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

people have a right to be angry and frustrated - the negativity and criticism is only natural - its a disaster!!! there is lots of feedback in the relevant threads... admins I am sure are well aware of the issues - no need to reiterate them.. I wouldn't even know where to start... its a disaster.. unbelievable how they cud ruin something so good

Can someone explain to this luddite what is meant by "architecture crumbling". Surely if it worked yesterday it'd work today?

Current users showing as 4239 all the time, not even 1 extra or less, bit odd.

Bring back Marathon this Snickers tastes like sh1t.

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 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.

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.

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. ;-)

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.

I'm also not seeing any slowness, desktop or mobile.

It's an odd one.

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.

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.

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.

how do you implement it?

These screenshots are full-screen on a 2k 27" monitor.

Original:

With my Stylebot script:

The huge amount of white space in the second post in the image above is actually a signature that user has added. The whitespace in the third post seems to be cause by the user hitting the return key a few times after typing their post, so effectively this whitespace is content and not the fault of Boards. Most posts are like the first one, without excessive white space between the content and the reaction buttons.

Get rid of the 'Like' button with the thumbs up thing. I don't think the Facebook aesthetic is a direction to be moving in. There was nothing wrong with the old thanks system and the way the names of the posters would appear in the thanks list below your post.

They need to get rid of whiteness + long scroll on mobile.

I'll stay because I love the weather forums but couldn't be bothered looking up anything else anymore, so I suppose I'll save myself a lot of time!

They are back (must be since yesterday).

Go into Edit Profile - Notification Settings, and configure the notifications you want.

there’s actually better, more granular notification settings than there was on vBulletin.

I just set mine up a few minutes ago, and was notified about your post.

Again, where Boards went wrong here was not having this available from the start, giving the impression that the new system lacked features the old one had.

Just after seeing the top navigation now ;)