Forums that have died

Sleepy · 11-04-2008 01:07PM

Sleepy wrote: »

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.

On thinking about it, my first forum was su.nuigalway.ie which later became SIN.ie. My little brother's one of the regulars there now so I drop in every now and again just to keep him on his toes.

Coincidently the su.nuigalway.ie forum was also created by Cloud.

Insect Overlord · 11-04-2008 03:17PM

If I proposed a new forum for previous TI users, would it get much support? It could be a spin-off of After Hours (like Teach na nGealt) or even a young 'uns version of the BGRH/Ladies Lounge!

(pm me at your leisure, if anyone thinks it's worth a shot...)

The guy · 11-04-2008 05:37PM

The first forum I was on was a forum full of 14 year olds(also 14 when I joined) and moderated by 15 year olds.

It died because the admin had fights with most people on the site.

smcgiff · 26-04-2008 10:15AM

Looks like P45 may have halted its decline and is now simply gone.:(

A great pity cause there were some great characters there. Boards, while excellent, can be too segregated i.e. too bloody big!

P45's decline started when its founder upped sticks and left for Canada, and it was on life support ever since. It was still fairly active, but I guess its founder decided it wasn't worth funding anymore.

I spent many many hours of happy time wasting there - such is life!

Sherifu · 26-04-2008 10:26AM

smcgiff wrote: »

Looks like P45 may have halted its decline and is now simply gone.:(

A great pity cause there were some great characters there. Boards, while excellent, can be too segregated i.e. too bloody big!

P45's decline started when its founder upped sticks and left for Canada, and it was on life support ever since. It was still fairly active, but I guess its founder decided it wasn't worth funding anymore.

I spent many many hours of happy time wasting there - such is life!

Someone posted yesterday wondering was it hacked. Oh well.

marco murphy · 26-04-2008 12:08PM

FunkZ wrote: »

Daithi haha

Who now owns IrishRepublican.net :pac:

bush Baby · 26-04-2008 12:28PM

On the P45 site now showing, it says this:

p45.net expired on 04/19/2008 and is pending renewal or deletion

It was the daddy of them all AFAIK

Handsome Bob · 26-04-2008 01:44PM

My first forum was awesome, it was a really innovative and exciting community. Plus it had a forum were posters could call each other out and it was an awesome forum. We do tournaments too such as Column, Graphics, and Flaming tornaments.

But alas, eNz/ FHW is no more:o

cailinoBAC · 26-04-2008 03:06PM

Used to post on fametracker.com but the forum disappeared. Also posted on the related mightybigtv.com (now televisionwithoutpity.com) where they had this huge off topic (non tv) section. Then one day the off topic section just disappeared so loads of people started posting on this ezboard forum and a load of people were banned from TWOP. After a year or so that was running out of steam, then one day all the posts disappeared. There's now one thread and about one post a month. I still look at forums on televisionwithoutpity, even reregistered with my original name, but I think I've posted about 3 times.

patrickolee · 26-04-2008 03:32PM

I used to run one... axed it when the organisation for whom it was being run got too political. Probably wouldnt be bothered setting another up, but it is a very easy thing to do. Boards will go eventually, they all move on. especially if it continues to have the technical problems. very slow sometimes. More multimedia style boards, along the lines of youtube, bebo etc, will replace 'boards' style sites.

Civilian_Target · 26-04-2008 06:11PM

ie.comp

Was killed by boards.ie...

Rb · 26-04-2008 06:51PM

patrickolee wrote: »

More multimedia style boards, along the lines of youtube, bebo etc, will replace 'boards' style sites.

You can't really compare youtube and a discussion forum, they're two completely different things (though hopefully the people who go around leaving comments on the videos never find Boards).

However, I think for a lot of people Boards will replace Bebo, I can never see a load of people stopping using Boards for Bebo, but I can see it happening the other way around.

Again though, it's hard to compare the two as they're very different, but even look at the amount of people preferring to use Facebook over Bebo now.

Slaphead07 · 28-04-2008 09:12PM

Mahatma coat wrote: »

tis no Boards tho isit?

No, you'd need a decent Leaving Cert to be taken seriously on P45. A grasp of how to use apostrophes would help too....

JavaBear · 28-04-2008 09:34PM

Used to post on loads in the GTA scene. My favourite ones died out so I got bored.

Dub13 · 28-04-2008 09:36PM

I was big into WebChat Broadcasting System (WBS) back in the mid 90s.Does anybody here remember it...?I suspect half the people in after hours were only been born around then.

JC 2K3 · 28-04-2008 10:11PM

Lol, I was on TeenIreland.

I basically came on and was a cúnt to the mods, and then they made me one(???).

Daithi was hilarious, as were the other crazy republicans there.

Ah, good times.

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 28-04-2008 10:20PM

I joined here as part of a big exodus from a TCD-based discussion board when a mod there started randomly deleting posts she didn't agree with. Think there are still loads of people from TCD now on this site with more-or-less the same start date.

The tcd-based one then died (at least temporarily) We've all spread our wings a bit now though, and the TCD board on here seems to be following the same declining path a bit, although i could be wrong as i only glance in there occasionally.

robby^5 · 28-04-2008 10:59PM

I used to post on a Stargate game forum a few years back, the game got cancelled and replaced with an MMO, so people gradually started leaving for the official forums, its a ghost forum now... people post from time to time and I still lurk every so often, its kinda sad tbh when all your internet buddies go away

AnonoBoy · 28-04-2008 11:08PM

Thumped.com is dead to me.

Firetrap · 28-04-2008 11:14PM

The forums that have really died a death are the usenet ones. I took a look in on some of the old ones I used to post on and there's nowt going on in them apart from spammers trying to flog something called Viagra

and a few folk slinging abuse at each other. Even the hotbed that is soc.culture.irish isn't what is was. The rabid republicans must've moved elsewhere.

Mimikyu · 29-04-2008 12:34PM

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chamlis · 29-04-2008 03:02PM

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!

*ahem*

Better not let the admin read that Hail...

*taps foot*

Ron DMC · 29-04-2008 03:14PM

Roundtower2 wrote: »

I joined here as part of a big exodus from a TCD-based discussion board when a mod there started randomly deleting posts she didn't agree with. Think there are still loads of people from TCD now on this site with more-or-less the same start date.

The tcd-based one then died (at least temporarily) We've all spread our wings a bit now though, and the TCD board on here seems to be following the same declining path a bit, although i could be wrong as i only glance in there occasionally.

Same, I'd only posted once or twice on the old SU board, but once the TCD forum here was set up, I haven't looked back.

You're probably right about the TCD forum dying out a bit, but I reckon it'll pick up with a new generation, even now there's getting to be a lot of new familiar faces.
But it'll neVER BE THE SAME!!

/cries

doyler · 01-05-2008 03:39PM

Slaphead07 wrote: »

No, you'd need a decent Leaving Cert to be taken seriously on P45. A grasp of how to use apostrophes would help too....

the former i have.

the latter is beyond me.

but p45 is still alive and well!

nkay1985 · 01-05-2008 05:10PM

My first was TheJammyBlaa dot com.

A Waterford based site set up by a friend of mine. Summer before first year of college and right through the first year or two IIRC. Alas, there were lots and lots of spammers and some infighting which kind of started its decline. As for what finally killed it, I think it was something really juicy, but can't remember/never found out. I may look into that actually.

The guy who ran it now runs a gaming podcast citizengame dot co.uk and shows up on the gaming section of boards I think.

adam.number2 · 01-05-2008 07:20PM

rb_ie wrote: »

You can't really compare youtube and a discussion forum, they're two completely different things (though hopefully the people who go around leaving comments on the videos never find Boards).

However, I think for a lot of people Boards will replace Bebo, I can never see a load of people stopping using Boards for Bebo, but I can see it happening the other way around.

Again though, it's hard to compare the two as they're very different, but even look at the amount of people preferring to use Facebook over Bebo now.

The point is not the particular site... just that technologies and people move on. Boards is not immune from that. The next step could be more multimedia, could be less multimedia. Who knows, people might be logging on to write text based postings from their fridges! or video posts from their phones... One thing is for sure, boards will pass as they all do.

Niamho! · 01-05-2008 09:58PM

yeah i was on one for a couple of years that was great in its day, good craic and full of cool people but then little ****head spammers came along, and cliques grew and people turned bitch for no reason, paranoia and all that. went very feckin weird in the end and one day it was just gone. mostly all thanks to some little retard who had nothing better to do. pity.....coz it was a good laugh....

the mopderation wasn't half as strict as here though which is where it went tits up. mods just did NOTHIG about the head wreckers.

Phaetonman · 01-05-2008 11:56PM

Flirt.org used to be good then it died because of some prick in Maynooth threathened to sue them.

The NUIM forum as well mikadsoc is more or less dead no thank god. I'm proud to say that I had a strong hand in its death.

magick · 02-05-2008 12:29AM

OffTopic.com is a huge board but now the owner is asking for $1 a month to post there, i think it might die when peoples subs run out

Wazdakka · 02-05-2008 01:13PM

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Lol, I was on TeenIreland.

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