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How will Boards.ie eventually end and be no more?

TheBoyConor

So Boards.ie is definitely one of the most stable and constant sites on the internet, having started back in 1998. But nothign lasts forever. How is Boards.ie likely to end its days?

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[Deleted User]

Boards IS slowly declining:

I joined initially in late 2009: Then boards had a vibrant Models forum, even without drones. More activity in Audio and video Editing.
More liberal too.

Of course then real world events advertised and talked about were more enthusiast and less about getting your hard earned cash for this "unmissable occasion and expert speaker!!!!".

..End of babble.

o1s1n

machaseh wrote: »

Most internet forums are slowly declining in favour of social media. The same goes for boards.

Yet, boards has a consistent community of faithful posters plus a much larger collection of people who only post on it a couple of times to ask some questions about various matters. So I dont think it will go down anytime soon.

I really thought a few years ago that it was done due to Facebook. Numbers just kept dropping off.

A fair few forums that I would have frequented a lot back in the day are completely dead now (Airsoft for example was one of the largest forums on boards at one point with multiple retailers and sites advertising there and paying good money to do so, now it's lucky to get a post a week. )

I'd also put a lot of the decline down due to the category restructure and the new responsive site, it completely removed browsing random forums and basically killed a lot of them.

GMSA

Whenever Skynet becomes self aware. Then everything is fooked. They'll pull the plug in the panic.

mikeecho

Over zealous mods, and more snowflakes than you can shake a carrot at.

It's already begun.

railer201

We're suckers for nostalgia in this country, just look at the longevity of the 'Late Late Show' and 'Reeling in the Years'. Rumours of Boards demise could be much exaggerated, in any event what would all the 'know it alls' do with themselves if it collapsed ?

Stevieluvsye

railer201 wrote: »

We're suckers for nostalgia in this country, just look at the longevity of the 'Late Late Show' and 'Reeling in the Years'. Rumours of Boards demise could be much exaggerated, in any event what would all the 'know it alls' do with themselves if it collapsed ?

Funnily enough probably the best thread on this site every Friday over in Television

Top quality posters

skallywag

Wouldn't it be fitting if there was nothing left in the end other than folk discussing the finer points of Quake?

o1s1n

mikeecho wrote: »

Over zealous mods, and more snowflakes than you can shake a carrot at.

It's already begun.

People have been touting the 'over zealous mods' line for well over a decade now.
(actually probably approaching two decades)

skallywag

I think the forum format will almost certainly fade with time, and not just Boards.

Anyone else here remember using Newsgroups before forums existed? Was more or less the same discussion type format. Though I wonder who still uses them now ...

El Weirdo

o1s1n wrote: »

People have been touting the 'over zealous mods' line for well over a decade now.
(actually probably approaching two decades)

Yep.

TuringBot47

It'll probably end with another massive data breech.

TheBoyConor

El Weirdo wrote: »

Yep.

Some asshole just close the inaugral thread on Boards.ie?
That is pretty bad. That closing of that thread is very ominous. The end might be nearer than we think.

Stevieluvsye

TheBoyConor wrote: »

Some asshole just close the inaugral thread on Boards.ie?
That is pretty bad. That closing of that thread is very ominous. The end might be nearer than we think.

I'm sure the admin shuts it after they post to avoid the sh!tshow that is the other 99% of threads here

[Deleted User]

TheBoyConor wrote: »

Some asshole just close the inaugral thread on Boards.ie?
That is pretty bad. That closing of that thread is very ominous. The end might be nearer than we think.

Barricading themselves.

Irish Guitarist

I suspect people will just gradually get bored of it. Look at that thread about that Yaniv person suing a salon over them not doing a Brazilian wax. If you didn't refer to this person as 'they' you'd get a warning or be banned. I wouldn't touch a thread like that with a barge pole. I couldn't be arsed twisting myself into knots referring to a singular person as 'they'. It's going to get worse too and soon there will be no point in talking about anything.

Bobblehats

It would take something gradually underhand where our identities are dissected deconstructed and disseminated over time. Like some sort of creeping death or, bad b-movie

Rufeo

It will end when the electricity runs out.

Your Face

Maybe it gets sued into oblivion by someone with lots of money and a vainglorious fear of any criticism.

Tom Mann Centuria

It's clear poster numbers are dropping, all the little forums that used to have small but regular poster numbers are more or less dead, the bigger forums have less active posters and the site is more or less becoming AH/whatever offshoot to AH they try, current affairs the most recent.

It's a slow death, but it's dying.

s7ryf3925pivug

pretty sure it happened a few years ago.

[Deleted User]

Your Face wrote: »

vainglorious fear of any criticism.

You exemplify the resentful archetype when a witty riposte eludes you. Which is often.

Your Face

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You exemplify the resentful archetype when a witty riposte eludes you. Which is often.

Ironic.

Samsgirl

The glitch will get us all in the end

[Deleted User]

Your Face wrote: »

Ironic.

Alanis Morissette you are not, or a credible commentator. "Your Face" is ironic as you often land on it.

Your Face

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Alanis Morissette you are not, or a credible commentator. "Your Face" is ironic as you often land on it.

Poor Bertie is losing the plot today.
Very entertaining.

[Deleted User]

Your Face wrote: »

Poor Bertie is losing the plot today.
Very entertaining.

You're working the left hand overtime. Whatever gets you through the day.

ToddDameron

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

It's clear poster numbers are dropping, all the little forums that used to have small but regular poster numbers are more or less dead, the bigger forums have less active posters and the site is more or less becoming AH/whatever offshoot to AH they try, current affairs the most recent.

It's a slow death, but it's dying.

What you think caused it?

Your Face

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You're working the left hand overtime. Whatever gets you through the day.

Silly Bertie, getting so upset at the internet.

LaFuton

ToddDameron wrote: »

What you think caused it?

boards was built on an ancient Indian burial ground, bots n trolls haunt these halls

Tom Mann Centuria

ToddDameron wrote: »

What you think caused it?

Choice. Plenty more fish in the sea these days.

The inability to discuss even vaguely dubious topics here, torrents, streaming, iptv, video game roms, the good old days of cardsharing, even bypassing geographical blocks ffs. Stuff that sites like reddit have all over their platform, or faceache or twitter. Boards were too timid, and never changed.

Then the powers decided AH was to be the saviour, to the detriment of the rest of the site imo.