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Seems like some committed members are doing the the hard work or trying to convince people to subscribe.

The silence from the Boards Management , their employee and Mods is deafening.

Kinda show the downfall of the site from how it was run in the 00s to 2025.

FYI, I'm also having the issue that if you get a full screen ad when you click into a thread it throws you right to the end of the thread, not to the oldest unread. Happened on this thread, had 12 unread posts, clicked in, got the same temu full screen ad again (it's every 2 or 3 clicks on mobile) and it shot me to the end of the thread, so I had to skip back a page to read what I missed.

This will do nothing to encourage anybody new to join boards. Is there a plan for this?

You said earlier that you'd like to sub but don't want to give card details, that's fair enough.

Other's have suggested a PayPal donation or disposable Revolut cards, neither would give Stripe or Boards your card details and you're rejecting these ideas.

It seems you don't want to sub or donate.

the beatings will continue until morale improves

So the obvious fix would have been to try to grow the userbase of boards. Instead it'll just get smaller and more tightly wound up meaning more will be asked of the same people again and again.

How is that even remotely sustainable? I feel like a transition year mini company could do a better job with the business decisions…

the more I think about it seems like an attempt at building a little redundancy pot….

This is the reason I wouldn't want "Paid Member" written on my profile. That said I haven't subscribed but as I've said before I have credit doing nothing on a mobile phone doing nothing. The reason I won't make much of an effort to subscribe is because I waste so much time here and I do mean waste. The site for me is a mixed blessing.

To add to this - I do not want Boards to fail. I have been here since 2006 I think and it's been great. But I am not in the mood to support a half-hearted effort from the owner when he has not shown anything at all that would suggest there's any plan at all to improve the site.

Your point being?

Again, sounds like effort.

They aren't solutions.

I love boards, but I don't trust them with my financial details. Nor stripe.

I'll figure out revolut just to be contrarion prick.

How do you pay for anything online?

It's as much effort using your actual Revolut card as using a disposable one.

You just seem like you really don't want to subscribe, which is your prerogative, but there's no point pretending that you do.

You can put in any address, the payment will still go through.

As for name well they already have that along with your email from when you registered. People believe that there is this rare complete and total anonymity on Boards, not the case at all.

Also never got the whole need for anonymity, I've never posted anything on here that I wouldn't be ok with saying out loud. My actual name was my username for years.

Just because you don't understand peoples rights to privacy does not mean they do not have those rights.

Boards does not have my name or address. Just because you gave them your name and address, does not mean others gave up their privacy rights so willy nilly.

feel free to send me an email at mayisa5676@cotasen.com
I will be monitoring that email address for the next 20 minutes, then I'll discard it.

Just because you have never heard of disposable email addresses, does not mean others don't know what they are and actively use them to protect their privacy online. https://temp-mail.org/en/

While, as an end user, i do trust stripe, as they have PCI DSS Level 1 compliance, i can understand the other users concerns, as they found a statement that boards can request info from stripe, and they explained that concern to you, but you ignored it and went on about how you don't care about your privacy, so why should anybody.

It's people who are concerned about privacy that help protect the ignorant, as everything the privacy minded person strives for, helps everybody else out, even if they didn't even know their rights would have been trampled over if other well minded folks didn't already make the internet a lot safer for them, without them even having to think about it.