New Touch site

RurtBeynolds · 15-07-2021 5:02am #1

As someone who mainly accesses boards from my mobile, this new touch site is bloody awful.

Discuss.

JohnC. · 15-07-2021 5:10am

The whole thing is bloody awful, touch and desktop. Given how old the previous look was, I didn't think it was possible to go backwards, but they've successfully pulled it off.

15-07-2021 5:15am

I like it, mostly.

Dtp1979 · 15-07-2021 5:17am

Finding it very complicated and poorly laid out. I’ll give it a chance as it’s only barely live

dakar · 15-07-2021 5:20am

I like the agree button, and the add photo button. Everything else, not so much.

Blud · 15-07-2021 5:21am

This is borderline unusable.

quartz1 · 15-07-2021 5:23am

At first glance it appears awful

Deedsie · 15-07-2021 5:24am

Can we switch to the desktop mode on a mobile device? If so how? I am not a fan of the mobile version at all on this or the previous.

Deedsie · 15-07-2021 5:24am

Cosmo Kramer · 15-07-2021 5:27am

The ability to follow threads and the ability to use the desktop site on a mobile device without having to reset it for every single page seem to be the main issues for me so far. Also I used to be able to see three pages of latest posts but now there's only a single page?

Necro · 15-07-2021 5:27am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611358#Comment_117611358

Yep, should be in your options in the 3 little dots

TimeUp · 15-07-2021 5:29am

Looks brighter than the old site. I don't like that.

spacecoyote · 15-07-2021 5:30am

Agree with Deedsie. On the old platform, there was the option to switch between the views on mobile. I don't see any obvious option to switch in the new model. The new view on mobile is pretty painful. Desktop looks OK(ish) at the moment

bee06 · 15-07-2021 5:30am

It’s really bad alright. This could be it for me and boards. I didn’t miss it while it was down so …

ShagNastii · 15-07-2021 5:30am

Very poor. Mobile is unappealing. The Boards were perfect. If it’s not broken don’t fix it.

I never ventured into Reddit because of the unuser friendly interface. It has become very Reddity.

knucklehead6 · 15-07-2021 5:31am

Weird. On the phone it’s a bit naff. On iPad it’s nicer. Closer to old boards. It’ll probably need us to play with our own settings

Nigzcurran · 15-07-2021 5:33am

How do I go to “my threads” and view the unread posts?

Deedsie · 15-07-2021 5:33am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611364#Comment_117611364

Hi Necro, looking around for 3 little dots. Not seeing the. 3 dashed lines to the top left but there are no options in that section.

dexter647 · 15-07-2021 5:33am

I'm sure there's going to improvements made so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt..Great to have boards back though😊

...They better make some improvements😐️

Unearthly · 15-07-2021 5:35am

Seems to be no section to view the latest threads of forums you're following

TheMilkyPirate · 15-07-2021 5:35am

The old touch to me was perfect. This is far from perfect

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-07-2021 5:36am

It's worse than the Responsive site, and considering just how long it took, so supposedly it woud resemble the old site, I'm thinking Vanilla must have a ping pong table or arcade machines in their office.

LowOdour · 15-07-2021 5:40am

Post number and date/time are gone?

15-07-2021 5:43am

It's rather busy and it's not very clear how to get to the page of newest posts, which should be the default home page.

Also, why is the followed threads a popup window now and not able to land on the first unread post of a thread?

Necro · 15-07-2021 5:43am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611381#Comment_117611381

Depends on your own phone, but you need to set it to Desktop mode and it looks much more familiar. I expect in the coming days they will fix the mobile theme as it doesn't seem to have applied the settings the Desktop site has currently which is much more similar to boards old look

15-07-2021 5:45am

Having to make multiple taps to get to the latest posts in a thread that has gone more than one page is really annoying. And would prefer more contrast between posts, the plain white background feels like everything runs into each other.

NTC · 15-07-2021 5:45am

This new layout is awful, it took some effort to make a mobile site this bad!

I can't find anything and it is sooo bright, won't be able to load this site at night

dakar · 15-07-2021 5:46am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611381#Comment_117611381

No dots here either.

I think menu options should pop up when I hit the icons that appear under my profile pic. They’ll open in a new tab with a long press (Chrome on iPhone) but I can’t actually see any drop downs or menu.

Seems a bit half baked for something that was so long in the oven.

Edit: I can see them now. My half baked comment stands. And still can’t find three dots…

dodzy · 15-07-2021 5:52am

The Canadians should have stayed asleep.

15-07-2021 5:55am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611402#Comment_117611402

On iOS Chrome you press the three horizontal dots in the bottom right corner and scroll the menu down (it's not initially indicated that it scrolls) and then press 'request desktop site'. It's debatable as to whether that's better than the new touch site on a mobile screen anyway though, as you've to do a lot of horizontal scrolling to view everything.

speckle · 15-07-2021 5:58am

dots top right on mobile screen not boards screen....click on them drop down or from side in screen appeared with check box for desktop.... as the easier original toggle between mobile/touch and desktop at very bottom of the boards screen now gone?

15-07-2021 5:59am

Is there a thread on the new desktop site? I want to find out where 'mark all forums read' is gone.

theteal · 15-07-2021 6:01am

Pages loading notably slower too. Ah early days.

Vicxas · 15-07-2021 6:03am

All my followed forums are either gone or i don't know how to find them.

Also, a "lol" button. What is this, a MySpace page from 2004?

15-07-2021 6:05am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611458#Comment_117611458

Press your avatar icon on the top right and then the star on the top banner menu that appears.

Panthro · 15-07-2021 6:07am

I'm going to sound like a right grumpy oul fart but my god the touch site is a difficult one.

Wheres me followed forums gone?

Do I have to request to join the soccer forum?

Am I the only one who finds it impossible to navigate?

Agghh!

jester77 · 15-07-2021 6:09am

At least the ads still work like before!

stevek93 · 15-07-2021 6:09am

My dark theme on this desktop is gone 😭😭😭

Gael23 · 15-07-2021 6:10am

What a disaster.

Menu bars all hidden, search bar gone, no way to see post notifications.

Well done on taking such a backward step guys

NTC · 15-07-2021 6:11am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611464#Comment_117611464

Seems like a stupid thing they did, add in multiple clicks for a task that used to be one click!

Pat_bottom · 15-07-2021 6:11am

State of it.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 15-07-2021 6:11am

On the upside I can see After Hours for the first time in 10 years.

YellowFeather · 15-07-2021 6:14am

I can find the my discussions link at the bottom of the page, which seems to work, although I can’t sort by date yet. Made me realise how much crap I’ve posted seeing old threads. :)

Ah, it’s just nice to be back. Change is always scary.

YellowFeather · 15-07-2021 6:15am

Awww. I can’t like my own post.

Piehead · 15-07-2021 6:15am

This is utterly awful

Vicxas · 15-07-2021 6:15am

Screenshot_20210715_071451_com.android.chrome.jpg

What the everliving **** is this background colour. I can barely read it

cruizer101 · 15-07-2021 6:17am

This is what I get when I click discussions, WTF, how is that in anyway usable

Nigzcurran · 15-07-2021 6:20am

Yep same here, a shambles so far unfortunately

Necro · 15-07-2021 6:20am

@cruizer101 switch to the desktop version of the site

Also 86 windows open? *shudders*

Vicxas · 15-07-2021 6:22am

How do you change to the desktop version. It used to be hidden at the bottom of the screen now its just.... Hidden

15-07-2021 6:23am

Don't often complain but the copyright of vanilla keystone should be keystone cops.

Site is cannot be navigated. Blue and grey on discussion is unreadable.

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