Updated look for the site (part2)

Thargor · 23-09-2012 12:15pm

Please restore the bottom breadcrumbs, its incredibly annoying not having them, I think this is about the only forum I know that forces you to scroll back up to the top, considering phones/tablets are only going to increase in usage from now on you're really punishing people with tons of extra scrolling for no apparent reason...

Boards.ie: Danny · 23-09-2012 12:17pm

Thargor wrote: »

Please restore the bottom breadcrumbs, its incredibly annoying not having them, I think this is about the only forum I know that forces you to scroll back up to the top, considering phones/tablets are only going to increase in usage from now on you're really punishing people with tons of extra scrolling for no apparent reason...

Bottom crumbs aren't coming back, they are redundant. A link to the top of the page will be put in instead.

Danny

Thargor · 23-09-2012 12:31pm

Hardly redundant when theres 3-4 pages and a load of threads of people bothering to come to the feedback forum asking for them back but thanks for the reply I suppose.

SantryRed · 24-09-2012 12:10am

Lack of the bottom breadcrumbs is hugely annoying.

Clanket · 24-09-2012 9:43am

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

Bottom crumbs aren't coming back, they are redundant. A link to the top of the page will be put in instead.

Danny

A link to the top of the page is a bit useless if you ask me. It should be a link back to the forum.

TouchingVirus · 24-09-2012 9:45am

Clanket wrote: »

A link to the top of the page is a bit useless if you ask me. It should be a link back to the forum.

Except that the breadcrumb is one thing, but linking back to the top of the page is much more helpful for people without the sticky header - notifications, the boards menu, the search box AND breadcrumbs.

Dravokivich · 24-09-2012 10:23am

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Except that the breadcrumb is one thing, but linking back to the top of the page is much more helpful for people without the sticky header - notifications, the boards menu, the search box AND breadcrumbs.

I think what he was referring to and it'll be the same with others, is more clicks than necessary are required now, to do what was easily avail before.

Most people aren't looking to browse through the forum menu, or do a search query. They just want to browse back to the forum's page they were looking through.

mush500 · 24-09-2012 11:29pm

Since I changed to the new look I can only get the first two options for the header menu- boards.ie and adverts.ie- if I refresh the page the header appears but then disappears again. Using Mac os and safari. Is there a way to change this?

Boards.ie: Tony · 25-09-2012 12:19am

mush500 wrote: »

Since I changed to the new look I can only get the first two options for the header menu- boards.ie and adverts.ie- if I refresh the page the header appears but then disappears again. Using Mac os and safari. Is there a way to change this?

Try logging out and back in again.
If that doesn't work, let us know what version of OSx and Safari are you using along with Screen resolution.

Thanks,
Tony.

Boards.ie: Danny · 25-09-2012 12:49am

Boards.ie: Tony wrote: »

Try logging out and back in again.
If that doesn't work, let us know what version of OSx and Safari are you using along with Screen resolution.

Thanks,
Tony.

Visit http://www.boards.ie/diagnostics and copy/paste the results for Your System/Browser/Resolution if logging out and back in doesn't work.

mush500 · 25-09-2012 7:49pm

Hi Dany/Tony

The logging out didn't work

Heres the info you asked for, thanks for the help!

Boards.ie: Tony · 26-09-2012 12:19am

mush500 wrote: »

Hi Dany/Tony

The logging out didn't work

Heres the info you asked for, thanks for the help!

Hmmm...

Your version of Safari and Flash seem a bit behind. (flash is on 11.4 and safari is on 6.0.1).
Any chance you could check it in a different browser (Firefox or Chrome) and see if its the browser or flash that might be causing it.

Cheers!

Cookie_Monster · 26-09-2012 12:43am

I'm sure it's been mentioned already but I switched back to the new one today to give it another go and one really annoying thing is the lack of menu at the bottom of a page

say in this thread if I reach the bottom I can click

boards.ie -> sys -> feedback

to go back to any of the root menus, in the beta I can't and have to scroll back up

Boards.ie: Danny · 26-09-2012 12:45am

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I'm sure it's been mentioned already but I switched back to the new one today to give it another go and one really annoying thing is the lack of menu at the bottom of a page

say in this thread if I reach the bottom I can click

boards.ie -> sys -> feedback

to go back to any of the root menus, in the beta I can't and have to scroll back up

Or enable the sticky header. Or wait for a "Back to top" link to be put back in. You're right though, it's been mentioned

Danny

Cookie_Monster · 26-09-2012 12:46am

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

Or enable the sticky header.

nah, made that mistake once already

thanks though.

/waits

Insect Overlord · 26-09-2012 12:47am

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

Or enable the sticky header. Or wait for a "Back to top" link to be put back in. You're right though, it's been mentioned

Danny

Or press the "Home" key on the keyboard.

Cookie_Monster · 26-09-2012 12:48am

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Or press the "Home" key on the keyboard.

what am I, not lazy?! pffft, more than one click / keystroke unnecessarily

MrPudding · 27-09-2012 7:41am

I miss the bottom breadcrumbs as well. No sticky header on my phone so a trip to the top of the thread is required. It is a small bit intensely irritating thing.

MrP

Quazzie · 27-09-2012 1:00pm

I know this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but not sure if it was mentioned much since. When browsing I usually press the space bar to move the page down as I read it. The problem with this, since the new look was introduced is that when it moves it down, the page jumps down slightly more than "one screen full" so that I often have to go then and press the arrow up on the scroll bar because I've missed a line. I know I'm not really describing this well and it seems like a minor thing, but it's really really annoying. Can anything be done about this?

oscarBravo · 27-09-2012 1:10pm

Quazzie wrote: »

I know this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but not sure if it was mentioned much since. When browsing I usually press the space bar to move the page down as I read it. The problem with this, since the new look was introduced is that when it moves it down, the page jumps down slightly more than "one screen full" so that I often have to go then and press the arrow up on the scroll bar because I've missed a line. I know I'm not really describing this well and it seems like a minor thing, but it's really really annoying. Can anything be done about this?

I've asked, and no: nothing can be done. If you use the Page Down key instead of the spacebar, that works. I know it's not as handy.

Boards.ie: Danny · 27-09-2012 2:01pm

oscarBravo wrote: »

I've asked, and no: nothing can be done. If you use the Page Down key instead of the spacebar, that works. I know it's not as handy.

Yep, we have a workaround for PageDn but it simply cannot be implemented for the spacebar. I should also note that this is an issue that isn't trivial to solve even for browser development teams, as evidenced by Mozilla's attempt to resolve it

Danny

Thargor · 27-09-2012 2:24pm

Hi Danny, can I just ask, what exactly is the problem with including the bottom breadcrumbs? Its been that way since the first internet BBs and their absense on boards is especially noticeable, you get to the bottom of the page when reading a forum and you immediately look for them to get you out of there, nothing else is a viable substitute for them, not sticky headers, not goto top of page buttons, not pressing the Home key on the keyboard, all of these require more work and are annoying to use.

I know its a petty first world problem to stay going on about but it really is bizarre that you would remove a feature used by 99% (estimated) of the bulletin boards on the internet because its 'clutter' or 'you can do it another way', people dont want to do it any other way.

Boards.ie: Danny · 27-09-2012 2:32pm

Thargor wrote: »

Hi Danny, can I just ask, what exactly is the problem with including the bottom breadcrumbs? Its been that way since the first internet BBs and their absense on boards is especially noticeable, you get to the bottom of the page when reading a forum and you immediately look for them to get you out of there, nothing else is a viable substitute for them, not sticky headers, not goto top of page buttons, not pressing the Home key on the keyboard, all of these require more work and are annoying to use.

I know its a petty first world problem to stay going on about but it really is bizarre that you would remove a feature used by 99% (estimated) of the bulletin boards on the internet because its 'clutter' or 'you can do it another way', people dont want to do it any other way.

This isn't a question best addressed to me I'm afraid, but your feedback has indeed been noted as per your earlier posts.

Danny

Thargor · 27-09-2012 2:43pm

I know Im going on about it

Ill shut up now.

ibarelycare · 27-09-2012 2:48pm

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

This isn't a question best addressed to me I'm afraid, but your feedback has indeed been noted as per your earlier posts.

Danny

Who should it be addressed to? Because I really want to know the answer too! All the feedback about the removal of the breadcrumbs is negative and all we're hearing back is that they're gone permanently, and that's that. You asked for feedback on new changes, and people are taking their time out to do that. But on this issue we're just told to like it or lump it, without a proper reasoning.

It's not bothering me at the moment, as I went straight back to the old skin when this change was made, as it made the new skin too user-unfriendly for me. But I presume the old skins aren't going to be around forever.

dr.bollocko · 27-09-2012 4:31pm

It still doesn't work on the iphone.

The old full version of site works OK.
Except when you have to log back in again and it defaults to the new version and the bar across the top makes it very difficult to even hit login to login to get back to the old version.

Zab · 27-09-2012 7:27pm

Regarding the drop downs on the upper right with my sn and My Forums on them. Are these boards issue or part of vbulletin? I kind of like the way it's updating when a thread I'm following gets new posts, but have you considered adding actual links to the threads rather than just updating the number?

John mac · 28-09-2012 11:38am

just replace the following from the bottom of page with the breadcrumbs.
Save on space.. would look nicer also.

Sites:

adverts.ie boardsdeals.ie daft.ie rent.ie property.ie thejournal.ie

wnolan1992 · 29-09-2012 5:59pm

Out of interest, has any more thought been put into having a notification in the tab header similar to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc?

Taco Corp · 29-09-2012 8:54pm

TheChrisD wrote: »

Another one here who would like bottom breadcrumbs back. I prefer to read to the end of a thread, and then have the breadcrumb right there to click back into the main forum instead of having to go back to the top of my monitor.

Agree. It's particularly annoying on ipad where the floating banner (or whatever it's called) doesn't work.

Updated look for the site (part2)

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