How much has the site tanked...

Was there an attack on the site that prompted the migration to a different platform?

Have me doubts. How do you know?

Apparently the old site wasn't financially viable and that's another reason why they moved it. It looks like they went with the cheapest option, rather than the best one. It's a pity really. I think if they'd come out and asked for financial help from boardsies, many people would've put their hands in their pockets and helped them choose a better platform.

I'm surprised there are still Talk To forums here at all. After the debacle of PMs reappearing, there's no way I'd DM Bank of Ireland or Liberty Insurance. I assume Boards gets money from them, and Richer Sounds, for having a presence here?

Definitely have noticed a huge drop in traffic. It really seems to be the same handful of posters across a number of different forums I frequent.

But, yes, the migration was an unmitigated disaster. Another change was deployed just a few days ago that has broken the site even more (for me anyway) - The "My threads & My Forums etc buttons on the top are now covered over and you can only see click on the bottom few pixels of them.

It's ironic that boards started out life as an amateur site, yet the dev/deployments back then were far more professional. Now, it's like they don't understand the concept of testing and break production at will. I have led software dev teams across many orgs, and they would be fired on the spot* in every single one of those orgs for some of the stuff that has gone on in here over the past few months.

*just an expression. Very difficult to actually fire people in Ireland, and have done it only a few times. But still use the expression as shorthand for "dropped from the team immediately and then 'managed out'".

I'm not surprised. They don't have tools anywhere nearly as powerful as what they had on the old site. Even flagging a post for a mod to check doesn't work any more.

Some really bad low life posting going unchecked.

I for one have reservations about being associated with a site that allows such carry on.

Guarantee you that if everyone's post history was to be wiped, there'd be absolute riots going on. This is an example of the problem boards staff had. Damned at every turn. Look around the threads, every change one person makes, another person wants the opposite. This X 100 for every possible change. If one guy wants black, the next guy wants white! 😂

I've seen calls for people to be sacked immediately, heads to roll, calling people bollixes etc. Just seems an absolute no win for the people who run the site. Personally, I've found it super easy to just adapt. (not diminishing the people who have had legitimate problems like locked out of profiles, personal info etc.)

I didn't say wiped. I said archived.

I dunno what you're adapting too. Half the functionality doesn't work.

That's on another forum I use as well. It's hard to see on mobile who the mods in a forum are, making it less likely that people will bother reporting posts. It's shocking that that aspect of boards wasn't prioritised back at the start. Why would any mod waste their time trying to help out here when it has been thrown back in their face.

It might be that there's a world of functions I didn't know about/use before the change over. I literally post in threads, get answers, have discussions. I have been doing that all through the changeover (with the exception of the week+ downtime) and for the last (almost) 20 years. I'm just not seeing what everyone else is seeing perhaps?

I'm in no way denying other people's legitimate problems, personal info, private messages etc., that's unacceptable and a poor job, but the over reaction?

I've seen posters saying the site is impossible to use, seemingly unaware of the irony that by posting they are using the site.

I get that people don't like the changes and the loss of the familiar, but the over reaction has been mind blowingly out of proportion.

Simplistic? Yes, I suppose so. But I wasn't going for an essay to cover all possible points about the site.

But if you'd prefer to stick with your analogy, your Samsung S2 is useable? Not as good, but useable. Doesn't have all the functions of it's bigger brother, but maybe not something Mr. Samsung should be sacked for? Maybe not something the people at the front desk should be subject to abuse for? Maybe not something that should provoke endless threads of complaint and giving stick to volunteers? To round off the analogy before it becomes absurd, the S10 costs more, Boards don't have the money, so to continue making our phone calls, texts and pictures, they got themselves an S2.

(for the record, I'm not accusing you of doing these things, I don't know you and you are obviously polite, but I'm sure you've seen the same as I have)

That I found this thread a 2nd time is only because it appears in the latest threads on the home page. I have no access to subscriptions, I get no notifications, or I get notifications from ancient threads from years ago. I was getting so many I had to delete my old account and start over. I can only use bookmarks. I can only get to that through going through my profile every time. About 5-10% of my recent bookmark threads still are active. So I assume people can't find them. Threads don't get bookmarked automatically, so unless I remember to do that, I won't find them again.

The activity on the site seems to have fallen off a cliff. I don't believe the 25%.