New Look A&R Forum, and it's not my fault this time!

I was wincing clicking into that...

Yeah, not a fan of how it's currently looking. It's completely unusable on my phone, looks far too zoomed in (bloody responsive sites!) and you cant fit nearly enough threads on the screen at once.

On the plus side, it sounds like someone actually listened to the point I brought up (or at least, that's what I'm going to think :pac:) about trying to get the different categories and forums/sub forums displayed better so people browse them, rather than having them all tucked away under one 'topics' button.

Doesn't come up on the phone but you get a list of all the forums on your computer. Needs a lot of work to get it right but it's at least heading in the right direction.

They do need to bold unread threads in a forum, seems a bit odd not having them there when you click in.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not loving it!

The modern day approach to 'responsive web design'

Huge swathes of empty space - check
Enormous/largely empty banner - check
Require loads of new/additional scrolling - check
Throw delineation out the window - check

Yep, seems about right. I know there's skinning options, but I won't hold my breath

Inviere wrote: »

The modern day approach to 'responsive web design'

Huge swathes of empty space - check
Enormous/largely empty banner - check
Require loads of new/additional scrolling - check
Throw delineation out the window - check

Yep, seems about right. I know there's skinning options, but I won't hold my breath

I looked this up recently to see what people in web design were saying, because I was puzzled as to why there is still so much empty space and scrolling in web sites.

The consensus seems to be that scrolling is good, and the more scrolling there is the better, because people expect to scroll now, and following links to other pages is bad. That's why we have sites that load content dynamically and essentially scroll forever.

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

I looked this up recently to see what people in web design were saying, because I was puzzled as to why there is still so much empty space and scrolling in web sites.

The consensus seems to be that scrolling is good, and the more scrolling there is the better, because people expect to scroll now, and following links to other pages is bad. That's why we have sites that load content dynamically and essentially scroll forever.

I actually don't mind (too much) the dynamic scrolling, only on the basis that when you click 'back', you're not landed at the beginning again (that's just **** design). More often than not I find myself right clicking to open links in a new tab, rather than risk losing where I am on the dynamically loaded page.

What bothers me far and above dynamic scroll, is having to scroll because of endless wasted space. Again, that's just **** design. But hey, if the pro's say the **** way is the new best way, who am I to argue :rolleyes::pac:

So long and thanks for all the fish!

It's damned rough isn't it. How this went live is beyond me.

Yeah, desktop is ugly and bloated, with way too much blank space showing in and between posts, and touch site does away with some of that but replaced it with barely discernable differentiation between posts.

It's pretty much unusable for me as it stands. I know this is likely a bare bones version just to get the site live again, but it's barely functional....not at all nice to use yet. More time needed before I try again

its a bit odd and looks to be fairly buggy so far, seen a few oddities , looks wise ill get over it and used to it but it will take a bit of time ,none of its seems to fit right and trying to mimick the original look seems to have faltered they should have redesigned it totally :edit saying that i havent been near the mobile touch site yet !🙈 its no pac !

also cidermans initial post here seem extraordinarily disproportioned ...like he's trying to compensate for something !

Haha he looks very shouty doesn't he. Also can you crop or highlight a bit of a quoted post, I can't find a way of doing it.

It's not quite there yet but I'm happy enough that the desktop version hasn't completely deviated from the older site.

The touch site is currently unusable though, endless scrolling and scrolling through what feels like empty space.

There's a lot of functionality missing, and painfully obviously so with a lot of work to do on what is clearly not a finished site. Not to mention no dark-site (bring back the cloud theme!) and the volume of white, white, and nothing but white on screen is hurting the eyeballs.

Not enjoying it thus far; the lack of highlighting new content is infuriating and finding any of the forums I sub to is an exercise in patience. The Atari Jaguar was a more finessed product than this ...

Edit: HAHA ... just noticed. If you hover over another users username the dropdown context menus appear but you cannot select anything because as soon as you move your mouse off the name - i.e. you want to select a menu option - it closes. This new site was never given anything but the most rudimentary shakedown (if even that) prior to starting the whole process off.

This is just an elaborate scheme to make the site unusable and they can turn off the server then.

You can follow a forum on your mobile phone.

Then you will have access to it on PC on the links below depending on which view you like.

welcome back eveyone :D

All the bookmarks go to the home page. Hopefully the are working on this.

e.g.

Old link: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058192370

New link: https://boards.ie/discussion/2058192370/

even a basic rewrite rule might do

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)?$

RewriteRule ^ discussion/$1/ [L,R=301]

Moderators forum, eh?

I use Reddit here and there but for the life of me cannot stand it. The lack of linear discussion and cohesive communities just doesn't work for me, it's all far too fleeting.

Plus the level of complete and utter morons and arseholes is something else, I spend half my time there just arguing with idiots!

If boards dies as a result of these new changes I think that'll be me giving up on forums. Will hang in till the bitter end though!

Annnnd another thing; apparently you cannot selectively quote. Well that's sh1te. Anyhoo, I suspect your issues on reddit stem from arguing with idiots. Remember these wise words *ahem* that someone once had on their boards signature:

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".

Well ill be heading to Reddit if it doesn't get solved quick, a lot of issues and only one developer.

Dissapointing to be Honest, If its Not Broke Dont Fix it.