Welcome to the new Boards.ie platform - Version 1.0 :)

rob316

Come on guys, did ye actually test the usability of this platform before ye agreed on it and migrated to it? It's just so bad

Gadgetman496

On Desktop:

My gripe about not being able to see the pilcrow icon to the left of comment box seems to have been fixed.

Edit:

I spoke too soon, it's only working in this thread, it not visible in any of the other forums or threads due to the lack of space to the left of the comment box. :(

expectationlost

how do you delete posts?

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117668734#Comment_117668734

You don't 🙄

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666118#Comment_117666118

Ads are switched off for anyone in the Subscriber usergroup at the moment so that is a mistake. I'll raise this with the team. Will also look into Subscriber forums, they should be accessible once you have been granted access.

noplacehere

Dear lord, you have actually made the homepage on mobile worse? This is insane!

shanec1928

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117668941#Comment_117668941

is anything actually tested before its pushed live or is it all just a hope and a pray.

joujoujou

Is deleting own attachments possible?

And why it is not?

Thanks.

db

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117668204#Comment_117668204

I thought we might have some sort of category tree in place but if you navigate to a category using these filters it doesn't change the posts that you see. Neither can you navigate to the previous level using the back button. It's actually quite funny how bad it is.

Pen Rua

The gaps between posts is annoying. Here, I saw there was a new post in the thread so I clicked on it and it brought me to a position like this - with a small gap above the post. I wanted to see the context, and with the gap (and no obvious post above it) I clicked back into the next page only to be confused because there was actually a post (with context) above it.

SO much space added.

iLikeWaffles

A hyperlink is a piece of text that has been embedded with a link, so when you click on it, it takes you to another page on the internet.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets: its the code that styles the whole of the internet so it is presented in a readable fashion.

Breadcrumbs are fairly self explanatory: think Hansel and Gretel, the steps you take to get to a page. i.e. the clicking on all the hyperlinks to get to this thread

Home› Talk to...› Boards.ie› Help & Feedback› Feedback

A quick google of all these terms would give any amount of understanding you are willing to consume.

You can @ to mention someone, ie @thesandeman and either use straight up "" or a right arrow '>' without the quotes and it will turn the text into what you see in the hyperlinked breadcrumbs above and text below, you can still highlight the original post and copy&paste that to the quote box.

quoted text

jobeenfitz

I can't find anything I want on boards. Mobile site.

GBX

@Boards.ie: Niamh Not sure if its been asked - on the old site if a thread had a post on it it was marked as last post "today @ 11.45 " - Can this be added back? Some sort of formatting in CSS/JS possibly?

Neowise

search by author forgets its search by author after 1 page of results. On page two its just a standard search, it ignore the author box.

Overheal

Have some forums from Social & Fun gone missing or been moved around? Noticed the layup on the categories page is slightly different today from previous. Or am I just seeing a format change from page styling

Discodog

Is the header bar supposed to float on every page with desktop ?

mossie

So after more than a week there are still a huge number of issues with the site including a few that should be relatively simple to fix such as the broken links at the bottom of the page and most of the main issues remain unsolved.

1. Desktop navigation is still difficult - improved by the persistent top bar / breadcrumbs but:
2. Still no "My Forums"
3. No dropdown menus for navigation (desktop).
4. No bold / plain differentiation for unread / read threads.
5. Site still as slow AF for me.
6. Mobile navigation is a pain.

The biggest issue now is the huge drop in posts on most of the forums I follow and I worry it may be too late to get these back to pre "upgrade" levels.

Boards.ie: Odhran

Hi all

Not a huge amount to update today. We still need to get navigation sorted for easier access to Talkto, Topics, Regional etc. I will give you an ETA on that tomorrow but it should be by end of week.

Some small css tweaks and working our way through our Jira board/issues. More to follow.

Thanks

Odhran

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669929#Comment_117669929

Not sure what you mean here - could you take a screenshot? Thanks

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669668#Comment_117669668

There was a format change but it needs to be put into navigation. Working on that at the moment....

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669306#Comment_117669306

Yes - post dates are in to be fixed. Thanks!

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669253#Comment_117669253

We know.. working on it @jobeenfitz . Navigation on mobile is really bad... its P1 for us to get sorted.

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669218#Comment_117669218

Yes - white space seems to have been on special offer.... we have a list of places where its a problem and are working our. way through. If you see any please flag them here. Thanks a mil 👍️

HeidiHeidi

Any prospect of the glacial speed of page loading being addressed?

You said a number of times post-migration that it shouldn't be an issue, and you were looking at it - but it is an issue, a big one, especially on desktop, as pointed out by numerous posters, and it hasn't improved.

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669163#Comment_117669163

Yep - navigation is very poor. We'd hoped the categories would have migrated over as before but need to do more work here. Not funny since we know how frustrating it is. ... but being worked on

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669980#Comment_117669980

Perhaps it's time to get in a couple of temporary developers to address all the ideas?

A part time skeleton staff can only do so much and it's just dragging on indefinitely.

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117670025#Comment_117670025

It shouldn't be @HeidiHeidi - this was one of the main reasons to get onto a fully hosted platform. We have flagged this and it has been escalated. One solution is for us to change how we categorise forums into 'sub communities'. We have to discuss this further as it would appear to be a lot of work. In the meantime we are looking at all possible solutions. I will revert tomorrow on this.

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117670061#Comment_117670061

We have and they are working with us. There are a lot elements...

One lesson is we can't spin things as quickly as we could in the past. We have to plan better and manage our releases. We are making good progress... just not good enough to stem the tide. A couple of major issues should be resolved this week that will help a lot around discoverability etc.

Gadgetman496

@Boards.ie: Odhran

Can you log the issue with the lack of space to the left of the comment box on all forums except this which is not allowing the pilcrow icon to be seen on Desktop?

Boards.ie: Odhran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117668140#Comment_117668140

We will check search issue on mobile @Leg End Reject ...