Do you like the New boards

Its alright so far. When these major upgrades happen, this tends to be how they turn out:

-Much/most important touch features inaccessible

-Swankier UI

-Usually fewer clicks to get to where to wanna be

-Some older shortcuts such as searching for board names are no longer possible

I mean it does look a lot better, and as much as I liked the older UI more, leaving it in a state of inertia is just not how you grow a website. There's a reason Facebook and YouTube are constantly changing their UI to the annoyance of their users, it's to give the impression of freshness and to show that the website isn't being abandoned.

Edit: also I'm not looking for arguments on this post or anything, this is just my personal opinion.

After trying on and off for a couple of hours I’m pretty sure this is worse than it first seemed. The old set up was quite easy to navigate but this is awkward and I’m fairly sure it’s not because of glitches. It’s amateur hour releasing this.

Boards.ie, 1998 - 2021. RIP.

I can’t make head nor tail of it. This is really bad lads

they need to bring back the drop down menu for getting to forums

It's craptacular.

Look at all that empty blue space on the top ribbon after Discussions/Categories/Groups - they should have all the categories listed across there instead with drop down menus when you hover over each.

What is the "level" thing that is there , is it based on your old profie

I know lots of people take to change horribly and dramatically. I'm usually excited by something new.

But this is not a good look and it seems like there is a lot of issues and bugs. It has to be annoying to be paying someone to do a job and they take ages to get it done and it's still pretty shite.

On the mobile site, the bottom of every page has a “Who’s online” and proceeds to nearly list the 3,000+ users, it takes up like half the scrolling space of the whole page. I mean really, is it necessary to name all posters? Needless space taken up

No! The pacman is gone 😥

For me, it's only slightly different to what it was before. Still the same blue and white colour. It'll just take a bit of getting used to.

I'd like to change the wee pic under my name though, but can't figure out how.

BOLD

Sure, just edit in your favorite editor and then copy/paste!

Boards.ie has one massive problem that is being overlooked year on year for far too long now and has totally contributed to its decline.

All posts are equal on a thread - ie. nothing is ranked and placed more prominently on its own merits with everything being displayed in chronological order only.

This means that the really interesting, on-point, entertaining and informative posts are almost always buried anonymously somewhere in the depths of a thread.

A reader must slog through all of the posts time in order, monotonously time after time.....Whether they're on point or unfortunately also the average, boring, dull, offensive, irritating, witless, stupid posts too.

It's a shameful and total failure to evolve since 1998 and its looking terminal - I wonder if they've just ignored another opportunity to bring the above changes in as part of this migration?

My assessment is that its probably a cases of having myopic sales people at the helm and they're most likely stifling any technical creative thought.

I'm not happy about that one 😭 Pacman was a legend.

Ah crap.

They'll need to bring that back.

*And what's with all the white space above a quoted post?

Worth a read....give it a few days & a lot of the teething issues will hopefully be addressed.

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058198814/welcome-to-the-new-boards-ie-platform-version-1-0#latest

took aweek to give us a beta version. Nice one !

there is no filter in search results. its if it not a glitch, its disaster

What on earth has happened to R&R?!

Why is there no My Threads option? You can’t thank posts either or see who has liked posts. Ah lads I’m out. This is completely and utterly unusable to me