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There’s a lot of social history on the site with probably covid been the most important . I presume the National Library would be interested .

Personally I would subscribe but i don’t think there’s any hope of getting the numbers required

That tread from the lad that thought his grinds tutor was coming on to him deserves to be in the National Library tbf.

I wonder how many of those are daily/weekly users, and how many haven't signed into the site in months or years?

I don't think I'd be too happy with funding something that is going to be used for free by a shower who think rules shouldn't apply to them. This thread alone has demonstrated the need for change ... and that is change from the bottom to the top.

Just me, another random user who's been around a while (more reading than posting I admit) but will be sad to see boards go away.

Been many changes throughout the years but boards has always been a place to come back to for real knowledge and the occasional arguement, not the I Googled this answer for you stuff.

The content collected over the years is worth archiving somewhere.

there is no shortage of of undecideds platforms out there and as we’ve seen with the likes of Twitter it doesn’t make it better.

Now on saying that I mainly use tgg he e farming and Forestry forums and they have been well modded in the whole . Perhaps the ones you use are different

I would have thought way less. If you take out the couple of dozen very high volume posters, who posts 20+ times per day, every day, then there are very low volumes of new posts. If you look at the landing page now, there's probably what, 20 or 30 posts in the past hour? By how many posters - a dozen? I'd be surprised if there were much more than 1,000 users who post regularly. My guess is that around a quarter of the posts on the site are made by the same very small coterie of posters, probably no more than 30-40.

Not yet, to be announced next week.

I'd echo that too.

I also don't want my data passed on without being consulted.
I'm sure there must be GDPR issues in doing that.

I certainly don't want a 'boards community' in possession of my data either.

Can I ask @Boards.ie: Mike and @Boards.ie: Odhran what happens user data if the site does come to an end or is sold/passed on?

Hadn't realised the subscriptions had ended. Subbed up years ago, but had noticed the sub-only forums seemed had disappeared. Have the published a portal for the subscription yet?

In fairness, you’re correct - vast majority of the site is well modded and actually doesn’t need much modding - my comments were more directed at the CA forum and happy to clarify that point now.
But I also recognise that it’s those precious forums like forestry etc that will suffer the most if boards goes- they are boards greatest asset- maybe the focus now should be on getting members from all those great specialist topics forums, to agree where they should move to if /when boards.ie does fail

Could @Boards.ie: Mike list maybe 10 things that will change/ go in Vanilla now to the rolled back version if Boards is saved? I think posters would like to see what they're being offered to pay for and whether it's value for money.

Some posters have been asking about financial information of the site. From a quick look at the accounts Boards made a profit in 2023 and 2024 on paper but had losses from the previous years to effectively cancel those profits. The 2024 profit was less than half of the 2023 profit but there's no breakdown of where that difference was caused (increase in costs/ decrease in revenue etc)

There's also quite a large amount of Creditors but again no breakdown if that figure is for external suppliers or the directors.

I haven't mentioned the specific figures in the accounts but they are available from the CRO.

I have read a couple of posts saying they don't believe Google's AI is responsible for a drop in traffic to the site but a photography podcast I listen to actually mentioned something about it. Traffic to his own site is down 30/40 % I believe and within a few years the ratio is to be 80% AI results and 20% directly to a link to a site from a search result.

[In CA that would earn me a warning for ignoring moderator's instructions about anecdotes] forgive the attempt at humour