Important News!!

Found this in the old thread I linked.

Couple of irks I can remember…

Think a big one was loss of all the threads/forums you were subscribed to, that had some cack handed workaround and eventually fixed later

And another was email notification of every post or nothing, never used it myself but guess some people liked a summary of new threads in forums they were subscribed to (no idea if that is fixed)

Good post, a point you made illustrates something that's a problem.

If the site is in such grave danger, if there's only X amount of days left then why are the attempts to get the word out so lacking? We can debate all we like about moderation or ads or whatever, but it's not much good without a bit more of an effort to get the word out.

Where's the engagement? People, who might otherwise subscribe, are in the dark. Where's the email campaign? Where's any meaningful engagement with any media organisation of any description? There hasn't even been any engagement on this thread for, what, over a week now? Even the odd post here from Odhran would probably help bump up the subs: people appreciate transparency, even if it's not good news.

We're all on the outside, of course, and, yeah, resources are tight, but this rescue campaign is feeling less and less credible.

vBulletin was so far from perfect though, and so often maligned, I really did and do think that the hate towards Vanilla forms was overblown.

From my experience (I’ve had a previous account here since 2001) Vanilla brought some new issues, sure, but none of them detrimental to participation - and it did also bring some sanity and stability to the mess that became of the hacked upon and outdated vBulletin system.

I think a problem is that to some people, users, mods, and Admins alike, “boards.ie” is a single large entity, one large community, whereas I think it actually works better if thought of as a collection of smaller communities.

People complain about over moderation “on boards.ie” due to whatever might happen on CA or After Hours or wherever, and the consequences can ripple throughout the site. I don’t read those forums, I actively avoid them. The forums (or forum, more accurately these days) I do participate in doesn’t have those problems at all.

But the structure of the site, with the homepage etc, and the mentality of the loudest users on it doesn’t lend itself well enough to filtering out the noise and focusing on the communities you care about. It stopped me from even trying, these days I’ve got a bookmark going straight to the forum I enjoy and try not to ever venture to the homepage, and I’m sure it’s driven others away entirely.

Bit late for all that now though I guess.

No, it's not fixed. It used to be one notification for new activity on a thread since you last looked at it, which was great. Now if you bookmark anything you get a notification for every single post.

@M.T. Cranium I'm happy to see you in this thread. I read your weather posts every day. I'm trying to remain hopeful but if boards goes down, I hope we'll be able to find you on an alternative / replacement forum? I believe you're on facebook but I'd never be willing to use it.

3rd option from the bottom "New comments on my bookmarked posts". I had it ticked for email but, as I said, it leads to too many emails now whereas before, there would be just the one. It was handy for threads that might not have activity every day but then suddenly there'd be a flurry of posts.

I've seen lots of others still complaining about it so I assume there's just no way around it but I would love if I was wrong about that.

I've set it to notifications within boards now instead so I'll see what that's like.