The place seems to be a bit of a ghost town since the move, many people haven't come back
I've used the Sylebot plugin for Chrome (on my PC) to write custom CSS to get rid of most of the whitespace at the sides, increase the font size a little, spread the post content out to fill the width of the screen and a few other bits and pieces.
I've attached it here if anyone is interested. I threw it together very quickly, so it may introduce some unforeseen issues. I did try to do things like format stickies differently at the top of forums, and a few other thigs, but there wasn't an immediately easy way to do them, so I left it. The code I'm using also hides the ads, but I don't feel right about sharing that.
The Like button is just the default wording on the Vanilla platform. They seem to have a number of different reactions (positive and negative) available, but boards chose to just use the Like one as it was the closest to the old Thanks we know and love. It's nothing to do with Facebook (even though it uses the same wording and icon), so clicking on it just registers a reaction to the post in the exact same way the old Thanks button did. I think I saw Niamh mention that changing the wording to Thanks was one of the things on their list.
I do think a lot of people do assume that it's somehow linked to FB though. There's far, far less thanks/likes being given out, even on threads that have a (relatively) large amount of activity.
This isnt available for me at all . I have no way to see threads i have commented on.
Probably my last boards post.....good many may say! :D
This new layout is too awful. Every thread appearing as "unread", no "view first unread" button.
I love a bit of change and a fresh outfit but above all, don't break what is working with change.
Sad, it used to be so good.
this one?
I'm not automatically subscribed to threads that I post in so that's a deal breaker for me. Thats the most basic feature a forum needs.
Also, WHERE HAVE MY STARZ GONE?
you were not here long enough to remember the good old boards format.
Is it really necessary to have to scroll so far to the page end to get to the next page tab (on phone)?
It seems an excessively long scroll.
I can't find how to activate dark mode on this site, only on my phone in general and my eyes are bleeding from the whiteness.
It's like another poster said above, you don't just whip out your phone now and casually browse the site for a few minutes, it's too taxing.
I'll go on record to say I absolutely hate the change.
Every post should have a full timestamp (day/date and time in 24h format).
Same needed on /discussions and ../bookmarked lists
The am/pm thing is annoying
Yeah, they didn't survey user needs before scoping the work, everyone likes dark mode and it is no where to be found or indeed if it is coming back at all.
My time stamp is spot on.
Same, my newish broadband provider is pretty quick so maybe thats helping me.... but no trouble at all with speed.
timestamp is accurate too here.
Cheerio (with burning eyes)
On your phone you can change the view to the desktop version and it's much easier to navigate than the mobile site, however, I don't think you can set the desktop version as your default view, so need to change it everytime you click onto boards.ie site. While the desktop site is better, it still takes much more effort to find stuff than on the old site. Also seems to be less interesting things to view on the site since the changeover
What's interesting is I switch to a VPN in Canada given that Vanilla software is at that location. Is Boards.ie hosted now in Canada or around that region as the VPN seems to have improved load times by selecting that region?
The timestamp for each thread is is an hour behind too although my timestamp is showing in real time.
I'm also not seeing any slowness, desktop or mobile.
It's an odd one.
Its so slow the favicon even takes time to load! (haven't seen a site do that in a few years!)
Still not slow for me. Faster than the old touch site by miles. And posting is lightening.
Again I still don't like all the white or finding my forums. The hidden likes and search all goosed.
still slow...
Sorry Jupiter Kid, but when the design is an unmitigated shambles, the migration took weeks and is a shambles, then the users have a right to gripe and complain.
This site would be nothing without it's users, something the site owners seem to be endeavouring to proof.
Our contributions, however bad some of them were or however much some people disagreed with them, over the years helped build this site.
We are not alone users, we are a commodity to this site that can be harnessed for the profit of the owners.
And as they say if you aren't paying for a product then you are the product.
There appears to have been no proper testing of the layout, no market testing, nothing.
I would like to know who was the eejit that signed off on the new boards site layout?
I would also like to know how much the developer(s) charged for this abomination?
Oh can someone let us know when they finish school so some of us can avoid hiring them in the future. ;-)
Not a fan of the new site. Finding it very hard to navigate and find forums.
If it's like most places I worked, every dumb idea is considered at the meetings, no one wants to be seen as "negative" so no one speaks out. Tested by a few people who don't use the same features 99% of people uses so they think it's fine. Top it off with no one in power admitting it was shít because then they admit they fúcked up.
You can't click on a username to see their previous posts, how the hell do you multiquote, your own posts are buried somewhere, mobile site is terrible, it's hard to see when a post was even made, you have to use desktop which has loads of white space.
Maybe it would be interesting to see how many are using the new site even with all the issues.
I haaaattttteeeeee it, hate it, hate it, hate it. Is this it? Will it improve? It's ugly and not pleasant to navigate on a phone. Eugh. True the weather has something to do with people being occupied elsewhere and the downtime probably got people up to other stuff. But this new look, it's the oldest new look ever. Like shopping in Dunnes for decent clothes. It's like 1990.
The very fact that there isnt a button on the font page to take you directly to your followed threads is baffling. I managed to find it via a random sticky I stumbled across
Outside of that, I've all but stopped using the touch site as navigation is so obtuse, it borders on being something that was purposely designed to be hard to use.
whole sections of subforums seem impossible to find now.
I was primarily a boards touch user. Since the relaunch I haven't really posted much, and the threads I follow (such as Crypto) seem dead. It's just so difficult to use, there's no differentiation in posts when there's a new post to read (new posts use to bold the thread card, now they're all bold all the time.)
It's just not easy to use. I suspect traffic has fallen off a cliff tbh.
I've seen this observation posted time and time again and I'm wondering why people are even interested in it?
Bring back Marathon this Snickers tastes like sh1t.
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