Forums that have died

KingOfFairview · 2008-04-10 10:56:01

Ever been a member of a forum that has been really active but has just fizzled out? I used ot go on Dangerhere and then Premierleagueboston, both of which used ot have about 10 posts per minute, a good rapport, and SFA flaming depite very liberal mods, but both gradually ground to a halt and are effectively now dead.…

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Ever been a member of a forum that has been really active but has just fizzled out? I used ot go on Dangerhere and then Premierleagueboston, both of which used ot have about 10 posts per minute, a good rapport, and SFA flaming depite very liberal mods, but both gradually ground to a halt and are effectively now dead. another one I'm on now seems in terminal decline (Its not me, honestly), anyone else have this experience?

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#2 10-04-2008 12:05PM

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Think it's just part of the lifespan of any website. Without a continual infux of new posters the same posters will gradually get bored with posting the same stuff to the same people.

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#3 10-04-2008 12:07PM

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BOARDS WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!

(cause then I'll have to work)

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#4 10-04-2008 12:10PM

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there was a band one i used to be a member of... literally a post every minute, usually more often than that, really good group of regulars with a good group of noobs turning up, specially when a new album came along.

now... 10, 20 posts a day... and it's lucky. and most of those are iether pure nonsense, or someone begging the band to tour in some random country nobody's ever heard of. pretty sad, really, though private boards have sprung up from that board, which are still in varying degrees of activity, so that's good. but still sad that the original board, where several couples first met (myself included) and where so many good freindships started, is so neglected now.

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#5 10-04-2008 01:04PM

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The very first place I ever posted on the Internet, a Radiohead fan-site called Polyethylene which most people visited just because it was the only Radiohead site with a chatroom (which IIRC, was a crappy Bravenet one at that).

If anyone else used to post there around '98/'99, I was BlackStar.

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#6 10-04-2008 01:45PM

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I'm a mod on another forum, it's full of muppets though...

If I could ban them all I would!

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#7 10-04-2008 01:49PM

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P45rant isn't as good as it used to be, neither is creativeireland.

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#8 10-04-2008 02:02PM

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It leaves you feeling sort of empty inside...

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#9 10-04-2008 02:03PM

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thats it Im setting my own one up

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#10 10-04-2008 02:09PM

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Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

I'm a mod on another forum, it's full of muppets though...

If I could ban them all I would!

Do it, DO IT!!!
I recently came accross a forum I used to post on during that whole teenage angst and america bashing phase that I thought had died, but is hasn't. Some posts were quite cringeworthy indeed.

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#11 10-04-2008 02:12PM

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One I was lurking in shut down for a while before a change of ownership.

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#12 10-04-2008 02:54PM

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Sherifu wrote: »

One I was lurking in shut down for a while before a change of ownership.

Sounds exciting.

I notice that the TeenIreland crowd are keeping low, despite the fact that the majority of their members are now on Boards. That's right, hang your heads in shame.

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#13 10-04-2008 03:02PM

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rb_ie wrote: »

Sounds exciting.

Previous owner wanted to sell the domain name :pac: Posters weren't too happy. It was settled in the end.

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#14 10-04-2008 03:04PM

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one that i was a member of for about 2 years was closed down recently.

it was a shame

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#15 10-04-2008 03:08PM

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My first board was brilliant, we had an evil nemesis board full of pain in the hole dry ****es and it was refuge for normal people.

It went belly up in the height of its sucess and we became a refugee community.
Moveing around and not being attached to a new site to draw in new users, meant that pool of people dwindled and stagnated. We all started to get on each others tits. One user in particular was very divisive and splinter boards formed and people left.
I now check in on 3 dredges of these boards but they lack any energy.

To make matter worse Autosport absorbed our better organised nemesis.

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#16 10-04-2008 03:11PM

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rb_ie wrote: »

Sounds exciting.

I notice that the TeenIreland crowd are keeping low, despite the fact that the majority of their members are now on Boards. That's right, hang your heads in shame.

Lol I remember that place, the crazy republican teens were hilarious.

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#17 10-04-2008 03:16PM

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rb_ie wrote: »

Sounds exciting.

I notice that the TeenIreland crowd are keeping low, despite the fact that the majority of their members are now on Boards. That's right, hang your heads in shame.

I hold my head high! I got into TeenIreland about a year before it disappeared. I really miss that website, and I can continue doing so til August! (at which point the suffix -teen will for ever be removed from my age...)

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#18 10-04-2008 05:46PM

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Yeah it's happened a lot to band ones I used to frequent for various reasons (being shut down, band splitting up etc etc) but it's OK we've all got boards now right?

Also message boards don't seem cool any more, all the kids are using the "social networking sites" instead and then most boards which are active are poorly modded and so full of crap and txt spk.

I prefer message boards ...

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#19 10-04-2008 05:59PM

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First forum I was on was a pile of sh*te, which was closed due to something complicated that I can't remember, second one I ended up admining, and got into some legal complicated sh*te over something someone posted. The other admin closed it soon after, but unrelated to that... Was still quite busy at the time... I left for Boards after. It spawned 2 other forums after, 1 of which died fast, the other is still going, to what extent, I don't know... It's the timeline of fora.

It's funny that I still bump into old members from all on different sites.

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#20 10-04-2008 07:39PM

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First one I joined was swallowed up by www.boards.ie

Good times.

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#21 10-04-2008 11:39PM

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This was my first forum, and I had a different username. If I had known they were kinda the same forum, I would have a real old-school join date. But alas, it is not to be...

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#22 10-04-2008 11:48PM

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LordChessington wrote: »

This was my first forum, and I had a different username. If I had known they were kinda the same forum, I would have a real old-school join date. But alas, it is not to be...

Why don't you just subscribe a month and request a name change

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#23 10-04-2008 11:58PM

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****** forum died

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#24 11-04-2008 02:04AM

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I was on Teenireland.I think it broke.Not sure what happened with it.

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#25 11-04-2008 02:09AM

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LordChessington wrote: »

This was my first forum, and I had a different username. If I had known they were kinda the same forum, I would have a real old-school join date. But alas, it is not to be...

You can get it merged, just ask in the Helpdesk and one of the admins might be able to help you out.

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#26 11-04-2008 04:30AM

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Why don't you just subscribe a month and request a name change

Ruu wrote:

You can get it merged, just ask in the Helpdesk and one of the admins might be able to help you out.

I already tried that here, but it went unnoticed and my last sub finished up 3 weeks ago. And now I'm too poor to afford a sub!

Probably should have posted that from this account...

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#27 11-04-2008 09:38AM

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Ask CuLT, he may do it for you. Maybe send him a PM.

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#28 11-04-2008 09:56AM

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yeah 6th P45 has gone to sh1te alright, may have had something to do with the massive amount of bannings that went on there for a while, even their great Unbanning hasnt seemed to generate any new life, still keep an eye on it tho in the hope that it'll improve again, tis no Boards tho isit?

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#29 11-04-2008 10:03AM

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rb_ie wrote: »

TeenIreland

I miss the shoutbox

Blast.ie, now that was a forum. I had well over 5000 posts of spam :pac:
I wish that place was still going strong!

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#30 11-04-2008 10:04AM

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Creature wrote: »

Lol I remember that place, the crazy republican teens were hilarious.

Daithi haha

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#31 11-04-2008 10:36AM

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The Quake forum. Ironic since it spawned Boards itself.

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