The End Is Nigh...no more forum

Create and police your own forum... https://www.proboards.com/

It's been dying a death ever since they changed the forum years ago

I nominate SNC to be in charge of the new leftie echo chamber.

Forums being taken down all over the net

Form your own opinions

Racism and libel is expensive for forum owners

Try Labours betting TAXES Donnie

Lol, I will miss your rants

Yep

Greyhound Scene is on Pro Boards Not sure if can still set up groups on there, but similar set up to here with a few Adds

Could do all the Sports sections and a Chit chat and politics sections .. 

Someone will set something up , Members Admin would be fun

You can go back to hoying blue pens in the bookies

the old nanny ;-)28 Oct 26 12:33Joined: 10 Dec 01 | Topic/replies: 17,056 | Blogger: the old nanny ;-)'s blog
Greyhound Scene is on Pro Boards Not sure if can still set up groups on there, but similar set up to here with a few Adds
Could do all the Sports sections and a Chit chat and politics sections ..
Someone will set something up , Members Admin would be fun Laugh


Sinceerely hope so case

Done one as a test ,  there is a lot to setting it up , and depending on how many Joined would need a few Admins

but would be similar to Here ,  Getting someone to commit to running it would not be easy ...

Specials has run an invite only proboards for over a decade. It became more toxic than here in the end

Someone will set something up  , if got a few hundred members to Start could get revenue by hosting a few betting adds etc

I think BF have made a mistake closing it down

Steve on horse racing said Facebook , Could you imagine

Peak gormley was absolutely brilliant. We were practically dominating the special markets at that time. Plenty of successful gamblers, sharing insight et al. But not much stays the same, bookies stopped taking bets so people started looking after themselves, fighting over much smaller pies, and it was infected by champagne socialists (we have a sub board for politics). I've not posted on there for a few years, only log in very occasionally to look back at some research I posted.

I like how the new prediction sites have a comment section next to the market. Keeps discussion largely to the topic in hand and is a good source for info and generating activity.

I like how the new prediction sites have a comment section next to the market. Keeps discussion largely to the topic in hand and is a good source for info and generating activity.

I've been wondering what the barriers would be to setting up a prediction markets/sports exchange in the UK would be.


The predictions market model is more akin to the early days of flutter where the users can create a market which seems to have some advantages for the model over a purely business owner choice of markets.

I think I read they would need to be regulated by the financial body because of certain markets and options they offer, rather than the gambling commission like Betfair. It sounds like setting one up in the UK, if only to sell to Kalshi or Poly in a few years might be a good idea.

I like how you can see that someone has £500K on a position and you can discuss with them in the comment section what they're thinking.

Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels

WAL OFS  that is ...

The Malignant 7 won't last a day on any other forum

Good luck lads, I bid you all a fond farewell, it’s been a laugh if nothing else.

If you want a leftie loon controlled forum SNC why not just go to Reddit?

Nobby will be able to commit more of his time to his Jihadi channels on Telegram now.

Nobby wants to belong to an echo chamber of a forum along with the other members of the Festering Four no doubt.

Opining on this new forum he harumphs that "The good thing about having your own forum is you can kick out the di*kheads"

In which case Nobby is likely to be an absentee from his own forum

reddit is his natural habitat

Malignant 6 these days nobby

Will he get reinstated before we close up

Lol

Has one of them disappeared?

Appears so.

So which one of the Festering Four is responsible for the exclusion i wonder ?

https://bfnc.forumotion.com/

   New site already up and running.

Malignant 6 .. good name for a Rap Band.. I can just see MC Durham whiteboy getting down with the Bruvs  .. with a clock round his gregory  WAC

Any idea who the grass may be String ?

Not exactly a long list of runners

Like many on here, when "The End" was announced, my reaction was along the lines of "No suprise, the writing has been on the wall a long time".

After a few days it dawned on me just how incredibly fantastic the adventures I had had over the last 22 years that were a direct
result of the betfair forums, and "The End" is literally the end of a 22 year long book full of real life adventures.


Most on here are recreational gamblers and primarily use the forum to chat to and insult other gamblers, when this is gone thay'll just move on and forget about it pretty soon.
But for me, it lead to so many interesting projects with interesting people, all the way to the very very top echelon of the sportsbetting ecosystem. And most of those adventures and experiences started on, and would not have happened without, the betfair forums.

In a way, I am also a recreational gambler, I do it because I love the puzzle of "What does it take to win at this (or that) game?", Then it became more that just a hobby, it became a passion which turned into a serries of adventures, many of which started on the betfair forums.


As I sit here reminiscing down memory lane, it's tempting to mention some of these adventures, but some of them are so epic I would be accused of bigging myself up and fantasising.


Long after this forum is gone, memories of my adventures will pop into my head that will make me grin from ear to ear.

It's been fantastic.


Good luck to all, and in the imortal words of Douglas Adams "Thanks for all the fish"

Despite all the harsh words spoken on this forum it is amazing to me how all the honest punters have pulled together to find a solution. If Picard was still around he would say we are like Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

In the words of the great James Douglas Morrison :


This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end, it hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end

See you on the other side ..   Dix 

If Picard was still around he would say we are like Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

It's science fiction

Sokath his eyes uncovered

I POSTED THIS ON THE HORSE RACING FORUM......


The passing of this forum is a sad event. It was a proper social club for many years.
I turned it in once the bots and trolls got involved (particularly one paid activist), and innocuous posts were being removed, and the forum was outsourced.

The Quizzes and those involved were amazing.
We had a few little get-togethers and 1000's of people used the site more because the forum was on so many screens.

I made (and lost ) good friends on here (especially Nick [campoisgod), Tony [pumphol], Dom [Muntz Street]), may they RIP.

I had the pleasure of running some (if I say so myself) very good competitions on big sporting events, which BF even supported and gave prizes for. They often had many hundreds of entries. Special mention for "Mr Nibbs" who helped so much with the Excel pages I could only dream about putting together which enabled me to run them

I have nothing but admiration for the original BF in setting up a fantastic platform and amazing Forum with SO many sections and so much interest.
I have nothing but disdain for those in the "new" BF for their gradual destruction of it.

To all my friends on here who might read this - my 1st post in a couple of years:
It was a pleasure

Great comps studyform

Lots more good folk have passed away who were regulars on here, and yep they felt like friends.

I was just talking to my Mrs about it (I even met HER on here). It was all fun. Hours a night on quizzes, sharing advice, recipes, tips, jokes, competitions, and so much more. For years. And then it wasn't. Obsessions, trolling and bots took over. Even though it was fixable, the organisation BF farmed the forum out to wouldn't listen to how to stop the rot. There really was a solution, but they weren't interested.

I worked for and with Nick on racecourses all over the country because of the forum Everything from the Derby, Festival, Goodwood, R. Ascot, etc to a freezing Wednesday night at Wolverhampton.
We were pitched up right at the winning post when McCoy won on Don't Push It, and as the horse turned, after the race to parade in front of the stands it crapped, loads, right in front of us. I asked him for a couple of money sacks so I could pick some up. I wanted to sell to sell it on ebay. Grand National winner poop for the roses.
He wouldn't let me have any.

having not been on here for some time, sadly, because of the changes that ruined the place.
I'm not aware of know who else we lost?
I knew about clungehungry and the three I mentioned. We're all getting older and 20 odd years on it shouldn't be a surprise, but it's still sad.

I just wrote a big reply but as I posted it it just disappeared. I'll try again later.

Betfair letting multiple usernames was a big mistake .

I was just talking to my Mrs about it (I even met HER on here)

If I'm reading this right, you met someone on these forums and married her?

That is fantastic.

As I mentioned previously ITT, I've had many incredible and wow! real life adventures directly as a result of the BF forums, but marrying someone you first met on this forum, Thats a wow wow wowee.

Best of luck to you both.

haha

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Point out the agenda

get cancelled

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without going through it again


THIS IS PURELY AN ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRIVACY

forums are being shut down all over the web
redirection, eventually to identity related forums


The west will exist on a new system of surveillance capitalism, unsound money (perma inflation in necessities) and hijacked supply chains.


any questions ?


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With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied—chains us all irrevocably. Aaron Satie knew what was going on.

Only just caught up on this. Great to hear from you again Studyform. The old days on here were the business no doubt. Great quizzes and chat. Used to love to spend an hour or so in the chit chat pub. Sorely missed. HGS, (HallGreenSpy).

What's happening on the last day December 21st? Leaving party? Balloons?

Bring yor own bottle

I will leave that to Escapee. Shiny can be the DJ.