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

Minor issues? It looks dreadful and there's no fix for that.

Well, you got 297 posts in the ‘Late Late’ thread in the “Television” forum here and a handful of posts in the one over there. Even the users of that “other site” would prefer to use this one.

This site is, certainly, working well enough. I’ve been using it easily enough the last while.

Granted, I do have a life so haven’t been stuck glued to a screen, in a dark room, cursing the lack of “dark mode” or whinging about the bookmarks but neither of those functions interested me on the old site anyway.

Yeah the drop off has been shocking. I know I check in here and post here a fraction of what I used to pre-Vanilla. It seems its the same for a huge amount of other users.

The in-group mentality is amazing though. The whole Stan culture apparently extends to some Boardsies too.

So the site's ok for you because you don't use those features and anybody who wants those features doesn't have a life?

Hmm #bekind indeed...

Talk about curtain twitcing! 🤣 I've seen very little to no actual bile on the other site but people are free to express their opinions and be challenged on same, as it should be. There is no political / social agenda unlike those that have permeated Boards over the last few years. Anyone that is clearly a troll has been called out on it by genuine users.

Just because you disagree with someone or their opinion on certain matters doesn't mean their opinions are vicious or nasty, some people, myself included, simply do not sign up to the particular views that Boards tries to ram down people's throats by over moderation and censorship.

You are apparently aghast with the other site yet continue to view it, says more about you looking to be offended about something than anything else tbh.

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I’ve had a look at the site, that’s all. Hardly “curtain twitching”. I was going onto the site not peeping like some sort of “sex pest”.

You lot keep going on about how great the site it, a true “alternative”, no moderation, free speech and how it’s all harmless content but when you actually go in there all you see is users, usually banned from here, railing against this site and it’s moderators.

Yes, mistakes we’re made with the “upgrade” here but Trojan work has been done by the team to get it working seamlessly now, bar a couple of “cosmetic” issues, such as dark mode and the likes.

I stopped posting in bargain alerts because you couldn't be bothered to mod it.

Look, it’s great you’ve all found your “tribe” and have a place where free speech and lax moderation is paramount but you’re deluded if you’re thinking boards.ie should be supporting and, actively, promoting this place.

Granted, it would be a clear opportunity to off load some of the, more, “problem” users but it does seem to be a place where those banned from here can be relegated to.

Again, as the fixes roll in, I’d expect the normal users, who’ve ventured over, to take their toe back out of the water and return here. But that doesn’t mean the “other site” won’t continue so no need to worry.

Fair comment man, I'll not comment further on the subject.

This is the nail on the head. I logged into the desktop yesterday and on the splash page the number of posts there had been posted over the course of 60 minutes or so. Pre changeover, on a Friday afternoon, there would have been 5 minutes worth of posts to fill the front page.

While there have been some improvements since day 1, the site overall is still not close to being as intuitive as it once was. Clunky is as apt a description as any.

Like yourself, old boards was a massive time sink for me but today, it's primarily a cursory glance on a few forums I follow with the odd post here and there.

It's simply not fun to use anymore and no amount of future gloss or features will be enough to bring back what made the site magic in the first place.

Boards is dead, this is a bastardised and watered down version of what was once a great site.

I wouldn't put all of the blame for decreased traffic on the new platform. No doubt it plays a part but this is the most open the country has been since the pandemic began, people are out doing things. Especially on Friday nights.

It's genuinely indicative of how horrid this 'revamp' has been that usability and user experience has been degraded to the point where forum members have had to code features just to have the site feature something it already had.

It's like upgrading the family car, only to realise that one family member has to find a steering wheel for the new car, while another family member needs to build a new gearbox.

When I use the search bar to find something, the first result is from 2014. Am I doing something wrong? I was searching for Netflix btw.

Yes, same here.

Very aggressive tone and what I believe is an accusation lying about it against me. There is more than a touch of amateur hour going on here.

I'm sorry this is polluting this thread but Niamh inexplicably brought the subject in here with the swear filter of another site which now knocks out a four word Irish political phrase!

For clarity - some mod deleted posts with the full phrase which otherwise is known by the initials in a thread in context.