New Touch site

Can everyone else see the thanks on posts?

I don't see any.

Pat_bottom

Ohh and we can use emoji from keyboard 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

Sleeper12

Posts don't seem to be numbered anymore either. That will be confusing

Necro

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611613#Comment_117611613

Should be available in your phones browser. Some of the stuff on the mobile version ain't available on the desktop so I suspect it needs a lot of work yet (the whole site does tbh). I think just getting back live is good and they can update stuff in the background then

appledrop

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611556#Comment_117611556

When you log in go up to your icon button at the top.

When you click on this a little menu bar drops down.

There is a star button there and when I clicked on that it bought up all my bookmarked followed thread.

New site awful so far, who wants to read pure white background and everyone's post is humongous for reading.

facehugger99

First impressions - it's awful.

Lumen

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611625#Comment_117611625

The difference is that this car can be serviced, repaired and upgraded while you're driving it. Hopefully.

joseywhales

Some of the most recent posts are deleted? I've been waiting to refute that Bin laden was armed for a week but now the guy's post is deleted....I need a hobby

Penn

Haven't used the desktop version yet, but man this touch version is rough. Had a notification that someone posted in a thread in a forum I don't think I've even looked at in about 3 or 4 years.

Also what's the point in changing the Thanks to "Agree / Like / LOL"? If you don't want to add negative reactions, then there's no point having three different reactions when Thanks on this site was always considered to cover all three of those.

Also haven't used the avatar you've now given me in donkeys year either. Plus the Activity page is just a bunch of people changing their avatar. What's the point?

nialler1978

This is horrendous.

Lambay island

Is there a dark mode?

FAILSAFE 00

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611625#Comment_117611625

The homer car

whisky_galore

It's sh1t. Thanks Boards.

jbv

It looks to me it's a downgrade from previous site.

joseywhales

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611644#Comment_117611644

sarcastic thanks would be a nice option

Necro

Another little tip to get your notifications working is to tinker with the settings - use the alarm icon on the desktop site and you can modify your notifications to receive updates for what you want

If you select the icon on the right you can play with them there

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611627#Comment_117611627

You have to hover over Like button and all is revealed...

Where is Find all My Posts option?

Why do the images have so much wasted space around them, leaving them floating like ill-considered additions?

Why am I not getting new post notification of threads I have posted in?

Why have followed threads disappeared from my member button since this morning even?

Why is everything so small and weird looking?

Why is this better?

🙄

😂

Lumen

It's much, much faster on my laptop than on my phone.

Star Lord

The amount of space taken up with padding around the posts is bad enough, but seems like quoting introduces a whole new level of wasting screen space. And the ridiculous amount preceeding images too, apparently...

Necro

Yup that whitespace when quoting someone is driving me crackers StarLord - such a waste of space

That’s a serious amount of wasted space before. It’s the same in isha’s post above too. But on desktop, I can at least see easily who is posting each post.

Edgarfrndly

It's... different. I miss 90's webforums. We live, we evolve I guess.

salmocab

This is painful, I assumed it would be better or at least the same this is just difficult.

_Kaiser_

Ah lads... what have ye done????

• As with the god-awful "responsive" site, there is so much wasted white space everywhere - and this is the desktop version!
• The top menu bar is reduced even further and (unless I'm missing something), doesn't pop-up when you hover making it even harder to get around as it opens a new page instead
• My favourites/Bookmarks now seems to be every thread, rather than the forums themselves?
• No dark theme.. ye had a week and couldn't put that in? Makes the whole thing very hard to read (see also point 1)
• The "touch" version has gone from clean and readable to cluttered and cramped (ironic considering the first point again!)
• "Vanilla" is an appropriate name for this platform - it's bland, flat, generic and has lost the flavour of the old site.

Of course I know none of what people here are posting will be heeded and dismissed as the "usual whinging" (as the customer engagement hasn't changed!), but I have a feeling that despite the talk of the benefits this new platform will supposedly offer users, this change was more about making the devs lives easier than anything else.

If the plan is to overhaul most of the issues raised above, then ye shouldn't have launched this in the state it's in now, as all I can see this doing is driving more users off the site!

It burns. I never use function stripped touch. Where's the off button!!!?

Star Lord

Just noticed that viewing the threads on PC, there's no way to return to the forum if you're at the bottom of the thread... So you've to scroll all the way back to the top in order to leave the thread and go back to the forum!

silverharp

Has the "My Forums" feature disappeared? secondly the My Discussions tab is all out of order

titan18

Also difference in that you can leave the car at the side of the road and walk away which plenty will.

This was meant to be a quote of a post but guess that doesn't work either.

site just crashed for me 😂

im only continuously posting in here as I don’t know how to get where I may want to go.

ShiverinEskimo

As is tradition - this is what is about to occur:

-Change things

-Invite feedback from users

-Disagree with the feedback, vague justification of undesireable changes.

-Fob the users off.

-Convince themselves they're required to make the hard decisions and persevere because they know better than the pesky 'users'.

-Dig heels in and proceed. Implement 'Like it or leave' or 'no one is forcing you to stay' mentality.

-Lock thread citing 'unconstructive feedback'.

-Fin.

How can one edit one's profile? EG invisibility mode or change icon?

Edited to add: Okay, this was nice and interesting and everything but I will have my old shoes back now, please!

Pat_bottom

🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

That's the only good thing I've found so far.

The looks and all can be gotten used to no problems, even the extra presses, but going to the last post instead of directly to the first unread post in a thread is criminal at this stage.

Necro

@isha simple answer for the moment right now is - you can't. There's only a few options available to edit on your own profile currently. Presumably it's another thing that will need to be resolved. Le sigh.

(Not quoting you because that bloody whitespace for quotes drives me bonkers)

Bluejohn1

name length effects the side bar

_Puma_

First load : Its slower

First impressions : Its harder to navigate and a step back on the design of the old boards

Deeper impression : They have just skinned an inferior bulletin board and have lost most of the functionality and customisation that have made Boards what it was on the original platform

Conclusion : .... I hope ye go back

pjohnson

This is awful.

I cant find any of my previously followed threads.

Navigation is ridiculous.

Sleeper12

Site just crashed for me

Am I right saying that you aren't "following" a thread anymore after making a comment? You have to actually bookmark the thread?

Lumen

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611717#Comment_117611717

I dunno, but my icon has reverted to one I haven't used in years.

Also, there's no obvious markup mode and quotes can't be edited, which means there appears to be no way to quote part of someone's post.

That is bad.

Headshot

It's an abomination.

I don't understand how this was allowed to go ahead like this surely you would of tested this Vanilla shite to see how it performs and how layout works before jumping all in?

joseywhales

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611685#Comment_117611685

your image overlaps the sidebar and your long name makes your sidebar longer, I wonder can we do infinite cascading quotes again?

Slideways

What in the name of jaysus were ye thinking.

Reminds me of when Ford replaced the Granada with the Scorpion. Hideous.

joseywhales

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611782#Comment_117611782

Spoiler Warning

nope. Also edit(1 day) , we have one day to edit I guess?

stiofan85

Sorry to jump on the negative train, but after a few minutes trying to use the new version I'm in the same boat. Navigation is much harder, too much empty space. Search function brings up ancient threads and doesn't seem to suggest the forum (i.e. search for "DIY" and the forum used to appear. Now you just get old threads with the keyword in the title).

Old version worked really well.

Andrew76

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611700#Comment_117611700

Yeah it’s also missing the ‘Top’ option at the bottom of the page that would let you jump back to the top of that page with a single click. At least on mobile you have the option to get back to the forum handy enough.

iffandonlyif

The row of options under every post is a bit messy. And it’s a shame to have lost the ‘thanks’. But I suppose I’ll quickly get used to it.

The Continental Op

Well done boards. I was wasting far to much time here anyway and your excessive downtime and poor new design mean I won't spend as much time here as I would have in the past. I'd a list of posts to make but at this stage I really can't be bothered. Even the bl00dy advertising is a disaster the first advert I see is for a product that shouldn't even be advertised, I click on it and it takes me off boards ie and its on a site I couldn't even buy from if I wanted to. Normally I'd flag that but currently can't be bothered.

beertons

Don't like it. What a waste of a few days off.

Irish_rat

This is a travesty, go back to what boards was please for the love of god.

A lot of users will leave if this remains IMO.

Who actually wanted a new UI in the first place, think everyone was content as it was.

Lumen

I just got an in-app notification when someone replied to my post.

That's cool.