The Boards.ie Subscription

We were all getting these newly imposed and very onerous cookie preference pages over Christmas and we were on to Mike about it .

It was changed so that when logged off and logging back in you could easily reject all or object all which is the way it should be . In EU anyway .

TLDR .Not for ads , for cookies .

Not necessarily ads . A number are advertising but others are information sharing and scraping .

Yes it will if you chose a monthly subscription. You should get an email a few days before the money goes out.

https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Well July (one year on) isn't far away, so let's review...

- despite the advertised crisis situation, and despite the goals not being hit, the site has somehow continued on regardless

- nothing else has changed though. Still limited day to day engagement from the owner and one (part time?) employee

- no preview of the stripped back Vanilla v2 Boards, let alone a full release

- UI continues to be a mess with users having to develop their own fixes (which are much appreciated but shouldn't be necessary)

- the site remains a ghost town in many areas. No users, let alone mods across many forums

- no meaningful progress on most things that were requested or promised not just last year but when the move to Vanilla was first implemented

I won't be paying my 50 quid this year and I won't be taken in again by more empty promises and commitments. It's not enough to simply say that things are happening in the background if, a YEAR on, no tangible evidence of those "happenings" can be seen from the user perspective.

If the site dies in October/November this time so be it. I have zero faith in the current management to be able to turn it around and limping on as it has this year is doing nothing except dragging it out.

@_Kaiser_

UI continues to be a mess with users having to develop their own fixes (which are much appreciated but shouldn't be necessary)

Appreciate the shoutout if your referring to me with the above comment.

One example: -

to: -

That was a simple css edit to give the table under it a top margin and a bit of styling on the page controls.

.PageControls.Top,

.PageControls.Bottom {

position: static !important;

background: var(--t-header-bottom) !important;

border-color: var(--t-header-border) !important;

z-index: 2;

}
.DataTableWrap {

margin-top: 70px;

z-index: 1;

}

Another simple fix was this icon circled in red with the wrong class so it doesn't display.

I mentioned before, If no site improvements by June, I will be requesting my yearly sub not be renewed in July!

Partially the reason, I made my extension more widely available than just paid members.

Let the chips fall where they may.

I'm in for another years sub.

It's your money of course but to me that's just rewarding the lack of progress and engagement.

Totally unrelated but I HATE that phrase! 😖 It just makes no sense - "happy out" .. happy out where? outside? It's not even a sentence! 🙂

How do you find out when your annual subscription was last paid and renewal date ?

Check your email you subbed from for : - 'Your receipt from Boards Software Ltd' if you didn't delete it.