Just out of interest.

Why not?

God, what depresses me about the web is that it’s been taken over by capitalists. It used to be fun – now it’s just a vehicle for eCommerce.

I think the most useful stuff on the web now is in the form of user forums and discussion boards.

But then – I’m a bit of an old fart.

I know you’re just posing the question though.

John

There isn’t a revenue model for this as the site wasnt exactly planned – more just happened. Any advertisements on the sites are for our inhouse projects of our web development house. So there’s no income whatsoever from the site which is a pity as some sort of financial reward would help fund it. If however someone wished to advertise, we’d be willing to listen.

In an ideal world, a company with nice deep pockets would come along and sponsor the site allowing us to pay someone to do a lot more grunt work – as it is about 20-25 hours a week goes into maintaining the site and thats not including new areas being developed. Because the site requires more or less daily updating, it gets hard to even go away for a weekend.

One thing to remember folks is that by keeping the boards going and making them a lively place for debate etc also encourages others to post. So in short you, the regular posters are helping make the site a success.

One thing I would like is for the boards to become less “dublin-o-centric” – perhaps a few people based down the country would like to comment on whats happening architecturally in their locality.

Afterall Dublin is not Ireland.