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You can, press the 2 dots at top of post.

Edit: or cog on mobile version.

I think it horrendous what they done to it! If you had asked somebody to make a complete mess of what was a fairly simple site then I don’t think anyone would have achieved as much as this upgrade has. It’s like something a student would have put together for a transition year project.

Boards is the only online profile I have but I think I will be looking elsewhere for something simpler now. I was having a look around today and I see another forum you’re on Reggie that looks a better option now.

I'm hungry.

Machinery looks better

I think you nailed it.

The previous site was simple, no frills and you could easily see what was going on. In my mind all it needed was an easy facility to upload photos.

it’s hard to see the flow of where conversation is happening with this interface.

Im also disappointed that the site and all our data has been migrated to Canada rather than finding an Irish option

Has the site and all of our data migrated to Canada though? Is it hosted by Vanilla now? Or are they just the software vender?

Just because the migration was handled by a Canadian vendor doesn't mean the site has actually moved hosting (it may or may not have)

Is there currently an Irish option for forum software capable of running forums of this scale?

Don't like it, I think I'll use this as an opportunity to bale out of here for good.

Think it has.

I’d popped onto Twitter during the outage and saw a comment that seemed to point to this

I specifically noticed the use of the term “adequate” protection rather than high or equivalent protections. 🤔

They'd be required to access the data for the migration and as such need to meet the same GDPR standards as a company based here, it doesn't imply they are hosting the new site. As far as I'm aware the site was previously running vBulletin but hosted by Digiweb. They are changing from vBulletin didn't see anything to suggest the hosting was moving too, although no reason it couldn't but do Vanilla even offer a hosting service?

Thing your hanging on the word adequate a bit much too, surely a company here would also only require adequate protections to be compliant.

Adequate means meets the required standards.

Well, your probably not, but....

I'd image it's still hosted in Ireland for performance reasons. Vanilla is one piece of software running the site, there's probably Red Hat, Apache and some Database server among others, each provided by companies based in different countries and probably receiving remote support from countries like India. Personally the Canadian company is not the one I'd be most concerned about from a privacy perspective.

To answer your original question "why not an Irish company" it's probably as simple as no Irish option for this type of software and not many options worldwide.

I spent 16 years working in data centers in Ireland and I'd be far more concerned by the countries providing remote support to our banking sector and other critical services.

? I can see mods in the Mobile version of the site anyway.