Well, what do ye think of the new site 👍👎
I ve always equated boards with pub talk and this is just the local getting done up.it ll feel all different for a while but we ll be back to talking the same old s##t in no time.the break from it did no harm either
I agree with comments.............. however, it's early days. I'd say the pressure to get 'something' up and running was enormous, given the delays. I think a lot of the missing functionality will return over time. Comments everywhere are similar.
The old site was run on vBulletin software. It was nearly the default across the web with several forums I was on using it. It made acclimatising to a new forum very easy. However, Boards is a giant compared to the normal forum and recent outages have shown up its deficiencies. Boards had put a layer of its own customised software on top of vBulletin to make it even more complex.
I'm not impressed with the capabilities of Vanilla. I'd say 'management' aren't either! They will be underpinning this new forum...
But, time will tell and there are changes in functionality coming to get things back closer to normal... perhaps, better in some cases. The weather is good, there's other things to be doing in these long evenings without worrying about Boards. It's too hot not to be cool....... 😄
(Desktop site seems a lot more manageable, if only I could get it, as before, on my mobile..)
Im out. I’ll be on Twitter following farming stuff there, they have made a dogs dinner of this. Not worth the hassle.
I think you nailed it.
The previous site was simple, no frills and you could easily see what was going on. In my mind all it needed was an easy facility to upload photos.
it’s hard to see the flow of where conversation is happening with this interface.
Im also disappointed that the site and all our data has been migrated to Canada rather than finding an Irish option
That looks so sexy. I’d so ride that all day. Girl looks nice too.
Machinery looks better
This ....
I'm hungry.
Yeah I'm using it more
I think it horrendous what they done to it! If you had asked somebody to make a complete mess of what was a fairly simple site then I don’t think anyone would have achieved as much as this upgrade has. It’s like something a student would have put together for a transition year project.
Boards is the only online profile I have but I think I will be looking elsewhere for something simpler now. I was having a look around today and I see another forum you’re on Reggie that looks a better option now.
Not liking the new site. Doesn't have the same flow to it. Will be hard to see the conversations in the posts I reckon. Very hard to use on the mobile. Can't see myself using it much to be honest. Not a good change
I'm a creature of habit and change isn't something I relish or look forward to in most cases. Unsurprisingly I'm not enamored with the new site and it will take some getting used to. I haven't compiled a complete list of my dislikes yet but it's looking lengthy. Overall I'm not impressed 👎
Have not tried it on the laptop/ desktop yet but mobile version is cumbersome. Tabs for new posts on a thread as opposed to a highlighted thread title.
Cannot seem to set up a followed threads stream. There seems to be more scrolling to get to the end of a page of posts.
If you look at a replied post you cannot automatically see all of the post replied to.........and they seemed unable to get rid of wrangler 🤣🤣🤣
You can, press the 2 dots at top of post.
Edit: or cog on mobile version.
You can't seem to go back and edit a message either, I'm not bright enough to get it right the first time usually
Well fcuk it I can't make head nor tail of it😠
Very cumbersome looking
Should have said that when I located the F&F forum, I placed a shortcut to it on the desktop.
Just noticed that you can't edit your posts once you have hit submit.
Seems you can. With the settings symbol, to the right of user name.
Login.
Click on your Avatar (top right of screen). Click on the star symbol, it will throw up the discussion threads. Click further down to expand.
Probably will get more user friendly as we fumble our way around.
Anyone else have tips for us.
Just checkin' if it's true about the photo posting...
They sorted the photo posting which was the biggest problems with the site. Other than that it’s much the same
awful, looking for a new site
There is a pretty girl that keeps smiling at me is that new
Through boards it was poor alright, but they were searchable from the usual search engines, so not completely pointless. If the new sites search functions are any better then its all the more reason to migrate the old stuff.
I using ad blocker but it's very slow. A good few of us from here are on other sites already and we're thinking of giving this a miss for now anyhow. Desktop version is better I think , but most farmers post on the mobile touch version.
It looks difficult to use on mobile compared to the old site.
Searching old posts had been broken for a decade. So you can't find anything in these 20yrs of posts so it's entirely pointless in saving them.
Does a thread title stay highlighted/bold when all the posts have been read?
I can't see the difference between read and unread treads.
Do I have to scroll all the way back to the top of this page to get back to F&F?
