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Some site news...we're moving! [Update in Post #138 4/6/21]
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Presumably if I add an admin to a PM conversation the other person will be immediately aware that I've "reported" it. This action in itself may prompt particularly major dicks to subject the other poster to increased abuse as they know there'll be a window between inviting the admin and action being taken, which the reporter may not want to open themselves up to. This could in turn result in fewer reported PMs as people choose to ignore the other poster instead. I know there's the option to submit screenshots, but will there be a proper Report PM function available at a future date? And if a poster sends a screenshot of a PM they have an issue with, will there be a specific "mailbox" they can send it to that will take over the function of the Reported PMs forum, or will it be a case of adding a bunch of admins/office staff to the PM? The reason I ask this is that quite a few people seem to be unsure of who the admins are these days. I still get semi-regular PMs asking me to delete posts, etc.
A lot of the issue with people not knowing who are admins etc is you all going for these super cool tag lines under your name instead of your forum function.0 -
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They never moved fully away from vBulletin because the users didn't want change, the move from the old skin to the current style was too much for some
This is what dav was saying at the time95% of our tech team's time is being spent working on the feedback received on the beta test so far. But there are only 3 of them and they're not miracle workers.
I've tried explaining this before, but haven't done a good enough job obviously. So I'll do my best again to break down what's happening and why.
1) we need to be rid of VBulletin. It hasn't been fit for purpose for years. The Talk To forums and touch. no longer run on it thankfully. The rest of the site has to be moved away from it.
2) we have neither the time, money nor man-power to run 2 separate sites and dedicated apps. There are 3 developers and a sys admin in house to manage the technical needs of one of the biggest sites in this country.
3) responsive websites are the perfect solution to where the internet is right now - you have one site that figures out what kind of device you're using and serves you the appropriate layout. Mobile traffic is now more than half of Boards total - it was only about 30-35% this time last year.
4) not being tied to VBulletin means that changes take days instead of weeks to implement. Not having what currently amounts to 3 sites (plus apps) running in parallel means that the team's workload is DRASTICALLY reduced in terms of maintenance, changes and tweaks.
5) to the people who think we're just doing this for the craic - you are being big silly heads
I really don't think I need to expand on this, do I?
The most difficult thing in the online world to do, it seems, is change a website. You get almost universal hatred and criticism from the existing community of members who never, ever want anything to change. You can't get accurate feedback from the people you're hoping to attract because they cannot figure out the current site as it is and don't know how to give feedback. I would like to think that Boards has always done its best to give people what they want - we've never shied away from criticism or feedback and when there's an overwhelming majority of people looking for something to be changed, we do it. Making this move means we're going to be able to do it a LOT sooner. To the multitudes saying "ain't broke - don't fix" have no idea what they're talking about I'm afraid. They have neither the statistics nor the thousands of emails a year nor the feedback from people we want to do business with about how difficult our site is to use. Like it or not, we want and need more members and making the site more friendly to new people is how we do that.
We've thankfully had a lot of useful and detailed over the last few months which is why things have gone quiet on the Responsive Site Testing forum, the stuff's been read, sorted and prioritised and is being worked on. When there's a major update pushed, there'll be news about it there and the change notes listed and the process will be repeated. It's an iterative process, it takes time and above all your help (which you all do, please don't think we don't appreciate that).0 -
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No it's not one of the features of the new platform (at least not at the moment). The good new is when they build new features, we can just plug them in or not if they suit us as well as working on our own stuff.Can I get a notification if someone replies to one of my posts?
Join date will still be there yes.frozenfrozen wrote: »Will signup date be visible beside all posts?
I thinks so but I don't remember off the top of my head and can't access the test site at this very minute. I'll check that and get back to you.WestWicklow1 wrote: »Will there be a "Back to top" button in threads?
I've never heard of uservoice! Users have always been able to make suggestions for new features in Site Development or Feedback with other user's input but I'll take a look at uservoice to see what it's all about.StupidLikeAFox wrote: »Slightly off topic, but if new features are easier to implement on the new platform and its something admins are placing a focus on, would you consider setting up something like uservoice? This would let people suggest new features, other users could vote for them etc
Yes it will.MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 wrote: »Will "join date" still be under people's avatars?
They shouldn't cause the same issues but will check and confirm. I'm not sure they have any other sites as big/busy as Boards so they might not be too sure themselves.AlmightyCushion wrote: »What is the story with the 10,000 post limit per thread. Do threads that big cause issues on the new platform?
Your current avatars will be migrated to the new platform as they are but I think the avatar options will be different then, I'll have to double checkWill be changes to avatars? 0 -
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Gregor Samsa wrote: »I'm excited about this. I like new things.
I know people will gripe because such-and-such a feature will be gone or different, and it can be frustrating when something you're used to changes, but clearly the technology behind Boards is long overdue update. This really has to happen. We'll all get used to it in time no matter what.
Boards is all about the people and the content. And long may it continue.
Yeah I definitely agree. I can only imagine how vBulletin is being held together by little staples and some super glue after this long and it's a long overdue upgrade.
Sure, it might take a little while to get used to. For others maybe a bit longer than that.
But given the new features already announced by Niamh and the possibilities of more when the switchover is all done over time (I'll be asking about automated vote counters for Werewolf games Don't worry right now guys, we will talk soon though 
) I am seriously looking forward to it all.
The site may change in looks a bit and we might lose some old friends (pray for pac) but in the long-term this will be a fantastic thing to keep the site going.0 -
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Is there any way we could use this as an opportunity to find a balance between the current header with four drop downs (with only one of them being for actual forum topics)
And the older one? (apologies for the size, if you click into it you'll see what I mean, with all the drop downs for topics along the top)
One of my theories in many forums going dead is the compression of all of the topic drop downs which were along the top of the page into one TOPICS button. People just don't browse through them anymore.
The old system you just hovered your mouse at the top of the screen over a category and all the forums would appear. Was a really great way of discovering more obscure places you'd never visit, they'd all just display there in one place.0 -
The excitement in here is palpable! Which is why it pains me to tell you that we've had to push back the move from next week unfortunately. It is a combination of things really.
We had a deadline today to get a certain amount of things done which was a very tight but doable deadline but then Vanilla pushed out an update earlier in the week that knocked out all of Dave's theming and he had to re-do it. This pushed other things further down the To Do list. On top of that there are two backfground issues that we need to work out so we're going to spend more time looking at both of these issues. Hopefully it will just be a pause of a few weeks, we'll keep ye updated here.
Sorry about that, I know it was exciting to have something to look forward to 0 -
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Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »The excitement in here is palpable! Which is why it pains me to tell you that we've had to push back the move from next week unfortunately. It is a combination of things really.
We had a deadline today to get a certain amount of things done which was a very tight but doable deadline but then Vanilla pushed out an update earlier in the week that knocked out all of Dave's theming and he had to re-do it. This pushed other things further down the To Do list. On top of that there are two backfground issues that we need to work out so we're going to spend more time looking at both of these issues. Hopefully it will just be a pause of a few weeks, we'll keep ye updated here.
Sorry about that, I know it was exciting to have something to look forward to
You definitely work in IT with a detailed report like that! 0 -
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Declan A Walsh wrote: »You definitely work in IT will a detailed report like that!
Not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic :pac:0 -
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Declan A Walsh wrote: »Not sure myself! The level of detail in your explanation on why it is has to be postponed reminds of some people with IT careers!
God no.. we would usually get a "implementation of ticket xxxx has been postponed for this month."
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[Deleted User] wrote: »Usually it's "Management have told us to delay until X as they're having a board meeting and don't want there to be any risks due to the upgrade!"
Where they all sit around smoking cigars laughing at us mere minions 0
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