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We're moving - Read-Only 7th July

Boards.ie: Niamh

Further to our post on 1st June that we were moving platform - we really are moving platform this week :pac:

As you know we had a bit of a hiccup in June and took some extra time to work on some issues in the background.

The site will go read-only from tomorrow Wednesday 7th July at 6am until some time on Thursday 8th July while all of our site data is transferred to the new platform. It may spill over into Friday as other work has to be completed once the transfer is done and before we can open the site back up to posts again.

We are under no illusions that the new version of the site will be perfect, it won't be. We expect that you guys will discover issues that we didn't see. Some things will just work a little differently to what you are used to, otherwise it will more or less be the same.

Once we get any teething issues sorted out we're excited to see how we can update the site with new additions and features. You can go back to my earlier post here for details on what will be new after the move.

Hopefully nothing too discussion-worthy happens when we're read-only! :eek:

Thanks all!

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punisher5112

Out with the old in with the new....

Bye everyone it's been a pleasure....

rameire

My work won't know whats hit it tomorrow when I get some work done. Do my regulated learning.
Update my LinkedIn.
I'm going to be super efficient like I was back in 2001.

See you on the other side Boards.ie

[Deleted User]

the_syco wrote: »

So many bosses will wonder why we had a productive day :pac:

There's always Facebook

dulpit

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Some avatars that don't date back to the 1990s might be nice.

Oh no, didn't think of that. I'm going to miss Mr. Strong.

Leg End Reject

SouthWesterly wrote: »

There's always Facebook

Or constantly checking - are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? :pac:

Gregor Samsa

This is a bit like visiting your Nan in hospital just before she gets her hip operation.

You know life will be better for her after it, but a little bit of you is worried that she won’t wake up.

global23214124

Good luck with the move. Hope ye pull it off without too many hiccups

[Deleted User]

I'm very frrightened.

dulpit

Wonder if there's an aware for whoever posts the last item before read-only mode is applied, so they'll appear at the top of the homepage for at least 24 hours?

cefh17

The next two days are vital

Leg End Reject

cefh17 wrote: »

The next two days are vital

We must flatten the curve!

Deja Boo

Wonder how much of the past post data will be archived (or possibly

dumped) in the transition, preserving and transferring all the years of boards data must be overwhelming for any format.

punisher5112

dulpit wrote: »

Wonder if there's an aware for whoever posts the last item before read-only mode is applied, so they'll appear at the top of the homepage for at least 24 hours?

Be a great time to advertise ;-)

New Home

If anyone is having Boards withdrawal symptoms...

https://www.facebook.com/boards.ie
https://twitter.com/boards_ie

Shield

Good. At least now I’ll have time to update my Bebo page. Been a while.

Overheal

There's something important I have to tell you. I -

Deja Boo

I seem to have acquired 2100+ more posts (and counting) in the transition, oh my.

Deja Boo

^ never mind, it was figured out - puzzles on the old platform didnae count posts, so the extra post numbers makes sense now - i cant seem to delete the above post so just putting it here, cheers

Deja Boo

I do have 3 questions, when all this gets settled ...... (1) vanilla offers no way to delete pm's (or discussions) ???

I wish we had learned this before the transfer, I would've cleaned off all my old pm's. "Leaving the conversation" doesn't seem the same (at all)...it does appear even our old messages (even those deleted formerly) are tallied (given there is a number under the conversation).

and... (2) if we choose to close our account, can this be done? and (3) will all our post data remain on our profile page, or will it get scrambled as it was on the old platform?

[Deleted User]

Oh. Lookit. I can post.

Leg End Reject

I presume there's still some changes to come? It's very hard to navigate and the follow button doesn't seem to work, I still need to scroll through all the categories to find a forum.

Pintman Paddy Losty

Is this the finished product?? It's absolutely awful!

[Deleted User]

Desktop site is decent.

Touch, not sure yet.

Skerries

looks like another purge of our information and settings like before

[Deleted User]

I am completely lost anyway on the desktop site :)

1) I Can not find how to follow / unfollow a forum.

2) I Can not find the way to mark posts in a forum as read, or mark posts in all forums read option.

3) I can not find a screen like we used to have that shows you only which forums you are subbed to and if there are new posts in them.

4) I can not find the Advranced Search Function to filter by dates and username and more.

5) Many threads are showing "new" posts in them even though there is no posts new. Sometimes no posts new for many years.

6) The "Last post" date shown on some threads is different to the actual last post. For example if I look at "After Hours" the thread "Information for those in need of a little extra help *READ OP BEFORE POSTING*" shows as "Last Post" the information "13-11-13 13:49 whoopsadaisydo". But if I actually open that thread that is the date of the first post, not the last one.

Ardennes1944

I cant seem to find the Soccer forum?

embraer170

It's not the 1st of April is it?

tinpib

Initial thoughts, it's way, way worse than before, sadly.

Moving "latest Posts, my forums, my threads, trending, and thanks" to the homepage is not necessarily a bad idea. However it ain't broke don't fix it. Where it was in the top right corner was better as you had easy access to it.

In any kind of website, user expereince etc type thing, the crucial thing is eliminating clicks to get what you want. Adding them is terrible from this point of view.

Now when you go into any thread, the "latest Posts, my forums, my threads, trending, and thanks" disappears, it means you have to click back to the homepage to access them. This is immensely frustrating.

Also the site seems, way, way slower, but maybe that's just me, or maybe it might improve.

I hope it is all still a work in progress. You will get a huge amount of feedback( i.e, complaints! :) ) over the next few days. I really hope it can be taken on board and then changes implemented.

looksee

I can only access the front page and threads on it. No topics, talk to or regional. No navigation.

[Deleted User]

Not sure if anyone else having this issue - but if you however your mouse over the username of someone who posted in the thread (like if I hover over looksee above me here) it shows two options to "View Profile" or "Send message".

However the moment I move my mouse to select one of those two options - the options disappear too fast - so you can not actually select either of them.