Important News!!

I use it, but I personally can't stand the Reddit way of structuring "conversations" - for all its faults - there's nothing really comparable to boards. As **** and all as it is these days I still think there's more of a community feel to boards than on Reddit.

I'd be happy to support the place - I had subscribed in the past - but the more I think about it, the more I'd like to know a bit more about the plan and how people's money will be used.

Is it realistic to expect the site to continue? Or is the plan just to hopefully get money off people and hope for the best: a short term injection of cash. What if the overall user experience still gets worse? What happens then? It's the increasingly worse user experience that has killed the numbers using the site: buggy and glitchy as ****

People won't keep paying for the sake of it if that doesn't improve.

The mods have let current affairs descend into a wankfest for Irish gammons.

Adios Amigos.

Subscibing? Sorry but I don't think it's something I want to do. For that reason - I'm out.

Best of luck and hope boards.ie makes it for a few more years, and hopefully realise that prioritising mods comfort over user experience was a big mistake.

In the era of the enshittefication of the internet and more and more AI slop wherever you look, this is an opportunity for Boards to be high quality user lead i fo site for Ireland.

This can only happen if the categorising and navigation improves vastly, and that mods and admins are truly objective AND actually willing to volunteer their time. Which is what it was. But it.lost its usability around the same time twitter stole our attention. But now twitter and social media is gone. Boards.ie can be the bedrock.

It needs an intelligent promotional campaign. Daytime radio reminding people and informing newcomers of what it is, some of its greatest moments, its usefulness as a resource. Podcasts.

RRegional And town forums are an opportunity as Facebook groups are ever more full of slop.

Simply looking for temp handouts won't plug the dam.

Are there any users who miss the glory days that have the expertise to throw in a handful of hours a month to make this a truly useful community resource?

(I don't, I'm just an ideas man!)

Boards.ie is like The FA Cup.

It's popularity is waning because other things have taken over and become more relevant to a changing world.

And like the FA Cup people come up with simplictic ideas that they think will save it, like "go back to the pre Vanilla platform".

I used to love this place, I'm here over 20 years and found it great back in the Ireland Offline days.

These days I'm still here but more out of habit than anything else, I no longer love it, I barley even like it now.

Threads are full of cranks, shills, trolls and WUMs, it's a toxic place a lot of the time.

Even this thread as I scan through it has people giving out about mods.

People have gone to other places to find answers to their questions.

I'll not be subscribing, I never did back in the day, and if boards closes for good then so be it, all good things come to an end at some point.

Hope all the old threads are saved on floppy discs and are being kept safe somewhere.

Sad news but inevitable really. I couldn’t cope with that basic vanilla interface.

Is that not a vitamin supplement 🙈

The 'upgrade' that was anything but :(

Boards has never properly recovered from it.