Considering the recent re-vamp will you continue to use boards?

I'm really trying, but it's just bloody grim. The navigation is still a disaster, and there's issues that have been just left there for such a long time. Hard to fathom how the loading is still so bloody slow, even though usage must have shrunk by at least half. No idea what's going on here anymore to be honest.

No.

I had pretty much stopped using it anyway due to an admin cycling through my posts on a daily basis to see what he could card but I can’t see myself being a regular user again.

I’m pretty much just watching from the sidelines out of curiosity to see how restrictive posting becomes and how long before any negative mention of the changeover is deemed an infringement and you can already see it starting.

I think this will ultimately go down as the thing that killed the site but a small number of volunteers been given free reign to control the discourse was equally as damaging, it was just taking longer.

Have any of the boards owners or top admin made any comments?

Yes, but far far less

No Dark Mode and No My Forums is a killer

Still using it for some stuff - had car trouble and looked for help, updated the thread of my local LOI teams as I've been doing for years.

But wandering into forums like CA and posting there? No, too much trouble to navigate, too many clicks to get there, too slow to load.

Is there an app and if so can you point me in the direction.

I used to come to the site multiple times a day.

With the new interface, I come once a day at the very most.

Exactly how i feel, i may check back in from time to time, but my usage will drop of.

If Boards dies off it will be slowly and a direct result of the changes [I would not dare call THIS an update]

Will leave my account open, but use it far less. I’d say I’ve made around a previous day’s worth of posts in the three weeks since the ‘improvements’. All as a direct result of the improvements.

I have a feeling my last post will be ‘told you so’ when they announce the site is shutting down.

Shame. When it was good, it was great. Boards, ya done fcuked up.

I’ll keep using it but all the threads/forums I followed are dead now. No posts in days. It’s just boring now.

Have and will be using it allot less, the IT team don't believe in iterative design it would seem and have put a really bad UI that's not very intuitive. Getting my fill these days from the likes of reddit which makes it easier to follow topics.

It was 45th because of the lockdowns, people literally couldn’t move more than 2km from their homes at one point so they logged on here.

with the mess of a transition to this new platform, and a blatant disregard for users and user data and privacy, the site will be dead in a few years.

For the time being yes, but far far less than I had been. There are literally 3 threads I've subscribed to and that I read, previous browsing and other random threads I used to dip in to is non existent.

Imo irreparable damage has been done to the site, its fcuking horrible to use. The "fixes" that are being mooted will not change the overall usability/ look of the site so the damage will see more and more people drift away. It's already happening.

The data breach could also potentially have huge ramifications for the sites life and it could be a case that it's taken out of users hands and the whole thing ends up being torpedoed due to it.

The whole thing is a case study for how to make a complete and utter bollox of redesigning a website.