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Dublin county Sub Forums

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  • 11-11-2008 10:33am
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    Relevant
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    Is there any reason that Dublin County South is a subforum of Dublin County south?

    I was just looking and realised it goes

    >Region
    >East
    >dublin County South
    >Dublin County South

    Same goes for Dublin North. There may be a reason for this but im just curious.

    Thanks
    Post edited by Shield on


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    Ron DMC
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    I think it's in case there's ever a need to create more forums within those categories, for example a Dun Laoghaire forum, or a Dundrum forum.

    We certainly don't need them now, but who knows how the site will expand in the future.


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    Relevant
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    I just think the south dublin forum doesnt get a lot of traffic, which may be down to the fact that people are clicking on the first Dublin county south forum and not realising there is a sub forum?


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    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    Relevant wrote: »
    I just think the south dublin forum doesnt get a lot of traffic, which may be down to the fact that people are clicking on the first Dublin county south forum and not realising there is a sub forum?

    Well in that case, let's make it more active, post away!
    Having it pop-up on the front page more often might increase the traffic.


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    Ronny Mitchell wrote: »
    Well in that case, let's make it more active, post away!
    Having it pop-up on the front page more often might increase the traffic.

    Touché


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    Sid_Justice
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    This really annoys me, can we just remove the subforums for now?


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Relevant wrote: »
    I just think the south dublin forum doesnt get a lot of traffic, which may be down to the fact that people are clicking on the first Dublin county south forum and not realising there is a sub forum?

    I really don't think that's the case tbh. The setup is the same for Dublin County West:

    >Region
    >>East
    >>>Dublin County West
    >>>>Dublin County West
    >>>>Dublin 15

    Here we have two forums, Dublin County West in which, if you look closely enough, you can see the tumbleweed rolling through, and Dublin 15, which approx. 43 regional forums is the 16th busiest, which is pretty impressive for a single post code. The difference between the two is the posters. In Dublin West, as with many of the regional forums including Dublin South, there's not really a community, whereas Dublin 15 does have a regular community of posters discussing issues that concern the area.

    Make the forum more entertaining and relevant to the posters and they'll stay, imo. Lots of short threads about X Chinese restaurant or directions to Y don't really engage the posters. Compare that to Dulin 15 where the front page has discussions on a business closure in the area, road works due to the M50 upgrade, education, crime, commuting, etc. That's in addition to the threads about forum regulars meeting up every week to play football, or the residents of a particular development deciding that they should start a residents association based on how active their Boards thread is. The posters make the forum, and the more interesting it is the more new posters it attracts.


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    Zaph wrote: »
    That's in addition to the threads about forum regulars meeting up every week to play football,

    Oh really? Must have a look there, see if I can recruit any of them.


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Des wrote: »
    Oh really? Must have a look there, see if I can recruit any of them.

    Oi, no tapping up other forums you! :D


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    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Ron DMC wrote: »
    I think it's in case there's ever a need to create more forums within those categories, for example a Dun Laoghaire forum, or a Dundrum forum.

    We certainly don't need them now, but who knows how the site will expand in the future.
    All that will happen there is you make it harder and harder to search threads in drop down menu. You have to ask would it get enough threads to warrent inclusion


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    onestepahead wrote: »
    All that will happen there is you make it harder and harder to search threads in drop down menu. You have to ask would it get enough threads to warrent inclusion

    So you think that Boards.ie need less subforums then, yeah?

    Interesting.


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    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Des wrote: »
    So you think that Boards.ie need less subforums then, yeah?

    Interesting.
    why is that?


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    Eire-Dearg
    Registered Users Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    onestepahead wrote: »
    why is that?
    Welcome to Boards.


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    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Des wrote: »
    So you think that Boards.ie need less subforums then, yeah?

    Interesting.
    Sixty days since anyone visited North Dublin forum. whats going on there?


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    Spud83
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    onestepahead wrote: »
    Sixty days since anyone visited North Dublin forum. whats going on there?

    No broadband on the northside yet. They can't afford it. :)



    Runs away.


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    Spiritoftheseventies
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    alanmurphy83 wrote: »
    No broadband on the northside yet. They can't afford it.



    Runs away.


    I have heard actually that broadband access is a bit of a problem down there. That was my first instinct about it. Seems to be a bit of a glitch in the system there. It says there have been no posts in last sixty days yet there was post up just now. And to confirm to our non dublin friends. North Dublin and North county dublin are two different things entirely. North County dublin refers to Fingal which is a terrific part of Dublin really.
    All about planning in the end.


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