Foreign boards websites?

Bernice101

Is it possible to view foreign boards website. I came across some link online for boards sites in Oz, NZ, Canada, China ect and would love to have a look at their sites if possible as I find boards.ie really captures the Irish psychic, so want to see what the other ones are like.

found www.boards.org.uk but it just jumps back to boards.ie

anyone know the links?

partyatmygaff

I'm pretty sure they were taken offline a few years ago.

The_Valeyard

If they still exist.....you could proxy it.

Bernice101

Bernice101 wrote: »

I find boards.ie really captures the Irish psychic

Are they keeping them prisoner? Does TV3 know?

ComputerKing

You can see the cached webpages at web.archive.org

L1011

The foreign sites were amongst the various things which vanished after Daft took over (the wiki, the blogs site, etc being others)

I'm not aware of any other country of this size that has one massive catch-all forums.

RossieMan

They're other forums on the internet too. They don't all have to be boards.

They went offline after the hack in 2010 and never returned.

Wacker The Attacker

Pighead ate them

MYOB

MYOB wrote: »

The foreign sites were amongst the various things which vanished after Daft took over (the wiki, the blogs site, etc being others)

I'm not aware of any other country of this size that has one massive catch-all forums.

Daft didn't really take over Boards per se. They all exist under the umbrella of Distilled Media.

But yeah, the foreign versions were taken offline a while back, mostly because none of them were really proving successful as far as I'm aware. Think a lot of posters were cross-posting between the various domains.

Peregrine

DEY TUK AR FORRIN STUFF


Oh wait..

shopaholic01

elefant wrote: »

Nairaland.com is a comedic goldmine.

I'm signing up to meet my prince, the bastards never email me.

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

But yeah, the foreign versions were taken offline a while back, mostly because none of them were really proving successful as far as I'm aware. Think a lot of posters were cross-posting between the various domains.

They didn't seem to take off. Maybe Boards particular general discussion model only works here? Well we do like to natter. I do remember when boards servers would tank and all the posters would run to the UK or US boards. Those who only know boards since distilled media got involved won't remember how often the Boards servers would crap out. That pretty much went away overnight after DM

KeithM89

I just realised the term 'Boardsie' comes from taking the . out of the web address.
F*ck, im slow.

shopaholic01

Keith wrote: »

I just realised the term 'Boardsie' comes from taking the . out of the web address.
F*ck, im slow.

Bless.

Wibbs

Wibbs wrote: »

They didn't seem to take off. Maybe Boards particular general discussion model only works here? Well we do like to natter. I do remember when boards servers would tank and all the posters would run to the UK or US boards. Those who only know boards since distilled media got involved won't remember how often the Boards servers would crap out. That pretty much went away overnight after DM

What was that twitter-like service that people would jump on too? I remember it being quite hilarious.

RossieMan

Keith wrote: »

I just realised the term 'Boardsie' comes from taking the . out of the web address.
F*ck, im slow.

I don't think slow is the word you're looking for.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

What was that twitter-like service that people would jump on too? I remember it being quite hilarious.

Tweet.ie

Karsini

Karsini wrote: »

Tweet.ie

Thank you. Wasn't that taken down shortly before Distilled Media came along, because someone pretended to be another poster and said some horrible things. Could have gotten that wrong.

MadsL

I would love if a proper moderated boards.us took off.

At the moment there is citydata which isn't bad but suffers from the "No your a ******" Youtube syndrome.

But i guess 300 million is just too big to get the boards.ie cosy sense of community.

FoxT

Boards.us changed its name, I think it is called read it or something...

kneemos

MadsL wrote: »

I would love if a proper moderated boards.us took off.

At the moment there is citydata which isn't bad but suffers from the "No your a ******" Youtube syndrome.

But i guess 300 million is just too big to get the boards.ie cosy sense of community.

See they're giving ten $500 prizes for the most interesting posts.

HINT.

Elbaston

I demand you let me out of here
.... did you know a white man who died in the last decade ?

Im getting a 'J' ...John? or is it David. Possibly in his 40's - 60's ?
Used to eat chips...
no, burgers.