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

I've added 2 screenshots. One is the new Boards touch site. The other is a Manchester United forum I visit.

The Boards site is awful for scrolling through comments, it's always just one giant block of white with no obvious dividers between comments. Let your eyes go blurry for a second and it looks like one giant block of text.

Compare it to the other forum screenshot where it's very obvious where one post ends and another begins.

Please implement something like this.

I can see this to be status indicator, when/if...

Clicking outside of tabs breaks the page:

https://imgur.com/FGm5ZTx

No preview for posts.

Edit: gif uploads as an image

Clicking on links asks to go to external site, ctrl clicking or clicking middle mouse button so the link opens directly in a new tab also asks to open external link, too many clicks.

No preview when editing also, original post shows above the edit which might make larger posts that need editing harder to do so.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/vcOd9FO.gif[/img]

embedding not working,

Edit: gif uploads correctly to imgur but apparently after you click something goes wrong.

Try here:

https://gifyu.com/image/BVxA

What's happened to the "bargain alerts" forum? please let me know, it was my favourite!

Thanks!

Anything beyond 4 "Like" and you cant see who is on the list, again do to spacing/"white" space. Original site looked better in this regard(and other) even if post get 1000 thanks

Correction: "Like" list expand as height of the post itself

There seem to be a few gaps or missing posts in "bargain alerts" - lots of posts from July 21 on page 1 then suddenly 2014 & 2016 (Tesco bargains etc) then 2021 again.

This notifications thing is driving me nuts. Now I've got 39 notifications, 36 of which are telling me there are new posts on this thread. I only need one notification of new posts on the thread, not one message for each post. The side effect is that there is one post on a thread that I'm following which is lost in the mass of "+1"s on this thread; and the other two are for that fekkin thread that I unsubscribed from years and years ago. 🤬

I think I'll have just turn off all notifications until that's sorted out.

New boards is like new coke!

Soon it will be classic boards again!

you lucky you got the doggy

I was able to change mine on mobile but not on the computer

And another thing: as the day has gone on and (possibly?) more people are back online, this comment box is freezing up more and more.

Just had to wait 29 seconds for it to come back - third time in one sentence

fourth time, 24 seconds this time.

Feckin stupid.

Ah FFS five times now.

Sixx ... seven That's it. I'mdone.

Profile editing options on the desktop = 0, not even trying to edit my username

Some more available on the phone

Isn't this wording for "f" ? What platform this is moved to you said ...

Mobile version is shite.. switch it back.

okay i have finally managed to log into my account. i was unable to earlier because this migration literally CHANGED THE CHARACTERS OF MY USERNAME as it could not recognise the fada. that is ridiculous. there i was wondering if thirteen years of my own post history had vanished from history. but now my username just looks like gibberish. i don't have the willpower to go over the many formatting annoyances that have come with this upgrade.

this migration is an unmitigated disaster whichever way you look at it. it reminds me a lot of vbulletin forums circa 2007 - 2012, when every webmaster tried to monetise them by moving to different software (xenforo and the like) to make them more appealing to advertisers. in all of these cases the forums went defunct shortly thereafter. boards is one of the last great legacy vbulletin message boards that still exists with a bustling amount of activity, and it could be argued that it has had a sort of renaissance period during the covid-19 pandemic as it certainly was not as active as it has been in the last eighteen months in the last five years before that i would say.

this migration is frankly disrespectful to the userbase. no one with any modicum of knowledge of how boards.ie works or why people use it would ever sign off on whatever the **** this end result is. and don't talk to me about "a work in progress", that's not good enough. the reasons for this migration have been obfuscated -- purchasing additional servers was probably the most obvious and efficient way to go about fixing any of boards' issues. and for those of you who are struggling to run boards on a for-profit model: it's not 2003 anymore, it's pretty much impossible to run vbulletin software on a for-profit model. this migration was completely unnecessary and has damaged the forum to a huge extent the magnitude of which probably isn't obvious to most people read it lest of all the people who signed off on this because only someone who did not actively use boards.ie or engage in forum culture at all could have thought this was a good idea.

quote me hereafter a few months from now but i can assure you this is the death knell for boards.ie. this is how you alienate a userbase and expedite your own extirpation. i hope someone at the top will see sense and revert back to what boards was a week ago - assuming you have backups - because otherwise it's game over for everyone involved.

rip boards.

For sure, that'll always be the case - most of the complaints are due to muscle memory 😀

I've been sporadically on all day on pc and mobile and I really like some of the little new features.

Drafts, notification control, notification when someone replies to me, better reply box, quote levels, better uploading images/links/spoilers, new count on bookmarks, better quote style, click thread title not some tiny widget to go to latest post on followed thread

I know navigation, themes, whitespace is to be fixed and I'm pretty sure they'll invent a new old frontpage layout - latest, bookmarks, likes, forums etc will be back

Overall I like it - it looks basically the same with new, more modern widgets and I'm sure it's 100% better behind the scenes.

This may have been discussed further since this morning. I tried to do this ^^ but could not see the 'para' sign. I clicked on the space where it was supposed to be and it appeared, but missing the left hand half of it. I am on desktop Windows 10 Chrome and it seems the space on the left of the box is not wide enough for the symbol and the drop down to be shown.

Can't figure how to get to Sent messages :(

Does not appear available on PC, but if you go to ALL messages it will show all conversations In/Out inclusive