New Touch site

Ah lads... what have ye done????

• As with the god-awful "responsive" site, there is so much wasted white space everywhere - and this is the desktop version!
• The top menu bar is reduced even further and (unless I'm missing something), doesn't pop-up when you hover making it even harder to get around as it opens a new page instead
• My favourites/Bookmarks now seems to be every thread, rather than the forums themselves?
• No dark theme.. ye had a week and couldn't put that in? Makes the whole thing very hard to read (see also point 1)
• The "touch" version has gone from clean and readable to cluttered and cramped (ironic considering the first point again!)
• "Vanilla" is an appropriate name for this platform - it's bland, flat, generic and has lost the flavour of the old site.

Of course I know none of what people here are posting will be heeded and dismissed as the "usual whinging" (as the customer engagement hasn't changed!), but I have a feeling that despite the talk of the benefits this new platform will supposedly offer users, this change was more about making the devs lives easier than anything else.

If the plan is to overhaul most of the issues raised above, then ye shouldn't have launched this in the state it's in now, as all I can see this doing is driving more users off the site!

First load : Its slower

First impressions : Its harder to navigate and a step back on the design of the old boards

Deeper impression : They have just skinned an inferior bulletin board and have lost most of the functionality and customisation that have made Boards what it was on the original platform

Conclusion : .... I hope ye go back

What in the name of jaysus were ye thinking.

Reminds me of when Ford replaced the Granada with the Scorpion. Hideous.