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

Read only Friday is a thing. Especially on a bank holiday weekend.

Two more glitches to report.

The quote button wouldn't work for me just now in a thread, nothing happened when I pressed it.

I just edited a post in a long thread - and that post is now numbered 3, instead of 22,863. (I presume it'll revert to the correct number once I refresh the page, but whatever glitch is causing that to happen has not been fixed)

Some informative posts here about why this is happening. Is there a fix plan in the pipeline?

Would be good to have an idea how long this will continue as is.

Got a "You are being rate limited" message a few minutes ago for no discernable reason, never saw that before.

Looked just like one of the Cloudflare "bad gateway even though our job is to prevent bad gateway errors" messages. I dunno what Boards are paying them, but anything is too much.

The owner paid a load of monkeys peanuts to do the job of keeping the site going and then every Thursday/Friday the monkeys play with hammers trying to fix it with the obvious weekly results that continue in a recurring loop.

Pardon me for explaining to that poster what is wrong with the site.

Because they have no money and only one part-time staff member on the payroll. Vanilla was chosen because it's cheap and the old adage "you get what you pay for" is very evident.

Because they have said, explicitly and repeatedly, that there is no going back and Vanilla is what we're stuck with. It's a pity, I've been around here for longer than most and the place has had huge personal significance for me in several ways, but it is what it is.

At the time of the big switch over, there was a host of people willing to test the new site on separate servers before it was implemented site wide. I'm not saying it would have fixed the current issues but it may have saved the huge loss of people caused by the very long time the site was offline. It fell on deaf ears and here we are with a **** show having the same issues over and over again.

I believe they were posters willing to design a new site, not just test this one.

At this stage the best thing to do is remove all the customisations that attempt to make it look more like old Boards and just use the standard Vanilla platform.

Any change or update on Vanilla's end interferes with the Boards customisations and then that has to be rolled back. It's not an occasional event, it's ongoing. Vanilla simply isn't designed for what Boards wants it to be.

The old site was scrapped because of customisations, but at least there was a developer who could patch things up and steady the ship. Now, poor Mike has to read a load of posts, gather all the information, raise a ticket with Vanilla, they fix one thing, that fix sends something else askew, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.

I'd agree with this, we're well past the "Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" stage.

I think it's @Boards.ie: Odhran who needs to address the issues and give some insight as to where things are going in the foreseeable at this stage. Mike is just doing as good as can be done under the circumstances. I think Odhran was active a few days ago so not sure why he won't engage here considering he's the OP and owner.