Does anyone refer to message boards/forums as "boards"?

[edprush]

?

 

[Atheus]

big-boards.com

 

[FoBoT]

like a bulletin board?

 

[djheater]

Yes.

Verbally probally not. I use "Internet forums" because most people I talk to have very little clue.

If I were talking to a fellow netizen I might say tech boards, or something of that nature.

 

[mugs]

No. For the same reason that I never called newsgroups "boards" when I used to post on newsgroups. Newsgroups are newsgroups, forums are forums, and BBSes are BBSes.

 

[moshquerade]

i call the whole thing a board with each individual section called a forum.

 

[Howard]

I've talked to people who didn't even know what forums were.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Howard
I've talked to people who didn't even know what forums were.

I do sometimes refer to forums as messageboards when I'm talking to someone who I know won't know what a forum is.

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: djheater
Yes.

Verbally probally not. I use "Internet forums" because most people I talk to have very little clue.

If I were talking to a fellow netizen I might say tech boards, or something of that nature.

What about for a domain name?

Is topicboards.com too archaic or ambiguous?
topicforums.com and topicforum.com were taken.

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: mugs
No. For the same reason that I never called newsgroups "boards" when I used to post on newsgroups. Newsgroups are newsgroups, forums are forums, and BBSes are BBSes.

Link me to a BBS. I'd like to see how that differs from a forum.

 

[clamum]

Not I. I say messageboard or forum.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: edprush

Originally posted by: djheater
Yes.

Verbally probally not. I use "Internet forums" because most people I talk to have very little clue.

If I were talking to a fellow netizen I might say tech boards, or something of that nature.

What about for a domain name?

Is topicboards.com too archaic or ambiguous?
topicforums.com and topicforum.com were taken.

Unless it's an easy to remember domain and it flows, I would avoid using boards in the domain.

Is topictalk.com available?

 

[Evadman]

I always use board. Probably because I started with BBS's not the internet.

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: edprush

Originally posted by: djheater
Yes.

Verbally probally not. I use "Internet forums" because most people I talk to have very little clue.

If I were talking to a fellow netizen I might say tech boards, or something of that nature.

What about for a domain name?

Is topicboards.com too archaic or ambiguous?
topicforums.com and topicforum.com were taken.

Unless it's an easy to remember domain and it flows, I would avoid using boards in the domain.

Is topictalk.com available?

I had checked into both: topictalk.com and topicchat.com
and both were taken.

I really hate to resort to topicboards.com

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: Evadman
I always use board. Probably because I started with BBS's not the internet.

So you made a post on the Anandtech boards?

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: edprush

Originally posted by: Evadman
I always use board. Probably because I started with BBS's not the internet.

So you made a post on the Anandtech boards?

I used to, yes.

 

[JBT]

I would always use forum. If they are too stupid to know what that is I stop talking to them about it.

 

[shilala]

I call them messageboards. Such as "Someone posted this neat pic on my messageboard".
It makes it easier because they have no idea wtf I'm talking about in the first place and it seems to dissuade them from asking.

 

[91TTZ]

I often call them boards because I started off with BBS's. Also, Anandtech's forum used to be called the BBS.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I miss BBSs. And Lair Of the Red Dragon. Oh, what a wonderful game.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I miss BBSs. And Lair Of the Red Dragon. Oh, what a wonderful game.

I used to play that. I used to pay off the innkeeper and kill all the people while they were sleeping.