Reenergising the forum / fans section

[The Fly]

Consolidation, a more relaxed approach to moderation...and new smilies please!

[Mr A]

Just wondering if the filter still edits Scunthorpe.

[BonnieShels]

is the profanity filter really needed? or what's the thought process behind it...

Yes. And it works and indeed has worked. Stops people just effin and blinding and adding nothing to conversation.

[nigel-harps1954]

Yes. And it works and indeed has worked. Stops people just effin and blinding and adding nothing to conversation.

We're all mannerly gentlemen here.

[Acornvilla]

I was on a forum once that used to change any swear or insult to "sweetheart" which was fun Caused a lot of amusement when the change was initially made and no one understood what was happening.

[pineapple stu]

I think it was the Pat's forum back in the day that used to change "snigger" to "sblack person"

Completely agree with Bonnie's post though.

After an that though - is it turn reorg first (when dahamsta gets time), and then short straw for someone to push it on social?

[Bottle of Tonic]

Interesting discussion. My feeling is that forums started to die off around as far back as 2010. Facebook and people having their own personal shrine on the internet. Old school forums with no faces and pseudonyms was not what people wanted any longer when faster attention could be gained elsewhere.

I remember going to an Ireland away trip around 2008. There was some sort of foot.ie fan meet up where we got name badges I think. Anyway quite quickly it seemed like the away fans gravitated towards YBIG which seems to have a more game-attending culture attached to it, whereas Foot has retained its more considered somewhat academic character. I got the feeling foot.ie lost a lot of posters around that time who were perhaps keen to be involved in this new 'ultra' type supporter culture rather than the debate/discussion stuff this site is centered around.

I absolutely favour this site 1000% over ybig due to its adult and mature tone and despite being an extremely infrequent poster and only occasional lurker I will continue to visit it as long as its around. Thanks to owner, mods and posters for keeping the show on the road.

[CraftyToePoke]

Interesting discussion. My feeling is that forums started to die off around as far back as 2010. Facebook and people having their own personal shrine on the internet. Old school forums with no faces and pseudonyms was not what people wanted any longer when faster attention could be gained elsewhere.

SM of course is a factor but equally club forums I notice are still thriving, I'm on a few but the one I'd point to is LondonRoad.net the Peterborough United one, that's a provincial club in a 10k stadium, a core support of somewhere around 6 / 7k in a city & catchment of probably 250k people & the forum buzzes daily. Not just the team talk section, Tour de France, politics, gigs you're going to, what's good on TV tonight, Olympics, Brexit, movies, box sets, pubs round town, Glastonbury, bets, the lot. They chat about it all & drawing from a way lower pool of people than on here. So worldwide forum die off shrug of the shoulders is a lazy blame I think.

Villa / Leicester City forums are still the center piece of discussion too. The Limerick soccer forum died though as have some other LOI ones I think so maybe it's an Irish thing. Just like when the whole world got itself WhatsApp, Ireland decided it liked Viber better.

[tetsujin1979]

Really? I knew two people who used Viber, and both of them dropped it for WhatsApp

[CraftyToePoke]

Really? I knew two people who used Viber, and both of them dropped it for WhatsApp

Its changed now but early days all my family & friends in Limerick & some in Galway & Kerry too were Vibered up, I mean they all were. I had to argue with them, correct them. I'm talking 40+ souls here I had to save. I even had to get Viber for a bit.

[pineapple stu]

Yeah, I had Viber before WhatsApp. Was a work suggestion too, so wasn't just me being contrary

[John83]

...so wasn't just me being contrary

God forbid!

This is interesting. I've never even heard of Viber.

[CraftyToePoke]

They thought I was a freak for having this WhatsApp thing & I said no, no no, you're the freaks, all of you, freaks, you'll see. Now they see. Took a good year though.

So Ireland does have its own tech use behavioural patterns & maybe forums are the WhatsApp of yore. But I still think there's an audience out there sick of wading through the SM daily horror scene who'd love footdot & don't know its here.

& once its revamped, email all the registration emails used to register users, show it off, remind people. We don't need loads, looking at SM we don't want loads either.

[Razors left peg]

Its changed now but early days all my family & friends in Limerick & some in Galway & Kerry too were Vibered up, I mean they all were. I had to argue with them, correct them. I'm talking 40+ souls here I had to save. I even had to get Viber for a bit.

Yep, I had multiple groups on Viber for the longest time. I had to take the parents into what's app kicking and screaming fairly recently cos they were the last hold outs

[CraftyToePoke]

Yep, I had multiple groups on Viber for the longest time. I had to take the parents into what's app kicking and screaming fairly recently cos they were the last hold outs

Makes you wonder if a many Irish mammies Viberate on the sly to this day Razor, when no ones watching. On the low low.

[BonnieShels]

I think it was the Pat's forum back in the day that used to change "snigger" to "sblack person"

Completely agree with Bonnie's post though.

After an that though - is it turn reorg first (when dahamsta gets time), and then short straw for someone to push it on social?

The old Oxegen and Electric Picnic fora used to do that well.

I got into a row with some zoon on Reddit who though "snigger" was a slur. It was insane.

[BonnieShels]

SM of course is a factor but equally club forums I notice are still thriving, I'm on a few but the one I'd point to is LondonRoad.net the Peterborough United one, that's a provincial club in a 10k stadium, a core support of somewhere around 6 / 7k in a city & catchment of probably 250k people & the forum buzzes daily. Not just the team talk section, Tour de France, politics, gigs you're going to, what's good on TV tonight, Olympics, Brexit, movies, box sets, pubs round town, Glastonbury, bets, the lot. They chat about it all & drawing from a way lower pool of people than on here. So worldwide forum die off shrug of the shoulders is a lazy blame I think.

Villa / Leicester City forums are still the center piece of discussion too. The Limerick soccer forum died though as have some other LOI ones I think so maybe it's an Irish thing. Just like when the whole world got itself WhatsApp, Ireland decided it liked Viber better.

There was a very brief overlap of Viber and WhatsApp and Viber got dropped quick fast once the critical mass happened. Viber was the Telegram of its day.

[BonnieShels]

They thought I was a freak for having this WhatsApp thing & I said no, no no, you're the freaks, all of you, freaks, you'll see. Now they see. Took a good year though.

So Ireland does have its own tech use behavioural patterns & maybe forums are the WhatsApp of yore. But I still think there's an audience out there sick of wading through the SM daily horror scene who'd love footdot & don't know its here.

& once its revamped, email all the registration emails used to register users, show it off, remind people. We don't need loads, looking at SM we don't want loads either.

Don't forget our love affair with Bebo.

[nigel-harps1954]

Viber was all the rage in my family for a while too until everyone moved to Whatsapp.

Signal tried it's best to take off for a while there too.