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

If private forums like Soccer are going to remain as 'Groups', can the layout at least be aligned to the rest of the site? They look terrible with avatars and what not taking up space.

Where is the search bar that was at the top of the screen? That function is what I used the most.

can you not block people anymore?

Also I'm convinced when you clicked a link on the old site it opened in a new tab, now it opens in the same tab??

I could follow clock the follow button on the top left of a forum yesterday but no option to do this today anymore?

ok, add that to the list of unfunctions messes then. What a faff, why can't i click a user like i used to? why hasn't it saved my ignore list?

/sigh

still no way to "follow" a forum on the desktop site - surely this can be fixed quicker, it's there on the mobile site

It's literally one CSS rule that needs to be removed (posted below). It should take about 5 seconds, particularly when one of the reasons given for the migration was to make it easier to do tech updates, but 2 weeks later, we're still missing a fundamental part of the UI on desktop, despite the fix being trivial.

TBF, I can't say I really blame the dev, or really anything that's happened post-migration. There's 50 fundamental things still broken or missing, and trying to prioritise and manage something like that on a production environment is an absolute nightmare. The vast majority of the blame for the migration goes to whoever made the decision to proceed with the migration without doing any kind of UAT. It's quite clear that no-one who actually looked at the new platform prior to the migration was a regular user of Boards.

The really "amazing" thing is that this was all incredibly easy to predict. Why? Because it all played out before about 5 years ago, except it was handled far better. Prior to the launch of the original responsive site, they invited a group of users to partake in a beta test of it, with the intention of capturing many of the exact things we're talking about now. If it had been done properly, it could have actually resulted in the responsive site going ahead and replacing the old site as planned. Instead they screwed it up and forgot to actually tell the developers about all the feedback that was given, launched the buggy, not-fit-for-purpose beta, and it was almost as much a train-wreck as this. With one vital difference - the main site was kept live in parallel, so they had the option of dropping the new one, which of course is what eventually happened.

Instead of taking on board any of the lessons that could have been learned from the last attempt, they somehow managed to unlearn the stuff that had been previously known, like doing a beta test, or having a rollback plan. Unfortunately, those mistakes are likely to result in the long-term death of Boards. Even if they could fix the glaring issues in the next two or three weeks (spoiler: they can't), the damage has already been done. You only have to take a look at any of the forums outside the top 5 or so, posts and engagement have dropped off an absolute cliff-edge. The site will trundle on, traffic becoming ever more centralised in a handful of forums, but Boards was effectively done as a relevant platform the day the decision was made to push ahead with the migration. Everything since then is just rearranging deck-shairs on the Titanic

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it was there yesterday or the day before, I signed up to a couple of the forum i used to follow. Wasnt on mobile cos I wont use that at the moment as its hopeless.

The constant notifications are a bug that are on the list of things to be sorted ...

this is because you haven't "followed" any forums, because your old followed forums weren't migrated and it's currently impossible to follow forums on the Desktop site.

To get rid of the error, log into the mobile site, follow a few forums and they'll appear in that link.

I’m sure this has been mentioned before but couldn’t we have My Thread, My Forums, etc under the view button here? Currently it’s just all and my following (I think) I clicked on following and nothing is showin.