Welcome to the new Boards.ie platform - Version 1.0 :)

You'd be surprised how many people use computers for work.

As i observed, reason for it is the height of the post - the longer the post - more it can display. However, i also noticed that some users dont display the list - once hover over it pops "something", but does not display list. See Odhran's opening post on 15Jul. Glitch perhaps

if you happy with "punching" 5-10" its fine.

Me, however, on x3 screen setup, can see everything in much better resolution and more. Even during work hours, when quite, can allow myself to set one screen to favourite thread and monitor/participate. As for sitting in the room, well... had two ice cold pints and laying in the pool - i can take a break from PC time-to-time, where lots of "mobile" users have terrible addiction, like phone would be "third leg".

All we have our own habits and preferences, until we find there could be better :D

Edit: out for the third ice cold :D

I don't understand the need to have a big Facebook and Twitter share icon, on every single post. Have one for each thread sure, but for every single post is overkill to me, and just makes each post look clunkier.

There's currently 5 icons with text on every post whereas 3 icons on their own would suffice IMO. We know what the quote icon does and we know what the flag icon does.

So stuff is happening... that's something at least.

Still no timeline or priority order though - and having a Dark Mode as a extra at some undetermined point in the future given the lots of posts calling this one out (which you acknowledge!) and the fact that the current setup actually causes headaches for some is a massive oversight! It shouldn't be necessary to install 3rd party plugins to make the site comfortable to use.

No explanation as to how we've gotten to this point either or why the site relaunched in this state - as someone said above, it's all very one-sided, and we the users are just supposed to live with it until ye get around to addressing the bigger issues - which with a single dev and a shedload of fixes to get through won't be anytime soon I'm guessing.

Disappointing.

Click your avatar should be in the menu

https://boards.ie/drafts

I've been moaning here and on other threads about the new and disimproved state of the place and will continue.

But I think we need a bit of a reality check too. I don't know if demanding answers is going to achieve much. We're not shareholders in a company here: it's a message board on the Internet, that 99% of us don't pay a penny to use, boards doesn't really have anything in the way of obligations towards any of us. The whole enterprise is obviously a tiny concern, run on a shoestring with a tiny staff. We're not paying customers, in the main, or shareholders. We aren't really entitled to much, if one was to be brutally honest.

I hate what has happened to the site, I really do and I'll moan about it again no doubt, but I think letting fly and demanding attention of the employees is a bit much - we have no idea of what is actually going on behind the scenes and it isn't actually our business, I think there's a sense of unwarranted entitlement in some of the feedback. At least there is some attempt being made to fix issues and there are updates from time to time.

I visited the “other site” again this evening only to find at least three users impersonating mods from here. That didn’t last long!

Would they really register with the same name though?

Hey, I'm sad and disappointed too and like yourself I've been a subscriber down through the years as well - for a lot of the same reasons too, boards was a constant through the years and I didn't mind throwing them a few pennies to help keep the lights on in some way.

I'd be concerned that the changes could just slowly kill the site off. Traffic is clearly well down since it's returned, though I think it was the week offline that did a lot of the damage there.

I realise that what I'm saying is partially contradictory. On one hand it's a fiasco and I'm pissed off and I get why everybody else is too. But then on the other hand we have to cool the jets.

I guess I find a tone in some of the feedback here and particularly on twitter of personalised critiques aimed at the employees of the site a bit much. They're just employees, small cogs in a medium sized wheel that boards - a tiny operation - is a part of. And we're voluntary users of the free service that tiny concern provides. And you get what you pay for at the end of the day and currently both of us pay nothing, same as the vast, vast majority on the site, for that reason I'm not losing it if Odhrann or Niamh or whoever doesn't just appear at my beck and call. What are we actually entitled to at the end of the day?

It's disappointing, I wish the whole thing had never happened, but it also shines a light on some hard facts too - boards isn't top of the priority list for whoever calls the shots and what recourse we have as users doesn't amount to much. It's sad, but it's true.

The level of disenchantment and frustration that's clearly been felt by loads of us has probably been factored in. And maybe it doesn't matter from a business perspective - the new platform will probably require less time, effort and money and there'll always be enough traffic, even if its less, in some form of another to make it worthwhile. And that's pretty much the bottom line. It makes me sad, it sucks, but what else can you expect?

I've been doing some little css and js hacks - if anyone wants to use them there is a Chrome addon, I'm sure other browsers have similar

The JS is

$(".postbit-header time").each(function(index) {

 $(this).text($(this).attr("title"));

});

// Courtesy of [Deleted User]

$('#Form_Comment').submit(function(){

  if (!$('.Bookmark').eq(0).hasClass('Bookmarked')) {

    $('.Bookmark').eq(0).click();

  }

});

And the css is

a.ReactButton-Like {

  font-weight:bold

}

.Section-Discussion .Content .pageBox .pageBox .pageBox::after{height:0 !important}

.Section-Discussion .Content .pageBox .pageBox .pageBox::before{height:0 !important}

#PagerAfter a,#PagerAfter span ,.MessageList .ItemComment .Item-BodyWrap, .MessageList .ItemDiscussion .Item-BodyWrap{border:0}

#Item_0 h1 {

  font-size: 20px !important;

  padding-bottom: 10px;

}

.ReactButton.PopupWindow,.Panel.Panel-main {

  display: none !important;

}

.postbit-message {

  padding-top: 5px !important;

}

.Content.MainContent {

  width: 100% !important;

}

.Section-Discussion .Content .pageBox .pageBox::before{height:0em}

.js-embed.embedResponsive > div

{margin:0 !important;}

.postbit-postbody{background:#fafafa !important}

.pageHeadingBox h2 {font-size:20px !important;}

.richEditor-textWrap.ql-container{

flex-direction: inherit !important;

}

.embedExternal-content{

border:1px solid #a6a6a6;

box-shadow: 5px 10px #888888;

  margin-bottom: 20px !important;

border-radius: 10px !important;

}

.Message.userContent {font-size:14px !important}

.postbit-postdetails {

border-right:1px solid #a6a6a6;

border-left:1px solid #a6a6a6;

}

.js-embed.embedResponsive [class*="userLabel-compact"] {

  border-bottom: 1px solid !important;

}

.userContent.userContent > p:not(:first-child), .UserContent.UserContent > p:not(:first-child){margin:0 !important}

.userContent.userContent.userContent.userContent > :not(:last-child):not(.embedResponsive), .UserContent.UserContent.UserContent.UserContent > :not(:last-child):not(.embedResponsive){margin:0 !important}

If anyone has suggestions I'll add to it

Is everyone still getting the non-working expand icon on quoted posts on desktop?

That's about the quote expand button on dsktop?

Thanks for that, must be my setup so

Did anyone in the office even think of doing

" A voice of the customer" as part of the project?

I don't see many people saying that this what they wanted.

I actually like to see Thanks for posters. There are so many long term users who have contributed so much to the site and that seems to have disappeared.