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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,403 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Sorry, you planned a massive site move with just ONE dev!? What in gods name were you thinking of making that decision. Your wallet....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    is this the new and improved experience?


    same as all the previous new and improved experiences


    nothing improved, user experience diminished, standard.


    made an absolute hames of it, an absolute hames



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭stronglikebull


    The loss of link ins from Google search results is surely a site killer, no? 20+ years of information with broken links would surely turn people off the site. To me, that's a huge overlook.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    That should sort itself out over time. The same thing happened when the old responsive site was made default outside of Ireland.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    Nice to have the site back up and running again.

    Will be nicer when the bugs are ironed out but for now, it's good to be back!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    where is soccer? It's not appearing under the Sports category

    where is my subbed list?

    this is amateur hour



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,500 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    On My Threads, a thread title remains bold even when it has been read making it impossible to determine if you're up to date on your thread at a later date. Also no notification of how many of My Threads are unread.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Mobile site is awful



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭Meesared


    Yeah honestly cant use Boards without the Dark theme, the fact you went live on a new design in 2021 without a dark theme is baffling



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,946 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    The wasted space above a quoted post is annoying.

    And no uniformity for the borders of a users profile on the left of a post



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭archfi


    Quoted posts if more than a few lines has an arrow to click to expand - it doesn't work so you can't see the quoted post which makes the reply post incoherent.

    Links posted are not just links but connect to the external site on loading, it's a live link

    No thanks button, no multiquote button --> EDIT Like button appeared on this post but not any others for me to like/thank

    EDIT 2 - fixes are live - like button now appearing, flag button appearing

    Huge amount of whitespace.

    Profile adjustments/options not implemented

    No offline status option

    Same as others, main links either not coherent or don't work

    Notifications polluted by nonsense like changing profile pic

    Mobile - huge list of all active users? Why?😯

    Profile icon top right corner doesn't fit (white spaces at edges)

    I guess most of this is css stuff etc and hopefully gets fixed soon.

    What does api.keen.io do?

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    I can find nothing I want. My bookmarks lists threads I never followed. I can't see my own posts listed. It's god-damned awful. I'll give it a miss for a while and see if it tidies itself up. It's just too much bother to do anything as things stand.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭smuggler.ie


    <q>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.</q>

    Way to much "white" space all over.

    upload img is improvement


    quoting controls/presentation, as mentioned above, are poor.

    Lots of work ahead for dev.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,024 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Do you know if the next “updates” will be over the coming days or will it be weeks?

    It’s far from ideal to have to have to use the browser settings on your phone to switch between Touch and Full Site. Also, I seem to lost the ability to thank, or “like”, posts.

    It’s a real shame that the, more, popular users have lost their thanks “totals” as well. Not great having to start from 0. Real shame.

    I, personally, feel that the Admins should really consider adding the lost time, 1 week, on to the bans that those users who couldn’t stick within the site rules are, currently, “serving”.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,675 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I put a hyperlink in a post but it's so similarly coloured, you can't tell it's there unless you mouse over it. Contrast needs adjusting.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,675 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Notifications of new posts do not go away after reading. You have to click mark all read.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭Scotty #


    To find your subbed threads either...




  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,294 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    Dark theme is needed ASAP. The current theme is horrible on my eyes.

    Enforced double spacing in posts shouldn't be a thing.

    Drop down menus need to brought back, the entire site is not user friendly at all, too many clicks required to do anything.

    There is no link at the bottom of a page to go back into the thread forum, you have to scroll all way back up to the top of the page. Again it's not user friendly at all.

    TBH I think it was a bad idea going live with so many issues, it's going to drive people away from the site.

    EDIT: Threads are not being marked as read, this is a huge issue for me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I'm using Chrome on Android, I didn't use the dark theme on the touch site, but all the whiteness here is hurting my eyes.

    Will there be an incognito option? That would help to reduce the list of users at the bottom of the page.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,675 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    The link brings me to a page saying I'm leaving boards & then when followed, it just goes to the homepage.

    Bookmarks gives a short list of followed threads. Where are the subbed forums though?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    Firstly I suppose thanks Odhran, great to have the site back. I have to say I did miss it while it was away.

    I suppose as highlighted above there are always going to be items which people had gotten used to which they'll look for back. Is there anyway for people to log tickets/requests like bugzilla rather than blindly posting into this thread? I can only imagine ye won't be able to see the wood from the trees if ye only take requests through this?

    Or even if ye transpose stuff from this into yer own ticketing system, giving people an idea what items ye are going to look at and prioritise?

    Thanks again and great to have ye back!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭Scotty #


    The first link was working fine 10 minutes ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Using the mobile site now. Far, far superior to the old touch site. Nice job.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Not sure what's going on here where the text is all shunted over the to the right. https://boards.ie/discussion/2058198836/mr-corman-apple#latest



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,500 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Are previous 'thanks' being migrated over?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,724 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The 'My Forums' tab is completely broken on desktop - it's usually the main way I interact and navigate the site! At the moment just seems to be the same as 'My Threads', but in the opposite order.

    Obviously 'My Forums' completely missing from touch, but I know the mobile fix is already top of the list :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,019 ✭✭✭✭GBX



    Thanks for that - looks to have been added on the go.

    An annoyance which i'm sure will change is that you have to click the link to navigate offsite when in fact it is still on boards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    How can I follow a thread?

    ie this one?

    Be interested to see if this automatically subscribes me to it, a few people have said it doesn't/wont - but is there a subscribe button somewhere that I just can't find?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    what does "promoted to level 3" mean and why was I promoted to it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,019 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    There is a bookmark icon to the right of the thread title. It will then be found @ https://boards.ie/discussions/bookmarked



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Right, I've got my answer - posting hasn't subscribed me to it - and I have a right headache now after going all around the houses trying to find the thread again!

    So, is there a way to subscribe to a thread that I just can't see?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The title of the thread that I have to scroll all the way back up to the top of the page to find???

    God, this is all very hard work!

    But having said that, I was so bored without boards to resort to for the last week, even trying to find my way around the new version is keeping me somewhat amused, in a perverse sort of way......



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,865 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    Where on earth have all the r&r threads gone?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭jem


    The size of the font and no way to adjust and the wasted space on the right and the double or tripple spaceing!!

    The pages are so bright

    When you like a post it seems to jump upwards a few posts.

    The my forums is a huge miss. I just go to the forums that I am interested in and liked that I would know whether there was a post in one of them by clicking on it.



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Visually its quite nice




    Im promoted to level 3,whatever that means?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Please bring back the dark theme, its really not usable for my eyes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,364 ✭✭✭✭Oat23


    Hopefully it's just a couple of clicks required to bring back the Soccer forum with all the old content. It's one of the most popular forums on the site but it seems like it was an afterthought.

    The theme looks great on desktop to be fair so well done on whoever custom made that. Hopefully an option to stretch out the content to the full screen like we had available on vbulletin can be added as there's a lot of empty space as it is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    where is the soccer forum?

    I bet they haven't figured out a way to keep the ne'er-do-wells out of it


    all the people who use bad language and call people names and upset the snowflakes



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,952 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    There is ☺

    In the Write a comment box , click on first icon bottom left , then the third icon that comes up , spoilers at the bottom of the list .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭stronglikebull


    Screenshot of where to find spoiler tags. On my desktop, it's the weird icon to the left of the comment box, then click the quotes icon and select the appropriate tag.

    Hopefully this will be visible when I post it :P



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Ceist_Beag


    As SpudMonkey said, it would be better if we were able to log issues rather than posting them on this thread as it will be very easy to miss things in this thread.

    How and ever I'll post a few items here. Firstly though it is good to have it back, even if it is somewhat unusable at the minute.

    First issue for me is the excessive whitespace - it has already been mentioned a number of times.

    Second is that My Threads no longer highlights threads with unread posts - nor do I get the number of threads with unread posts under my profile.

    When I click on a thread with unread posts I no longer see the View First Unread button to bring me to the first one.

    At the minute the site isn't really usable for me so I'll come back in a few days when hopefully most items are resolved.



  • Boards.ie Employee Posts: 149 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Odhran
    Boards.ie Employee


    Hey - I flagged this one in original post. These will be imported later today. Missed in the migration import but we have them. Same for forums you are following and bookmarks.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Ceist_Beag


    Also what is with the icon under my username? Is there any way of changing this?



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I can't see any way to change your password.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,886 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    First icon on the bottom left for me emojis, then picture attachment then URL attachment then just attachment that's it nothing else in the comment box for me to click on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭nullObjects


    Login seems to be taking me 4 or 5 seconds each time. (On Mac / Chrome / Desktop)

    Not sure if you are updating assets throughout the morning and I'm downloading them each time or something.

    Also echoing the followed forums thing that people posted about

    Good luck with the update



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,119 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    R.I.P. Pac.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,638 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    It's not great really, few issues for me...

    Threads on a phone are just a big white page you scroll down with a load of writing appearing, far too hard to differentiate between posts. A hair thin grey line isn't a border. The destop site has the blue border between posts though which is good.

    The categories section is a mess, it's easier to search for a forum in the search bar than go looking for it.

    New posts in a thread aren't highlighted enough, little yellow star doesn't cut it for me. Prefer the dark bold writing in the thread title that appears with a new post.

    'Users Online' at the bottom of the page...massive list of names. Could be made a drop down.

    The above are mobile specific issues, the desktop site is just a case of too much white space everywhere as has been said. Needs to be tightened up and the colours tinted a bit or something I don't know. Name panel to the left of the post should be darker and the post section darkened a little bit too.

    Post edited by Witcher on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    cant edit quotes... i only want to quote the end of this post but can't

    anyway. I honestly feels like there wasn't any testing done, obvious issues would have been caught if there was and they clearly were not.



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