We're moving - Read-Only 7th July

Piehead

unspeakably bad update. I’d suggest just rolling it back and chalking it up to experience. Otherwise it’s over and out for Boards.

ec_pc

S L O W

holly_johnson

I just get the sense that this project has been troubled since the beginning. I feel for the boards people, this must be very stressful and a pile-on is probably the last thing they want/need, but to be honest this looks like an exercise in how NOT to migrate/upgrade a site. For a project that is a week over deadline it looks like they've rushed to put something up and will probably iron out the issues as they go.

Adding to all of the other issues above, I am also getting random "503" errors saying the site is down for maintenance.

EDIT: I've also noticed that if you hover over a thread title, you no longer get the first few lines of the post to see if it's something you want to click into.

I've really missed the site so I don't want to seem like I'm complaining too much though!

Agent Coulson

Where is the soccer forum?

upandcumming

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611692#Comment_117611692

A work in progress? The site has been unavailable for a week!

Trigger

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611835#Comment_117611835

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612067#Comment_117612067

Multi quote works but because you get pushed back to the post box it is annoying, you can hit quote, move back up and hit quote on a second post and they will here too

PhilOssophy

View first unread now missing from the threads?

Gerry Wicklow

Seriously guys. Roll back until you have this disaster fixed. It should never have been launched without prior testing. ☹️

blackbox

I'm sure it has been very stressful and I'm sure there are things that will improve as the bugs are ironed out.

I don't see any "thanks" button - only Facebook and Twitter buttons and I have that ****. I use Boards to avoid them.

My Forums seems to have disappeared, but I'm guessing this is a commissioning thing.

Also it seems slow - again probably a commissioning issue.

Boards.ie: Niamh

Morning all. Thanks for posting the issues which we are collating for fixes. Serveral of them are on a list to be worked on already. There is an update thread here which is where any further updates on fixes etc. will be posted: https://boards.ie/discussion/2058198814/welcome-to-the-new-boards-ie-platform-version-1-0#latest

Thanks.

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612297#Comment_117612297

By multi quote I think they mean the ability to multi quote one single persons post. Like if you post two paragraphs and I wanted to reply to each one separately? This ability seems to be gone. Then again many people might be happy about that given over multi quoted posts were hard to read. I was guilty of over using it at times - and at least one user I know of weaponised it to simply barrage people into giving him the last word by making his posts impossible to reply to. When you post a short reply and get 20 multi quoted response back - you tend to just give up and move on and give that user the "win".

I also saw it mentioned that the ability to "ignore" users is gone. Not checked myself as it was not a feature I have ever used myself on any forum anywhere. But I imagine some peoples personal well being is wrapped up in being able to ignore the posts of users who are upsetting to them. So some people might genuinely suffer at the loss of that feature.

For me the only feature I ever used - to the point I find the site unusable without it - was the "control panel" view where you saw instantly which forums you were subscribed to and which ones have unread posts inside them. There seems to be no way to do any of that now? On the old site my Web Browser bookmark was directly to the http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/usercp.php link and I could open it - quickly see if there's any new posts - and then leave.

Invite only forums like Sex and Sexuality appear to be gone?

CelticRambler

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612585#Comment_117612585

No, Trigger understood it correctly. On the old forum, it was possible to refer to (quote) three or four different posts, sometimes by the same poster, if - for example - you wanted to highlight their contradictory statements, or by several posters making the same point.

Everything about the quote facility is a mess at the moment - too much white space, impossible to edit/snip it, impossible to highlight or colour words or phrases within it, and if multiquoting (thanks Trigger) every click takes you immediately to the comment box, meaning you have to then scroll back again and again to the posts you want to quote.

Boards.ie: Niamh

Guys I am closing this thread so that you can post all issues in the thread I have linked above. It'll just make it that bit easier to keep track of the issues.

I've already addedd all of the issues listed here to my list.

Please use this thread:

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058198814/welcome-to-the-new-boards-ie-platform-version-1-0#latest

Thanks.