Good grief! I hadn’t realised everything at ezboard was so bad!

Where to start? Well how about the so-called Help Forums? Some poor ezboard customer on p104 has asked what the problem is with his board … and been ignored completely since 1.30am on the 14th. And that was after his initial issues on 7 October. That time he did get a reply … three days later. And the cause of that slowness for a week? According to ezckerr, it was “moving a board onto the p104 server when you saw this slowness… everything should be back to normal now.” It is: normal is treacle speeds for ezboard.

So moving one board about in the usual ezboard board shuffle - which I’ve previously likened to moving the deckchairs about on board the Titanic - causes a fortnight’s slowness on every other board on that server?

Maybe that’s why people are beginning to see the light and abandon ezboard. If you look at Alexa’s page ranking for ezboard, you can see they’ve dropped out of the top 500. What won’t be helping them is loss of one of their larger boards (according to Big-Boards.com, it’s ezboard’s fifth largest board), AskMen.com. Yes, from early November 2006, their ezboard will be locked down as they’ve already moved to a new phpBB forum at http://boards.askmen.com/

I wonder how long it will be before Scout.com also jumps ship: I was looking at their Seahawks forums the other day and the FAQs weren’t exactly glowing with praise for ezboard, e.g:

“How come the search feature is so pathetic? Sometimes I want to look up something that was posted a while back, and never can because the search function never finds anything.

This is another problem with EZBoard. We hope to upgrade our forum software in the near future to provide our members with much more intuitive, dynamic features and amenities. Stay tuned.”