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How has Boards.ie Changed over the years?
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There have been huge changes in After Hours. For fun go back five years and read the pages and thread titles. Very different.I assume that when someone starts a thread in AH and mention "boards" they mean "AH".
I've been here for over ten years and tbh nothing much have changed in AH.
The close account function has not helped the site at all. Apparently it's a legal requirement, but I'd be asking more and better counsel on that to see if anything has changed. I'd certainly not be relying on some government or civil service mouthpiece on the matter anyway.
The category rearranging, rather hiding of forums and communities has fcuked the place badly. It was a stupendously stupid idea.
An even more moronic idea was the new responsive layout. You'd want a neck like a jockey's bollocks to call that mess "responsive".
Yellow and red cards ballsology. I kinda liked the idea at first, but now I think it beyond daft. The corporate drone sheldon cooper types love it as it adds to proceeeedure but it makes the site and the mods look like petty twats "keeping score".
The community feel has defo dropped off. That kinda peaked around 2007-10 I'd reckon. Many forums are now ghost towns. Some are doing well, like the farming one and AH and motors and a few others. BUt yeah the community feel has largely gone. The days of a shedload of Boardsies showing up for a beers has gone too. Maybe in some private forums? Most organised Boards beers these days would be doing well with ten people showing up. It's a real pity.
I did love this place, but IMH too many decisions up the line in management were picked out of their arses and they killed the place.
Maybe it'll come back? They'd need to go right back to basics though. Go old style and appeal to the nostalgic IMH.Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.
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There have been huge changes in After Hours. For fun go back five years and read the pages and thread titles. Very different.
The close account function has not helped the site at all. Apparently it's a legal requirement, but I'd be asking more and better counsel on that to see if anything has changed. I'd certainly not be relying on some government or civil service mouthpiece on the matter anyway.
The category rearranging, rather hiding of forums and communities has fcuked the place badly. It was a stupendously stupid idea.
An even more moronic idea was the new responsive layout. You'd want a neck like a jockey's bollocks to call that mess "responsive".
Yellow and red cards ballsology. I kinda liked the idea at first, but now I think it beyond daft. The corporate drone sheldon cooper types love it as it adds to proceeeedure but it makes the site and the mods look like petty twats "keeping score".
The community feel has defo dropped off. That kinda peaked around 2007-10 I'd reckon. Many forums are now ghost towns. Some are doing well, like the farming one and AH and motors and a few others. BUt yeah the community feel has largely gone. The days of a shedload of Boardsies showing up for a beers has gone too. Maybe in some private forums? Most organised Boards beers these days would be doing well with ten people showing up. It's a real pity. I did love this place, but IMH too many decisions up the line in management were picked out of their arses and they killed the place.
Maybe it'll come back? They'd need to go right back to basics though. Go old style and appeal to the nostalgic IMH.
The problem is the people running the site just don't seem to care anymore. I made a huge feedback thread with thousands of posts and I could count on one hand the amount of times Dav even bothered to respond.
They don't care and they are simply not listening. There's a huge culture of 'we know best' and the level of Mod/Admin snobbery towards regular users has reached breaking point.
The people running the site have let mods run amok turning away the general user. I genuinely feel that pretty soon there will be very few regular users left and the site will be made up primarily of mods.
There definitely seems to be an element that a regular user can't say certain snide, condescending comments but mods seem to have free reign. It's completely unequal and its frustrating that regular users can't get their voices heard. Honestly I am very close to just packing it in.0 -
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I have been here 15 years now (jaysus!
) and would agree with a lot of the above to be honest.
- AH has definitely become more political and intolerant. You only have to read over the more "emotive" threads to see how damaging this is to any notion of a community
- The same old mix of attention-seeking posters, cliques, and posters with a "hook" that wears thin quickly hasn't changed much
- Moderation has definitely gotten more strict and arbitrary in some cases. You also have Mods who take it FAR too seriously with warnings about going "off topic" and such just because a conversation meandered into a side issue over a few posts
- The commercialisation of Boards has had a few positives in the Talk To forums, but the recent developments on the Gearbest mess and particular the way the feedback on the issue has been dealt with (ie: ignored) leaves a sour taste.
Ditto the whole "New Site" thing..I don't blame Dav and the Admins who have taken the time to respond to people, but I've come to the conclusion that the people who own the site have no idea what the users come here for, and that without their support, there'll be no content for Boards to monetise.
- The site has definitely gotten noticeably quieter in the last 12-18 months and the massive amount of "Closed accounts" is both off-putting and contributing to this IMO
I used to browse all over this site but the above plus the mess that is the "temporary" menu means I mostly stick to my subbed forums now, and use the site as a place to get a quick answer to something or keep up on some current events more than anything else anymore.
Pity because there was a lot of potential here but somehow its all gone a bit sideways in recent times 0 -
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SterlingArcher wrote: »Don't think I've been around boards long enough to tell how it has changed..
I think in general alot of peoples thinking has changed. All of a sudden masses of people with no interest in seeking actual knowledge. Just Latch on to trending topics. And only agree with the biggest group think within it.
The Donald Trump one for example. Droves of anxious social network users sounding off their trumpets of hate. Oh he said words like this he's wrong. That is the end of their quest for knowledge. No interest in information that isn't At the trend of the rainbow. So Hillary Clinton gets a pass on her actual dangerous possible world ending leadership qualities she has displayed thus far.
Basically the Internet itself on nearly all forums are agree with the group mentality on what's acceptable or get shouted down with racist /bully/ offensive / basically keep it to yourself. And boards has not escaped that.
So pretty much what your doing here
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