Changes to Advertising on the site

Boards is dying, that's pretty obvious. Management will dismiss sensible suggestions until they stop getting paid.

The upgrade was the final nail in the server.

The name will be sold and Boards will be ressurected.

I have no idea what Boards management is on, but I suspect it's really top quality stuff that completely inhibits logical thought.

I do feel sorry for Boards staff that will lose their jobs.

In 20+ years of daily internet use, I've never knowingly clicked on an ad ever.

I'm not going to start now.

I find some of the contradictions stark: Mobile users should outnumber desktop users but yet the development on mobile appears to be stood still or a low priority. Surely mobile users should be driving new sign-ups? By not having investment at the mobile interface you have nothing more than a wire-sprung pram of bananas at the all-Ireland on a Sunday.

The boards management need money to keep the site going, I find that quite ironic since it's their incompetence that's driving posters away.

Would it be end of the world if "boards.ie" went to different owners that actually cared about their Community?

I for one wouldn't spent a cent on this incarnation of Boards.ie with management don't give a **** about the website or Community, why should I?

I loved the old Boards.ie, it was a such an easy site to navigate and Community spirit was easy to see and at times I was a subscriber and didn't block ads but never again...

I take no pleasure in the above, far from it but it's gone to the stage that I just don't care anymore

Type chrome://flags in the address bar, then search for 'dark' enable both & that'll do it for you. The second option will allow you to toggle it on/off quicker in settings.

You need to do something with the soccer forum. The threads don't appear on the home page, latest or trending etc. Can't view it when not a member of the group or at all if not logged in & in the group.

Must have been one of the most popular forums before change over, a lot of ad revenue passed up there

That's sound. It's a free site and ye're here to make money. Like free apps or podcasts with ads to cover costs. But I wouldn't be here very often so wouldn't pay for an ad-free version of Boards as some proposed. If you also had an ad free pay version maybe you could incentivise members by offering discounts from some of the Boards advertisers or other organisations.

Actually one suggestion for raising funds would be to offer an escrow service for adverts.

Just been trying to do a deal but it seemed very sketchy so I backed out.

if boards had an escrow service where I could sent the money for the item (several hundred euro), receive the goods and inspect them then approve the transaction so the seller gets paid, I’d happily spend a percentage of the cost or a fixed cost of say €10 for that.

seller is guaranteed he’s going to get paid, buyer is guaranteed they’re not going to get ripped off.

that’s worth money to me

Once again a thread goes silent, feedback is ignored, and it's not fair to Niamh to keep sending her out to announce/defend this stuff when it seems clear the current owners haven't a clue in how to revitalise or rescue the site (even repairing it seems beyond them).

You can't just occasionally turn up with a thread announcing significant changes and then disappear when the feedback doesn't suit you but that's half the problem too. No understanding of the site, its users, or why people (those who are left) still come here. This of course is reflected in how the site is run day-to-day which is another long-standing issue.

At this stage they might as well just put the domain name on the market now TBH.

If Boards needs anything right now (apart from cash flow), it's user/community feedback.

@_Kaiser_ is spot on with what's been said. It's inexcusable at this point.

Secondly @DoctorEdgeWild, this is from the Welcome to the Announcements Forum thread...

"Your comments and feedback are welcome."

Everyone is an expert 🥸

Love to, but sure how would we find it?

+1

I sometimes just dream of the luxury.....

Look at the absolute state of this, half of my entire phone screen taken up with questionable betting advertisements... Who in their right mind wouldn't block this crap?

Ditto....

I could do this all night and really push my post count up 🙄

Hold on, so you're saying adds with rats, cockroaches, teeth falling out and hair follicles aren't bring the revenue you thought they would? Well I'll be. Have you considered making them flash repeatedly?

Was some change made to Boards this evening in relation to the advertising change? Reason I ask is that on every page load I am now getting the ‘We value your privacy’ dialog and being asked to consent to advertising cookies, device fingerprinting, etc. I am not consenting and am clicking Save Preferences. But it doesn’t seem to take.

Cookies/GDPR prompt pops up every single time a page is loaded.

Won't stop no matter how many times I click accept.