Important News!!

what?

Subbed, anyway. Some of the forums are very useful and/or interesting. The price of a pint and a coffee a month won't kill me!

I'm reading this as sarcastic observational commentary about the effort many posters seem to put in to doing, what is essentially, nothing.

If you don't wish to subscribe you achieve that by doing nothing. It is the status quo. Despite this, some seem to feel the need to share their justification for doing nothing, as if to ensure they won't somehow be charged if they didn't.

The initial few days are vital, the first push and the follow up. If that is missed then its not going anywhere. The whole site should be banner headlines saying what is needed and what they are doing. Its more a depressed 'giz a couple of bob mate' approach though. Waiting a week (or more) to get a flicker of response is not the way to go.

When I subscribed I said I'd give @Boards.ie: Odhran & @Boards.ie: Mike 2 weeks to spell out the road map before I started questioning them here about the way forwards. I wish more could do the same but everyone is different and some will want information now. A week yesterday since it was announced so I would hope there is a plan being drawn up since then.

That's about the way I think about it too. I've initially went for a month sub, and then paid for 6 months. I like this site, all pros cons considered on my side and still I would love this project keep going. I came across Reddit thread about board's situation and there was plenty good posted. It would be a shame to let it go. And that comes from someone who isn't Irish, but this site gave me way too much over the years, so I'll keep subscribing regardless of outcome. Still money well spent. There's few posts here saying that they got much more than the sub is worth from boards over the years. Same for me.

Do you not have a bike to fix. As I said numerous times I saved more than enough this year to not be arsed losing €50 and if people won't pay €1.50 a week for a month and see if there is a plan to get the site back on track well it probably will fail.

Yeah, I can only agree with what a number of posters have said.

I love boards and would hate to see it go under and fifty a year isn't much.

But there's been so much not clarified. Okay, it's only how ever many Euro, but you want to feel you are giving it over for a credible reason.

If the matter was so urgent - then where was the email campaign, why is there no notification on the landing page still on desktop a week later, why wasn't there some sort of social media blitz or something last week: when outside interest in the site was higher than in a long time? You'll never have more attention and goodwill than last week.

I appreciate those involved might be busy and I wouldn't expect them to be popping in any trying to answer all the questions in the thread, but there's external things that weren't taken care of - which makes me wonder.

Yeah, lack of communication is still a very big problem with boards.ie owner.

I understand the only reason the place is still open is because he put his money where his mouth is whatever the rights and wrongs of boards.ie being cashed out and bought by a businessman in the first place. So keep that in mind.

It would have survived maybe thrived if it had been entrusted with the userbase and I'm pretty sure the hosting/server costs for a proper forum software platform and hosting would have been covered by donations.

But the initial cashing out by the original owners put paid to that (I didn't follow the ins and outs of what happened so feel free to correct)

We'll just have to wait and see but I'll echo others requesting the most basic of comms on the main issues the money collected so far will fix/help, or if it will at all.

Everything seems to be back of fag packet knee jerk reactions here. It's really unprofessional.