Alternative to boards.ie

Dean820 · 23-01-2010 1:23pm #1

During the downtime of the forum, I felt Ireland needs another proper big forum like boards as an alternative. This is really our only option for a big forum. It would have been nice if we had somewhere else to go while things were being fixed. Just say, boards.ie went out of business tomorrow, where would everyone go? There's no real alternative in Ireland.

Obviously there's billions other forums on the internet. But you know what I mean. No?

Random · 23-01-2010 1:33pm

try http://betterthan.boards.ie

brummytom · 23-01-2010 1:36pm

http://www.boardsireland.com

*snigger*

alwaysadub · 23-01-2010 1:36pm

If Boards went out of business tomorrow, people would be so devastated that they wouldn't even dream of looking for another forum..

mikom · 23-01-2010 1:37pm

www.icantbelieveitsnotboards.ie

My name is URL · 23-01-2010 1:39pm

http://twitter.com/boards_ie/status/8029180563

They don't hold a candle to here though, imo

bluefinger · 23-01-2010 1:41pm

Here's an alterative

TPD · 23-01-2010 1:48pm

Why not just have a secondary boards on another server, same usernames as here, for posting in emergencies?

actuallylike · 23-01-2010 1:49pm

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

omahaid · 23-01-2010 1:50pm

http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/

Dean820 · 23-01-2010 1:52pm

omahaid wrote: »

http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/

In fairness, its probably boards biggest rival.

brummytom · 23-01-2010 1:52pm

actuallylike wrote: »

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

The biggest is digitalspy.com; but it doesn't really have the same community feel boards does.

Buford T Justice · 23-01-2010 1:52pm

You could try Faceboards.ie

Ann22 · 23-01-2010 1:56pm

actuallylike wrote: »

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

DigitalSpy is one. I registered on it years ago but for some reason it wouldn't let me post. Maybe it's 'cos I'm not from uk. You could give it a go.

Ann22 · 23-01-2010 1:59pm

Imagine though if it did disappear overnight. There are people I'd miss that I have a craic with here. I'd miss them:(.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 23-01-2010 1:59pm

actuallylike wrote: »

Speaking of, does anyone know what the biggest public forum is in England? Going over to Nottingham and what some advice on pubs and clubs and what not and I think a local forum would be the best place to ask.

My friend constantly raves about Football365 but I've never been on it myself and they have very a strict registration policy. Have you tried that?

Saibh · 23-01-2010 2:02pm

Ann22 wrote: »

Imagine though if it did disappear overnight. There are people I'd miss that I have a craic with here. I'd miss them:(.

One advantage of joining twitter I suppose is you can keep in contact with others than you know from broads and who are members there.

I have posted here in AH that I would never join twitter and what did I do...

cnocbui · 23-01-2010 2:06pm

Usenet: ie.general

Ann22 · 23-01-2010 2:09pm

Saibh wrote: »

One advantage of joining twitter I suppose is you can keep in contact with others than you know from broads and who are members there.

I have posted here in AH that I would never join twitter and what did I do...

I joined Twitter when it started up first but I didn't get the hang of it. When Boards went down the other night I went into it and there were a few on. I tried posting a comment to Thaedyal but don't know if I did it right. I don't know what all the lingo means like 'tweeting' but I suppose I would perservere in getting into it if this place was gone.

jd007 · 23-01-2010 2:10pm

http://www.lolocaust.org/

My name is URL · 23-01-2010 2:10pm

Stormfront.org is another good one :pac:

If you're a Nazi

Ann22 · 23-01-2010 2:14pm

jd007 wrote: »

http://www.lolocaust.org/

Lots of familiar names on there. Might be an option in case of emergency.

Overheal · 23-01-2010 2:18pm

politics.ie wouldnt let me register. /CT

zero86r · 23-01-2010 2:21pm

Real life? But then we all know that sucks after the whole hack debacle

aDeener · 23-01-2010 2:26pm

bloody hell, it was only for a day. if you were struggling without boards, you really have issues

El Siglo · 23-01-2010 2:26pm

My name is URL wrote: »

Stormfront.org is another good one :pac:

If you're a Nazi

I was waiting for somebody to post something on stormfront, if not a link. Bunch of loony nazis!

Crann na Beatha · 23-01-2010 2:28pm

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Saibh · 23-01-2010 2:28pm

aDeener wrote: »

bloody hell, it was only for a day. if you were struggling without boards, you really have issues

Think this thread is more if boards was to disappear altogether (hopefully it will never), what other forums are available to join.

ScumLord · 23-01-2010 2:53pm

There are many boards subforum spinoff sites. There's even one in my sig.

docdolittle · 23-01-2010 2:58pm

Well I'd say the people from AH would go to 4chan

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 23-01-2010 3:00pm

My name is URL wrote: »

Stormfront.org is another good one :pac:

If you're a Nazi

Can't access it from Germany oddly enough...

dr.bollocko · 23-01-2010 3:24pm

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Can't access it from Germany oddly enough...

Heh.
Those germans wouldnt be associated with that sort of thing.

starbelgrade · 23-01-2010 3:28pm

Imagine Google went down - that'd be the end of the internet... you wouldn't be even able to find another search engine. :eek:

ejmaztec · 23-01-2010 3:54pm

El Siglo wrote: »

I was waiting for somebody to post something on stormfront, if not a link. Bunch of loony nazis!

Yeh, who the hell needs a forum to talk about the weather all day? Silly, silly meteorological nerds.

o1s1n · 23-01-2010 3:56pm

omahaid wrote: »

http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/

Jesus christ no.

If I want to talk to a load of drunk boggers with inferiority issues I'll go to Coppers.

ejmaztec · 23-01-2010 4:05pm

Here are a few spin-off suggestions, if anyone's thinking of branching out:

800years.ie
xenophobics.ie
fuckthegovernment.ie
we'rebeingscrewed.ie
emigration.ie
wehatedolefiddlers.ie
wehatepeoplewecantmention.ie
i'mnotracistbut.ie

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 23-01-2010 4:10pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Heh.
Those germans wouldnt be associated with that sort of thing.

I know - what is the world coming to when you can't express a slighter stronger than usual right-wing view?

Wonder how long before they block boards...

Thirdfox · 23-01-2010 4:28pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Imagine Google went down - that'd be the end of the internet... you wouldn't be even able to find another search engine. :eek:

Bing.com

Yahoo.com (biggest search engine in Japan)

Baidu.com (biggest search engine in China)

Google isn't the be all and end all of all search engines

Remember lycos and askjeeves? Are they still around? *Googles them*

tech77 · 23-01-2010 4:43pm

Peoplesrepublicofcork and Thumped are the only i can think of.
There does seem to be a scarcity of forums like this.

Evil Boards seems to have crushed them all.

Super-Rush · 23-01-2010 4:48pm

Alternatively if boards disappears

starbelgrade · 23-01-2010 5:05pm

Thirdfox wrote: »

Bing.com

Yahoo.com (biggest search engine in Japan)

Baidu.com (biggest search engine in China)

Google isn't the be all and end all of all search engines

Remember lycos and askjeeves? Are they still around? *Googles them*

You didn't see anything flying over your head as you typed that?

lalalalinda · 23-01-2010 7:20pm

Only just found out that boards was down. My God, yis are like junkies...!!

honeymonster · 23-01-2010 7:39pm

A life

dr.bollocko · 23-01-2010 7:52pm

honeymonster wrote: »

A life

Like that's gonna happen.

Zylantex · 23-01-2010 8:02pm

You could do worse than visit Lolocaust.org.

Daemos · 23-01-2010 8:03pm

What do you mean 'other'? When boards and adverts were down the internet was dead, there are no other websites in existance

OI · 23-01-2010 8:15pm

What ye need is an AH emergency plan in the event of something similar.

I.E. All decide on one other forum to meet up on

Dean820 · 24-01-2010 2:46pm

OI wrote: »

What ye need is an AH emergency plan in the event of something similar.

I.E. All decide on one other forum to meet up on

Good idea.

dr.bollocko · 24-01-2010 4:12pm

We already decided this.
It's here:
http://www.lolocaust.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

AckwelFoley · 24-01-2010 4:26pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

We already decided this.
It's here:
http://www.lolocaust.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

That or pr0n

Funkfield · 07-10-2010 2:08pm

Is there an alternative?

boards is good.

But somewhere like this where you can talk about the things we can't talk about here?

Alternative to boards.ie

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