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

Screenshot of where to find spoiler tags. On my desktop, it's the weird icon to the left of the comment box, then click the quotes icon and select the appropriate tag.

Hopefully this will be visible when I post it :P

Login seems to be taking me 4 or 5 seconds each time. (On Mac / Chrome / Desktop)

Not sure if you are updating assets throughout the morning and I'm downloading them each time or something.

Also echoing the followed forums thing that people posted about

Good luck with the update

It's not great really, few issues for me...

Threads on a phone are just a big white page you scroll down with a load of writing appearing, far too hard to differentiate between posts. A hair thin grey line isn't a border. The destop site has the blue border between posts though which is good.

The categories section is a mess, it's easier to search for a forum in the search bar than go looking for it.

New posts in a thread aren't highlighted enough, little yellow star doesn't cut it for me. Prefer the dark bold writing in the thread title that appears with a new post.

'Users Online' at the bottom of the page...massive list of names. Could be made a drop down.

The above are mobile specific issues, the desktop site is just a case of too much white space everywhere as has been said. Needs to be tightened up and the colours tinted a bit or something I don't know. Name panel to the left of the post should be darker and the post section darkened a little bit too.

Where?

It really isnt.

The lack of dark mode is killing me. I have pretty poor eyesight and dark mode on all my usual sites helps enormously, all this white is awful.

I am entitled to my opinion just like everyone else. To describe a migration to a platform on D1 as a disaster is just hyperbolic. Any migration will generate bugs; these are being identified and fixed. EVERY platform in the world encounters bugs and fixes them.

Gross misuse of the word 'disaster' if things arent what you are used to and some functionality is not available to you while bugs are being fixed. A little patience would go a long way, imo.

It really is...

• Significantly reduced functionality
• Significantly poorer UI/UX
• What should have been obvious issues not caught in whatever testing was done - especially given the extended migration time
• Performance issues
• One 1 in-house developer to support all this, and a vendor in a timezone 5 hours behind the customer

This entire exercise is a textbook example of poor Change control. As someone who oversees CAB in my company, there's no way I'd have approved something like this if it'd been brought/proposed to me in it's current state. This isn't v1.0, more like v0.1

Yes of course. It's a forum after all, not life and death. However, in the context we're referring to on this thread it is an EXTREMELY bad example of how to manage a change as significant as this one.

I think there are a lot of variables and context we may not be aware of; im willing to give the team the benefit of the doubt on that. Its a 20yo forum with, im sure, a huge database. I appreciate you may feel you would have managed the change better, but we arent privy to whats involved. As Odhran has said above - its a big job and things will keep getting better. Id believe this speed bump to the site downage and failures we have had in the past; but i certainly wont be making a judgement on whether its better or worse just after it launches. It would be, imo, premature.

It looks like Vanilla handles users by their username directly rather than some sort of unique identifier (vBulletin used a unique numeric identifier for each user). I can see issues like this being more apparent as time goes on, particularly with users who might have non-alphanumeric characters in their names.