Off Topic Thread 5.0

Bazzo · 15-07-2021 07:17AM

Yep, topics showing light grey on a dark blue background for one thing anyway, very very hard to read thread titles.

OldRio · 15-07-2021 07:21AM

Is this an improvement??????

Neil3030 · 15-07-2021 07:39AM

OK so let's put to use these separate buttons to 1. lol at, 2. agree with or 3. like a post, and really see who stands where on a crucial issue:

ROG is better than Sexton.

15-07-2021 07:39AM

Take another week off and do it properly....it's not user friendly, it's a nightmare to navigate, Jesus, what a balls-up

thomond2006 · 15-07-2021 08:39AM

The mobile site is a disaster.

Thanks, Buer.

Buer · 15-07-2021 08:40AM

The full site is glitchy as **** so far. Teething problems which will be ironed out, I'm sure.

Not too bothered about the full site; the large banner ads at the top of the page are not welcome at all but generally I'm relatively ambivalent to it. The touch site is a dog's dinner though. They had a format that worked well on mobile. Now they've just tried to replicate the full site layout on a small screen which doesn't work very well.

errlloyd · 15-07-2021 08:57AM

Finding my way here took me a full ten minutes. Just for you all to have said my opinions anyway.

stephen_n · 15-07-2021 09:00AM

How do you get to the full site on a mobile?

15-07-2021 09:11AM

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612007#Comment_117612007

If you're using Chrome you can go to the options, three dots in the top right (in Chrome itself rather than on the site) and tick the desktop site option.

I'm sure the boards.ie people have worked very hard on this site update so don't want to go and rubbish all their work but initial impressions are not good.

Squidgy Black · 15-07-2021 09:12AM

Is it even finished yet I wonder or have they just brought it back online prematurely.

Been a shít show of a migration so far, to have this as the end result would be a disaster tbh.

hold my beer · 15-07-2021 10:49AM

Ah jaysus, where's the touch site gone. This is shocking

Former Former Former · 15-07-2021 11:28AM

I would like to speak to the manager please.

Squidgy Black · 15-07-2021 11:45AM

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117613280#Comment_117613280

Going by a lot of the twitter responses there's an air of "I demand a refund for using this free service"

Bazzo · 15-07-2021 12:19PM

Very handy being able to scroll to bottom of the page on mobile and see all 3 and a half thousand active users.

15-07-2021 12:22PM

I don't want to rush to judgement as sometimes a new layout takes a while to get used to - but this seems objectively and by every measure worse than the old site, slower and less functional?

And I'm on desktop - mobile is appalling.

FACECUTTR · 15-07-2021 12:49PM

I blame Jemma O'Doherty

Dave_The_Sheep · 15-07-2021 01:07PM

Well, this ... is f*cking awful.

Like, the browser site now looks like it's designed for mobile and the mobile site is a total shitshow. What is the obsession with making things look like it should be on a phone in your browser? So much wasted space.

Bazzo · 15-07-2021 01:08PM

Where's me LOL button gone. This is an outrage.

aloooof · 15-07-2021 01:46PM

Can't say I'm loving the change. Seems generally slower to me, and the Search functionality is far more limited (and it just doesn't seem to be working, but I'm sure that'll get ironed out).

On the plus side, I've just found the Edit functionality, which will save me some heartache when I inevitably overreact to something.

15-07-2021 01:54PM

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612118#Comment_117612118

The board's people haven't done much...it's the Canadians who ran with this and have made a haymes of it

Hopefully there are still updates happening and it starts to run smoother over the next few days.

Squidgy Black · 15-07-2021 02:21PM

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117614344#Comment_117614344

Don't think that's entirely true, from reading their updates on Twitter it seemed like a bit of a miscommunication. The actual migration to the platform was done in a couple days, there was then issues with the boards/distilled media devs trying to implement a 'theme' on top of the vanilla standard theme which caused the main delay.

15-07-2021 02:26PM

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117614559#Comment_117614559

The Canadians shut up shop on Friday and didn't go back to work until Monday... Board's weren't aware this was happening, so it's probably a bit of both tbh

aloooof · 15-07-2021 02:33PM

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117614600#Comment_117614600

The Canadians? All of them, eh?

Squidgy Black · 15-07-2021 02:56PM

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117614600#Comment_117614600

That's down to Boards though, you don't get weekend work unless you agree up front and pay the extra for it with any IT project. It's their project to schedule, the thing with Vanilla is it's just a hosting platform, so they would've gotten support off them for the migration etc but all the design and that is down to the boards team.

Podge_irl · 15-07-2021 03:00PM

So far this is less than ideal.

On a wildly unrelated note, looks like Djokovic will end up the most titled men's tennis player which is unfortunate as he is least likeable of the triumvirate.