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  • #1832
    _BAA_RAM_EWE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭_BAA_RAM_EWE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123666926#Comment_123666926

    48, Gomo and others.



  • #1833
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,745 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667240#Comment_123667240

    Unless you're on one of their legacy plans.



  • #1834
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,459 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Welcome to the best mobile plan thread.



  • #1835
    _BAA_RAM_EWE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭_BAA_RAM_EWE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667346#Comment_123667346

    I'm gonna get some ice cream and throw on the new karate kid movie



  • #1836
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,432 ✭✭✭corkie


    @jmcc Boards.ie existed in 1999. There are posts here from 1999 but the search only goes back to 30/June/1999.

    Are you sure about that? Like users from 1998, that are quake forum transfers, could have some posts been transferred from that forum as well?

    My profile I have now dates to Feb 2001, I may have had an earlier account that I don't remember now, but I definitely was not on quake forums, was not my thing back then.

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



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  • #1837
    Glaceon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,497 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    The first copy on archive.org is from May 2000.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20000510223244/http%3A//www.boards.ie/



  • #1838
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667481#Comment_123667481

    I like that older version, it shows more of what's available.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #1839
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,448 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Thinking about forums that were great but have disappeared without a trace… i probably would have been on boards back then if it wasn't for oxygen.ie, think its still a site but the forums are long gone



  • #1840
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 16,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123666034#Comment_123666034

    On a Samsung S24 and no issues here, either logged in without ads or logged out with ads. No issues on desktop either, Google Chrome. Could be worth checking if specific devices or browsers are the issue.

    Boards.ie need your help to survive, subscribe here



  • #1841
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,811 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123666880#Comment_123666880

    Maybe just check out the long running dedicated thread about what we do with our unused credit instead of derailing this one?

    Anyways, I've €192 credit at the moment. At least €100 will go to Boards if they can get it set up soon.



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  • #1842
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,651 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667465#Comment_123667465

    There are imported posts from the Quake forums. There were also some posts and threads that were archived as part of an optimisation to deal with the limitations of vBulletin and that would have been later. There are two post counts in the user/avatar block for posters with older join dates with the current post count and an smaller post count below it. This may have been due to that archiving as poster data changed to an account name used to group the archived posts.

    Not sure that I had an account on the older Quake forums (it was a long time ago in the days of LPBs when most were on dial-up).

    Regards…jmcc

    Regards…jmcc



  • #1843
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,745 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667791#Comment_123667791

    I'm almost certain that the higher post count includes the deleted posts in the current incarnation of the site - for instance, I never had a Quake account.



  • #1844
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,651 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667892#Comment_123667892

    Some historical posts were moved to a LegacyUser account as part of the archiving.

    Just found out it was a Vanilla kludge that affected the vBulletin archiving. The archiving had changed some of the poster details and archived posts were caught up in the Vanilla kludge.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118416851/#Comment_118416851

    Regards…jmcc

    Post edited by jmcc on

    Regards…jmcc



  • #1845
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,889 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    I don't remember the quake stuff but I know I was on boards before 2004.

    When was Adverts split.

    Boards seems busier recently..



  • #1846
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123666872#Comment_123666872

    It has taken me a bit of digging to find this again but you can update your notification preferences here: https://www.boards.ie/profile/preferences/username

    There used to be an option to Follow a Forum where you could choose to receive updates by email but that seems to be missing at the moment



  • #1847
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,241 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667997#Comment_123667997

    Anecdotally, not really. Maybe there are figures that prove the contrary but my yardstick is -

    Years ago if you went onto Boards front page and saw a thread that looked interesting, and clicked on it, you might spend 15 or 30 seconds either reading the latest post or deciding you weren't really interested. So back to the front page, and by that time the one you clicked was already gone off the front page. Now the post has barely moved down the list.



  • #1848
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,889 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123668316#Comment_123668316

    I kinda meant in the last few weeks. Since the announcement.

    I agree with you about the front page. I do the same and it's the same few threads always there. If it's After hours or CA I avoid them. So little to engage with compared to the past.



  • #1849
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,180 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123668352#Comment_123668352

    I've noticed what seems to be a fair few new signups posting - by the style and content I'm guessing they're re-regs, but the news and money appeals does seem to have generated a bit more traffic.

    Whether any of them actually stump up, I'd have my doubts though! But they might generate ad traffic….



  • #1850
    Glaceon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,497 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667951#Comment_123667951

    LegacyUser was also used for anonymous posts from the likes of the Personal Issues forum after the Vanilla migration. I do remember some very old posts on vBulletin that looked like they were posted anonymously, I’d say these are the ones you mentioned here. Always wondered what that was about.



  • #1851
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,651 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123669140#Comment_123669140

    Yep. There were some scalability issues with vBulletin and a lot of older posts were effectively taken out of the active accounts for archiving from what I can see.

    When the Vanilla kludge was applied these posts appeared to be from deleted/anonymous/guest users. In terms of posts, Boards.ie is a huge site. Xenforo might have been a better option (it solved some of the thread index problems that affected vBulletin when a thread had too many posts) than Vanilla but it would still have required the data to be imported and checked. Imports on small sites might work well. On large sites and complex data, they can be nightmares.

    Regards…jmcc

    Regards…jmcc



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  • #1852
    _BAA_RAM_EWE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭_BAA_RAM_EWE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123669174#Comment_123669174

    have you wrote regards on every post?



  • #1853
    Man Vs ManUre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,808 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Boring news. Will leave it with my accountant to deal with.



  • #1854
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,651 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123669402#Comment_123669402

    It is sort of a Denny Crane thing.

    Regards…jmcc

    Regards…jmcc



  • #1855
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,448 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Cordially,

    Scofflaw



  • #1856
    _BAA_RAM_EWE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭_BAA_RAM_EWE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123669499#Comment_123669499

    Indeed. I scrolled back 20 years and you were doing it then. Keep it up.



  • #1857
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    it’s come up quite a bit in this thread and I feel it may be a regular occurrence. It’s a bit of a surprise to me that people are still uncertain at this point why it happened.


    the version of vBulletin that boards was running was out of service. Boards couldn’t afford to run a more recent version. This was announced on the forum at the time too as a significant constraint to the sustainability of boards from a technical provision perspective.


    there was also a significant amount of customisations that were developed and implemented to the instance of vBulletin boards was running. Which impeded and complicated an upgrade path. This was also within the same announcement.



  • #1858
    ozmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭ozmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123668205#Comment_123668205

    Yes - that was the options I was referring to - on good boards you used to get a summary each week by email - but now the only option I can see ("[]New comments on posts I've participated in")
    means you get one email for 'every single new post' in a thread - waay too many emails if you have interacted with only a few forums - all these emails arrive like spam when subscribed to a thread with many post - im not sure many would leave this option enabled - and so people forget and leave the conversations quicker than before.
    I know there is a notification - and you can go to a page to see them - but thats not bringing people back to the site after they have a reply.

    “Roll it back”



  • #1859
    SharpCoder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭SharpCoder


    The bouncing is likely to do with the Javascript animations on loading quotes or other embeds, like js-embed.

    The bouncing effect could be it loading slow or the animation is not fully supported by the browser.

    Could also be the embed getting animated and resized responsively on the fly causing the hop effect.

    There is a awful lot of information in these quotes also like showing ban status and "punished" status also.



  • #1860
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,745 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123670930#Comment_123670930

    Have you checked to see whether the options on the desktop and the mobile versions are the same?



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  • #1861
    Cloud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,053 ✭✭✭Cloud


    Hi all. Simple answer - I set up the Quake forum (using Matt’s WWWBoard) on IGN (Irish Games Network) on 12 February 1998 - and two years later we imported all users and posts into the boards.ie site. I don’t know exactly what date the domain or business name stuff happened but likely mid to late 1999. In the interim the Quake forum became the Cloud Boards, running on UltimateBB. Hope that helps! John



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