Yeah, that was a long time ago
Boards.ie could be "forced to shut down"
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P45 did not actually collapse. The fellow who ran it fell in love with a user. They got married and he lost interest in running it.
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In the same way a lot of people would be delighted to hear about the demise of askaboutmoney.com?
They have thousands of users and millions of posts, so they are satisfying a need.
In other words he had better things to be doing!
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In other words he had better things to be doing!
These comments are making me feel inadequate.
Well the cloud has a number of advantages. But it has a lot of disadvantages. One of the main ones as you say, once they have enough customers on the platform they tend to massively increase the prices. It's hard to migrate off it once your invested in it.
Boards massively over reached in their migration. Never got on top of it. For some reason they couldn't back down from the decisions they made.
They need to massively down size, switch to something that actually functions. Strip away the sub forums that consume a lot of time to moderate, or have died. They won't do it though. They've tunnel vision.
Looking for a subscription for a bloated broken system is a big ask. That's before you get into the problems with moderation.
can the owners not preserve it in hardcopy format on discs maybe? Surely they could monetize the archive in the future because no doubt someone will be looking for a post or a thread they put him 20 years ago?
RTE destroyed most of their archive from the 60s and 70s (Im not comparing that with boards.ie forums ) and now that archive would have been invaluable, they now depend on people that might have recorded stuff on VHS from the TV for that.
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I have taken out an annual subscription and I would encourage others to do the same.
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If you read OP you'll get answer to your question.
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Reddit has had a lot of growth as well which has sucked up members.
I think it’s a generational thing as well. I was first on a message board with a chronological format as long ago as 1998. I’m comfortable with it.
I doubt my kids will ever use one.
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It's €50 for an annual subscription. Doesn't seem a big ask to me.
Agree with your comments on streamlining it though.
Vanilla was never suitable, so should never have been picked as a replacement for VB. It is as if a slick salesman sold them a pig in a poke. It is designed as a saas drop-in for corporate websites. A lot of the issues users don't even see, such as moderation system being very basic.
I would like to see proper broken down running costs for Boards. There are many specialist and popular sites being run a hobby. No different from people running a BBS in the 80/90s. Brendan's 3k running costs are probably less in real terms than running a dialup BBS with a couple of phone lines and PCs 30 years ago.
They drove away their best contributors and new posters are often attacked or trolled so badly they don't stay. I'm on other forums that are still very active.
The quality of much of social media has become so poor it's will probably all disappear eventually.
I'm on the fence about it. I think it might be throwing good money after bad. The plan is a little dubious. Turn on more ads and have some people pay for no ads. I'm not seeing anything that's going to drive more traffic or increase contributors.
Reddit allows you to block the trolls.
The IrishPersonalFinance sub now has 74,760 members. I'd say that's up circa 25,000 in the last 10/12 months.
There was a question recently about what percentage of salary members were paying into pension. Not that many said 35% and no one said 40%. That's the demographic there.
its not "social media" though is it, its actually pre social media , an internet chat forum that existed long before "social media" became a thing. "Social media" is whatsapp and facebook and instagram where people share photos and details from their lives with other "friends" was my thinking is it not?
Like the BBC Domesday Project in the 80s?
Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc | Cautionary Tales
In 1086, William the Conqueror pioneered a medieval database. 900 years later, the BBC's began a (digitized) Domesday project of its own... but just a few years later, it became unreadable, the information lost. Digitization of history doesn't ensure longevity, and this erasure can be disastrous.
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In my opinion it absolutely is. As is AAM.
"...online platforms where people can engage in text-based discussions by posting messages and replying to others..."
Feels a bit like were your favourite band used to be hard rock but compared to today's band it's now pop.
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Guys. Stop arguing over labels.
Discussions seen very fragmented on Reddit. I don't use it that much. Perhaps I'm not using it right.
I would suggest it's more a teasing out of the frame of reference.