New Touch site

Necro · 15-07-2021 6:24am

You need to do it through your own phone's browser (apologies for responding above the quote btw, just testing to see will there be ridiculous amounts of whitespace when I do it)

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611506#Comment_117611506

CrowdedHouse · 15-07-2021 6:25am

Is the soccer forum missing?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 15-07-2021 6:25am

Literally unusable.. unreadable..can't navigate the site at all...and the private forums are missing.

0/10

dahat · 15-07-2021 6:25am

Initial impression on the touch / mobile site is awful. They have broken Boards ☹️

Panthro · 15-07-2021 6:26am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611502#Comment_117611502

85 of them are boards pages looking for ways to Follow Forum. The one page is pawrn!

In all seriousness boards, can we please have a button at the top of each forum that says Follow Forum.

We're dinosaurs, don't be the meteorite that kills us.

RurtBeynolds · 15-07-2021 6:26am

How to stop the pop up notifications?

Sonics2k · 15-07-2021 6:27am

I usually use the desktop version, and where the **** is my drop down menu gone. It's such a quick form of navigation and it's gone.

TheMilkyPirate · 15-07-2021 6:27am

The touch site needs to look like the new desktop site. It's not great either but it is miles better than the new touch. Everything just blends in together it's awful

Lumen · 15-07-2021 6:28am

The patient is barely out of ICU and you're all punching it in the face.

Never change, boardsies.

petes · 15-07-2021 6:29am

Someone actually looked at this before migrating and thought this is the way to go, it's actually terrible and will see an awful lot of people not using boards again. Before anyone jumps in and says 'but it's free', it's also the community that makes the site. New users will take one look and just move on.

Necro · 15-07-2021 6:29am

If you're on the desktop site @Panthro you can bookmark specific threads and receive updates when someone posts in them. Indicated by a Star I believe on the mobile site in the top right of the page

Together we shall be guided through the wilderness...

15-07-2021 6:30am

My background on the Touch site is white (Safari iOS15), not sure if it's a certain browser or what is making it blue for some people.

Ish66 · 15-07-2021 6:30am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611514#Comment_117611514

Testing quote button

15-07-2021 6:32am

Just use the desktop site. Works perfect on the mobile. Looks real good actually.

https://boards.ie/

Lumen · 15-07-2021 6:32am

Posting images now is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Andrew76 · 15-07-2021 6:33am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611517#Comment_117611517

One workaround I've found for the lack of Follow Forum (or the missing drop down list of followed forums on desktop version) is - try and find the forum you want followed, bookmark any thread in that forum and then it will appear in Bookmarks under your icon top right or in the 'My Forums' tab on desktop. Not ideal at all tbh.

Dtp1979 · 15-07-2021 6:33am

The more I play around with it, the more I hate it. Why do people always think change is better. All the old site needed was a little modernising. No need for a total revamp. I can find nothing that I want to look for. I’ll give it a week tops before I’m out

lawred2 · 15-07-2021 6:35am

Has anyone ever cared about "who's online in this category".. yet it takes up far too much scroll space.

Also the distinction between each post isn't great.

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-07-2021 6:39am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611524#Comment_117611524

Well I presumed the week we've been waiting the patient was extubated and improving. Maybe they shouldn't let people in to see him if he's not well. And he clearly isn't at the moment.

Dtp1979 · 15-07-2021 6:39am

And where the FCUK are my followed threads gone to???? I hope the guys that designed this site were volunteering

Sleeper12 · 15-07-2021 6:40am

I'll be happy if I can use the €, % symbols at last

joseywhales · 15-07-2021 6:41am

Grey on blue, the logical choice for human eyes.

Sleeper12 · 15-07-2021 6:41am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611558#Comment_117611558

And just to make sure they don't turn to squiggles on quotes?

irishchris · 15-07-2021 6:41am

Have to agree the touch site now is truly awful and after a decade using it I will be looking elsewhere.

Took an age to find my categories to realise all the ones I subbed to aren't subbed any more so by clicking my categories on bottom of page and finding categories we want we now have to click on the cog and resubscribe. Subscribed posts are still there with the star on top but is such a muddled mess it is unusable. Such nonsense

Lumen · 15-07-2021 6:41am

It's interesting that mobile view has Agree, LOL, and Like but desktop only has Like.

joseywhales · 15-07-2021 6:42am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611560#Comment_117611560

wait....afterhours? I havent seen this in years....

Sleeper12 · 15-07-2021 6:42am

Can't find how to delete posts?

Necro · 15-07-2021 6:42am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611563#Comment_117611563

I reckon they've done f all with the mobile version and that's a work in progress, seems to be working off a more 'out of the packet' vanilla theme imo

Sonics2k · 15-07-2021 6:43am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611524#Comment_117611524

To be fair, they've been testing this version of the desktop site for years now and from what I gathered over time it was largely the same complaints about it.

Yeah we can sit back and say "But it's a free service" and you're quite right about it, but UX and friendliness are massively important when it comes to design and userbases.

I didn't mind that the site was offline for a few days, because I'm not a daily poster and it's a free service. But they crossed the line when they removed my god damn drop down menu!

lawred2 · 15-07-2021 6:43am

Far too much navigation to find anything.

GavRedKing · 15-07-2021 6:43am

It's one of the worst things ever.

shockframe · 15-07-2021 6:48am

Star Lord · 15-07-2021 6:48am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611532#Comment_117611532

Quoting YouTube videos is tight!!!

corkonion · 15-07-2021 6:48am

I seem to have a different touch site to others??? Mine is white and black, not that awful blue background, it’s clear and concise and simple to navigate, I really like it

Panthro · 15-07-2021 6:49am

The most hurtful part is.. I'm back to being a 1star under my username, arrghh!

15-07-2021 6:49am

its not very easy on the eyes. You can’t just quickly glance at who it is that has posted a comment. You’ve got to properly focus on that part of the screen.

ill try desktop.

and what’s happened to my capital letters at the start of my paragraphs? It’s normally an automatic thing but it’s not using the new site.

titan18 · 15-07-2021 6:49am

Both the touch and desktop site are now awful. Between the outage and this, they're doing a good job of trying to kill off the site.

looksee · 15-07-2021 6:50am

Just posting to see do I exist.

15-07-2021 6:51am

The Like button on desktop is weird. You have to click to see who thanked, which is fine if it is 5 people, but what if it is 5 million people, like those thanking Higgins first post about car parts, after him/her waiting 12 years to peak😊

FAILSAFE 00 · 15-07-2021 6:52am

This is awful, my eyesssss

15-07-2021 6:53am

It’s crap.

speckle · 15-07-2021 6:53am

Any one found a dark theme particularily or even any other theme? Nice to be able to post video easier.

Going back to sleep now and will give it a gander later...

Nice to see everyone once again and thanks to those who were working hard in the background

♡speckle

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y11hwjMNs

FAILSAFE 00 · 15-07-2021 6:54am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611490#Comment_117611490

Please god, close at least 82 tabs ;)

15-07-2021 6:54am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611599#Comment_117611599

Oooh inserting an image is easy. This is how many thanks he had at 5pm yesterday 😂

I dunno how to switch to desktop. It’s not in the 3 lines bit.

speckle · 15-07-2021 6:55am

oops♡

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y11hwjMNs

Nyum Nyum · 15-07-2021 6:55am

The "Vanilla" logo at the top of the touch site is particularly awful 🤢

Tzardine · 15-07-2021 6:55am

Ah Jesus lads. It's completely ruined.

Pat_bottom · 15-07-2021 6:56am

So I can link and add pics and vids easier.......... I just can't find the places that I'd like to link and add them too.... 😂

Lumen · 15-07-2021 6:56am

The category view appears to be using a different timezone offset to the discussion view.

Or maybe one is server time and the other client time.

Either way, category is showing GMT, discussion is showing GMT+1, for me at least.

secman · 15-07-2021 6:56am

Seriously ? It's akin to be awaiting a brand new car , when it arrives It's indeed brand new, but no power steering, no air conditioning, a bog standard analogue radio. But hey it's brand new...but so disappointed 😞

New Touch site

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