Boards.ie 2026...

Not much notifying really - it's more lots of us posting and reporting into the void as far as I can see.

The lack of communication overall is kind of unbelievable, in relation to everything, not just the current ongoing problems.

There's a flurry of activity - promises, requests, aims - and then nothing.

And whenever the site goes down, nothing.

Not officially but I have developed things with my extension?

Yes, moderation has more or less ceased in many previously well moderated fora.

The bouncing page issue has resolved, so there is that TBF.

Yes and in other fora the moderation has become completely one sided. Moderators are supposed to have moderate and objective views on the topics they moderate. Their personal views should not cloud their judgement.

Yes, Motors and Infrastructure would have been 2 that were very well moderated in the past.

OK, this won't be popular I'm sure, but I feel it needs to be said....

With all respect Mike, the above largely says nothing and feels like it's only been posted to try and quieten things down among the natives again.

Connectivity issues : not an issue just last week but a regular occurrence for months and even years now. The platform or cloudflare or whatever the underlying cause is simply isn't configured right or specced right or there's some sort of compatibility or version conflicts somewhere. Telling users to keep logging the problems isn't a solution, just a band aid. What are Vanilla actually doing to resolve the issue (whatever it is) long term?

Migration : it's been in progress for the best part of the last year now and always a few weeks away with more details coming soon. What is the ACTUAL timetable you've agreed with Vanilla? Is there one? What about the preview/test platform that users have been promised a look at? What's the timeframe there? Again, more soon isn't an answer really.

Moderation : not a new concern but again no real update beyond "we're working on it". Yes mods are volunteers and have lives and all that, but this is possibly one of the biggest issues (whether you agree or not with the concerns) raised by the community for years now. What is the actual plan?

General updates : yep there's been a lot of silence that only seems to be punctuated when the general noise level starts to rise noticeably and then only with vague promises of progress or next steps that so far remain largely unfulfilled. It's not your fault Mike. You can only comment on what you know /are able to say etc and you're not the owner. The responsibility there lies with Odhran.

However, and I don't know your role spec obviously, if community engagement and feedback is part of it, I would suggest maybe establishing even a monthly/fortnightly schedule of meaningful updates that you can reasonably and realistically commit to would solve a lot of the problems in this regard.

Anyway, just my 2c. I'm trying to be fair but I'm also looking at this from the perspective of the users who fundamentally just want to know what's going on with a site they still care about, that without whom it would already be dead and buried, and I'm also conscious (as I said in the other thread) that nearly a year has passed since the "crisis appeal" and yet we're still talking about largely the same things (see my last post over there - the subscription thread - for more).

To be clear, I'm not interested in or trying to start an argument with you (or anyone else reading this for that matter), but if the donation basket is to passed around again in the next weeks/months then real progress needs to be evident to have any chance of success this time.

Thanks for reading this far.

Boards doesn't run on the open source version.

@sligeach Would you prefer something like the below instead on both Mobile and Desktop?

^ Redacted content in Black above from an old PM of mine!

That is a quick tweak to add to my extension.