CT

[Hambeast]

I have no experience in writing reviews or organising such things which is why MW has pretty much consisted of just a forum since it launched. I can handle the technical side of things myself but that's about it. Until Covid hit and stopped gigs, I was doing my best to maintain the gig calendar on the front page, but even that was a lot of work and became pretty tiresome. Constantly creating new content is a lot of work and can almost be a full time job in itself. I'm not running ads on the site and would prefer not to, which makes it difficult to go down the avenue of paying writers and I don't expect anybody to work for free. As far as moderation on the forum goes, there essentially is none other than weeding out bots/spam or rarely deleting a post (which has only been done 2 or 3 times as far as I can remember), but maybe I do need to look into getting a few moderators to stop things getting out of hand. Some kind of collaboration with IMA or the likes could prove useful in the future to help the site become more than just a forum but I have no idea what shape that would take.

If CT was willing, I'd be happy to host a copy of MI here, but I'm not sure if there's much interest in an archive of old content which doesn't get updated. A copy of MI still exists on archive.org for anyone wanting to look up old reviews and the likes, but I wouldn't be copying any of it without consent.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181110014706/https://www.metalireland.com/

[jobrok1]

Until Covid hit and stopped gigs, I was doing my best to maintain the gig calendar on the front page, but even that was a lot of work and became pretty tiresome.

Updating a gig calendar and archiving gigs is the single worst job in the World... period!

[Hambeast]

Trying to keep it up to date is by far the worst. Especially when a gig is announced but there's no info like support bands or ticket prices so I'm needing to remember to go back later and add any missing details. I have a handy bit of software for adding the listings but it's still a ball ache!

[Blackout]

Maybe a stickie with gig dates at the top?

[Eoin McLove]

I never even see the front page. Surely the gig thread is the place for that info?

[Hambeast]

www.metalwarfare.com now redirects to forum.metalwarfare.com since there's no gigs at the minute. Previously the front page had a big list of all upcoming gigs in chronological order along with all the details. It essentially mirrored the gigs forum but it allowed you to have a clearer view since you could filter it by date and location instead of needing to browse through a few pages of threads to see if there happened to be a gig at the weekend

[if6was9]

A big loss from MI for me personally was the pre/post gig and festival chats. Being involved in so many gigs I took great enjoyment in seeing what people thought in the following days and the insane stories people would tell as the memories came back. Must be said though that this was noticeably less in the last year or 2 of MI. People were definitely going more to social media for that type of craic, the last few Siege threads only had a handful of comments post festival compared to the pages and pages that would be on it before.

I feel like social media has made this impossible to follow these days, if people post now it's just a picture and a sea of thumbs up instead of actual conversation, plus you'll never see what folks you aren't connected with are saying anyways.

[Mithrandir]

Bring back CountJeremiah 

[Caomhaoin]

Noticeable lack of complete maniacs, cranks, screwballs and lads giving it laughably tight compared to MI alright.

Who were that band who played support to Sepultura at the Academy and the bass player lost his marbles altogether? That thread was gold for a solid week if not more.

[open face surgery]

Ian the Bassist. No idea what band it was.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Shocktapus??

[Eoin McLove]

Haha, I forgot about all that. Some craic.

[Nazgûl]

Philfest.

Wonder did it ever go ahead in the years after?

[Trev]

Noticeable lack of complete maniacs, cranks, screwballs and lads giving it laughably tight compared to MI alright.

Who were that band who played support to Sepultura at the Academy and the bass player lost his marbles altogether? That thread was gold for a solid week if not more.

Pagan Riot, if I remember right the post that kicked it off was someone just gave their review of the support as Pagan Shite

[04325613]

That was top quality shtuff. The lad got fired live on MI