · 23-01-2010 2:56pm

actuallylike wrote: »

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

DigitalSpy is one. I registered on it years ago but for some reason it wouldn't let me post. Maybe it's 'cos I'm not from uk. You could give it a go.

Ann22 · 23-01-2010 2:59pm

Imagine though if it did disappear overnight. There are people I'd miss that I have a craic with here. I'd miss them:(.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 23-01-2010 2:59pm

actuallylike wrote: »

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

My friend constantly raves about Football365 but I've never been on it myself and they have very a strict registration policy. Have you tried that?

Saibh · 23-01-2010 3:02pm

Ann22 wrote: »

Imagine though if it did disappear overnight. There are people I'd miss that I have a craic with here. I'd miss them:(.

One advantage of joining twitter I suppose is you can keep in contact with others than you know from broads and who are members there.

I have posted here in AH that I would never join twitter and what did I do...

cnocbui · 23-01-2010 3:06pm

Usenet: ie.general

Ann22 · 23-01-2010 3:09pm

Saibh wrote: »

One advantage of joining twitter I suppose is you can keep in contact with others than you know from broads and who are members there.

I have posted here in AH that I would never join twitter and what did I do...

I joined Twitter when it started up first but I didn't get the hang of it. When Boards went down the other night I went into it and there were a few on. I tried posting a comment to Thaedyal but don't know if I did it right. I don't know what all the lingo means like 'tweeting' but I suppose I would perservere in getting into it if this place was gone.