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    #242
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    :o completely derped and just looked at the top post, yeah I'm totally wrong!

    You might need to become more obsessed like us whose lives start crumbling to pieces once the boards site won't load :D


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    #243
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ said boards was down for everyone during that period

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #244
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Search is back but don't think posts are being indexed.


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    #245
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,438 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    What is 'turn beta on' at the bottom of the page on Touch supposed to do? I'm not seeing anything different.


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    #246
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    Any update from HQ at all? Its very frustrating. (I am actually a subscriber so I do contribute!)


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    #247
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    mirrorwall14 wrote: »
    Any update from HQ at all? Its very frustrating. (I am actually a subscriber so I do contribute!)

    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/post/97379825


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    #248
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I turned beta on and now I can't get it off!


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    #249
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I turned beta on and now I can't get it off!

    Have you tried turning it off from the front page? It used to be that that link didn't work from any of the other pages.


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    #250
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I turned beta on and now I can't get it off!

    You might be able to in the user CP

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/profile.php?do=editoptions

    but you might need to log out as well. Hard to know with this sort of thing.


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    #251
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    nesf wrote: »
    Have you tried turning it off from the front page? It used to be that that link didn't work from any of the other pages.

    Aye got it sorted there now, was a bit of a mad panic for a while there!


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    #252
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    I like the look of the beta but I had to turn it off as there didn't appear to be a button to go to first unread post in a thread.


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    #253
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    Liking the look of beta as well. Big thumbs up!


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    #254
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    How do you get on the Beta?


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    #255
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    If you go down to the very bottom of the home page there should be a Turn beta on link :)


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    #256
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,702 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    The need for the more visible link to the Talk To forums is understandable, but if you don't need to use one of those forums, it's a bit of a pain seeing them to the side of every page in every thread. Could they not be set to appear on the homepages only? The rest of the redesign makes it very easy and obvious to find the link to those forums outside of the homepage anyway.

    Also, I have ads turned off. Can it be programmed to remove the gap where the ads would normally be?

    And there is a lot of wasted space in the My Forums dropdown menu. The columns themselves are wide but the text is squashed into about half the width of the column.


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    #257
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Penn wrote: »
    Also, I have ads turned off. Can it be programmed to remove the gap where the ads would normally be?

    :pac::pac: Are you serious?


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    #258
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,702 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Synode wrote: »
    Penn wrote: »
    Also, I have ads turned off. Can it be programmed to remove the gap where the ads would normally be?

    :pac::pac: Are you serious?
    Ads turned off via the subscriber's features, not by using an ad blocker. On the existing site with ads turned off, there's no gap left between posts where there would be an ad, it's just post after post after post. On the beta site, there's now just a gap between some posts where there would be an ad. All I'm saying is that if the option to have ads turned off (as a subscriber perk) is to be kept, it should be programmed that there is no gap as per the existing site.


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    #259
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Apologies. I thought you meant via an ad blocker


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    #260
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    x Purple Pawprints x wrote: »
    Liking the look of beta as well. Big thumbs up!

    It's ugly as sin at the moment. Drop down menu covers the entire width of the screen, even if there's only 4 or 5 topics displayed. Plenty of screen estate to the right left bare, I expect this is a bug though.

    It looks like a mobile site.


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    #261
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    You have your opinion, I have mine. When it's fully finished I think it'll be great.


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    #262
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    I'm sure this has been posted a gazillion times already... but the search function doesn't seem to be showing posts from the past 24 hours when I search for "all posts by user," namely myself. Just an FYI.


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    #263
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,955 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Beta is terrible. When you click on the top menus. How do you get out of them? It takes up the whole screen so you can't scroll down. You've to go up, wait for it to minimize and then try go down really quick. What moron thought that was a good idea. Plus no direct link to User CP like there is currently.

    It's like someone done it as a first year project for college, and they're real proud of it but the reality is that it's a stinking turd.


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    #264
    naughto
    Registered Users Posts: 7,349 ✭✭✭naughto


    A bit of feed back on why it's still f1ucked would help as well. Communication is the key her lads


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    #265
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    naughto wrote: »
    A bit of feed back on why it's still f1ucked would help as well. Communication is the key her lads

    It's over a week we've being talking to ourselves.


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    #266
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    It's ugly as sin at the moment. Drop down menu covers the entire width of the screen, even if there's only 4 or 5 topics displayed. Plenty of screen estate to the right left bare, I expect this is a bug though.

    It looks like a mobile site.

    Welcome to the new mobile friendly web. Get used to websites pretending your monitor is in portrait.


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    #267
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    another meltdown today about an hour ago, out for about 30 mins for me.


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    #268
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I got two pms from someone last night. The pms were blank and that person did not send them to me!


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    #269
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Can't understand how there's so many unresolved issues. Did yous not have a testing plan when making changes?


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    #270
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Search function not working.


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    #271
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,861 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    So I tried the beta brefly this morning...

    Good points:
    - At least the top-level menu is better than the "tempoary" one we've been saddled with for months

    Bad points:
    - It looks like a mobile site. Grand if you're on a phone or tablet I suppose, but for those of us with actual monitors and laptops/desktops the amount of wasted space is massive!!!

    - Can't find the User CP and thus the option to switch on the dark theme (which I assume will be available?) as the default color scheme is almost as hard on the eyes as the current default on the production site.

    - Why do we need a list of Stickies inside a thread? That with my point on the mobile site means lots of scrolling needed. Plus the seperation between these and the actual thread content isn't clear.

    I'm assuming there's still much work to do yet??


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