Do you like the New boards

Mitch Connor

A few problems as some have pointed out

• Ignore is more hidden
• Directory list of the forums I follow has disappeared.
• In my display, at least, quoting looks terrible - there is loads of white space, then the quote, then anything written below

I' sure all of those, and more, will be fixed in relatively short order,so i'm not going to panic over it. Change is always awkward so i'd let the dust settle and see what items are to be fixed before I make any real gripes out layout or user-experience.

The Continental Op

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612139#Comment_117612139

Desktop is just as slow.

castletownman

Soccer forum moved to groups but absolutely nothing on it.

Can't re-follow my old threads via the desktop.

Lay-out isn't easy on the eye.

Slow as a funeral to load.

Can't seem to change the time to the actual time. Posted something on two forums this morning and it says I did so an hour earlier than I did.

FB ruined their own interface with the business suite thing they introduced-this is worse.

The Continental Op

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612142#Comment_117612142

Looks like they need a dedicated team to fix the new site already.

Jim Gazebo

I think I'll log out for now and come back later on for a look. It's dog slow and hard to use on the phone.

Burt Renaults

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612165#Comment_117612165

Here, have another one. Enjoy. 🍆

Feisar

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612051#Comment_117612051

No harm in the fixes being community driven on a free site.

Akrasia

They've done a decent job of replicating the original look and feel on the desktop version, but on mobile it's just a bit broken, even if you request the desktop site

I've also had a couple of crashes and the response times are much slower than the old site.

Hopefully this is down to teething issues [quote]testing bbcode[/quote]

68 lost souls

The padding is too much, the text is too small, the border between posts is too thin. To actually be able to read any thread I have to zoom in about 150% but the poster details encroach into the post then. A bit of constructive criticism here for the guys.

Also the padding on the left is about 3cm and the right is about 9cm. There is also more blank space than actual posts.

I can only see 1 or 2 posts at a time where I used to be able to see a few.

Akrasia

f you comment on a thread and you're not on the last page, when you post the comment, it seems to tack into the middle of the thread until you refresh the page

eeepaulo

Everyone only has one star next to their name

323

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117611994#Comment_117611994

Your probably right.

First thoughts, bloody awful, threads missing, clumsy and difficult to navigate. On a limited bandwidth connection, barely fit for purpose.

Ranjo

Can there be a new forum for the shedload of posters who are going to whinge about the new site after using it for 10 seconds?

Ye all sound like war veterans bleating on shite about the good old days.

Let the dust settle, give yourself time to get used to it. It's a free site, for the 99.9% who don't subscribe.

All looks good to me so far on desktop. The mobile site is so badly lacking in basic functionality that I'm going to assume in hope that it's just a placeholder and there's a proper one on the way.

Kingp35

It's a bit of a mess at the moment but I suspect that they just wanted to get back online and fix things as they go. There are quite clearly a lot of issues to fix, I'm hoping they'll get there. One of obvious one is the ridiculous amount of white space before a quoted post.

I really hope they bring back the dark theme asap, this white theme is horrible compared to the old dark theme.

They need to try fix the bugs asap or they'll lose a lot of posters.

Ferris_Bueller

They've done a good job of making the site look the same on desktop at least, haven't tried mobile version yet.

It seems very slow so far and some forums appear to be missing and/or harder to find. Not having the drop down list of forums from the top of the screen is annoying - don't want to have to click back to the homepage every time you want to move to another forum.

Also it is not letting me 'thank/like' posts at the moment saying I do not have access to this feature or something.

I'm sure most of these issues will be ironed out and it will be as good as new shortly - bigger worry is that with the week or so it has been down, and probably another few days before it is back up and running properly, that it will have lost many posters for good.

freshpopcorn

Has the Thanks button died or something?

Sup08

Can't see the point in the change. Not user friendly navigation thus far compared to the old site and takes 30 seconds to 60 tp get anywhere. Way too slow and pretty frustrating.

nedd

I can't find my Favorited Forums. Is there no way to save a list of my fav's?

ben.schlomo

Where's the soccer forum hiding?

XLR 8

I like it. It's gonna take time to navigate it properly but so far so good.

FrankC21

A bit confusing if your used to the old forum This will be confusing to use for older generations, no offence, but a tutorial video would be great.

Fandymo

Absolutely awful. A week offline for this. Don't think I'll be back.

mickh

Absolute Disaster!

Threads missing and no longer available. I hope that it is just a case that they are still migrating some data.

Search is useless

Speed terrible

The website has been absolutely destroyed.

Burt Renaults

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612294#Comment_117612294

They'll be dead soon anyway.

charlietheminxx

How do you thank posts on desktop now? I can see the new options on touch but not on desktop?

Purgative

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612273#Comment_117612273

Good, thought it was just me😁

RunDMC

For me, it seems much slower, page load times have gone from ~1 sec to ~5 seconds. Followed threads seem to be missing some, but that could be just because there are no new posts. The lack of speed is the biggest problem for me.

R

Signore Fancy Pants

This can't be the new site, is it? Did Vanilla get paid for this? Which Boards staff thought this was the way forward?

Not good at all, almost unusable and ugly as feck.

I think this may be terminal for me.

FrankC21

What you should have done is left the old forum going for a while and did a test run of a new one and did the migration in a slow pace, you completely did this in a rush. Seems like you just dump everything in one go.