Welcome to the new Boards.ie platform - Version 1.0 :)

mossie

Hi @Boards.ie: Niamh Any timeline for the return of "followed forums" drop down? Also a "mark forum read" button in the forum? These are the biggest issues I have now that the topics drop down is back.

GM228

The ability to strike through, bold and italicise has been there from the start, but what about underline, change colour etc? Any options there?

iLikeWaffles

My god what happened, too funny to be even mad about it. Boards blue seems to have gotten darker or is just me.

Tork

I think the lack of dark mode is frying your eyeballs

iLikeWaffles

Hard to see it changed very slightly I think. Some might be able to discriminate the colour differences better than others.

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118023153#Comment_118023153

No specific timeline at the moment mossie but they have been listed as features that users really want to see soon as lots of people have asked for them, in particular the Followed Forums.

Boards.ie: Niamh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118023653#Comment_118023653

I think it's bit darker on the dropdown menu at the top but nothing else has changed.

ibarelycare

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118022560#Comment_118022560

This!

This is so embarrassing at this stage. Is nothing being tested? How did this get past both Vanilla and Boards without being noticed?

ETA pic attached for reference. You can't scroll past Networking & Broadband in that menu cos it falls off the page.

Boards.ie: Niamh

Thanks we're aware of this and it should be fixed today. The menu was part of last night's update but wasn't supposed to be live until some tidying up was done on it. However it went live, some people were glad to have it back so we decided we'd get it fixed today rather than adding it, removing it and then putting it back up.

Boards.ie: Niamh

The update we had last night made the following changes:

- timestamp on the homepage on desktop has been fixed, it was previously one hour out of sync

- Digiweb removed from the footer as this was out of date information

- Navigation menu added to the top bar - this is still being worked on as some lists are spilling past the confines of the screen and some forum names are too long to fit in the menu

- Ads enabled - up to now there were no ads on mobile and very few on desktop, this has now been rectified and will ensure that we have an income of some sort. 

The white space issued created by the update was rectified this morning and we're aware of Adblock causing issues at the top of the desktop screen for some users.

More next week, have a nice weekend all 🙂

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118025080#Comment_118025080

I've had ads on mobile for weeks.

fritzelly

@Boards.ie: Niamh Please add an hover delay to the top menu

iLikeWaffles

The dropdown is much darker.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118024510#Comment_118024510

No need for the navigation boxes on the pages. However this is how those menus should be styled and it shouldn't be changed no mater what, a tribute to who added it! It is fairly close to the old navigation also.

Igotadose

It's really bad to have lost the ability to unfollow threads using the little flag at the top (the one that goes from blue to red and back). Also, the buttons for 'My Threads' 'My forums' now only being about 10% visible on the landing page is very annoying! All this since the outage yesterday, and I guess we're stuck with it through the weekend:

I can now do a search on mobile and not have to Wade through posts that are 10 years old to find something relevant.

Pussyhands

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118025080#Comment_118025080

Hi Niamh,

Thanks for the update. Just FYI, the forum timestamp is still one hour out of sync.

Have a good weekend :)

Gadgetman496

On Desktop

In the My Bookmarks pages and Discussions pages there are 3 columns, Last Post, Replies and Views.

If you click on the Boards logo however, there are only 2 columns, Latest Posts and Posts.

Why so?

TheChrisD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118025080#Comment_118025080

Ads enabled - up to now there were no ads on mobile and very few on desktop, this has now been rectified and will ensure that we have an income of some sort.

Oh, is that what those random tiny gaps in the middle of threads were? Those tiny .mid-ad .ad-container div's which have been very promptly whisked away by a minor Stylus tweak?

Next you're going to tell us that there's going to suddenly be promoted posts inserted into the forum listings disguised as regular posts, á la Reddit.

The thing they should take from Reddit is gilded posts where a couple of euro go to boards and the post gets some styling to show it got some love.

And I'll keep saying this every few months because it's the perfect site for it. A mature userbase that's used to the thanks system and understands the need for money to keep the site going.

Of course boards.ie would naturally think "we can't build that into vanilla" but you don't have to. You just layer it on top with some JS.

Cookie_Monster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118022787#Comment_118022787

Is that because it was launched untested again?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118027419#Comment_118027419

Shush...

You can't be saying those things even if they appear true🤣

mossie

1. Front page the tabs are hidden under the header.
2. When I get to the "My Forums" page it seems that bold / unbold has stopped working.

pleasant Co.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118027668#Comment_118027668

And the bookmark tab thing on a thread. The top boards.ie banner has just overlayed it all.

Pelvis Parsley

This is beyond amateur hour.

Gen.Zhukov

As a temp fix to find 'my threads' hover the cursor under discussions (as s/shot) and click, it goes to My threads

HeidiHeidi

Is the site gone glacially slow for anyone else tonight?

Pages taking an absolute age to load.

Gadgetman496

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118030531#Comment_118030531

It's been noticeable slow loading for me on Desktop for a couple of days now.

The size of the adverts placeholders is not helping I'd imagine

-=al=-

Extra slow tonight.

Even at normal times, it’s the slowest website I’ve encountered on my travels across the web. It’s crazy slow. Those milliseconds count :pac:

joujoujou

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118014701#Comment_118014701

Nice, thanks. All the links, however, redirect to https://www.boards.ie/profile instead.

Tom Mann Centuria

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118025086#Comment_118025086

Yeah me too, big ugly fuppers in amongst threads. Interestingly since they announced ads were back I've actually had less ads. This page has two little grey blocks that says advertisement, with no advert. I don't have an ad blocker turned on, laughably to try and support this mess of a site.

This is the way with boards these days. Situation Normal All Fupped Up