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

Its so slow the favicon even takes time to load! (haven't seen a site do that in a few years!)

The timestamp for each thread is is an hour behind too although my timestamp is showing in real time.

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

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.

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.

Every post should have a full timestamp (day/date and time in 24h format).

Same needed on /discussions and ../bookmarked lists

you were not here long enough to remember the good old boards format.

this one?

This isnt available for me at all . I have no way to see threads i have commented on.

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.

install Stylebot in Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en)

Visit Boards.ie, and then open the plugin and click "Open Stylebot"

Make sure you've got the "Code" tab selected, and paste in the CSS from my attachment (or write your own).

It auto saves, so just hit the X to close the code window. The CSS will only apply to boards.ie, not any other sites.

EDIT: I will say that the much improved image management features of Vanilla made this post much easier to make than it would have been on vBulletin.

C'MON those in authority - listen to the people revert to the old version for the love of god

"lord bless us & save us"

😐️

They can't revert, that's just not going to happen. This isn't just a new design they've put on Boards, they've changed the entire software they're running on. They moved for a reason: because the old platform was held together with customisations and hacks that were becoming untenable. We've all suffered through the glitches and performance issues and outages over the past couple of years. They weren't going to go away without a change like this.

The problems we're facing now are with the interface. They can be fixed.

The problems they were facing was with the infrastructure. That can't be fixed anywhere near as easily.

So in that situation the right thing to do is to move to a more stable and sustainable infrastructure. Where they went wrong was in not preparing properly. Downtime was far too long, and when it came back up, things obviously weren't complete. But they're one full-time developer and a volunteer helper.

I manage teams that implement and maintain ecommerce sites. On our bigger clients, I've teams consisting of 4 or 5 developers, 2 or 3 QA, a Solution Architect, two project managers and a Business Analyst - and that's just for dealing with the front end. For a site the size of Boards, they're vastly under-resourced.

If the new site was a car it would be launch of the VW Mk3 GTI 8v

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.