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Anyone know when boards.ie might be back up? Got a great answer to a technical question yesterday and I need it now!
There are no current problems with it.
Anyone know when boards.ie might be back up? Got a great answer to a technical question yesterday and I need it now!
Ask them why.I cant understand wht they hav'nt upgraded thier vBulletin software.
Point taken. I havn't and I used to use it heavily. However, I did suggest at one stage (when they first had to drop the 'search' facility - that they should provide this to people who paid (and I was quite prepared to do this) and still leave the forum open to all. They felt that they wanted it to be all inclusive - given that if they started charging fees, boards would no longer be boards. That was an admirable stance to take. However, 18 months later and it is even difficult just to surf now...let alone search or check new posts.As I say, I don't know much about boards.ie, but has everyone who has bemoaned their service here, made a generous donation to the running costs of boards.ie?Brendan
Boards does make revenues (enough to buy servers, etc) and has never really 'paid' for it's hosting. It is a big site, but there are a great many bigger, even in Ireland. The main problems are a heavily hacked vbulletin install, which is nigh on impossible to maintain/upgrade with standard software, as well as basic infrastructure problems.