Just bugs / missing functionality reports - no griping

16-07-2021 11:13pm #1

Not sure how much traction this will get, but I think it's worth a shot.

Just list the things that you think are missing.

Mobile and Desktop - find all my posts is essential.

Mobile - there's no email icon unless I go looking to see if anyone has sent me an email.

Mobile - there should be a better way to view followed threads other than using the "Bookmarks" option. I currently have 368 bookmark options that apparently carried over. Most of them are dead for years.

Both - likes is not a good replacement for thanks.

SCOOP 64 · 16-07-2021 11:16pm

Can't seem to find option to edit or delete post just after posting also no longer get updates on forums i have just posted in.

SCOOP 64 · 16-07-2021 11:17pm

why does it double post?

collsoft · 17-07-2021 12:43am

Why can I not search for all my previous posts?

I have some threads that I was very active on that are not in my "Bookmarks", and I cant find any way of finding my own posts.

I have tried using the search tool on my username but nothing is showing up.

Im about ready to give up!

SlowBlowin · 17-07-2021 12:49am

I would love to have the dark theme back !

Mrs OBumble · 17-07-2021 12:54am

Category breadcrumb at the bottom of a thread in desktop. (It's been added to mobile already.)

arleitiss · 17-07-2021 1:52am

Just visited for first time after migration and clear issues:

1) As someone using desktop at 2560x1440p - pretty much entire content is centered right in the middle of the screen, I have have huge blank spaces left on both sides and this feels just off (feels like content is squeezed)

2) Dates of posts - Really? It says todays date but it cant say Today/Yesterday when the last reply/post was made?

3) Clicking on "Contact Us" (as I want to delete my account because this is horrible now) leads to "Page Not found" Error.

4) Can't even find my own replies/posts, found only via google.

Zaph · 17-07-2021 2:17am

A few things I've spotted in addition to the general issues with navigation that have already been reported.

1 - Can't see any option to change my user group from Registered User, so seeing ads that I never had to put up with before

2 - On my phone if I click into "Discussions" there's a bit of left/right movement on the screen displaying the thread titles (Firefox / Android 11)

3 - Threads in a forum are listed by last post date, but it looks like if there have been no posts since migration it actually shows the thread creation date instead.

4 - Clicking on my profile brings up My Discussions. I really don't need to see all 2,200+ threads I've posted in over the years. And the sorting order is all over the shop.

5 - If I go into the Notifications drop down and click on Mark All Read, nothing happens.

6 - The double spacing when I hit return is really, really annoying!

7 - Some of my subscribed threads have migrated over, but some definitely haven't.

Already seeing definite improvements since go-live, particularly on the desktop UI, so hopefully a lot of the remaining issues will be resolved soon enough.

tomcosgrave · 17-07-2021 5:21am

Drop down menu at the top of the site is missing on Chrome - Talk to, Topics etc. This is a critical bug as a primary means of site navigation is gone.

Dead links - About Us, Contact Us etc.

Unable to see where there are new posts in a forum, and where there are not - all threads look the same.

Page numbers on a thread link are very hard to read - the numbers need to be spaced out better.

tomcosgrave · 17-07-2021 5:22am

On some pages I can see date stamps as follows - "18 Dec" - the year needs to be part of all date stamps.

RobAMerc · 17-07-2021 5:56am

1: massive waste of space down right hand side of screen ( I presume to be filled with advertising )

2: All links should open in a new tab not redirect the current tab.

3: Uploading multiple photos is difficult, I ad to do it in 2 separate threads.

RobAMerc · 17-07-2021 5:59am

4: Preview function hovering over thread title in list of threads has a bunch of markup in it.

17-07-2021 6:04am

So minor compared to everything else but the 'Go to next page' icon in multipage threads uses a double arrow-head. In the other world that goes to the last page, single arrow goes to next page ... and I do realise the last page number is immediately to the left but the arrow heads stand out compared to a list of numbers.

And what's the Escape character? This is a pretty highlighted block but I typed a 'Greater than' sign

ClosedAccountFuzzy · 17-07-2021 6:18am

Other than the lack of a dark theme, the desktop experience is ok - some issues, not that many. Text and image input is much better. Lack of a dark them is a biggie tho. Overall the experience is close enough to the original boards.ie v.bulletin setup, just has some odd use of white space that could be tidied up.

The mobile experience is just beyond help. I don't really know where to even start with what's wrong with and that's not a grip. I just couldn't enumerate how many issues it has.

A few key things though:

Can't find threads I posted in without a messy workaround - pretty much all the shortcuts need to be customised to suit boards. I've had to bookmark (save to my phone home screen) the URL for the comments link. It is the only way I can find it reliably, otherwise I can't see my own threads without going into my profile and sometimes I can't even navigate to that.
WAY too bright - perhaps make a dark mode? There's a really good opportunity to make it slick and OLED friendly.
Confusing navigation - no sure what you can do there.
Notifications make little sense - needs to be customised / redesigned.
I have absolutely no idea what the activity thing is about. It's just like a random thread of random things that appears when I least expect it.
The layers being used for things like when you tap on your profile etc often seem to not display in the latest version of Safari on iOS, or I suspect they are displaying but they're under the layer I'm looking at. Multiple refreshes don't work, you have to navigate to another part of site.

General issues impacting both:

No dark mode.
Ignore seems to be limited to 5 people which is totally inadequate for the way this site is used.
Thanks need to show as a list of names.
There's a lack of date/time stamping on many areas.

17-07-2021 12:56pm

After the username on posts it says "registered users", should be "registered user" singular.

17-07-2021 1:00pm

Is it not possible to close your account anymore?

volchitsa · 17-07-2021 1:01pm

As someone who likes to edit once I've seen my post, can we please get the EDIT option back ASAP?

Also: Notifications either doesn't update or only shows up direct replies: I currently only have one notification which is from July 15th. It remains there, as though I hadn't read that post (I have) and there's been nothing since, as though no activity on those threads.

IncognitoMan · 17-07-2021 1:07pm

I don't see recent post in any thread I have followed in the Soccer forum. I know Soccer is a group now but when a new post goes into a thread in it then it would be nice/useful to see that in my thread or something like that

Basically how it used to work

osarusan · 17-07-2021 1:22pm

On dektop, things I can't do, which I used to be able to do:

Hover over the top menu categories for them to drop down.

Easily distinguish between thread with new content and other threads I've already read in a forum (threads with new content used to be in bold)

Make changes to the text in a post (underline, make bold, change font size)

See my own post history.

See other users' post history.

See posts which quote my posts.

Add a forum to the 'My forums' list.

Edit/reduce a post I want to quote in reply (to reply to a specific part).

See times of posts from days other than today.

Finally, I'd like to find a way to hide the little circular faces/icons under usernames.

osarusan · 17-07-2021 1:23pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117623743#Comment_117623743

In the top right hand corner of your post, you should see three white dots in the blue bar...this is where 'Edit' is.

noplacehere · 17-07-2021 1:28pm

It took a while but I finally figured out how to "bookmark" a thread on the desktop but its not automatically doing it when you post. I'm assuming this is meant to be the replacement for "follow thread". Also not having it at the bottom of the page too is very annoying.

Really missing the breadcrumb at the bottom of the page on desktop too

Spook_ie · 17-07-2021 1:47pm

Is there some way to mark everything as read?

I see the mark everything read under notifications nut I assume this is just notifications

17-07-2021 8:29pm

Can we get the static option to select "Full Site" from the touch site?

Never liked any touch site and was good to be able to permanently set a switch

17-07-2021 8:35pm

Clicking Categories at the top of any page (desktop) results in an error.

Something has gone wrong.

We've run into a problem and are unable to handle this request right now.

Please check back in a little while.

Quantum Erasure · 17-07-2021 8:38pm

poll results seem to be reversed,

see https://boards.ie/discussion/2055642930/gordon

waxmelts2000 · 17-07-2021 8:42pm

I cannot find my followed threads

Going to last page isn't clear on a link

When you click on embedded link you leave the boards site, what I found then when having to relaunch boards was a blank page and having to wait and re enter

robinph · 17-07-2021 8:44pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117623725#Comment_117623725

Think that is the groups that the poster is a member of, so you are a member of the "registered users" group hence the plural.

youcancallmeal · 18-07-2021 9:18am

Lots of little small things that I'm sure will be fixed but 2 big ones for me:

You don't automatically follow a thread when you post in it

In mobile there is icons to let you know there is new comments on a thread you've followed/bookmarked but not on desktop, in previous version thread names would be bold if you had unread comments

smuggler.ie · 18-07-2021 9:49am

Sorry for interruption, just testing "auto-bookmark" functionality after first post to thread

no, not working

iamwhoiam · 18-07-2021 9:55am

I have searched but cannot find my posts ?

osarusan · 18-07-2021 10:05am

The 'latest post' time in the list of recent threads is an hour earlier than the actual time of the post, which is given correctly in the thread itself.

HeidiHeidi · 18-07-2021 12:41pm

I cannot find a way to see who has "Liked" a post in the Touch site on mobile.

On desktop, we can see a few names by hovering over the Like button, but I don't think if there's a lot of "Likes" they're all shown.

HeidiHeidi · 18-07-2021 12:57pm

When a post is quoted (in full, because you can't edit/cut it, which is another problem), there used to be a button to bring you back to the original (quoted) post which made it easier to also respond to it.

Now, you have to scroll back - and because there's no time or even date stamp on it, you have no way of knowing if it's a recent post or from weeks or months back.

Brussels Sprout · 18-07-2021 1:53pm

I'm a desktop user, using the Chrome browser, only. Here are the main things that are annoying me:

There is no longer a dropdown menu (it used be in the top right) that allows me to choose to navigate directly to my Favourite/Followed Forums. There is a tab, "My Forums", which shows threads but for some reason it is showing threads from forums that were not in my favourite forums list. I just want to be able to jump between my favourite forums directly and quickly and right now I cannot do that. I also noticed, and perhaps it is linked to that dropdown menu being missing, that I cannot add a forum to my favourite/followed forums.
When I eventually manage to get to a Forum the "View first Unread post in this thread" button is no longer there. The thing is that that button is there on the home page of the entire site in the "Latest Posts" section but for some reason is not there at the forum level.
The site is slooooooooooow.

By the way I noticed a bug. For any thread that does not have a post since the site came back up the "Last Post" data is actually the very first post in the thread. However as soon as someone posts in that thread it updates to the correct last post info so this will eventually resolve itself for all newer threads.

Brussels Sprout · 18-07-2021 2:03pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117627380#Comment_117627380

Just realised that #2 is possibly a non-issue as it seems that the default behaviour, when you click on the thread title, is to navigate to the first unread post in the thread.

osarusan · 18-07-2021 2:05pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117627171#Comment_117627171

On desktop at least, beside the name of the poster of the quoted post, there is now a time (Your post I am quoting says HeidiHeidi 12:57 pm) and the time itself is a link that will take you to the original.

HeidiHeidi · 18-07-2021 2:08pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117627422#Comment_117627422

Well, that makes loads of sense, and is just sooooo intuitive!

Not!!!

But thank you, I've learned something new today.

Panrich · 19-07-2021 12:33pm

I have noticed that the list of 'My Threads' does not seem to update with new threads that I have posted in since the 'upgrade'. I can only see threads there that I posted in before.

HeidiHeidi · 19-07-2021 12:35pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117631742#Comment_117631742

You don't automatically get subscribed to threads any more when you post in them. You have to use the little flag icon at the top of the thread to the right of the thread title to follow a thread.

speckle · 19-07-2021 1:30pm

please bring back thanks instead of like...and still cant see who you have thanked on mobile site.

Anyone else have a problem on mobile site when typing a reply to post that at times the post seems to drop and hence you cant read where you typed the last line as it goes behind the keypad until you start again? Very unhelpful if trying to type a longer reply in one go.

19-07-2021 2:30pm

My forums is defaulting to an A-Z forum filter as opposed to latest posted

HeidiHeidi · 19-07-2021 2:48pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632050#Comment_117632050

+1 to all of these!

HeidiHeidi · 19-07-2021 2:50pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632508#Comment_117632508

I'm not sure the My Forums tab is working at all - it seems to just have every forum listed alphabetically, not ones you'd subscribed to on the old site.

That old 5-tab page seems to have been just left there from the migration, none of it is working properly, I'm assuming it'll disappear at some point.

19-07-2021 3:03pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632682#Comment_117632682

Take a look at highlighted post dates

HeidiHeidi · 19-07-2021 3:09pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632766#Comment_117632766

I'm not entirely sure what your point is?

I'm agreeing that it's alphabetical, not by last post date/time - but I think it has every forum listed, and not just the ones you would have subscribed to before. It certainly does for me, there are loads of forums that I've never gone near, never mind subscribed to!

19-07-2021 3:55pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632802#Comment_117632802

I get you.

It's actually showing me threads I've posted in, in alphabetical order of the forum, and not just My Forums specifically

Tokyo · 20-07-2021 7:02am

Very useful and productive thread, thank you. I've stickied it for now.

djdunny · 20-07-2021 9:22am

Is it possible to place the page navigation button at the top of the page. When I view a page, I will usually see a sticky post at the top of the thread and then will have to scroll down to get the page number so I can navigate to the last page to see the most recent post.

In some cases, the page navigation doesn't appear at the top of the screen at all - example - Bargain Alert on the mobile site.

20-07-2021 12:38pm

I'm on the 'touch site and there is no second page for any of the threads.

20-07-2021 12:38pm

Leg End Reject · 20-07-2021 2:12pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117627171#Comment_117627171

Click on the time stamp and it will bring you to the quoted post.

Just bugs / missing functionality reports - no griping

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