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  • Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Wow it's a complete and utter mess. From my perspective the new platform is delivering a far worse experience. I agree that a drop down menu is needed, in my case I used it to get to my subbed forums quickly. What surprises me the most it looks like we have to re-request functions that were already in place.

    The site also seems to be very glitchy with page load errors and very slow responses. Obviously the m.boards.ie has been killed which is a shame as it was the version I used on the mobile because it was quick.



  • Registered Users Posts: 16,183 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Have some posts disappeared?



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,577 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Is there supposed to be a preview button for new posts?



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    You don't have to click through 2 or 3 pages to find what you want.

    Parent and sub-forums are mostly found in one view on this page https://boards.ie/categories. Ensure View dropdown = All. Cntl+F if you want to search by forum name.

    Open the forums you want in new tabs to prevent having to navigate back and forth.

    Navigation is fine for now till its sorted properly



  • Registered Users Posts: 81,137 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    And this is very irksome:


    (LOVE the copy and paste of images, though - lots of great things we are glad to see!)


    That's the center of my screen, there is so much unused space and the body is off-center, long thread titles are bleeding over into 2 lines, and where did all of the commas go? My postcount is 5 figures, that needs a comma, the hyperlinks between page numbers absolutely need them -> is that page 4 of the chat thread, or 45? It requires eyestrain and effort to say and is confusing next to its neighbor on page 137.

    Also, how do I edit a quote? If I need to bold text or even just snip it, etc?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,407 ✭✭✭NeinNeinNein


    Why is there so much blank space on the right, is it reserved for FG adverts?



  • Registered Users Posts: 60,185 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Unable to edit my profile as there is a space in my screen name how the hell was something as simple like that not spotted ?



  • Registered Users Posts: 44 damned_junkie


    I worked on a boards redesign project many moons ago. The codebase was sketchy back then and I doubt it got better in the intervening years. I can well believe a rip and replace was the only way to keep the lights on.

    I hope you’re holding up ok against the firehouse of shite currently being directed your way…



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Replying to a post completely throws me off where I was. It's pretty annoying



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭smuggler.ie


    Cant edit that, not yet anyway

    can do this

    @Overheal Also, how do I edit a quote? If I need to bold text or even just snip it, etc?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,435 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    The hyperlinked post count numbers definitely need commas as a separater.



  • Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    It's just not very inviting or user friendly. I was looking forward to catching up on my regular threads but when I open the website now, I just go nah couldn't be arsed with this and move on to something else.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I guess it's already been reported, but just to get another comment in, the mobile / touch site is a disaster.



  • Registered Users Posts: 84,341 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


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  • Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭TallGlass2


    FYI, weird bug on desktop if you mess around with the window size IE make it smaller from the sides. If you to to a certain size a Vanilla logo appears.



  • Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭Piehead


    just do yourself a favour and roll it back to the way it was. If you do don’t you’ll be closed in 3 months



  • Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭Alibaba


    Is it too late to bring back the old boards we all knew and loved. This is a disaster..



  • Registered Users Posts: 16,183 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject




  • Registered Users Posts: 7,327 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Mobile version is just plain awful, can’t find anything, won’t get a chance to see the ‘real’ version until tomorrow, really missed boards while it was down, getting worried now 😔



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I want the old touch site back it was perfect until then I won’t be back sorry :(



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,170 ✭✭✭Tow


    In addition to the missing comma in the post count. The 'Join Date: September 2020' can be shortened to 'Joined Sep 2020'. The dots between the avatar, stars, Join Date and Posts do not add anything to the UX and in any event do not go across the panel. There is also utf8 encoding for extended characters in the popups when the mouse moves across threads.

    Over all the site is also much shower and appears to be hosted in the US, which adds to the latency.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,435 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I did indeed, thanks for the help. This one just feels better. Who knows, might change it again if the “mood” takes me.

    Just trying to get used to all this change, better than getting all “worked up” about it and saying the end is nigh, like.

    Time for bed now, I’ll muck around with the new “setup” a bit more tomorrow but it’s time for bed now. Night, night.

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 16,183 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I can see commas in post counts, using Chrome on Android.



  • Registered Users Posts: 28,668 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Oooh, has the swear filter been disabled??? 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 28,668 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I've just realised that clicking on a link within a thread boots you out of boards...... with a warning, which means yet another click...... there's an awful lot of clicking on this new platform.....

    Is it not possible to have links open an a new tab?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭poker--addict


    Can’t seem to rank search results by date on mobile. Can’t see option for desktop version either.

    😎



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    I miss the non-bold font as the read title font (as opposed to bold for unread)

    Also, the subscribed forums drop down was great, makes things a lot easier to navigate.

    There's a bunch of dead links like "categories". Looking forward to the wrinkles getting smoothed out...



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