Do you like the New boards

awe come 'ere.. i'm outta here.. lol its soo slow I am expecting to hear the old modem dial up thing from the 90's.. this is not even usable - sorry boards mods - this is a failure.

There's no legacy option now. The previous changes were frontend modifications to vBulletin but this is a backend change too, so it's not compatible with the legacy sites.

Not a fan either. But change is always problematic. Time will tell. Usage statistics will tell the full story.

Click this on the top right of your post

Thanks I see it now.

I actually like the new site. I am getting used to it quickly. Some cool new features.

On desktop here, so maybe you are seeing something different.

If one clicks on the time in your quoted post (i.e., the 11:56) then it redirects to the original post.

Do Emojis work 🤔

**yes

But at least now there won't be infrequent downtimes like the last site or slightly delayed email notifications... 😐️

100% don't like the new boards.ie layout much prefer the old layout back...................

Click on this icon on desktop. On mobile I believe it is a star

I'm trying hard here, but still not liking it. Just found a new bug after deleting some drafts (3rd Option when you click on your user Icon top right) now I keep getting little pop ups saying Draft no found (4 deleted 4 mgs) in the bottom left hand corner.

The problem for me is NAVIGATION. The Navigation is rubbish, even finding a thread you have recently posted in is a pain the Notifications are a very minor plus feature but useless compared to the old list of all the threads with new posts that you have posted in.

I'm fully preplexed that what I have in front of me is the result of a week of downtime.

From the outside it does not appear that Vanilla or Boards thought this through enough.

The week of downtime didn't mess with the traction as much as this new unfinished shell will.

Fingers crossed Boards hold an emergency room meeting and revert to the old shell.

Otherwise I fear it might be a case of Boards.ie now ye're walkin.

In fairness, navigation on Boards has been broken for years. Moving all of the forums into categories under one menu killed off a lot of the smaller forums. It's something that needs to be improved for sure.

Think this will be the case here.

Only thing I wonder about, when you click on a thread on the home screen, you get brought to the first page of the thread. As opposed to the most recent post on the old mobile site. Am I missing something?

I think people are going a bit over the top! All works pretty well for me, a few things to get used to but it's hardly the end of the world. Looks basically the same as it did two weeks ago, still a work in progress according to the post elsewhere and seems like things ae changing/being fixed by the hour. All pretty OK in my book.

I've logged in on the laptop and it is much better looks much more like the old boards.

The problem is I and probably 90% of users mainly use my phone not laptop for boards so this new look is awful.

Hopefully they improve it soon.

I'm posting from a PC Desktop, will never waste much time posting from a phone, previously navigation was easy enough on the desktop, now I just can't be bothered to go looking.

RIP boards. Absolute disaster of a site now. Looks done on the cheap and can't navigate easily to other posts/topics. Should have left it alone. Will be using reddit untill ye revert to old way that was already working

I have not really looked at it yet in much detail. However on first impressions it seems 'cleaner'. And there does not seem to be that much change. Small things moved around here or there. Nothing major. It seems to have moved more towards use on smaller devices imo.

And I am one who hates change for the sake of it. But glancing at some of these comments on this this thread you would swear the world was ending! :D

Posters will get used to it and wonder what all the fuss was about.

There's three dots at the top right of your post, you can edit from there.

My last post showing a time of 12.18 in the list of posts for the site! Was done at 13.18 Previous post to another thread has not appeared yet-posted around 13.10