Why did you signed up to Boards.ie

Yoshitsune

Boards.ie is an old website with regular active users since nearly it's inception which got me thinking on why people first signed up in the first place. Was there any reason why you signed up? What did you find interesting about it? What kept you active for so long?

Pauliedragon

Is this boards finding a way to conduct cheap market research?

Hermy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058295988/why-did-you-signed-up-to-boards-ie

You first.

thegame983

pc building forum. Wanted some help in building a pc.

Mech1

Can't remember, long time ago and read it long before my 1st post.

Allinall

Wanted to start a carpentry apprenticeship.

Thought it would be a good place to start.

Never even got to use the ban hammer.

Manach

When the Quake forum transferred to Boards back in 2000 or so,

Buddy Bubs

Advice on buying a particular car in about 2007 or 2008. Deleted account and re registered under different pseudonyms about 3 times since. Motoring Forum would still be my most frequented.

ablelocks

p45.net closed. needed help with setting up a external tv tuner on a pc

Jim_Hodge

I think I had a gardening issue I wanted advise on. There's no doubt it's a great resource for tips, advices and recommendations.

odyssey06

I woke up here with no recollection of how I got here. I thought it was the same for everyone kinda like The Prisoner.

Mundo7976

For help wuth my grimmatical erors...

DeadHand

To refute sin.

mrcheez

I signed up to point out when OP's grammar is bad

Strumms

I came here to look for advice as to how to get away from here.

I was abroad working, bored, not busy and I’d read about it on some site and hey.

banie01

To finds meself a wife...

BaywatchHQ

I was active over a decade ago mainly to argue with southern people who were making smug anti Northern Catholic posts. However I don't engage with that sort of argument any more as there is no reasoning with people like that.

I use forums as it is my only form of social interaction due to being an incel but I don't enjoy interacting with people as I have developed into a misanthrope over the years. The human brain craves social interaction regardless if you enjoy it or not though.

Kermit.de.frog

Narcissism

SuperBowserWorld

I don't think their was another general Irish forum around until recently with the same level of local and deep knowledge as here. Also, it's not as gullible and woke as other sites.

Quantum Erasure

Looking for tickets to Oxegen, I think. That's a few accounts ago though, came for the tickets, stayed for the lols...

Greyfox

To browse initially and felt compelled to reply so signed up.. 17 years ago. Boards isn't as good as it use to be but habits are hard to break. Boards is still good once theirs an interesting topic as it's easy to follow thread discussions. I disappear every now and then for a while but I'll always be back.

NattyO

Was a member for a while years ago but didn’t use it much. Recently diagnosed with a serious illness which has meant I’m spending time at home resting, and signed up again.

if I stop posting it means I either recovered or died.

Count Dracula

To communicate.

Gatling

It was this or porn ,

Some how this won

cml387

I can't remember.

It's great to be able to back to old posts though and reminisce, in a way a site of this age has now got historical importance.

Tomaldo

Came across it first when Texas Hold'em was big, I knew some of the posters and players, didn't join 'til years later, can't remember why.

PommieBast

I think I first stumbled across the site when Google pulled up something on After Hours, but Accommodation & Property was main motive to actually sign up.

niallb

First arrived with Ireland Offline when we were trying to get flat rate dialup internet as an option rather than paying for our internet connections by the minute!

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120580929#Comment_120580929

I was a P45 regular (under the name Preacher) as well! I still miss it terribly. Came here to get my fix of online debate after P45 shut down but it's always been a poor substitute.

lintdrummer

I joined on the suggestion of a nerdy school friend. I was looking for help with an issue I was having with Windows at the time (I think). Stayed for the motors and music forum mainly I'd say. As life progresses I find other sections that interest me. Aviation, Weather, After Hours etc. We like complaining but it's a great wee site all the same.

sunbeam

I was looking for help with setting up HSCSD on my phone. Seems like a lifetime ago.

Fr Tod Umptious

Joined about 20 years ago one of these days to ask how I could somehow get ITV on a Sky box.

Also spent a good bit of time on the Ireland offline forum.

I'm now on my third username, have fiber broadband at home in rural Ireland and couldn't give a toss about ITV.

Grayson

It was a quake board. I played quake and starcraft and met other Irish players here. I happened to work in an internet cafe at the time (remember them 😁)

I was probably more active on P45 back then. It was another board that died a few year ago.

Sgt Hartman

I saw a mention of it on a local blog I was following all the way back in 2007 and thought it would be cool to join. I've had the same username since and never rereg'd under a different name.

Mr. CooL ICE

Signed up to quake.ie to find others to play Quake.

Signed up to boards.ie in 2004 and was a few years before I realised they were connected. Managed to get my accounts merged.

ELM327

to kick people in the face.

regards

pighead

artanevilla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581418#Comment_120581418

Was there not some drama on the poker forum way back when and they all left?

I think it was for some info on starting up in Airsoft. I was as green as grass back then. Never did get into it neither.

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581833#Comment_120581833

https://giphy.com/gifs/southparkgifs-l0Hlust41prdvs6di

Jesus...

If it isn't the Messiah!

ELM327

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582458#Comment_120582458

Well blast me with piss and feed me to the coke and hookers.

(PS I'm not really facekicker or pighead, for clarity)

To wind people up for my own amusement.

o1s1n

I'd read boards on and off since around '99 but actually signed up as I was spending so much time reading the 9/11 threads as it happened.

Hard to believe that's all over 20 years ago now.

Boredom, 17 years ago at this stage😊

knucklehead6

Dangerhere.com died.

hoodie6029

For advice when I got a dog. How long is this site going?

Spent time off long periods over the years for various reasons. The last site upgrade seems to have cleared out the last of the annoying posters, in Motors anyway.

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582334#Comment_120582334

Drama, airsoft? first I heard, any more detail?

hayrabit

to display my annoyance at OPs not answering their own random questions 🤣

alternative answer

Spoiler Warning

.....or mebbe cos I had no minions for to do the signeding up for me ;)

pappyodaniel

Boards.ie should be renamed boreds.ie

corner of hells

It was a bail condition that I join , bout 10 years ago.

jd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120580926#Comment_120580926

Sounds right!

magick

In a boring office job, something to keep me entertained

Arghus

I can't remember exactly when, I'm sure I read the site for ages prior to that - this would probably be about 08-09? Message boards were were it was at back then if you wanted to find out about anything or chat to people who shared common interests to yourself. And boards just seemed to be the best of the lot: incredibly varied, Irish-centric and with a huge active userbase filled with all kinds of people, even down to the tiniest regional sub-forum. It felt like if you had a question to ask about anything, there was probably already going to be a thread on it, or if you got one going you could expect traction and good responses pretty quick. I view that couple of years, around the turn of the decade, as boards halcyon period: the place was hopping and there was a genuinely social feel to it - there would be meet-ups/beers etc on a pretty regular basis, at least in the regional sub-forum that I would frequent.

I've had two or three other accounts down through the years. The first was connected to a college email address and when I lost access to that address I couldn't log myself back in after forgetting my password, and I think I lost another in similar fashion. And there was a hack back in 2010/11(?) which I think nuked another one - but I could have my order and my dates slightly mixed up. Been on this one now for a long while.

Originally I only came here to post about films, music, football or local stuff. I didn't even know what After Hours was for years. I'd see people mentioning it elsewhere on the site and I hadn't a clue what they were on about: I didn't even realise that there was a separate forum called AH. But, honestly, the other forums were busy enough that you didn't even have to come here for debate. Over time though the traffic has dwindled.

As another poster said earlier in the thread, we all give out about it, but, at the end of the day, it is a great site. I know traffic is way down and once lively forums are kinda hanging on life support, but there is still a bit of life to be found and it can, even now, be a great resource, - I'd be very sad to see boards disappear. And I'll always prefer the structure of a linear thread on something like boards to the busy incoherence of something like reddit. It's just a pity that the userbase has dwindled. People blame moderation etc, I'm not sure about that. I think it's just a fact of life that people move on and the userbase ages outs and that basically old school message boards are just not that interesting to younger users.