Has the 1 week downtime & move to vanilla killed this place?

boards.ie the Ratner's of the internet

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hope no one was paid to do this 'upgrade'. Money for old rope!!

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 don’t even know how I managed to navigate to this thread tbh.

All the features I liked now seem to be impossible. Not easy to follow forums, the amount of scrolling required everywhere is ridiculous.

RIP Boards. You had a good innings.

Yeah I’d like a return to the dark mode too... I’ve got the iPad brightness down to about 25 - 30% to stop boards burning the corneas out of my skull, it’s crazy bright. I wonder what % of boards users regularly used boards in dark mode..

It's awful on phones. Not auto subscribing you to a thread you post in is silly also.

How do you get the dark mode back, can't find any option for it on desktop site. The only positive I see is if you click a thread title it automatically brings you to the first unread post instead of having to hit the old tiny icon...other than that it's fairly awful.

as long as it doesn't go the way voat /boards did, it'll be grand. (although a mod or two gone rogue posting inside secrets would be some craic)

I missed it when it was away but it doesn't quite feel the same since its come back. Visually I think it looks well but it is a lot more hassle trying to navigate around the forum, particularly on mobile. Taking your phone out of your pocket and having a quick scroll isn't really an option anymore.

It's not as bad on the desktop site but the site does feel much quieter, which could be down to a number of things from the weather to the new layout to the week of the site being down.

The main thing that needs to be addressed IMO is the mobile site and having the drop down list of forums from the top of the screen.

The longer issues remain unfixed the more people will drift away from the forum permanently.

I agree the my forums list and the dropdowns are essential, get that sorted on desktop and half the complaints will disappear, then fix the modile experience, I find it unusable but tend to use desktop more.

Nevermind. How do you delete things?

I think it could well be finished if they don't do something drastic. It's an absolute disaster of an update and that's clear to see.

Yeah, it's horrible. Can't find anything. Posts in some threads seem to be in a weird order. Excessive whitespace.