If Boards.ie closed tomorrow, where would you go?

The whole far left agenda is dying out, in sports, politics, media etc . If commonsense returned to boards it might stand a chance. I called leader of Israel Benny, and got banned, for hurting his feelings, as if he saw it, and what's wrong with Benny. It's bonkers on here.

I think if posters think boards is a bastion of far left speech then they always go to twitter/x or truthsocial. Looking at the immigration or trans threads I see a lot more right wing than left wing posts.

You were banned because this place is full of pro-FG shills who jump with delight when they see their property tax bill coming in. Pack of phuqqing apes the lot of them. I will not be sorry to see boards.ie gone

Oh not politics.ie. Gave up on that years ago as it was just party loyalists angrily screaming at each other.

Same with Reddit except there it is all bots attacking anyone who isn't pro Sinn Fein. In particular the Irishpolitics section moderators hand out bans to anyone who dares question any Sinn Fein policy.

Boards will be missed.

Blast yore ma with piss...

I've signed up to a swingers forum, hopefully I'll have more success on there looking for the ride.

I've been temp banned here a few times for calling out obvious trolls and shyte posters who seemed to enjoy special protection on the site, so again another reason to acknowledge it was never perfect. But for a few decades these kind of online forums were a new frontier for the curious and generally there was more collaborative discovery and sharing than entrenched opining.

Back in the noughties I came across a NZ website called Trademe which had a discussion forum like Boards, but you could only post with one account authenticated with a NZ or OZ bank card. As users first went there to buy and sell the fora side of the site seemed to mostly self moderate as abuses would result in users being suspended or banned from the whole site, so no more buying or selling.

Anyhow with the rise of social media FB and other discussion forums like reddit supporting the fora side of the site was no longer financially justifiable for the company. Unfortunately as with nearly everywhere this allowed the global social media companies to profit off social division via the like of Cambridge Analytics etc..

What I'm musing towards is that if Boards went I still think there's demand for general online discussion fora where users can pose a question. Perhaps some sort of subscription service as proposed may actually work as users will be less likely to post frivolously and avoid personal attacks.

It will never be as much fun as the frontier days, but some form of online jurisdictional accountability would be a absolute salve after the horrid years of social media exploitation.

FFS, was wracking my brain trying to remember the name of that site.
The site I thought would end the world when it closed…now I can't even remember what it was called. 😗

Same thing will happen if boards.ie goes.

Internet ephemera like Bebo and MySpace, they come and go and the world keeps turning.

I'm hardly ever here. Just showing up to have one last digg before they turn off the lights

I use this site, https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ it a UK site and it has a fair few Irish members.

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There are some very interesting threads on boards one as mentioned it Fergils boat but also the guy rebuilding VW cars and many others.

I hope they archive this stuff if the site stops working and it can still be seen.

Allowing totally unsubstantiated scutter spam threads as is happening right now on the Ukraine invasion thread really does show theyve given up.