Important News!!

Bloody hell.

16 years and nearly 12k posts.

I'll throw 50 quid, I've spent over a decade on here and would like to see it continue.

Reality is though ye are probably pissing in the wind, the internet landscape has totally changed. Run an Irish e-commerce site myself, ai results and the launch of Amazon.ie are killing us in the ad space. It's over for the little guy :(

And this is closing the gate after the horse has bolted. Ye should of got subs in when ye had vBulletin to cover the cost, there has been an exodus since ye moved to a vastly inferior product in vanilla.

This thread doesn't even appear on the home page on desktop, despite someone posting just now.

Going back to the 2021 version of the site, post-Vanilla, would be a disaster (again!) for user retention.

I know I found this news on Reddit

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Can an update email be sent to the email addresses for all accounts? Seems like members might miss the notification.

Happy to contribute monthly if it helps keep boards alive. A lot of us use it for chats and checking in with other posters, lots of little communities in different forums. Although I will say that imo , after the switch to Vanilla, the site seemed to lose it's sense of community as a whole.

I’ve been a member for the bones of 20 years. It was great back in the day and even now it’s a great source of information of Ireland specific things but it is a shadow of its former self in the past few years. Honestly I don’t see the sub route being sustainable or the way forward. It might just kick the closure down the road a little.

I hope the site can be transferred to someone else if only as a read-only site so the info is not lost.

While I prefer the boards.ie format I do find myself on Reddit more often and I think we’ll all be fine after the closure. Just maybe a few new subreddits need to be created such as Irish Bargain alerts!