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

I'm done. Been here since 2012 I think, with three or four previous accounts.

Honestly, the quality of Boards has declined in the past few years. I presume there's a generation who have moved on from Boards.ie and not gotten replaced with the rise of other social media platforms.

The upgrade was really the last straw. Most of the threads I follow have died a death in the last month. It's not worth logging in to check on them.

I just feel so sorry for the older people who used to ask questions in auld ones and auld fellas, boards.ie was the whole Internet to them, same for a few in farming and forestry and GAA, I wonder how many of the people responsible for this mess were actual boards.ie users and do they give a sh1t about what they've done?

I know two devoted boardsies who can't navigate the new platform at all, thereby ending their decades long association. If we lose those whom ^ Thargor mentions, Boards as an Irish community loses a great deal of wisdom, humour, and comraderie. Those folk ^ are some of my favourite boardsies and am saddened to see a platform exclude such a vital group from participating, especially during these difficult times.

For those (not unlike me), without an extensive online footprint, and to those adversely affected by social distancing, Boards has been a lifeline... There are so few communities left online - Boards demise is (not "will be") a true and tremendous loss for so many... now and later.

Conor74: Jesus, I'd feel depressed for anyone for whom Boards.ie was the whole internet!

...Feel more so, that they can't access a supportive site where they could go and be/feel a vital part of.

Yes for now. I'll give it a few more weeks in the hope it recovers. Like many others, I still struggle with navigation and THE GLARE. The substantial drop in activity on my favourite forums is worrying to say the least. Barely one step above a ghost town these days.

It's sad to see Boards dying like a wounded animal.😥

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sites gone to crap, use it alot less then before and barely use it on mobile.

It's definitely getting better. There is an updates thread somewhere.

It has improved a lot, but it is still a mess.

At least I can sort of follow my threads now. I get a notification every single time somebody posts in one of them, so being away from boards for 30 minutes can mean I have to mark all as read and start again, which is very annoying. But it is definitely going in the right direction.

using it less than I did, not a big poster, follow a few threads. Overall it seems very buggy for a production site, lots of odd jumping about and some annoying new 'features', for example, threads always in bold even when all comments have been read. On the old site this was not the case so it was easy to see when a new one was posted, which, on the threads I follow appear to be less than before so it looks like posting is down from what I can see.

I was only thinking yesterday that I bet the clocks will go back an hour in October and the time stamp will get 'fixed' then by default before Boards actually fixes it themselves.

I’d love to see the average number of posts per day on boards before and after this upgrade. It’s been a complete disaster tbh.

Used to love being on it. Don't like it now.

As previous posters say its barely usable , hard to navigate.

It would make you wonder what were they doing or did they use it themselves before they landed this bland , awkward trash on us.

Will give it a few more weeks , hopefully somebody will see sense and revamp the whole thing or at least listen to peoples suggestions.

My interaction with the site has completely stopped since the revamp. The user experience is just so poor.

Once a week or so, I'll check back to see if they've fixed anything - but the UX/bug fixes appear to be running at a glacial pace (if they're happening at all). It really beggars belief that they went live with so many fundamental problems. And then they rely on the community to report ongoing issues - bonkers!

I tried again just now - I really tried - but it's just an exercise in frustration: I commented on a thread this morning, went to revisit that thread just now, went to find it in "My Threads", and it's not there?! See you all again at some point in the future, I can't be arsed with this.

Edit: I've just discovered the bookmark function in the top right of each thread. Still, theads should be auto-subscribed as they were before, and as they are on other sites.

It's still godawful. There's no pleasure in a brain dead browse and peruse like before the revamp.

A total, utter, unmitigated failure. I've been here since 2005 and it was always easy to use, easy to browse, easy to post.

This? It's a confusing, ugly, clunky mess. I'm so so disappointed with the team(s) behind this. Vanilla should be given a wide berth by anyone else considering using them in future, and the Boards team who greenlit this need serious questions asked of them and their ability.

Sorry just wanted to quote your first paragraph but don't know how.

It's taken me 3 days to find my way back to this thread. What a complete fail of a UI

Would love to know Cloud and Devore's thoughts on the change.

Glad I'm not the only one, I only found it again by sheer luck. I still haven't figured out how to find threads I've recently commented on, kinda defeats the purpose of an internet forum.

Genuinely astonished how this was given the green light, its so poor in so many ways.

No email notifications has been a big let down ! Also no way yo navigate various catagories like before

I prefer it to the old version to be honest - much tidier and neater sort of like an email account. I particularly like the new 'ignore' button. Before you were tempted into viewing that posters posts who rile you up. Now they are completely blank.

Minor gripes are all these discussions I was involved in historically. Which I had to remove. There were a lot of them!

And I also would prefer a way to edit a posters quote to just refer to a part of it. But at least the way quoted posts collapse it looks tidier.

I can see the logic of how it was all created now at least. I get the feeling many old boardsie's are just adverse to change. I am not saying the new site is perfect by any means. But the way I use it suits me.

I got rid some of them others seem to remain as you said. Maybe one of the mods could interject and tell us how to sort out the discussions page? I have a load more to get rid of.

Thank heaven for your edit.

Now I see how to bookmark discussions.

At least now I can follow threads that I comment on but like you I can't see how having to seek out the bookmark button is an improvement on auto subscribe. .

i am still on here but I don't enjoy it anymore..

i'm still grieving the old site tbh...

I dunno why they don't just scrap this mess of a site and start over with a clean slate on a user friendly platform (like GUBU)... even without the old stuff - who needs it anyway? start over.. we are not allowed to revive old threads much so whats the point in having all the old stuff there? and its not much use when the search function doesn't really work

its criminal really

I used to enjoy keeping an eye on or following specific posters whose posts / rants across various topics I enjoyed reading. Can't seem to do that anymore!! Definitely a big negative.

I clicked on this discussion which I have bookmarked and last visited yesterday and it brought me to a comment posted on last Thursday.

Does Boards think I want to scroll through old posts to read the latest post?

I want to stay but the likes of this is making life difficult.

I received no emails since changeover a few weeks ago. I went into my settings yesterday & made changes so I should be getting emails. Looked in junk folder this morning & fornd them there