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

Will the dark theme be making a comeback at some point?

I'll lift some of the points from my post in the AH thread, and add some more I've noticed since...

• 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)
• The "user" column to the left of each post varies depending on the length of their name
• The "Categories" section is even more unhelpful than the old menu system if trying to find a specific forum with the whole lot just lumped together
• No option to delete a post? I accidentally posted this in another tab but can't delete the entire post?
• Performance is very slow. Even had a Vanilla "Maintenance" page come up when loading this page
• Where are all the user/customisation settings?

Honestly guys... retrograde doesn't begin to describe this. As I said, if the plan is to fix forward now then ye shouldn't have launched in this state, and how these things weren't caught in testing(??) is beyond me.

I really think the only benefit here is for the devs (as the regular posts from staffers about how hard it was to maintain the old site illustrate), but the users and usability hasn't been considered at all.

Why is the site so bloody slow?

Ah well I got a good laugh anyway. All this bluster on twitter the last week about how the delay would ensure that everything was perfect, then the first post here is a list of things that are broken and being worked on.

Can someone tell me where to find my list of followed threads from before? I'm using the mobile site on android chrome.

That! No (obvious) option to cut a quoted post down to the relevant word/phrase/sentence, so the whole post is quoted (and re-quoted when nested). On just about every other forum I visit these days, it's possible to highlight and quote directly from the text of earlier posts, so I was expecting that feature to appear. Instead, we've gone at least a decade in reverse.

Also for multiposting - really annoying to have the page scroll every time straight to the comment box, forcing me to go looking back up the page to find where I'd got to. Another retrograde step that I don't have to suffer on other forums.

Hope it's ok to ask a few questions here.

How do I find my followed threads?

How do I like or thank a post?

When I search for something why do very old (15 year old) threads come up first? Just trying to find my topics/threads.

These two issues probably relate to a similar thing:

• Long user names / roles pushing user info panels out
• Quote function - adding too much space in reply

I haven't looked at the CSS, but it would appear that the style for the quote box refuses to overlap with the info panel. If I get a chance later I might see if I can suggest a fix.

• ‘Like’ button should be ‘Thanks’. Cannot see who you have thanked

No "Like" button at all on desktop.

For the "after the bugs" stuff,

• It would be nice for the desktop version to take up more screen space. Huge chunk of space on the right of the screen going unused.
• Quick link to "find my posts" somewhere would also be nice.

I like the editor. Finally a responsive editor that doesn't need you to know BB code.

What happened to subbed forums? Having to manually navigate to each one is just not a goer and puts me off the site. Unless I'm missing something of course. Should say this is on touch site.

"Find my threads" seems to have disappeared, and been replaced with "My Discussions" which presents two problems:

1. There doesn't appear to be any (obvious) way to find my own posts. Now, when I know I wrote something somewhere, I can't find it without trawling through hundreds of threads.

2. I'm getting notifications of new posts on threads that I have no interest in, because of one post on a random thread six years ago, and (again) with no obvious way to turn it off.

A lot of overlap between "My Bookmarks" and "My Discussions" with - so far - the worst aspects of both and few advantages.

Also, can't delete bookmarked threads en masse like in the old boards. Now each one has to be opened to be unbookmarked.