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.

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.

Bravo on the job guys...you really nailed it.

Jokes, I give you a 0/10.

No (obvious) option to toggle between auto-formatting and plain text. Just beginning to find this annoying as the software assumes that I want to e.g. insert bullet points or a numbered list, but decides for itself what's what (e.g. in post above, decided that the number 2. should be 1. in a new ordered list).

And (yet again) seriously retrograde step in removing all our basic formatting options - bold, italic, strikethrough, colour, size ... Sure - they may be there, but WHERE are they???

Ohhhhhh .... right. Should have guessed - this has become a clickety-click site, so nothing happens unless you click, double click or click-and-click again. And then it seems to be limited to bold and italic. That is really, really, really ancient coding. I hope you got the whole package at 1990s prices.

When you are viewing a user's profile, the option to view threads / comments they have posted is gone.

Is this not a important feature.

This is pretty bad. Why do I need to see a truncated list of 3800 users at the bottom of my page. I can't find my followed threads anywhere. What's the point of this?

Also is the wall of text list of active users at the bootom of the page on mobile needed?

To be honest, I'd say no myself as all it seems to be used for is some posters dragging up posts someone made months or years ago in a different context to try and score points against them now.

Something we could do without IMO.

The Groups seem to be broken at present and no discussions have carried over, even though it says 22k discussions beside the soccer forum.

Bookmarked discussions from groups also do not show in the MyThreads tab, would it be possible to add that

+1, was about to say the same myself. It always made me feel uncomfortable to see someone trundle through a user's old posts in an attempt to find something to hang them with. I'd be happy if this didn't come back.

Regarding the new design, I'll hold judgement until the issues are ironed out. I've read several "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" comments but the old site was very much broken so I agree something had to be done.