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Productivity in the Emerald Isle may have peaked on Tuesday with an outage of popular forum boards.ie coming on top of Twitter's TITSUP moment. The popular boards.ie discussion board was out for the second day following an apparent denial of service attack. The DDoS, by parties as yet unknown, was confirmed via the official …

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  1. nsld

    wow

    a "ddos attack on site"

    Does that mean the skiddies turned up in person and plugged in?

    Next up R2D2 shuts down all the garbage compactors.....

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  2. Owen Sweeney

    This has been ongoing for the last couple of days. It's the most popular discussion site in Ireland. Someone will get a spanking - I hope.

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  3. Slx

    It's a massive and very historic site.

    Dates back to 1998, beginning life as a Quake forum.

    It's now got well over 600,000 users and something like 2.5 million threads and thousands of thematically organised individual forums.

    It's actually a great living archive of online history too - it's very much a slice of (mostly Irish) online life.

    It's the go to place for discussion on *any*topic and even hosts forums for most of the Irish telcos, utilities, banks, etc so you can get live tech support in a public, open venue from verified reps.

    Boards.ie is a vast site and could even be one of the largest general purpose forums in the world.

    It's a real pain that it's been hit by this as it's genuinely one of the most active discussion forums out there and has a real community spirit about it. One of the longest running hangouts on the web, and it's still commercially successful nearly 2 decades later.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    "commercially succesful" how dye know? Who owns b.ie? where do they publish their accounts? They have a crowd of rottweiler mods who run scared of anything they decide is dodgy. Maybe someone who has been gagged did the DDos?

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      "They have a crowd of rottweiler mods who run scared of anything they decide is dodgy.

      Maybe someone who has been gagged did the DDos?"

      My thoughts precisely. Never run afoul of those mods, but have occasionally seen blatant "we stick together behavior" from some mods. Usually ending in someone being scapegoated and caught in a catch-22 loop where anything they say results in a ban. I would say they have made many, many enemies over the years.

      Not that that is any different form any other forum the web. Rottweiler mods are a generic hazard of using forums, as is antiquated forum software, and meaningless rules, like never reactivating old threads even when it is to everyone's benefit to do so when the thread is the only result of a web search and is also blatantly wrong.

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