Boards.ie equivalent

martingriff

I am a long time reader sometime poster to boards.ie and I allways find it great to come in here for down time to read post from threads and follow some to see where they go. I recently got to wonder if there pther websites like our veryone in other countries like Australia, America or the UK.

kneemos

Unique to Ireland because we like to complain at every opportunity.

top madra

Try the Misc on BB.com or 4chan............

What has been seen cannot be unseen. Tbf boards is very tame compared to most and a bit too policed!

Balmed Out

There are lots of various forum sites but more often for a football club, a hobby or for a city. Ireland compared to the countries you've listed is tiny so everyone has a fair idea about the different places other posters are from, their culture, tv etc. Then theres redit

bumper234

Two plus two while predominantly a poker forum also has some great political threads and general chat threads like boards.

martingriff

Balmed Out wrote: »

There are lots of various forum sites but more often for a football club, a hobby or for a city. Ireland compared to the countries you've listed is tiny so everyone has a fair idea about the different places other posters are from, their culture, tv etc. Then theres redit

I do agree with you here. I realised that after I mailed on

Dr Turk Turkelton

bumper234 wrote: »

Two plus two while predominantly a poker forum also has some great political threads and general chat threads like boards.

Yeah except for NVG and BBV.
It's just not worth going there...

mconigol

Reddit

kneemos

mconigol wrote: »

Reddit

Sucks and blows.

Cookie_Monster

mconigol wrote: »

Reddit

the layout makes it possibly the most user unfriendly site on the interwebs though.

Davarus Walrus

Politics.ie has plenty of current affairs and economic threads, so it's rather like AH in that regard. And it's filled with posters who love to complain and generally don't have a clue what they are talking about. It allows a rather more robust level of debate though. So you can accuse someone of being a 'deluded socialist oddball' or a 'child murdering apologist'.

The closest non-Irish equivalent I can think of is the "City Data forum" which uses the same software as boards.ie

I was invited to post there by a user of boards.ie some time ago to share some of the experiences I have shared on this forum.

Lenin Skynard

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

the layout makes it possibly the most user unfriendly site on the interwebs though.

Another factor is that if you want to read actual discussion on Reddit, you've to trawl through an infinite number of tacky puns and family guy references.

elefant

nairaland.com

The amazingly brilliant Nigerian alternative.

marc_faber

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Politics.ie has plenty of current affairs and economic threads, so it's rather like AH in that regard. And it's filled with posters who love to complain and generally don't have a clue what they are talking about. It allows a rather more robust level of debate though. So you can accuse someone of being a 'deluded socialist oddball' or a 'child murdering apologist'.

politics.ie is a lot more free then this site , they dont ban people for tiny infringements

its also a much more friendly place for people with conservative politics

however , its a politics forum at the end of the day , if you want a site which caters beyond this , id recomend city data , its american but has a designated european and uk sections , not to mention sport and other cultural passtimes

bumper234

marc_faber wrote: »

politics.ie is a lot more free then this site , they dont ban people for tiny infringements

its also a much more friendly place for people with conservative politics

however , its a politics forum at the end of the day , if you want a site which caters beyond this , id recomend city data , its american but has a designated european and uk sections , not to mention sport and other cultural passtimes

Oh dear.

New account

45 posts.

What did you do?:D

marc_faber

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

the layout makes it possibly the most user unfriendly site on the interwebs though.

i couldnt use it due to the awful layout

Cantona's Collars

RAWK, it has very balanced & sensible posters and threads:pac:

iForgetMyPW

fitmisc.com and go onto their "misc" section

For Forks Sake

elefant wrote: »

nairaland.com

The amazingly brilliant Nigerian alternative.

I think I'm going to like that place...first thread is entitled Mom Beats Daughter For Posting Semi-Unclad Pictures On Facebook

First response...

Great. If she doesn't discipline her daughter, who will?

I'm going to investigate this place further. See ye in a month.

marc_faber

bumper234 wrote: »

Oh dear.

New account

45 posts.

What did you do?:D

i think lunchtime is near over , you might just catch the teacher coming back if you hurry up

" what did i do "

same as everyone else in my shoes , had a conservative viewpoint !

bumper234

marc_faber wrote: »

i think lunchtime is near over , you might just catch the teacher coming back if you hurry up

" what did i do "

same as everyone else in my shoes , had a conservative viewpoint !

Oh har de har har harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

:rolleyes:

Earthhorse

There used to be boards equivalents for those regions, I believe. I think the reason boards works for Ireland is because we're just the right size to have a nationwide discussion board; big enough but not too big.

Despite people's aversion to reddit's layout, places like r/australia etc. or more regional than that again probably fit the bill.

tricky D

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/
http://forums.somethingawful.com/

and a lot of the ones on this list: http://www.thebiggestboards.com/

Goodshape

kneemos wrote: »

Sucks and blows.

Well, it certainly does suck.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

the layout makes it possibly the most user unfriendly site on the interwebs though.

The Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) makes things a lot better – http://redditenhancementsuite.com/

Or there's RedditJS.com which is like RES-lite but doesn't need a browser plugin.

Marcusm

Boards.ie is sui generis and that is how it should remain.

orangesoda

digital spy maybe, people are very uptight on it, not up for the banter at all (the mods here are a bit like that)

p.s. Politics.ie is full of tossers

martingriff

/Reading on here and I must agree with that Ireland seems to be the right size for a nationwide forum where all can be discussed from the threads in AH to the sports forums, religion forums, CT forum etc. A general forum

Killer Wench

I agree about City Data. That's about the closest thing to an American version of Boards.

Bacon and Cabbage

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

the layout makes it possibly the most user unfriendly site on the interwebs though.

Reddit layout is king IMO

Orim

Bacon and Cabbage wrote: »

Reddit layout is king IMO

Useless and lording it over everyone as if by divine right? You could be right there.

Bacon and Cabbage

Orim wrote: »

Useless and lording it over everyone as if by divine right? You could be right there.

Hi could you do me a favour and find a more stupidly obtuse way of saying whatever it is you're trying to say? Thanks

Orim

Bacon and Cabbage wrote: »

Hi could you do me a favour and find a more stupidly obtuse way of saying whatever it is you're trying to say? Thanks

You didn't get that? I thought the use of the word useless at the start of the sentence made it quite clear what I was saying.

I mean it didn't even have any big words but I'll simplify it for you.

I think reddits layout is crap. I made a (poor?) play on your use of the word king to convey this fact.

And just to preempt the question the idea behind it is that kings weren't that useful so calling reddits layout king was not a compliment.

Or in other words:

LOL kings is crap, yous say reddit gud r thickos ROFLYSST

stefan idiot jones

Orim wrote: »

LOL kings is crap, yous say reddit gud r thickos ROFLYSST

Are you speaking in binary or am I just too old?

Irish Guitarist

There used to be boards.co.uk. If you visit the URL now though it's some kind of windsurfing website.