Boards.ie New Site bugs and features

Dav

OK folks, thanks for your patience.

So I've got a link to a Google Spreadsheet with our current bugs and features tracking. I will be adding to that today based on what's been posted in the other thread, so if you've mentioned something and you don't see it there, then check it again later when I've updated it (should be this afternoon).

Spear

If nothing else, at least this level of transparency is welcome.

Michael D Not Higgins

I like to sort posts by most thanked when looking at a users posts or my own. This doesn't appear to be available. Mod facilities also appear limited.

uck51js9zml2yt

Latest posts, trending etc only shows a certain number of posts on the phone with no way of going to the next page.

hullaballoo

The main issues for me:

1. No option to go to first unread post - marked as resolved in spreadsheet but the comment is "Clicking on a thread brings you to first page" - these things are not the same.

1a. Related: cannot go to last post in a thread - this would be a poor second cousin to go to first unread but better than having no option other than scrolling through the entire thread to get to where you were.

2. No differentiation between threads with new posts vs. threads with no new posts - this is obviously a huge issue. Same applies to forums.

Alanstrainor

Maybe I'm going mad here, but when I'm on the boards.ie home page looking at latest threads, there doesn't appear to be an option to go to the latest post? It appears when I'm in a forum, but not from the home page.

Buford T. Justice XIX

No drop down menu for followed threads.

No drop down menu for followed forums.

No go to first post option.

Continually switching from old skin to new. I can read followed threads and click to main F&F forum and then the buggering new skin appears and I have to go elsewhere to get to my followed threads again.:mad:

If I wanted the new skin, I would include it. I don't so stop forcing it on me!

awec

No mod tools on the new site?

weisses

For the time being .... A "turn beta off" option on the beta side ?

If there is one I didn't see it

Dravokivich

We still don't see stickied threads. Can we re-reg, troll and claim ignorance due to the lack of a charter being presented?

Why is it not on the bug list as it was highlighted last summer?

weisses wrote: »

For the time being .... A "turn beta off" option on the beta side ?

If there is one I didn't see it

Look for a "Legacy" link.

smash

Dravokivich wrote: »

We still don't see stickied threads. Can we re-reg, troll and claim ignorance due to the lack of a charter being presented?

It's badly hidden away in an area that you have to expand...

Dravokivich

smash wrote: »

Dravokivich wrote: »

We still don't see stickied threads. Can we re-reg, troll and claim ignorance due to the lack of a charter being presented?

It's badly hidden away in an area that you have to expand...

It looks even worse on the Desktop. It's easy to miss off to the left of the page, when you expand that list it looks like a collection of tags and not thread titles.

Tipperary Fairy

Some shock to the system. As above, switching from new to old (desktop) version on the mobile.

Then clicking on the icon to go to the first unread post brings you to the first post.

Maybe these things seem small but they're inconvenient enough to make me reduce the amount I want to use the site.

intheclouds

How do you do "New Posts"?

Tipperary Fairy

I thought of another thing - the red 1 notification for a new post in a followed thread just shows up randomly when there's no new posts - and went to edit my post by clicking on the pen icon but it doesn't do anything.

I'm on Android marshmallow and chrome browser

Harry Palmr

intheclouds wrote: »

How do you do "New Posts"?

Until this is included I'm sticking with the old (old) skin.

Tipperary Fairy

Also if you're not going to make the breadcrumbs links then at least put another back to Forum link at the top of the page

robinph

The MyForums drop down doesn't show the stars next to forums with new posts in them.

Gordon

Dav wrote: »

OK folks, thanks for your patience.

So I've got a link to a Google Spreadsheet with our current bugs and features tracking. I will be adding to that today based on what's been posted in the other thread, so if you've mentioned something and you don't see it there, then check it again later when I've updated it (should be this afternoon).

Add your reply here.The 'Add your reply here' text may get annoying for people, and they may not remember to delete 'Add your reply here.' from the text input box.
(when quoting)

Gordon

Not sure why that happened - but when I edited my previous post to add "(when quoting)" it created a duplicate instance of the initial post. See above

Hmm.. it's gone now that page has refreshed!

Can't delete this post.

alchemist33

It says resolved on the spreadsheet, but it ain't -- clicking Legacy Site brings me to an "Oops" page, or it does nothing at all. I'm trapped here

alchemist33

And clicking on my username, avatar, or even the edit icon in my last post does nothing at all.

Dav

alchemist33 wrote: »

And clicking on my username, avatar, or even the edit icon in my last post does nothing at all.

Do you recall what page you were on when you clicked the link? If you can check the URL and see if it points at boards.ie/vbulletin/... or boards.ie/b/... that'd be a help.

Faith

I just... What? What happened? I have used boards for 13 years or so now, and this is the first time I have ever logged on and thought "How the f*ck do I find where I want to go?".

I don't normally complain about updates to the site, but this is awful. Absolutely shockingly awful.

Faith

For some actually constructive feedback, the drop down lists are terrible.

A. I don't want the extra step to get to Feedback. Before it was: Hover over "Talk To..."; Click "Boards.ie", click Feedback. Now it's: Hover over "Talk To..."; Click "Boards.ie", wait for a new page to load; Click Feedback.

B. "My Forums". Laid out badly in a big line of text, and most importantly, no * to indicate unread posts. As a moderator, that feature is very important to me.

C. Ads. Ads everywhere. It used to be a moderator perk that we didn't have to see them, but now there's several huge ones on my screen. That's sh*tty. Having the option to turn ads off was the smallest amount of "thanks" that we asked for for giving up so much time and energy to moderate the site, so I strongly hope we can return to that ASAP.

Faith

D. The sticky header. I normally have it disabled. I like to discretely browse boards at work, and I prefer not to have 25% of my screen taken up with an glaringly obvious banner.

intheclouds

Faith wrote: »

C. Ads. Ads everywhere. It used to be a moderator perk that we didn't have to see them, but now there's several huge ones on my screen. That's sh*tty. Having the option to turn ads off was the smallest amount of "thanks" that we asked for for giving up so much time and energy to moderate the site, so I strongly hope we can return to that ASAP.

Mods being treated like ordinary users (even if it is only by the software).

I cant help but snigger - sorry

intheclouds

Faith wrote: »

D. The sticky header. I normally have it disabled. I like to discretely browse boards at work, and I prefer not to have 25% of my screen taken up with an glaringly obvious banner.

You can disable it normally? How? Ive hated it since it appeared!

Conor Bourke

Faith wrote: »

C. Ads. Ads everywhere. It used to be a moderator perk that we didn't have to see them, but now there's several huge ones on my screen. That's sh*tty. Having the option to turn ads off was the smallest amount of "thanks" that we asked for for giving up so much time and energy to moderate the site, so I strongly hope we can return to that ASAP.

I thought it was a subscriber perk? 'N all 'n anyways they're really bugging me on beta and if they're here to stay even if you are paying not to see them, I won't be paying any more.

Dav

The "no ads for subscribers/mods" is on the list now along with the other stuff that's been posted on this thread so far. I'll probably have an updated list for you all tomorrow.

Faith

I thought it was a subscriber perk? 'N all 'n anyways they're really bugging me on beta and if they're here to stay even if you are paying not to see them, I won't be paying any more.

Perhaps it was mods and subscribers? I'm not sure.

You can disable it normally? How? Ive hated it since it appeared!

There used to be an option in your User CP.
Another issue - multiquote functionality seems to be missing.

Faith

Another: Searching for a forum no longer provides a dropdown. I searched for "Feedback", and it only brought up search results without offering a link to the forum. (It actually looked like there was a link on the right side of the screen, but it just refined the results to that forum.)

intheclouds

Faith wrote: »

There used to be an option in your User CP.

omg! I love you!

anothernight

Can't edit any posts using the beta site. The button does nothing.

Also, I don't know if you meant to have the "Add your reply here" line be normal text, but surely it makes more sense for it to disappear when you click on the text box? The way it is right now is annoying.

Synode

Breadcrumbs on mobile are going off screen when long and clicking them isn't working.

Clicking threads is bringing to first post rather than first new post. That's also happening when on full site on mobile

Also, site is jumping between new beta and old full site on mobile. Very annoying

28064212

There's an entire forum whose sole purpose was providing feedback on the new site (admittedly one that had the majority of its threads deleted on what appeared to be a whim, and was then abandoned for 6 months by the site). Why is all feedback now being shoe-horned into one thread?

pickarooney

The clock is not right. It shows posts in BST instead of CET+1 as defined in my user CP.

I have a stupid avatar hovering about and getting in the way do no reason.

The page numbers are on top of one another and unusable.

There is massive screen wastage. When I open a forum 75% of the screen is taken up with padding. Only a tiny part of the screen contains usable data.

Clicking on the announcement brings me to an error/access denied file which is skinned in the old, old (and best) desktop theme.

I can't see new posts in threads.

There are as yet no positive changes that I can see.

pickarooney

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pickarooney

Above is what I see. I lied about the 75%. It's actually 100% of the screen wasted.

pickarooney

Wow, it's even worse on the tablet. The my forums button just shows ALL forums and even the boards logo is a distorted mess. Thankfully on this device the legacy site link is there.

Mint Sauce

Sorry lads for the critism, but am having a number of difficulties with this new layout . On my Tab3 with the latest OS, the boards logo seems very squashed and over lapping the blue banner, the welcome back 'user name' and background is way right of centre, with left of centre all white space. Not all the tabs appear to be working, or dont bring me to where I expect. Oh, and far too many ads, not seen ads in years, and loads and loads of white space.

When I click on my forums, this version only seems to show half the number of post on the page, with no way that I can see of going on the next page. Option does appear to exist on the touch site on my windows phone, using W10 and MS Edge, but the tab to do so is obscured by a text box, and the breadcrumb trail, to bring me back to the forum if in a thread does not appear active.

Whilst trying to get used to the new version, I did unfortunately, have to go back to the legacy version, just to be able to find this forum.



On positive, the touch version on my phone, does appear alot neater, compared to my Tab3, but some of the issues still exsist.

pickarooney

Can't go back to the forum from the top of the thread.

5starpool

Does anyone like the new layout?

Lemming

I'm looking at the new layout on a 27" monitor at 1920 x 1080. There is a lot of wasted real-estate. The presentation smacks of twitter, which in itself wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing ... if I were using twitter .... boards.ie is not twitter, so please stop trying to ape twitter. If I want to digest bite-sized chunks of 128 characters or less, I'll use twitter. If I want to discuss something, I'll use a discussion forum that doesn't waste somewhere upwards of 50% of the screen.

Menu navigation

As impressive as the menu looks when expanded, it takes up nearly the entirety of the screen when expanded; with the result being that in order to navigate, I'm going from top middle of screen with mouse movement, back to far left and then back onto the respective menus. There's more mouse movement needed just to navigate than playing an FPS computer game. For anyone reading; that is not a compliment.

Front page

If you have to scroll down just to start looking for new content, you need to reassess your landing-page design.

edit: tried to add a picture but apparently I don't have permissions to attach ..

Front page Thread navigation

What was the design "thinking" behind this? If I look at a thread listing, I cannot just go to the latest post; I have go to to the very start of the thread, then jump to the end, unlike with the old system that allowed you to go straight to the latest post.

On the forum listings themselves, it's not particularly intuitive that you can click on the last post time stamp information. The old layout was intuitive in that regard.

Colour

Do you have a former member of geocities working for you doing colour palette selection? Someone who loved black backgrounds with flames and brilliant white writing and wants their revenge on the internet for sacking off geocities? Either that or someone who has a fascination with snow blindness. Because jebus is the colour palette white. Oh so very white.

Can we have the cloud skin back please whilst you're at it?


TL;DR: new design sucks monkeys. Besides going blind from the whiteness, navigation was given about as much thought as something that wasn't given a great deal of thought because "it wouldn't look awesome" or something similar.

ProudDUB

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Maybe I'm going mad here, but when I'm on the boards.ie home page looking at latest threads, there doesn't appear to be an option to go to the latest post? It appears when I'm in a forum, but not from the home page.

That was happening to me earlier today, when I was on my Kindle Fire. It went away after a couple of hours, but boards was virtually un-usable for that duration, (on the Kindle,) as you were stuck on the first page of all threads. There were 3 icons in the upper right of the screen but when you clicked on them, nothing happened.

Also, a couple of weeks ago, everything on boards got incredibly small, when I was on my phone, a Samsung Galaxy Fame running on Android. I have to swipe the phone screen several times, to maximize the size of the home pages of various forums, just to be able to read thread titles. Then when I open up a thread to read, the posts are tiny as well and I have to swipe the phone screen to make them bigger too. When actually reading posts, they don't "fit" the page anymore, I have to scroll left and right to read a post that is more than a few words long. It is incredibly annoying and I have just given up using boards on my phone. Is this related to the new forum layout?

Cheers.

maudgonner

The option to delete a post has been removed from the edit function?

alchemist33

Dav wrote: »

Do you recall what page you were on when you clicked the link? If you can check the URL and see if it points at boards.ie/vbulletin/... or boards.ie/b/... that'd be a help.

Sorry, Dav, only saw this now. Can't remember what page it was.

Synode

The opening of threads on mobile and not going to first new post is making it pretty unusable for me

Orion

Only top 10 followed threads or threads in my forums showing - no option to go to next page as in legacy site - unless it's staring me in the face and I can't see it.

Also when I click on the announcement I'm not authorised to view the thread - works fine on the legacy site.

Orion

My Forums menu is very cramped and doesn't show a * to indicate new posts in it.

padyjoe

Are you going to keep the legacy site as well? To me it looks tidier, this is what I call a character type website, fonts are easier on eye and browser, my Opera Mini 4.5 handles it very well.
The new one is a fancy, image type site (I don't know why but everyone is heading this direction), doesn't look good on the Mini browser (some links missing or unclickable and won't let me go back to the legacy site). I have a feeling looking at layers of images only.
It's hard to explain it: I like books full of letter, numbers, there's lot to read, "dislike tabloids" where heap of pictures but very little to read.

(Yes, I know, I'm old school, running a java based browser on my symbian phone and preferring paper based newspapers.)