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    #2042
    channelsurfer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭channelsurfer2


    I've given up on the mobile beta. I asked for at least some way of finding the a-z on the new home page but my comment was ignored. Guess they don't want to listen and just want us all to migrate. I will migrate...to a new place!


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    #2043
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    You know, I reported that shíte personally attacking me in the thread last week, instead of responding to it - rather than reply to it in the thread - yet what exactly is the point of reporting such obvious personal attacks, if they are not acted upon?

    We have a group of posters - a handful of them with a history of grouping up to sneer/condescend towards me - bringing up the Political Economics forum as a pretext for engaging in personal attacks against me, smearing me implicitly as Communist and similar bullshít (a view I've never held, yet which is applied to me in straw-man fashion so often, I chose my current name to take this piss out of that fact), in a thread where it should be blindingly obvious this is inappropriate/not-suitable - and I report this, and fúck all is done about it?


    I'm not really interested in being dragged into defending the Political Economics forum here (or against the personal attacks - hence originally reporting last week...), but I guess I'll have to - one of the core ideas behind that forum was to allow discussion of economic topics, that have a tendency to be restricted on other economic/political forums - shortly after, the forum gets staffed with moderators who are hostile towards exactly those type of economic views...

    Not only that, but one of the most vociferous complainers about that forum, is exactly someone who has tried to smear me as discussing bannable political/economic topics in discussions where I was not - in my view to trigger mod action against me - so it's no surprise such posters would want to see this new forum gone.


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    #2044
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,902 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    I don't know, maybe that's the issue with boards, an issue that has plagued the site for as long as I remember - the search function is a pile of shite.
    pickarooney wrote: »
    Another possible reason for reduced traffic around the site may be that the search function simply doesn't work and never has. I don't know what they can't just use a Google site search. I presume anyone who actually wants to make the effort to find something here does that anyway.

    Thats what I had always done before joining, my flatmate had told me if you want an answer to any practical question in Ireland you type it into google and type boards.ie after it.

    I only use the search function when acting as a mod, every other time it is generally google.


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    #2045
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    On that note: Google search for Boards only turns up the beta (or touch? not sure) version of the site, which sucks a bit.

    I don't know if this has been put in place lately, but when visiting a thread from Google, it would be useful to have a button somewhere, to visit the same thread but on the desktop version of the site - I didn't see this last time I checked.


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    #2046
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Was getting 522 errors for about 10 minutes just now.


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    #2047
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Same as that, 520 and 522 errors usually it's been happening around 02.30


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    #2048
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Same here.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #2049
    Irish Steve
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    2 issues,

    520 and 522 errors earlier, but it's working again at the moment.

    Drop down "my forums", the star that shows new posts is not correctly resetting when all posts in the forum have been read. It's staying active, which is not helpful.

    Hopefully not serious as such to fix.

    Best regards

    Steve

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



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    #2050
    Redbishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,354 ✭✭✭Redbishop


    Cant post in the politics cafe, what's up?
    All threads locked as far as I can see!


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    #2051
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Redbishop wrote: »
    Cant post in the politics cafe, what's up?
    All threads locked as far as I can see!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=1410

    It's closed for a few days.


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    #2052
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=1410

    It's closed for a few days.

    Days!!!

    Jaysus I thought was going to be an hour or 2 :(


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    #2053
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=1410

    It's closed for a few days.
    "In the meantime please do not create new threads on Feedback or the Help Desk asking about this action, instead please check regularly here for updates."


    That all sounds very secretive...


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    #2054
    Redbishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,354 ✭✭✭Redbishop


    smash wrote: »
    "In the meantime please do not create new threads on Feedback or the Help Desk asking about this action, instead please check regularly here for updates."


    That all sounds very secretive...

    No more speculating on govt formation!
    Insert smiley here.


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    #2055
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,865 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Yea, any reason WHY it's been closed?


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    #2056
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yea, any reason WHY it's been closed?

    Someone said something bad about DO'B maybe ;)


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    #2057
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,783 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The Topics and Talk to headings don't appear at all in Safari which I'm stuck with on this computer. Legacy site seems to be a bit of a lottery as well. Safari likes locking me out altogether when I try that.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #2058
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yea, any reason WHY it's been closed?

    But I was enjoying the demise of water charges so much. (Albeit "suspension")

    Would an Irish Water related thread be shunted or shut on AH?


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    #2059
    Going Forward
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭Going Forward


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=1410

    It's closed for a few days.

    Why??


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    #2060
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Going Forward wrote: »
    Why??
    The first rule of fight club politics cafe is you don't talk about politics cafe.... apparently


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    #2061
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,174 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    That is fairly ridiculous tbh, could we at least have a reason?


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    #2062
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yea, any reason WHY it's been closed?


    Too much fecal matter, it's on boil notice. :D


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    #2063
    Going Forward
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭Going Forward


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    But I was enjoying the demise of water charges so much. (Albeit "suspension")

    Would an Irish Water related thread be shunted or shut on AH?

    It's very opportune alright..................you'd almost think someone had an agenda.

    Seeing as how this one concerning IRISH WATER isn't in the "cafe", and it was closed for not being topical and stuff, perhaps someone could get it opened now that it has become "topical" again:

    "No refund for families who have paid water charges."


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057567940&page=53

    Cheers


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    #2064
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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    #2065
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    JT26 wrote: »
    I would take the tinfoil hats off lads nothing to do with DOB,Irish water etc it basically to do how to improve the forum going forward instead of how it currently functions in the site.

    So it requires a forum lock si we can identify areas of improvement, plan ways to achieve the direction of making the forum what it was designed for,so no conspiracy's here I'm afraid.
    You should add a thread for funny cat gifs. Everyone loves funny cat gifs!


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    #2066
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,174 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    JT26 wrote: »
    I would take the tinfoil hats off lads nothing to do with DOB,Irish water etc it basically to do how to improve the forum going forward instead of how it currently functions in the site.

    So it requires a forum lock si we can identify areas of improvement, plan ways to achieve the direction of making the forum what it was designed for,so no conspiracy's here I'm afraid.

    Not that I ever even considered a conspiracy, why were we told so little, and as well as that hushed about out feed back, basically told shut up and don't complain about it?


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    #2067
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    JT26 wrote: »
    I would take the tinfoil hats off lads nothing to do with DOB,Irish water etc it basically to do how to improve the forum going forward instead of how it currently functions in the site.

    So it requires a forum lock si we can identify areas of improvement, plan ways to achieve the direction of making the forum what it was designed for,so no conspiracy's here I'm afraid.

    A pity they didn't put that in the sticky instead of locking the whole forum down with out warning and posting this very vague message
    Closed for Review
    To all of the Cafe regulars - we're closing the forum for the moment.

    Updates will be incoming, please check back for an update in a few days.
    In the meantime please do not create new threads on Feedback or the Help Desk asking about this action, instead please check regularly here for updates.

    Thanks
    Admin, Cmod and Mod teams.


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    #2068
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    **puts on tinfoil hat**

    How'd this post made about ten mins ago slip through?


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    #2069
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    JT26 wrote: »
    I would take the tinfoil hats off lads nothing to do with DOB,Irish water etc

    That sounds exactly like something Denis O Brien would say.


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    #2070
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    **puts on tinfoil hat**

    How'd this post made about ten mins ago slip through?

    The plot moistens


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    #2071
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,634 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    JT26 wrote: »
    I would take the tinfoil hats off lads nothing to do with DOB,Irish water etc it basically to do how to improve the forum going forward instead of how it currently functions in the site.

    So it requires a forum lock si we can identify areas of improvement, plan ways to achieve the direction of making the forum what it was designed for,so no conspiracy's here I'm afraid.
    That doesn't add any clarity to the situation. Most forums on Boards have reviews and feedback threads at regular (sometimes irregular) intervals, but I've never seen a forum shutdown for them.

    What is the reason for the shutdown that can't be done while the forum remains open?

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