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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761686#Comment_118761686

I've seen a few people mention this, but it seems to only affect a small subset of users. On a (not very rigorous) test, https://www.boards.ie/discussions hit the "load" event in 3.16s. For comparison, https://www.rte.ie/news/ took 2.98s. It's not super-fast, but it's certainly acceptable.

It seems likely that the affected users have some shared factor causing it - possibly one (or more) of: VPN; location; browser configuration; browser extension; ad-blocker; ISP. Or it could be something else entirely. Pinning it down is probably not going to be easy

Caranica

You can now post blank posts on mobile again. Did it accidentally yesterday and obviously can't delete. Looks like something was stepped back because there definitely was a minimum character limit recently.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761664#Comment_118761664

No, editing it and removing the text is the only workaround available (or send a PM to a mod and asking them to do it, but they're likely to want an actual reason, like that it has personal information in it)

If someone asks for an empty post to be deleted, we'll just delete it as there is nothing there to see anyway.

Hotblack Desiato

15-20 mins downtime just there

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118760986#Comment_118760986

Yes no arrows in followed forums now

fryup

where's the drop down menu's???😶

Cookie_Monster

Everyone's "join date" and "posts" now shows weird above the post itself instead of where it should under their user name. I guess add this error to the pile of stuff you'll ignore and not fix?

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ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118864723#Comment_118864723

Already reported and fix is being deployed now according to Niamh.

Boards.ie: Niamh

There was a change made yesterday that caused that issue with layout, it has been rolled back now.

Boards.ie: Niamh

Blank posts - some update reset the minimum character limit to 0 but it has been reset now so blank posts should no longer be possible.

Delete posts - on the old site we used to have a time limit of 24 hours for deleting a post, after that you could edit for another 24 and that was it. Now, we don't have the option to have a time limit on it, its either everyone can delete their posts forever or you can't delete them at all so we decided to not allow users delete at all but editing is still possible. The whole premise of the site is discussions, if we allowed everyone to delete all of their posts whenever they wanted you could have entire threads disappear when the OP decided they didn't like it any more. It's not ideal but the choice we made with the tools currently available to us.

Search - I noticed this myself last week that some forums are no longer appearing in search results and have reported it to Vanilla who are investigating.

Thanks - it is still on the list of things to do to allow users to see who thanked a post and also to add the Thanks tab back to homepage. I don't have a date for either though yet, sorry.

Not going to the next unread post - I'm surprised this is still happening as the jumping was (as far as I remember) related to ads loading which was fixed. However dropping you into the middle of a thread you have already read is a different issue which I will update to be looked at. It's already on the list but will add in that it is still an issue for some users.

Apologies for the lack of replies here lately folks, we've been mainly concentrating on revenue and ads lately which required more behind the scenes work. I also had a week off there recently - not long enough 😆

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118864892#Comment_118864892

No need for the apology Niamh, but might I suggest (for the higher ups) that without a usable and inviting site, ads won't really matter because there'll be no revenue.

Not your fault at all, but the fact that a decision has been made to push more ads through what is still a very broken site is an extremely bad business decision, given that if users can't see the content from the ads (which isn't far off per some recent posts in the Announcements thread), there'll be no content to generate the revenue or users to view the ads.

Tow

"Not going to the next unread post"

This is still well FUBARed, on this thread it put be on the last post, rather than the first post made to day. It also appears to be worse for threads started on the old system.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118866103#Comment_118866103

The desktop site seems to be reasonably stable, if you know what to click on - the little arrow brings you to first unread post, the thread title brings you to the top of the last page you were reading - the thread title via the bookmarks list brings you to first unread post. Most of the time.

On mobile, however it's a complete lottery, and seems to be getting worse not better. I've missed whole pages of posts, and only realised because way later in the thread someone quotes one of them. Really, really frustrating.

Threads started on the old system - can't remember what happens there first time, but once you get your place once, they generally conform to the above rules (or lack of).

StupidLikeAFox

You also forgot to put some of your clocks forward!

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118865803#Comment_118865803

Point taken @_Kaiser_ but equally without a sufficient revenue there will be no site for users to read or comment on and it's that simple. No one enjoys ads and we endeacour to make them as unobtrusive as possible. They are the most straight forward and consistent way to create a regular revenue stream which will stabilise our income, hopefully permit us to increase the staff and start working faster on all of the things that need to be fixed, updated or improved. The company we are working with are not just here to add more ads, they are here to make the most of the ad spaces that we aleady have. They suggested more ads than we accepted so it could always have been worse :) It's all a work in progress so we'll see how it goes.

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118866313#Comment_118866313

I thought I had posted about that here but it was actually in the Just Bugs thread...we spotted that, it is being looked at, thanks! ⏰

Declan A Walsh

I posted something on the Radio forum and then noticed that the time was an hour behind. When I go into the Home page, the most recent posts' times are right, but, when I go into them, they are an hour behind.

Edit: Including this post!

Tow

The newly changed Cookie/Tracking popup is crashing the browser (Chrome) on the mobile version of the site. It happens when you change between the 3 options/tabs on the top.

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118878605#Comment_118878605

Thanks @Declan A Walsh it's an issue since the clocks went forward, we hope to have it fixed shortly.

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118879355#Comment_118879355

Do you mean when you select one of the options on the Cookie pop up that it then crashes?

Tow

Yes

Boards.ie: Niamh

Alright thanks @Tow I'll report that now.

JP Liz V1

GATEWAY TIME-OUT

The web server reported a gateway time-out error.

• Ray ID: 6f6d8aa2fef43607
• Your IP address: 213.233.155.168
• Error reference number: 504
• Cloudflare Location: Manchester

What happened?

The initial connection between Cloudflare's network and Vanilla timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.

What can I do to resolve this?

Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, you can contact the site owner to let them know you were unable to reach the website.

Your IP: 213.233.155.168

Ray ID: 6f6d8aa2fef43607

Help Performance & Security by Vanilla Forums Inc.

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118879465#Comment_118879465

Hi Tow, you said you were using Chrome, just making sure that is on Android?

Also are you accesing the site from Ireland, elsewhere or via a VPN? Thanks :)

Tow

Chrome on Android from an Irish ISP with out VPN etc.

Boards.ie: Niamh

Brilliant, thank you @Tow

Caranica

Happened to me too yesterday @Boards.ie: Niamh hadn't seen a cloudflare message in a very long time until then.

Also Chrome on Android

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118882927#Comment_118882927

I got one a couple of times recently as well - always on mobile, Chrome on Android

Tom Mann Centuria

Got same about hour ago. On Android mobile chrome, on eir.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118866209#Comment_118866209

The desktop site seems to be reasonably stable, if you know what to click on - the little arrow brings you to first unread post, the thread title brings you to the top of the last page you were reading - the thread title via the bookmarks list brings you to first unread post. Most of the time.

This is now broken - the one bit I thought I could depend on 🙄

Clicked on a thread arrow just now, and got brought to a random post way after the last one I'd read - but not the last post in the thread either, nor the top of the last page I'd been on before.

Just some random post.