Boards.ie New Site bugs and features

podgeandrodge

Every new site they build reminds me of the old adage of "if it ain't broke..."

wotzgoingon

jay93 wrote: »

wotzgoingon wrote: »

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I have a bug and it seems someone else has it as well as they posted in the thread reporting the same problem. Happens only while on the mobile site.

http://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057593132#99690831

Please fix this very annoying when on phone and cannot scroll down to see which thread got a new post.

As at the minute I have to guess and go through loads of forums just to find which thread there was a post in.

This is driving me really crazy !! I have the same issue on iOS. I'm in the states since March so I'm forced to use this new mobile site. I can't even view the "talk to" forums no more in mobile view it just opens a full desktop page on my phone. Weirdly enough if I goto my followed threads and if one of those is a talk to thread it will display the new mobile version of that thread .. But if I try view the talk to thread any other way I get the desktop view .. Weird

Well this issue seems to be fixed today.

The Black Oil

I was browsing on my phone on the bus. In some threads where a poster was quoting another user, the content of quoted posts appeared twice, in the same quote - once in bold, then in plain text.

e.g.

But that has nothing to do with ________
But that has nothing to do with ________

the_barfly1

cant quote the black oil because boards is completely broken on mobile, but i've seen the same thing in pretty much any thread where there's quoted text

ElBarco

I'm getting a floating panel at the bottom of the site home page saying 1/7 which is great. The panel seems very large and when I click on it nothing happens.

4zn76tysfajdxp

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Every new site they build reminds me of the old adage of "if it ain't broke..."

break it.

Pelvis Parsley

Am I the only one who finds the touch site grand?

(For mobile use obviously.)

jack presley

In the 'my threads' section on the new responsive site, the thread with the latest post in it has been replaced with a sponsored post now.

philstar

quoting posts... doesn't seem to be working again!!

simonflanagan

im trying to sign up an account for someone else but it wont let me it just brings me onto a black and white page where you sign up?

padyjoe

Boards.ie has become completely useless on Opera Mini!

Both on PC and mobile I use the legacy site because it's easy on the eye and clear layout. Legacy site link works on PC, not on Mini, at all! (Links not working, can't find buttons like Post new thread and a the spacing, everything just unreadable: what belongs to whom, who belongs to what.) Why can't you have a roll down box for selecting different styles? And leave it there for good! As I expressed before not everyone fan of the new fancy-dancy, imagey style.

This experimenting is putting me off boards more and more.

Hollister11

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

Am I the only one who finds the touch site grand?

(For mobile use obviously.)

I think the touch site is perfect.

Hollister11

I think unread post need to be made stand out more. Just a bolded title isn't great.

Try giving unread posts a darker background colour than read posts.

wotzgoingon

Hollister11 wrote: »

I think unread post need to be made stand out more. Just a bolded title isn't great.

Try giving unread posts a darker background colour than read posts.

I think they are fine.

Hollister11

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I think they are fine.

I'm talking about the responsive site.

wotzgoingon

Hollister11 wrote: »

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I think they are fine.

I'm talking about the responsive site.

I'm on that site on both mobile and desktop and the new post threads in bold are fine.

the_barfly1

Padyjoe, if it was possible to quote or give thanks on opera mini with the new site, I would do both. Alas, neither are possible. I miss my headache free boards. There's not even a "view first unread" shortcut on threads anymore.

wotzgoingon

the_barfly1 wrote: »

Padyjoe, if it was possible to quote or give thanks on opera mini with the new site, I would do both. Alas, neither are possible. I miss my headache free boards. There's not even a "view first unread" shortcut on threads anymore.

It doesn't need it as on both mobile and desktop/laptop responsive site it will automatically go to the first unread post.

Hollister11

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I'm on that site on both mobile and desktop and the new post threads in bold are fine.

I don't think it's fine. It doesn't stand out as a unread post.

the_barfly1

wotzgoingon wrote: »

It doesn't need it as on both mobile and desktop/laptop responsive site it will automatically go to the first unread post.

On desktop now. Nope. that doesn't happen, I'm clicking into subbed threads on mobile and I'm usually sent to page 2 of a subbed thread, regardless of how long the thread is. I'm having to remember where I was in each thread which is quite time consuming.

wotzgoingon

the_barfly1 wrote: »

wotzgoingon wrote: »

It doesn't need it as on both mobile and desktop/laptop responsive site it will automatically go to the first unread post.

On desktop now. Nope. that doesn't happen, I'm clicking into subbed threads on mobile and I'm usually sent to page 2 of a subbed thread, regardless of how long the thread is. I'm having to remember where I was in each thread which is quite time consuming.

Well it goes to last unread post for me on my desktop PC, laptop and also on my phone. Windows 10 and Marshmallow android.

Dav

Hey there folks, updates...

So first of all, the list of bugs etc has been updated. Quite a bit of stuff's gone live this last 2 weeks and we've spent some of this afternoon re-prioritising things for the upcoming couple of weeks. You can see that here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UklPM8nlHZ3IeHJdPpoOrWe_PJ5U2Y_odMZ-edHKXS4/pubhtml

We've noticed today that the "last unread post" isn't working and that's on the list for Monday morning.

Opera Mini users - one of the lads asked me to ask you if you're using some sort of "reduced" mode that the browser supports? I'm unfamiliar with it myself, but they said that Opera Mini has some sort of "don't load all the things" mode for saving bandwidth and rendering? I'll try installing it myself on Monday and seeing if I can replicate.

The Text Editor has some quirks and features that we're going to explain in a separate area and we're going to include a link to that explanation beside the editor on every page so that should help clear some stuff up. It should also explain why there's no "preview" as the legacy site has - being a rich text editor we felt it wasn't necessary as the formatting is presented in the edit box. However, we're thinking we might still have a preview, it's a feature I find very handy myself for longer posts that you want to proof read.

So there are 2 major issues that affect the site as a whole and that's the Menu and Search. We're in the process of figuring out what to do with our current search functionality, but I'll have more on that next week. I'd like to talk about the menu first.

The Responsive Site's menu is obviously a total departure from the legacy site's and is geared towards showing off our new forum structure. The legacy site's menu was always going to be a temporary measure, but circumstances change and now the Legacy site's going to be sticking around a lot longer So, we're proposing to basically copy the style and layout of the Responsive site's menu over to the Legacy site - sounds simple, but it's a week's work for Jason and instead of just doing that we wanted to check that this is going to help address the problems people have (discoverability of forums being the number 1 issue).

the_barfly1

Dav wrote: »

Opera Mini users - one of the lads asked me to ask you if you're using some sort of "reduced" mode that the browser supports? I'm unfamiliar with it myself, but they said that Opera Mini has some sort of "don't load all the things" mode for saving bandwidth and rendering? I'll try installing it myself on Monday and seeing if I can replicate.

Opera Mini uses data compression through a proxy of theirs as far as I know, it uses some alchemy to deliver content on mobile with huge data savings. On the user side, it gives three options for image resolution - low, medium and high, which makes little odds to browsing asides from image resolution and data savings.

I run it in "single column view", which is a user preference - ie- you load the full version of the site but the browser reformats the page into a single column, for ease of use on a phone - you need only scroll up and down a page and not left to right - giving you full site functionality within a re-arranged layout. It's a really great way of reading vbulletin style message boards - boards (until recently), straight dope, digital spy etc etc.

I've been viewing boards this way since 2005 or so, and despite changes, was still able to get back to my own skin on the "legacy" site, until the recent change. The option to revert to legacy (the link) doesn't work now on this browser, and as I've mentioned earlier, boards.ie/? loads the legacy frontpage on Mini, but all further links bounce back into the new design, where functionality and ease of navigation are now very poor.

EDIT - the link for "legacy site" on Opera Mini is showing as boards.ie/b/# - which just essentially refreshes the page. As I'm sitting here on my laptop, all legacy site urls begin with boards.ie/vbulletin - which is where I want to be at when on mobile. If I manually enter a thread url with boards.ie/vbulletin/showthhreadxxxxx into Opera Mini, it automatically changes to boards.ie/b/showthreadxxxxx when the page is loading

Tipperary Fairy

Is anybody going to address the persistent 522 errors??

Hollister11

Tipperary Fairy wrote: »

Is anybody going to address the persistent 522 errors??

There are none.

Esel

Hollister11 wrote: »

There are none.

Since when?

jay93

wotzgoingon wrote: »

jay93 wrote: »

wotzgoingon wrote: »

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I have a bug and it seems someone else has it as well as they posted in the thread reporting the same problem. Happens only while on the mobile site.

http://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057593132#99690831

Please fix this very annoying when on phone and cannot scroll down to see which thread got a new post.

As at the minute I have to guess and go through loads of forums just to find which thread there was a post in.

This is driving me really crazy !! I have the same issue on iOS. I'm in the states since March so I'm forced to use this new mobile site. I can't even view the "talk to" forums no more in mobile view it just opens a full desktop page on my phone. Weirdly enough if I goto my followed threads and if one of those is a talk to thread it will display the new mobile version of that thread .. But if I try view the talk to thread any other way I get the desktop view .. Weird

Well this issue seems to be fixed today.

Cool looks like it's fixed alright finally !!

Hollister11

After making my self use the responsive site for a while, I'm starting to enjoy it.

Esel

Hollister11 wrote: »

After making my self use the responsive site for a while, I'm starting to enjoy it.

I read that as self-abuse. If you meant that, you should have employed a smilie - and not a Japanese one! :eek:

wotzgoingon

Hollister11 wrote: »

After making my self use the responsive site for a while, I'm starting to enjoy it.

I have been using it on all of my devices and it is great. It is particularly good on mobile devices compared to the old touch site.