We're moving - Read-Only 7th July

looks like another purge of our information and settings like before

I cant seem to find the Soccer forum?

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.

Ya, it looks like those 4 buttons at the top of the homepage are useless. They just bring you back to the home screen every time. Even the adverts.ie one goes nowhere.

Outside of that, way too much whitespace on here. Always been an issue with the Talk To forums that made them unusable imo. You can only see one post on the screen at a time now which is ridiculous. Also, where's a dark theme?

The touch site actually has more settings options than the home site when you go to edit profile (unless i'm missing something, I can't see where to change password for example on the desktop site)

Soccer seems to have disappeared as a forum. Seen other post they can't see it too so what's going on there.

I'd say its very much a work in progress give it a chance 😁

Perhaps it's too early to provide feedback as this only went live in the last couple of hours & may not be the final product, but I'm really struggling to navigate through the new UX.

1. The old drop down system to get to different subforums is still displayed, but not usable. The new system (click into a new page...) adds so much unnecessary work to the user.
2. The new post layout does not work with users with long names and / or who or mods of several forums.
3. Where are my notifications gone?
4. How do I mark threads as read? They all look the same?
5. How do I change the default avatar I've been givien?

Very much appreciate that this is literally 2-3 hours in, but some of these issues feel like issues that should have been ironed out pre go-live.

I can only presume that they put it back online while they continued to work on certain aspects of the site, the private forums being one of them. Allow people to post and discuss again while working in the background. Hopefully it will be back online soon

If you are on mobile you need to switch to desktop view on your browser.. the 3 dots on the browser screen and "switch to desktop view"

First impressions

• can't see the title of the thread when I'm scrolled down within it
• typing has a lag, pages are really slow to load
• from the home page or the "my threads" page, doesn't seem possible to get to the latest post with one click, the little arrow just brings you to the first page
• the buttons to navigate through pages or go to last page are only at the bottom of the page, so have to scroll down first
• the tabs for followed threads, followed forums is gone when you're within a thread

However, I'm well aware that this only just went live, so maybe just clunky start-up issues?

Great to see ye back!!

Great to be back and I do appreciate that its a work in progress , cannot help but feel if you wanted a change why not just have made a new skin?, there's nothing here so far that i can see that the old site didn't have already and a massive amount less. Its slower too despite having far less bells and whistles.

Search facility is all but useless.

No way to search a users previous posts. ( Maybe posts from the old site are archived)

As another poster said, options at the top of the page ( Discussions- Categories- Groups) need to be clicked on, and a new page opened, instead of the old "hover", and a drop down menu appearing.

Really poor.

Like a website from the mid 90's 😥

yeah, that's a total mess.

and when you quote someone it displays really weird in the centre and wastes lots and lots of space

Honestly - was this even tested before going live?

The theme is not even close to being ready for public launch. Lots and lots of bugs/missing features (can't edit posts. etc). Why on earth a few thousand posts/users weren't sampled from the old database and tested on the new system before launch is beyond me! It's a calamity.

Soccer forum?

When looking for new posts in followed threads I now have to do 3 clicks to get to a post in a thread.

On old Boards it was a hover and single click if I remember correctly.

(Ugh, I've just seen the double line spacing when typing a post.)

Slooooooowwwwww

The thanks button disappeared for all posts after I posted on the forum.

To see who's thanked/liked a post I have to do a hover, which I didn't have to do before.

I think I preferred the site when it was just the guy asking about the Toyota bumper and everyone thanking the post.

You can edit. Nothing obvious like an "edit post" tag, though (seems to be the hallmark of this set-up) : you have to CLICK (there's that click addiction again) on the barely-visible three dots in the blue banner at the top of your post to reveal the edit option and then (guess what) CLICK on Edit. Which then brings up a confusing edit box repeating your original post under your original post. Wha' ? It all sorts itself out when you "Save Comment"

Can't see any indication on the edited post that it was changed, and no obvious prompt to say why you edited it.