Where will we go if Boards finishes?

We’re seen these threads emerge in many popular forums- I don’t think it would be good to scatter to the four winds -I’m wondering are a few boardsies already setting up an alternative site where we can assemble the rag tag forums like here, food, motors etc?

Facebook groups work well but you need a cohort who aren't spamming constantly which a lot of groups descend into. Unfortunately I've tried some of the irish ones for bargains but often its people spamming terrible amazon tat with affiliate links. Life on a budget in Ireland is one of the better ones but its not really bargain alerts like boards.ie

Reddit drives me mad since half the forums require their app which I despise

Discord I've only dipped into once or twice so can't really comment.

I've spent a fair bit of time on Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit but again still not perfect

i am in a few discords for various topics, i think most things could work on the app but i doubt people would bother

reddit comes in handy for the odd thing but i doubt people will move

boards changed loads over th years and lost most of the users and are left with a small percentage, i would miss bargain alerts for the big saving items and a few other niche areas i have an interest in like the watch forum

A discord server was set up for the Christmas forum years ago and it worked really well. Has come back to life this week

that sounds great, if it is user friendly im sure people will move over and if there is uncertainty we could always set up a vote

can't be doing with facebook that's for sure

Tbh I don't mind where we go as bargain alerts is frankly the only forum on here for me anymore.

Realistically what do we think most will bother with? I think a forum for the simple fact all the current users are happy use a forum. Would enough casuals bother with discord and the likes needing apps? Then Facebook a lot seem to not bother with it these days and I agree on the spam would it be easier keep the peace on a forum?

I'm not against Reddit for an "bargainalertsireland" it's a mouthful tho

I think it failed as even when BA was at its most active, it never would have enough content to keep a dedicated daily deals site busy*

Also, parcel motel was ubiquitous back then so most Irish bargain hunters probably used hukd more than BA - I certainly did 😁

*I know hukd isn't a daily deals site but it's effectively how it operates.

Will we go with a sub Reddit for now just in case this place goes offline? At least we'll have somewhere easy to access and can always change it up down the line? Anyone here know much about creating sub Reddits? I'm a casual user so looked there but not sure on the nest settings? bargainalertsireland ?