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By ForestBoro359/9 08:07Mon Sep 9 08:07:39 2024

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Just wondered what year did the admins create this forum? I remember reading it as early as 2003. I remember every evening the first thing I'd look on when logging on the Internet was Borochat and remember some names on here that no longer post.

Jasper
Jozza
Thora
Borodaddy
Gezmurrary

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By Pete (PeteH)10/9 09:10Tue Sep 10 09:10:07 2024In response to This forum Top of thread

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Me and MarkE (Miss Europa and JaSpEr) set this place up in 2002. Much missed posters IMO include BoroGent, Dippers and Mook.

Oh, and GLENN WATSON.

Edited by PeteH at 09:11:39 on 10th September 2024

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Re: This forum

By Sev9/9 13:47Mon Sep 9 13:47:59 2024In response to This forum Top of thread

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I think it was JaSpEr (MarkE) and Miss Europa (Pete) who originally began it so you'll have to hope one of them sees this and can provide some answers.

I think this particular version of Borochat forum started in 2015 when Hoagy (conf forum/Yeovil fan) stopped providing the old one and we moved to footballwebpages.

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Re: This forum

By HitchinBoro exCalling (HitchinBoro exCalling)9/9 16:32Mon Sep 9 16:32:19 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Talking of which anyone still looking at Conference Forum,I haven't since they switched . Just wondering if they still all hate us or have moved on.

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Re: This forum

By WASP (Original Mr Wasp)9/9 16:36Mon Sep 9 16:36:00 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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I think it ended about ten years ago. Soapy probably banned everyone

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Re: This forum

By Sev9/9 16:42Mon Sep 9 16:42:04 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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The people who provide this forum refused to host them because they were such a bunch of bellends any more so they had to find a new place for it.

It's now one of those where you have to click into each topic etc rather than one long list of threads you can scroll down. I can't remember what the technical terms for them are.

If we are ever forced to one of those I will resign, as can't be arsed trying to navigate round those.

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Re: This forum

By Owen B10/9 09:21Tue Sep 10 09:21:11 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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I just had a look - that's all changed! My old login doesn't work any more, I'm not sure I'll worry about re-signing up.

I'm sure that layout has its merits, but guess we just got used to this way which works for a (relatively) small active membership.

I'm in a few discord servers and that's a different setup again, then there's Facebook groups (although I hardly go on Facebook any longer).

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Re: This forum

By Sev10/9 09:25Tue Sep 10 09:25:42 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Given that most message boards/forums are that format and this is one of the last around like this, I'm assuming the consensus is that type is much better, but it's not for me.

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Re: This forum

By Owen B10/9 09:28Tue Sep 10 09:28:59 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Yeah probably is, I think this layout is fine with a core of 20ish (guessing) posters

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Re: This forum

By Balders (BALDOCKBORO)10/9 14:19Tue Sep 10 14:19:05 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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It's done well to survive this long.

What with all the cool kids on Discord-Twitch, MySpace and InstaTikTok-XGram

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Re: This forum

By SFC Jonny10/9 23:39Tue Sep 10 23:39:35 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Football twitter is a mess of spammy bot accounts and opposition fans trolling each other constantly.

At least on here we get real content, like the Monday Lunch Thread or whatever.

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Re: This forum

By Tucks10/9 11:42Tue Sep 10 11:42:46 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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I much prefer this “message board” style. If a sub-thread is going off on a tangent you can just choose to ignore those posts and read around them. On the more common type of forum you have to scroll through all the waffle and guff to get to the content you actually want to see.

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Re: This forum

By AndyC10/9 14:21Tue Sep 10 14:21:19 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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There's probably an option to hide threads on those boards too. The benefit of them is that new posts show at the top, whereas on here they don't, so people keep posting the same stuff over and over if they don't scroll down and check all the other threads, and it's easy to miss new stuff posted on old threads here.

The problem with new posts bringing the whole thread to the top is that you get 'Message for Borogent' situations

Edited by AndyC at 14:22:10 on 10th September 2024

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Re: This forum

By Tucks10/9 15:59Tue Sep 10 15:59:29 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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There is on the few I’ve frequented but I was referring more to the ability here to choose to not read sub-threads when you see they’re going off on a tangent rather than clicking a button to ignore a thread completely.

On the kind of forum where every post on a thread appears linearly you have to scroll through everything on the thread, including all the stuff you’re not interested in.

On those kinds of forums generally a new post will also bring a thread to the top of the page regardless of when the thread was started too.

There are of course benefits too such as being able to reply en masse to different posts by quoting etc. but I think the system we have here is infinitely better for this forum.

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Re: This forum

By Sev10/9 14:36Tue Sep 10 14:36:17 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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You can "collapse threads" in the option and then it sort of works like the other style.

So when there is a new post it would bring that collapsed thread to the top (if you have it set to show latest at the top) and you can click into it to view all.

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Re: This forum

By Paulio9/9 17:34Mon Sep 9 17:34:27 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Yeah I gave up on it within a couple days of the switch. Think I’m still admin on there.

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Re: This forum

By Danny-da-Bass (Danny-da -Bass)9/9 18:00Mon Sep 9 18:00:07 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Conf forum used to be a funny read. Very little to do with football though

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Re: This forum

By Balders (BALDOCKBORO)9/9 18:10Mon Sep 9 18:10:10 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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The best threads on here veer a long way from football...

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Re: This forum

By Deltic 21 (Spirit of East Coast Boro)19/9 08:58Thu Sep 19 08:58:43 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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To be fair, the team has been known to veer a long way from football, so its probably all still relevant. 😊

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Re: This forum

By Freemo9/9 19:15Mon Sep 9 19:15:23 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Yes they're mostly about Stevenage FC matches

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Re: This forum

By ForestBoro359/9 14:44Mon Sep 9 14:44:09 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Ah thanks for the information.

The old version was much better back then when we were a conference club and always enjoyable to read.

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Re: This forum

By Sev9/9 16:28Mon Sep 9 16:28:13 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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No offence taken 😂

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Re: This forum

By Owen B9/9 11:22Mon Sep 9 11:22:00 2024In response to This forum Top of thread

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Thora is too busy supporting Arsenal these days

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By Balders (BALDOCKBORO)9/9 11:23Mon Sep 9 11:23:34 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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*moaning about Partey and refereeing decisions that always go against Arsenal

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Re: This forum

By Dino Maamria's Goat. (Gaz Murray)9/9 11:02Mon Sep 9 11:02:07 2024In response to This forum Top of thread

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I'm still here, just don't really post anything. Not that I ever used to.

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Re: This forum

By Paulio9/9 11:43Mon Sep 9 11:43:50 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Hi Gez

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Re: This forum

By Dino Maamria's Goat. (Gaz Murray)9/9 12:57Mon Sep 9 12:57:32 2024In response to Re: This forum Top of thread

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Hi Polio

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