The place seems to be a bit of a ghost town since the move, many people haven't come back
It definitely didn’t kill it. You just don’t understand. That one week downtime was needed to ensure that no more downtime would ever be needed, well except for tomorrow’s downtime to migrate more stuff.
Absolute shambles. As someone said above, the Ratners of the internet.
You're right! I guess until they have the "My forums" feature back up we'll just have to star the threads we post on. In some cases this seems to he happening automatically for me and in others (such as this thread) I have to bookmark it.
I'll give it another while to see if the new layout grows on me but I think the few days it was offline is what killed my interest in the site. I used to check in up to 10 times a day but now it is just probably once a day. I cannot say I like the white spaces
Hope no one was paid to do this 'upgrade'. Money for old rope!!
When I do this it just says my bookmarks , in which I have only two .
Showing your age the famous Ratner's "because its total crap" quote was from the early 90's
Google says 1992.
Back on topic yeh it died but I can see a slow but constant increase in new posts.
Noticed that as well, some posts made 12 years ago make it higher in the search results now
If using touch, press your avatar. The Boards strapline will expand to show icons. Click on the star icon and a list of what you've posted on /followed appears. A blue dot next to a thread title indicates new posts on a thread since you last viewed it.
It also seems to be double posting, my post above now appears last and second in the thread. Saw somebody else mention this but I think one of them will disappear, just like that. Booooooooo!
I just see I have been promoted to Level 4
whatever the foook that means. 🤔
Too many smilie face options when all you need is a few, especially the pis*** off one.
BTW just wanted to go to Advanced Mode to add in bold and bigger text, but I see they have wanked that feature up as well.
Hate it. Way more clicks and swipes to find stuff. Notifications on followed threads don't seem to exist for touch site.
I've just discovered if you click your avatar, choose my discussions, it shows every post you have posted in. At the moment it appears be a completely wonky order with threads I posted in in 2008 appearing near the top, but it's a start.
I'm only a very casual user here but the drop off does seem huge, certainly on the threads I was following, some of them were posting faster than I could read but are dead now. I loved the old site and now it seems like an effort to even browse it. I genuinely hope it doesn't kill the site as I've found it invaluable loads of times and you can get a great laugh from it.
Yes,and I say that as a user who's not only figured out where everything is on his phone but is rocking a dark mode too.
It's utter ****, kills the UE and any sens of craic too.
I don't like it. I can't find anything. Unless I've had too much sun.
How do you find what you posted on previously ? Before you could go into your profile and see your post history .
New site layout is shyte.
Too much of the modern website layout look with huge wastage of screen space with nothing but whitespace.
Added to that can't find half my usual forums.
Bad timing as well that this happened when soccer forum would have been buzzing with people discussing England and their final.
Would have got lots of traffic to AfterHours as well.
Imagine the traffic to those forums and the loss of revenue.
Retrograde step for boards.
Must admit i am not a fan of the makeover, its very user unfriendly on a touchscreen device, anyone else think the same?
boards.ie the Ratner's of the internet
It's also piping hot and sunny out, everyone's at the beach/pub.
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