The Boards.ie Subscription

They had an app before, if they were swimming in money they could absolutely say nah, but I'd have thought every euro counts, but perhaps your right, they should just rely on the money they already have and call it quits. Stand down everyone, no need to consider doing anything else hold my beer has paid their 6 euro.

What's better value than Free? That's basically what we have because we get to keep our credit to spend on things like subs and charities.

But using the app workaround could be a possibility shouldn't it?

I'm not technical but I can't see why it wouldn't work.

Even if there's only twenty of us use that method that's around €2K guaranteed.

Presumably the old app could be relaunched with in-app purchases added? We don't need to use it, it would just be a handy way for us to contribute.

Cmon lads, if they won't bother sending a single tweet or an email to their users, there's no chance they are going to create an app

It's for charities and boards ain't a charity...

I always spend it on charities. I used to spend just under half of it on Disney+ but I cancelled my subscription in protest when they upped their monthly cost by a few € a couple of years ago.

As is obvious from my posts over the last months I've every intention of supporting the site. I'm just hoping they can come up with a method where I can give more than the suggested amounts.

You, as a subscriber yourself, obviously have the interests of Boards at heart as well and should hopefully be thinking of as many ways to monetise it as possible as opposed to trying to put down suggestions from other members.

I don't do PayPal which makes the donation a bit difficult.

I know Carrier Billing is a non runner so I was hoping the App option which was suggested (not by me originally) might be looked into but again the lack of updates from @Boards.ie: Odhran isn't helping things.

Don't worry, I'll do my bit when the time comes.

As is obvious from my posts over the last months I've every intention of supporting the site. I'm just hoping they can come up with a method where I can give more than the suggested amounts.

If you were as desperate as you claim to be to give "more than the suggests amounts" you would either set up a Paypal (takes a minute to do) or would actually just subscribe for the maximum amount now and wait and see if another option becomes available in the future.

Giving some now is surely better than hoping to give more at some point and the option never materialises, no?

That's great bud.

Here's the link.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=AB5EHAUYDRFF2

Can be found here. https://keepboardsalive.com/

And it's probably 8 or 10 weeks money for an unmarried mother. What's your point.

Thanks for the update but…my 2 cents and whether you consider this good faith or not is up to you.

We’re still working on keeping Boards.ie running. Hosting and essential maintenance costs are high; ad + sub revenue is tight. It’s me on day-to-day, with the owner focused on funding/long-term options. That’s why you don’t see constant posts from us.

Sorry now but this makes little sense. If the existing conditions are unsustainable then wouldn't it be better to look at migrating to an actual sustainable soution that does not have such high costs rather than trying to find ways to fund an already not-up-to standard solution. The core audience of the site would likely survive a transition to another, functional, platform at least as well as transitioning to another broken version of vanilla

On comms: with one part time staff member it isn’t practical to update continuously. Granted this is a far cry from when the real full time community management staff had this site in ship shape, this is a mantle that is difficult to live up to. We won’t post for the sake of posting; when there’s real movement, we will update. We’ll continue to drop periodic checkpoint posts like this, and we’ll post immediately if/when there’s a concrete decision.

No one said 'update continuously', what is wanted is some form of consistent communication rather than 'periodic checkpoint posts' because the lack of information just allows speculation, rumour and hard feelings to fester.

On social media: we’re not running active social feeds currently. With a single part time staff member, every extra channel multiplies moderation and support overhead. Historically, off-platform feeds generated a lot of disputes we still had to handle here without clear benefit to site sustainability. So our focus is the core platform, on-site notices, and direct support. We’ll revisit social when resources allow.

Again, no one that seriously suggested more social media activity was looking for full time, always on responses, rather publicising the site and letting people know that boards still exists, is a viable discussion forum and hey would appreciate your help in staying afloat. Focusing on the 'core platform, on-site notices, and direct support' is not working and this is very apparent 90+ days into the campaign. By the time resources allow, it's likely that everything will be too far gone.

On linking to alternatives: straight promotion of competitor sites isn’t allowed. Talking about features you like elsewhere, to suggest improvements here, is fine—keep it constructive and non-promotional.

There is a huge difference between promotion of a competitor and discussing their existence. Ye are making it seem like ye are irrationally afraid of people knowing about other sites because they will just abandon boards. It would be better to be more concerned about the things ye can do to make people want to stay here.

If you want to help, keep suggestions actionable. If you can assist with something specific, drop me a concise PM/email. Just to confirm as I see there are some users stating that they email with no response the general email address for Boards.ie is hello@boards .ie.

I think your ideas of what is actionable and the rest of the community's ideas may differ and to be honest that doesn't leave me very hopeful for the future of the site.