How much do you think Boards.ie is worth?

Mimikyu · 02-08-2005 4:56pm

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Gordon · 02-08-2005 4:57pm

Funk Daddy, I'm guessing you have been banned previously. This would most likely be a major reason that you seem to have a grudge against boards.

You should get that fixored, your IE that is.

digitalninja · 02-08-2005 4:59pm

RuggieBear wrote:

you're using IE, aren't you? :rolleyes:

I'm using the latest version of firefox on windows linux and OS X and it is slow as ****e on all of them. I hardly come here anymore tbh because it's like being on ****ing dialup.

RuggieBear · 02-08-2005 5:19pm

i'm on dial up and it's loading reasonably quickly (Not as quick as when i had Broadband but not un browsable)...and That's on XP with the latest firefox and not using adblock.

BTW, I reckon [glow=4]Boards is priceless.[/glow]

airetam_storm · 02-08-2005 5:22pm

RuggieBear wrote:

BTW, I reckon [glow=4]Boards is priceless.[/glow]

There you have it

Funk Daddy · 02-08-2005 5:23pm

I've never been on here before - sorry!!!!! I don't have a grudge against boards - I just said it loads really slow and that IMO it's not worth any significant monetary value.

IE - why?

How many hits does the site get?

jaggeh · 02-08-2005 5:25pm

boards loadsfine for me from home and from work (2 totally seperate networks in work)

WhiteWashMan · 02-08-2005 5:26pm

actually that is true.
im on firefox, and it's sucky slow at the moment.

Funk Daddy · 02-08-2005 5:27pm

It's "loads" fine - just slower than other forums - namely Invision ones. About 2 or 3 seconds slower to load the pages. Invision pages are usually instant. Just wondering why a forum on a dedicated server which is mostly text and imposes very strict limits on avater and sig sizes, loads slower than an Invision board on a shared server which has very lax sig and avatar limits. e.g: http://www.thewrestlingchannel.tv/forums/index.php
That's one I frequent a lot and it loads super fast.
And this one: http://www.ukff.com/
Both way faster than Boards.

I have 2MBit Eircom BB in work and 3MBit NTL BB at home, and it's slow on both.

RuggieBear · 02-08-2005 5:29pm

about a second a page for me on 56k dial up..... at aloss to explain why my dial up might be loading quicker

airetam_storm · 02-08-2005 5:30pm

Mines just slow due to the bandwidth being used by other computers on the network, not complaining tho cause its free on the billpayers' goodness

seamus · 02-08-2005 5:30pm

Funk Daddy wrote:

I've never been on here before - sorry!!!!! I don't have a grudge against boards - I just said it loads really slow and that IMO it's not worth any significant monetary value.

IE - why?

How many hits does the site get?

It's a little slow today - but that's cos it was the bank holiday weekend. Everyone was back to work today and not wanting to do any work. Not majorly slow though, nothing painful.

http://www.boards.ie/webalizer/ for stats. Nobody really counts "hits" these days, but 1.5 million per day last month, if you're interested. It's less busy in the summer. Wait till Sept/Oct/Nov. Traffic goes through the roof.

Funk Daddy · 02-08-2005 5:32pm

Impressive stats.

chillywilly · 02-08-2005 5:35pm

just to make sure,are we bidding for boards? 2 rubals ono

airetam_storm · 02-08-2005 5:38pm

I'l raise you to two marbles

WhiteWashMan · 02-08-2005 5:44pm

seamus wrote:

but 1.5 million per day last month, .

thats actually just me and victor refreshing various threads in PI

airetam_storm · 02-08-2005 5:47pm

WhiteWashMan wrote:

thats actually just me and victor refreshing various threads in PI

Actually, i nearly believe you

evad_lhorg · 02-08-2005 6:28pm

WhiteWashMan wrote:

please, tell me about me then. im really dying to know.

no really....

ok yous set it up cause yous were geeks(yourself and devore and the other lad) and played lots of games. you had a hard life where your mother left and you were raised by sheep and the internet. you now rake in millions from what you say is a profitless internet forum.

did i mention the sheep?

Shabadu · 02-08-2005 6:37pm

WWM isn't an admin.

Gordon · 02-08-2005 6:42pm

But how did he know about the sheep?

Sarky · 02-08-2005 6:52pm

What price would you put on finding people able and willing to help with problems whether regarding computers, games, food, or personal issues? What about meeting a huge cross-section of people, and from them making some very good friends (and sometimes better enemies

)? Or how about keeping in touch with those people regardless of where they are on the planet?

Priceless.

Or 50 quid a year, whichever's cheaper.

Loobz · 02-08-2005 7:05pm

I hit 1,000 posts today on Boards and I love every one of them. And you guys of course.

/me feels all squishy inside.

airetam_storm · 02-08-2005 7:09pm

Hehe his name is lube-z

Must sub soon as i get some cash

Shabadu · 02-08-2005 7:09pm

Gordon wrote:

But how did he know about the sheep?

He's watching you through the monitor!

RuggieBear · 02-08-2005 7:14pm

hookers, coke and sheep....hot dang!!

Loobz · 02-08-2005 7:16pm

airetam_storm wrote:

Hehe his name is lube-z

Correct..... is that it?
Id say boards is worth a fortune. It must, it just must

airetam_storm · 02-08-2005 7:17pm

Got tired of hookers so sheep became the first preferance...

randomfella · 02-08-2005 9:11pm

I do agree that the potential is there. Ireland is backward in terms of the internet and the future is only brighter. I'm not sure the founders/owners/mods are in it to make money. THey still have a huge personal interest rather than a financial interest. If they really did want to make it profitable, there are plenty of things they could do to make it happen.

Using statistics is very important, like market research.
Most people who post here are early 20's and male. ALso they are currently using the internet so it means they have some interest in technology. Immediately mobile phone, mp3 players, computers.... the list goes on comes to mind.

I don't know if you could do this but perhaps using cookies the advertisements could be tailored to suit the interests of the poster. FOr instance if somebody posts in regions say dublin city and they also post in soccer you could make ads for a football 5-a-side in Dublin to come up.

Webmonkey · 02-08-2005 10:12pm

Or boards could have an online technology shop

daveirl · 02-08-2005 10:46pm

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MorningStar · 03-08-2005 9:20am

daveirl wrote:

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What is craiglist worth and who has paid for it? A lot of valuation is speculation of value. A lot of times things are valued at one price but are never sold for that value. The number of staff required if this was commercial probably make this an unviable business.

the jew · 03-08-2005 9:57am

Some of you guys are way over estimating this site, the vast majority of members probably post very little, and it might be only about 5-10% of users that actually post regularly, when you're on the site a lot you notice the same names popping up for posts. At the end of the day, the site is profitless, and sentimental value doesn't count for shít unless the buyer feels the same way (which they probably won't, they buy it as a profit making business venture). The site is probably worth a good few thousand alright, but nothing major.

Webmonkey wrote:

oh oh Jew, wrong ones to piss off

/waves goodbye to jew

I said "probably", could easily be wrong.

danniemcq · 03-08-2005 10:48am

servers = €300 a month
alcohol = €5000 a month
coffee = €50 a month
junk food = €100 a month
sheep = €500-1000 a month (depends on use and if Sarky_S is nearby(!))
protecting Pighead from angry boarders = €500,000 a month
staff = peanuts

boards.ie

[glow=9]priceless[/glow]

daveirl · 03-08-2005 12:32pm

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AdMMM · 03-08-2005 2:18pm

To me, boards.ie is priceless. But to a tycoon, boards.ie is worth very little and in order to transform it into a profitable business the site itself would change drastically into something that the majority of us may hate!

ecksor · 03-08-2005 4:43pm

Webmonkey wrote:

It won't be sold in a fit. Its worth too much personally to the team

Haha, even the people who know how non-money oriented we are would rightfully be sceptical of that one.

joejoem · 03-08-2005 4:51pm

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Dinar

WhiteWashMan · 03-08-2005 4:59pm

evad_lhorg wrote:

ok yous set it up cause yous were geeks(yourself and devore and the other lad) and played lots of games. you had a hard life where your mother left and you were raised by sheep and the internet. you now rake in millions from what you say is a profitless internet forum.

did i mention the sheep?

i guess you dont know too much about me then do you?

garred · 03-08-2005 5:09pm

Can they not do affiliate links. I mean people on here buy from dvd retailers to komplett, etc. If they set up affiliate links to these sites surely they would make a few pound, sorry euro.
On the main issue I'd say its worth a few bob to the right buyer. I mean is it the mentality in this country. Take the Eurovision, Ireland moaned about hosting it whereas any advertising executive in America would be wetting their pants with an audience of over a billion for one event.

azezil · 03-08-2005 5:11pm

this much! \o/

airetam_storm · 03-08-2005 5:11pm

Eh theres only 500million in europe?

\edit\ And 250million in US

garred · 03-08-2005 5:14pm

airetam_storm wrote:

Eh theres only 500million in europe?

\edit\ And 250million in US

Your probably right but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest

jank · 03-08-2005 5:17pm

Worth quite a bit imo, as a brand more then anything.

It has a very very good turnover that keeps the site ticking over, I was actually really surprised how much when i found out.

Saying that I dont know how much it costs to run so it probably eats away at 99% of that income.

airetam_storm · 03-08-2005 5:29pm

garred wrote:

Your probably right but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest

Must be broadcast in the US and and Asia aswell

What proportion on irish internet users would know of boards? Someone said earlier that 1/3 would but that seems awful high

garred · 03-08-2005 6:31pm

ah yeah I'd say its broadcast in other regions besides Europe.

Boards is a handy site. You can buy stuff, sell stuff and with so many different professions as members you get advice from a virus on your pc to a rash on your dingaling.

Anyway it will never be sold. The owners/developers, all the mods, super-mods, super-duper-mods, in their eyes we (the users) are priceless and no money in the world is worth giving us up for.

I'm right arn't I?

DeVore · 03-08-2005 6:50pm

|.Murderer.| wrote:

To me, boards.ie is priceless. But to a tycoon, boards.ie is worth very little and in order to transform it into a profitable business the site itself would change drastically into something that the majority of us may hate!

... and then you would all leave and its "value" would drop like a stone.

Boards is like smoke, its there you can see it but if you try and grab it, it evades you and moves somewhere else.

Also, if we sell it then the mods and miniadmins wouldnt do what they do (which is a LOT) and the place falls apart. And you all leave and its "value" drops like a stone.

Its the reason noone has sued us for the site too. They get the site and a bunch of people who then hate their guts. And its "value" drops like a stone.

On the other hand, with a little work and some inobtrusive commercialisation (like a shop we are planning etc) and some affiliate deals (like we are planning) we could make this a self perpetuating centre to the Irish internet. Which would be a really cool social experiment as well as potentially earn us a few bucks back from the 5 year set up costs. And its "value" continues to grow .... but we've seen that that value is ethereal and not actually "worth" anything in the long run.

So we find ourselves in a pleasant quandry, at the head of a site we have little control over either in monetary or content terms. Fun isnt it!

We cant make vast sums of money from it, though we all agree its got a high value and we cant really control where it goes beyond bolting extra bits on and expanding as we have been doing. To what end?

Well thats the interesting part isnt it. We don't know. 10 years from now everyone in Ireland might be on Boards. Certainly its expansion rate over the last few years would indicate that thats not all that unlikely. We could be powerful people but that isnt/wasnt our goal. I guess we are geeks, poking this with a stick and seeing where it leads us. In the last 5 years its led me to some very interesting places. I look forward to the next 5.

Oh, and you are wrong. We were offered about 750,000 USD for the site back in the CrAzY DaYs of Dot Coms and we didnt entertain the offer. Its "worth" a lot more to us and I suspect, to a lot of the others here.

DeV.

netwhizkid · 03-08-2005 6:55pm

I would but the long term valu of this site at over €250million it has nearly 30,000 users. If their was a share issue done i would invest heavily. This could be ireland's google. it's current valu is about €250,000 but i expect this to increase thousand fold. I might bid for it one day i'd look forward to help running it.

RuggieBear · 03-08-2005 7:09pm

DeVore wrote:

Oh, and you are wrong. We were offered about 750,000 USD for the site back in the CrAzY DaYs of Dot Coms and we didnt entertain the offer. .

John Romero?

Gone West · 03-08-2005 7:33pm

netwhizkid wrote:

I would but the long term valu of this site at over €250million it has nearly 30,000 users. If their was a share issue done i would invest heavily. This could be ireland's google. it's current valu is about €250,000 but i expect this to increase thousand fold. I might bid for it one day i'd look forward to help running it.

hahahahahahhaha
*ahem.

Im not dissing boards. Dev has said that this was never meant to be a commercial venture and a social experiment. Boards was never designed to make serious money. Self sufficient, in terms of advertising-perhaps.

Where did you get this 250M, netwhizkid?
Advertising and commercial interaction pay for bandwidth and related costs.
In fact, If Im not mistaken, boards has actually COST the admins money from their own pockets.
Hopefully, in the future they will be able to make a healthy profit from the site, as they obviously deserve it. There is potential for large scale commercialisation. But as DeV points out, they want to keep it unobtrusive. <SoppyGit>This is where I think Boards true value lies; not in its potential for profit, but in the community itself. </SoppyGit>

Then you say it has the potential to be worth 250 million?!
WTF.
Thats something a small toddler might say.

*hahahaha..

netwhizkid · 03-08-2005 7:48pm

I would be prepared to offer up to €10million if it wasn't tied up elsewhere (Magic beans

) for this site as it has even more potential i belive that charging to view is not the way forward although it is creeping in slowly just look at the honk forum. This site is an advert in itself for thousands of products and services plus it is also a huge feedback forum for everything from telescopes to toe-nail clippers.

How much do you think Boards.ie is worth?

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