New Look A&R Forum, and it's not my fault this time!

I actually feel that way about Boards these days....there's certain forums I've just completely stopped visiting because reading the tripe in them just isn't worth my time. My list of followed forums (broken now) has gotten a lot smaller than it used to be...and the ones I do frequent, I rely on the ignore list and the user made ignore script to enhance it (not working anymore either). This forum is probably the only one left I've not had to ignore people on. The non-linear discussion on Reddit is a bit different, but once it clicks, it clicks....and I actually prefer it these days. They're like little mini-threads, the highest rated ones being nearer to the top. On Reddit, so much of the real nonsense gets downvoted into oblivion. Boards is still better for certain things, but on the whole, I'm finding it a slow, creaking, antique these days....maybe this is the first step in fixing that, but good lord this current release is rough. I know it'll improve, and it definitely had to be done though, but I don't envy the staff and the work ahead of them.

Aye the F1 forum is a place I've completely stopped using, it's beyond bad. The driver bashing that goes on really reflects poorly on the place, constant schoolyard level bickering. It could really do with a rules update, but the suggestion fell on deaf ears many moons ago. It's just far better for me to stay away from it these days. Mind you the F1 subreddit is filled with the same shite, so I just tend to subscribe to it for news and updates, rather than get involved in posting.

Yep it was a script that prevented people on your ignore list having their quoted posts shown, worked wonderfully well up until the update - as expected.

yay they have fixed the old link redirection and the bookmarks work again. Good stuff

Very much agreed. Change is one thing, but this site shouldn't be live yet...it's beyond bad. My time on Boards has plummeted since the 'update', and doesn't look set to increase any time soon. All of this beta-testing should have been done in a closed group, or at the very least a live test alongside the actual working version that was retired.

Wonder why they didn't stick with vBulletin and upgrade to the newer version

I have all possible notifications toggled to off via the above method and I still logged into 41 notifications today. I'm starting to get the sense it might not be me.

No notifications here, feel oddly left out! :(

The lack of a 'my forums' drop down is still murdering the place for me. Its taking me an age to actually get to anything. I might just set up a few bookmarks in Chrome to bring me straight to the forums I use.

Just staying well clear of the mobile site. When I'm on my phone I'm sticking to the full desktop version and that's kind of working for me for now.

Tried figuring out how to selectively quote from the above without consulting anything for instructions (which to be honest, it should be THAT easy) and nope, haven't a bean!

Especially if you were to remove all the "This new site is crap" posts. Feedback is one of the few forums I can easily find now.

Ya seems to be new alright, its a welcome addition.. and read threads are thankfully no longer in bold

Indeed, at this rate by Christmas the site should be somewhat back to where it was in June. All we're seeing is that little to no testing was done, and the pieces are being picked up little by little. Nice to see some improvements for sure, but I refuse to celebrate fixes to things that should never have been broken to begin with.

It's amazing how much that one little thing makes the place so much easier to read.

Baffling that it wasn't there from day 1.

I see they finally have the menu at the top persistent while you scroll down the page, that'll make a huge difference to the mobile version. It was getting very frustrating having to scroll to the top every time.

First time I've tried the new site on the desktop as I have just stopped on the mobile, too much hassle. It was a struggle to find this forum, been when I searched for arcade and retro it didn't bring it up, does anyone have any tips, other than bookmarking?

Little bit of life returning here thankfully. Visually the forum isn't too bad now, but there's some great functionality that still hasn't returned.

I'm having this issue too. Also, the drop-down siderbar is gone on desktop and I miss it terrible so I do.