Boards.ie New Site bugs and features

jay93

Doesn't appear to have worked adding my attachment . Very buggy this new mobile site

Esel

jay93 wrote: »

Doesn't appear to have worked adding my attachment . Very buggy this new mobile site

The torture *never* stops.

jay93

Lol ! I tried boards on an Android phone and its loading the followed threads fine but on my iPhone regardless of browser used it has an annoying bug..

gandalf

Couple of questions.

First one is why haven't boards suspended forcing the new site on overseas users given it is extremely buggy and in reality not fit for purpose?

Given the absolute rejection of the new site based on a poll of over 600 users on the busiest forum on boards is it not a wise course of action to relook at this redesign?

What outside source guided boards management to go this new design route? I'd be interested to find out who it was so I can avoid them professionally.

How Strange

I mainly access boards on my phone and using the new format is awful. I can't find a mobile specific site, I can't see my forums and it's almost impossible to use boards on my iPhone. Is there a mobile site? I used to be redirected automatically. It's probably been discussed to death here but it's so hard to use boards that i can't do a search easily.

mirrorwall14

Followed pages bug.

Also if more serious concern to me is that the 'responsive' touch site is far far slower to load. Is it heavier on data?

Permabear

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Bazzo

On the old site if you put a link to a vine either directly on vine or through twitter on a post it used to show the video in the post, now it just shows the link, would be nice to get that included.

Is there any way to select an individual post to link to it on the new site like there was on the old one? Not obvious to me anyway.

Starokan

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Followed pages bug.

Also if more serious concern to me is that the 'responsive' touch site is far far slower to load. Is it heavier on data?

I noticed this as well, ive been trying to get used to the responsive site but end up clicking back on legacy as its so much slower to load up threads etc

degsie

Another here with the 'followed threads bug' on mobile.Have to clear browser cache to get back to old site.

Permabear

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Cookie_Monster

the next page option appearing at the bottom of the page on mobile seem completely random

gandalf

Any chance for an official response to these please?

gandalf wrote: »

Couple of questions.

First one is why haven't boards suspended forcing the new site on overseas users given it is extremely buggy and in reality not fit for purpose?

Seriously guys why are you forcing overseas users onto this site when clearly it is not fit for purpose as it stands?

Given the absolute rejection of the new site based on a poll of over 600 users on the busiest forum on boards is it not a wise course of action to relook at this redesign?

What is the official reaction to this poll, if it was 50-50 then you would have some ground to stand on but at the current rate you are talking about an absolute rejection of the site and based on that it is safe to assume it will have an extremely detrimental effect on new sign ups and traffic from existing users/products?

Is there a rethink based on feedback?

If there is will you have proper user testing?

If there isn't please tell us why not?

What outside source guided boards management to go this new design route? I'd be interested to find out who it was so I can avoid them professionally.

I am actually quite serious but if you prefer to answer via PM please do. I certainly wouldn't want to use these experts as I believe they have gotten this redesign very very wrong.

Esel

522 from CloudFlare from approx 04:00 to 05:00 there.

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

Like the good old days

Esel

Esel wrote: »

522 from CloudFlare from approx 04:00 to 05:00 there.

Again at approx 06:00

Dyr

pickarooney wrote: »

there's been a glitch with that go to last post thing on mobile for a few years. Boards 'forgets' your last post after about a week and brings you to the first post in the thread. The full site (old skin) never forgets.

Thats because its a daycent old skin

Alanstrainor

Had been using the new site for the last couple of weeks on my laptop, and just switched back now after getting frustrated with it all. I'm sure there is a certain percentage of me that is just so familiar with the old site that it's a hard change, but the new site is just not easy to use, it actually lacks features (the search function goes to **** on the new site). Hopefully things improve, but the way I see it is that the new site needs a big change to work. Given it's in beta now, I just dont see that happening...

quarryman

Is it possible to remove the announcement banners from the of EVERY page? They take up half the screen.

http://imgur.com/NemTZb4

Hollister11

On the legacy site my last few sent pms are no where to be seen

gandalf

Given the lack of official response I have a feeling the boards management are hunkered down in a bunker!

maringo

Don't know if this is the right place but am having trouble signing into Adverts.ie with with my Boards id. When I try to sign in with FB its saying my name is already taken have signed in via Boards in the past without a problem. Any help appreciated.

Chain Smoker

Probably not the right thread but I notice the site is gone f*cking nuts for captchas again in my area (California).

gandalf

Still silence, definitely get the feeling that the wagons are being circled.

sentient_6

Honestly im getting used to it and will happily continue to use it when the niggly functionality issues get fixed.

Hugo Stiglitz

If I edit a post, it displays my old post and then a duplicate including my edits.

B00!

You can't properly locate your old posts from your profile in New Boards (as you could in legacy), the "look up started posts" reverts to simply looking up your posts in only new threads you created...

I cannot revert back to Legacy site, to look them up now either.

Kintarō Hattori

So I was out having a coffee today and went to load up m.boards.ie as I have done for years only to get an error message. Has it finally bit the bullet?
No bother I thought, I'll load up touch.boards.ie only to see what I presume is the new skin. If it's progress, it looks like progress from 15 years ago, I found it quite counter intuitive. It only showed me select postings or my 'followed forums' rather than giving me a list of latest postings from across the site.

I had purposely avoided loading up the new skin due to the overwhelming negative feedback amongst the user base. If what I have seen today is the future I shalln't be using the site on a casual basis as it just makes using the site a chore. Please tell me today's experience was a bug and that it's not what the management team have in place for us.

Pelvis Parsley

It's a bad joke. And any constructive criticism or suggestion is met by either platitudes, deathly silence, or outright aggression and crankiness. DeV was a divisive character, but he had vision, when he could bring himself to focus in on things, and he brought people along with that, despite his many orphaned pipedreams (feedforward etc.)

I used to live on this thing-and now my input, be it lurking or actually participating, is sporadic at best. I also used to recommend it to people as a community, and a mine of information. Like a drunken uncle, I'm slightly embarrassed to do so now, and tend to feign ignorance when someone asks where to find something, or whether there's a resource online of like minded souls, for whatever the topic of the moment might be.

It's built up over years, a litany of poorly handled changes, crises, and queries. And it's a dreadful shame. I'm not sure what the solution is at this stage. The critical mass of users, the one thing that kept the show on the road, is being diluted by the day. The site isn't going to suddenly cease to exist or anything, but we're only going in one direction now.

Esel

The generals have decided on a new weapon.

We, the troops, have to learn to use that weapon.