Award, Award!

[dahamsta]

I wasn't actually told about this by anyone until today, but apparently we've been nominated for a web award in the Best Discussion forum category.

http://webawards.ie/2011-finalists/

[Real ale Madrid]

Congratulations!

It's available to sponsor....Beecher Networks.......

[theworm2345]

It seems these were nominated:
Boards.ie
Politics.ie
Thumped
Irish Webmasters Forum
Mrs2be.ie Forum
Peoples Republic of Cork
Cork City FC Supporters forum
Foot.ie
Photography Ireland
Irish Republican

...and these made the first cut:
politics.ie
photographyireland.net
mrs2be.ie/wedding-forum
foot.ie
Thumped
iwf.ie

So now you'll need people to sign up to be judges and stuff the ballot boxes:

http://webawards.ie/want-to-judge/

Anyway congratulations

[the 12 th man]

Nice one Adam,I hope we finish ahead of Mrs2be.ie Forum

[Dodge]

Jaysus, there's some Munster slant to some of those categories.

[Mr A]

Ha! In your face Boards!

[tetsujin1979]

Ha! In your face Boards!

Maybe it's just me, but I think the level of discussion on boards.ie has dropped quite a bit over the last 18-24 months

[theworm2345]

Maybe it's just me, but I think the level of discussion on boards.ie has dropped quite a bit over the last 18-24 months

Wasn't it within that period that they got hacked and went offline for awhile?

[BonnieShels]

Maybe it's just me, but I think the level of discussion on boards.ie has dropped quite a bit over the last 18-24 months

Around about the time I threw all my eggs into the foot.ie basket.

Also I wonder how the Irish Webmaster Forum got nominated... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

I think foot.ie should have a badge! http://webawards.ie/2011-finalists/

[SkStu]

Maybe it's just me, but I think the level of discussion on boards.ie has dropped quite a bit over the last 18-24 months

i joined boards.ie about 18-24 months ago.

[nigel-harps1954]

Congrats Adam! Fantastic stuff. I think Boards is a load of tripe to be honest aside from the music section.

[tetsujin1979]

Wasn't it within that period that they got hacked and went offline for awhile?

yeah, that happened around that time, boards got a lot of publicity (positive and negative obviously)
not sure how it affected membership, but I'd been using it less and less anyway. The soccer forum in particular is a mess

i joined boards.ie about 18-24 months ago.

Was this before or after it was hacked? just curious to see how the site being hacked affected people's opinions of the site

[dahamsta]

I use it for just one forum now, the Cork County forum. I was subbed to the City forum too, but I was banned for calling out the new breed in their on their utter stupidity. I think that was 3 years ago now. Still banned.

Boards used to be a great forum, but it just got too complex and overpopulated with idiots talking absolute nonsense. Not like on Foot.ie.

[Magicme]

Whoohoo well done boy!

[Real ale Madrid]

Politics.ie ? Never heard of it.