A big announcement is imminent...

JupiterKid

After Hours is going global...

Coming to Reddit, Twitter, Snapchat and a social media platform near you...

gozunda

New boards emergency announced with new creative ways to tax posters?

Mam of 4

Omackeral wrote: »

It was no Late Late Show gif invasion. That was the best. I miss the DR!

That was brilliant fun that night
I miss the DR too and everyone

Mam of 4

Mam of 4 wrote: »

That was brilliant fun that night
I miss the DR too and everyone

What's the DR?

ancapailldorcha

Here we go!

Current Affairs forum is now live!

Canis Lupus

Oh...

Sounds exciting...

I'm just kidding, no it doesn't.

Ulysses Gaze

Big announcement, hey...

George Soros is buying Boards?

ToddyDoody

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Here we go!

Current Affairs forum is now live!

There's also Blackcurrant affairs, a special interest blog sponsored by Ribena.

ancapailldorcha

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Here we go!

Current Affairs forum is now live!

Ah, big enough news in context of AH.

Did many mods faint when they realised how many threads they may have to reclassify between the forums, especially early on. :pac:

ToddyDoody

ToddyDoody wrote: »

There's also Blackcurrant affairs, a special interest blog sponsored by Ribena.

As long as Ribena has money left over to sponsor the ageless James Millner I'm okay with that.

El Weirdo

So AH will now be the new Cuckoo's Nest, but with post count?

FFred

So as a starting point and a guideline, the etiquette/scat thread would stay in AH while the Ana Kriegel thread would move to current affairs?

Am I doing this right?

Mam of 4

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What's the DR?

The Diary Room , in the Reality TV Forum .
Just a place to chat about anything and everything , didn't have to worry about going off topic Persepoly

This is it

What made AH great was the ability to have serious and joke threads in the same forum. When a poster needed serious advice, AH rallied and helped as best they could, when there was a joke thread, the pîss was taken. Serious and fun worked, maybe that's changed.

Anyway, best of luck with the new forum, I can't see both staying active long term though.

weldoninhio

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Here we go!

Current Affairs forum is now live!

Thats all well and good, but we are here for a big announcement.

retro:electro

We’re gonna need a bigger announcement.

Yer Da sells Avon

El Weirdo wrote: »

So AH will now be the new Cuckoo's Nest, but with post count?

Not really. There are quite a few potential topics that aren't 'Bump this thread until 2070', but also aren't 'I hate unemployed transgender Muslims'.

I think it's a brilliant idea and hopefully it'll cleanse AH of all the overly serious bores who've infested the place in recent years.

freshpopcorn

Just a note to users. Some of the threads that appeared in After Hours will now appear in the current affairs forum.
Remember you should know by the thread title if it's for you when it appears in your news feed.

Bobblehats

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

I think it's a brilliant idea and hopefully it'll cleanse AH of all the overly serious bores who've infested the place in recent years.

And on the other hand such topics often need to be grounded with mirth

Where is this forum even I don’t see it. And I sure won’t go looking for it must be confined to the higher echelons. This is beyond my level of comprehension

whiskeyman

Does this mean we can't add puntastic and sarcastic comments to topical news events, since they'll be in their new home?
I'm doomed!

James Brown

I think people drifted to After Hours because they get censored harshly elsewhere. Will Current Affairs have similar Moderation to After Hours? If not it'll die off.

Yer Da sells Avon

Matt Barrett wrote: »

I think people drifted to After Hours because they get censored harshly elsewhere.

And also because that's where whatever drum they're obsessively beating will reach the largest audience.

FFred

whiskeyman wrote: »

Does this mean we can't add puntastic and sarcastic comments to topical news events, since they'll be in their new home?
I'm doomed!

Ditto my fellow punmaster extraordinaire...

James Brown

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

And also because that's where whatever drum they're obsessively beating will reach the largest audience.

You think people post in After Hours to change minds and influence?

Fr_Dougal

Great idea, right up there with the Politics Cafe!

Well I wouldn't have moved the Boy A and Boy B discussion thread to the new forum so quick. It has massive interest and transcends any 'right' forum. The powers that be could have waited a few days. But sure look.

Pawwed Rig

You can still post on it. The new forum doesn't have restricted access.

Yer Da sells Avon

Matt Barrett wrote: »

You think people post in After Hours to change minds and influence?

Don't laugh, but I think that's their intention.

They've influenced me anyway. I used to disapprove of the idea of punching fascists.

Pawwed Rig

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

You can still post on it. The new forum doesn't have restricted access.

I know but people can be strange when it comes to threads having a new home. It might have been an idea to move some less popular threads first and see how that goes.

How Soon Is Now

So After Hours is gonna be all fun and games now!?

That's gonna take ALOT of deleting and moving threads!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Well, good luck with this but I don’t think it’ll work. I’m happy to be proven wrong on that. We’ll see.

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

I know but people can be strange when it comes to threads having a new home. It might have been an idea to move some less popular threads first and see how that goes.

Ah P, that would assume a bit of common sense and understanding of how groups operate especially on the web, but the very creation of this old wine(politics cafe) in a new bottle(current affairs) demonstrates, well...

No doubt it was moved on the principle that because it's so popular a thread it might drag people over to this new forum. Meh, it and others like it can stay there.

Korvanica

This is it .... They're going to force everyone to use the new ****e version of boards

DEFTLEFTHAND

Ah lads leave it the way it is.

Nobody uses these forums, the Cafe for instance is as dead as a doornail.

Keep AHs as the major hub.

Atoms for Peace

Can't be arsed reading through the thtead, so in one sentence wtf is going down?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Can't be arsed reading through the thtead, so in one sentence wtf is going down?

They're opening a new 'current affairs' forum.

James Brown

Wibbs wrote: »

Ah P, that would assume a bit of common sense and understanding of how groups operate especially on the web, but the very creation of this old wine(politics cafe) in a new bottle(current affairs) demonstrates, well...

No doubt it was moved on the principle that because it's so popular a thread it might drag people over to this new forum. Meh, it and others like it can stay there.

Politics Cafe is members only. It stopped being politics lite when the hammer came down so much, well they introduced membership only admittance.
Hopefully Current affairs is nothing like it.

Seth Brundle

Matt Barrett wrote: »

Politics Cafe is members only. It stopped being politics lite when the hammer came down so much, well they introduced membership only admittance.
Hopefully Current affairs is nothing like it.

Do you recall why that policy was introduced?

weldoninhio

Deleted User wrote: »

Well I wouldn't have moved the Boy A and Boy B discussion thread to the new forum so quick. It has massive interest and transcends any 'right' forum. The powers that be could have waited a few days. But sure look.

Yeah, but no one was using the fancy new forum, so they had to strong arm people into it with the most popular thread currently on boards.

James Brown

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Do you recall why that policy was introduced?

I recall discussing it at great length with both Mods and CMods and disagreeing with the then proposed changes, what I predicted happened. Watch you don't get caught on a tumble weed next time you're in there saying "echo, echo......".
It's where discussions go to die.

Baggly

weldoninhio wrote:

Yeah, but no one was using the fancy new forum, so they had to strong arm people into it with the most popular thread currently on boards.

You mean the issue/affair that's most current in the country, yeah?

Yer Da sells Avon

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Ah lads leave it the way it is.

Nobody uses these forums, the Cafe for instance is as dead as a doornail.

Keep AHs as the major hub.

As long as 'Current Affairs' is a sub-forum of AH, and clearly marked as such, then AH remains the major hub.

I notice that a lot of good threads of a lighter nature tend to get knocked off the first page very quickly (and end up dying before they get a chance to run their course) because of the sheer volume of serious stuff. I think this could give AH a new lease of life.

Ten of Swords

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Can't be arsed reading through the thtead, so in one sentence wtf is going down?

Facekicker is the new mod

whiskeyman

Not sure it's a good decision,
AH is like a social barometer to all that's going on in Ireland... from the serious to the damn right stupid.

Some great discussion, wonderful puns and not forgetting Aongus VB occasional stories.
So many magical ingredients make it a great melting pot.
Take those out into a separate pan, and it just won't taste the same.
AH is the sauce for a dry dinner we so desperately need!

Omackeral

Agree with the above. Never really a need for a Current Affairs forum, AH is for current affairs pretty much. I don't really get what the difference is supposed to be. What makes something suitable for CA that isn't suitable for AF and vice versa? There's a litany of threads in AH that could be deemed current affairs, will they all be moved?

Poor Uncle Tom

Omackeral wrote: »

Agree with the above. Never really a need for a Current Affairs forum, AH is for current affairs pretty much. I don't really get what the difference is supposed to be. What makes something suitable for CA that isn't suitable for AF and vice versa? There's a litany of threads in AH that could be deemed current affairs, will they all be moved?

Just as long as it's focused on the 1980's

Wibbs

Omackeral wrote: »

Agree with the above. Never really a need for a Current Affairs forum, AH is for current affairs pretty much. I don't really get what the difference is supposed to be.

Because too many in the driving seat are still wedded to the notion that this is 2007 or whatever, when the site had hundreds of active forums many more contributors, near zero competition for those contributors and contributors who were used to staying on topic in the correct forum. That mindset sees After Hours as the light topics forum and subjects must be On Topic! ©2001 and can't seem to grasp that times change.

So rather than go with what the traffic of actual contributors actively moves into, no, let's try to force them into the "proper" forums. Which dilutes the contributors even further. Like those urban planners who insist on putting a fancy path across a green space when the worn out patch of well trodden ground somewhere else shows where people actually choose to walk.

Poor Uncle Tom

Wibbs wrote: »

Because too many in the driving seat are still wedded to the notion that this is 2007 or whatever, when the site had hundreds of active forums many more contributors, near zero competition for those contributors and contributors who were used to staying on topic in the correct forum. That mindset sees After Hours as the light topics forum and subjects must be On Topic! ©2001 and can't seem to grasp that times change.

So rather than go with what the traffic of actual contributors actively moves into, no, let's try to force them into the "proper" forums. Which dilutes the contributors even further. Like those urban planners who insist on putting a fancy path across a green space when the worn out patch of well trodden ground somewhere else shows where people actually choose to walk.

Very insightful, I can't help get the feeling that the brass are looking for the typed out version of The Late Late Show without realising that isn't the real world. It wasn't the real world then and it isn't now. When a very select few set out a format for a very select bandwidth of society to chat civilly about current topics.

The people who want to have a say about current events are probably aged from 12 to 90 and I would rather hear someones opinion on a subject where they give that opinion willingly and to hear what they actually have to say. AH is nice that way.

Pawwed Rig

AH was becoming un moddable (is that a word?). This is a solution. Maybe not THE solution but A solution.

Omackeral

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

AH was becoming un moddable (is that a word?). This is a solution. Maybe not THE solution but A solution.

Get better mods then or update the charter.