The place seems to be a bit of a ghost town since the move, many people haven't come back
Also I continually have to log in
And even though set to PRIVATE mine and others email addresses are open to the public
Painfully slow all the time
Find myself browsing reddit vastly more now
It's just plain shitę
yeah its incredible to think that someone tested this in the office and actually went ahead with its release. Surely they could have put a single forum into beta testing with users for a week or two to iron out the problems before going live across the whole site.
Another problem is users were not listened to. I dont use dark mode myself but its clear from the Feedback threads that lots of users do and cannot use the site without it because their eyes hurt. This was flagged by numerous users in the weeks before the migration but the answer from the office was always that dark mode was not a priority and it they would work on adding it 'sometime in the future'.
Then the new site goes live and dozens of users cannot look at the bright site for long before their eyes get sore and they go elsewhere instead. As to why the office didnt listen to what they were being told by the user base pre-migration I dont know but it was a crazy decision thats now really effected the number of regular posters here.
Reddit. But the Irish section is twice as hierarchical. As a noob, expect a lot of your early posts to be ignored. Also, expect many requests to join forums to be ignored as well.
Is there an alternative dedicated Irish forum we can use to discuss things?
It did work. Or at least it wasn't about to keel over.
It didn't though that's why they needed to change it.
It just plain sucks. The old site worked. This, does not work.
It’s still very jumpy and clunky. On both mobile and desktop there’s loads of stalls like a page is refreshing or jumping back to top and then back to where you were, or the screen going momentarily all white. The ads seem to be way behind everything else to load causing pages to jump scroll up and down. It’s really poor to use.
Another big issue is that when drunk it's even more impossible to find your threads and forums. Tested that last night myself.
Long termer here and I'm struggling for the last week. I can't even get to the Mod forum on mobile. My question is UAT testing, who performed it and why wasn't the colossal change in user experience noted.
I can’t see any notable improvements on the user end after last night’s down time. Site is still as slow as Christmas. What is actually going on?
At least navigation is better than immediately after the changes, but lack of My Forums is a big issue. Bigger is that the place seems quieter. There would usually be a few new threads on the Latest Posts worth clicking into, but they all seem totally boring at first glance. And when I'm away from the site, I just don't feel any urge to come back, like I did before.
The Admin are the Arthur Scargills then. Cool.
hey! it's ok though, the mod/admin tools have been fixed for all the huge increased number of posts on the site now...
users...um, well eventually we might be able to navigate somewhat, sometime...in the future.
The new site reminds me of the description given to the British Labour parties election manifesto in 1983
" the longest suicide note in history "
Just found an advanced search function with a list of recent posts made. Its in the magnifier search and then type user name in the Author field. It only has recent posts for new site though - no sign of older posts. Will they be back at some stage?
I wonder if the new site is a bolt hole set up by boards.ie that they can turn off in a few months when this place is sorted?
That’d be some Machiavellian shít.
How has it ended up so much slower than the old site if this is newer more modern software? Every time I press back from a post to the home page it momentarily freezes, screen then goes white, and then it reappears and is responsive again.
I don't know why anyone's posting "they had to change, look they can fix this in a while". Nobody's disputing boards was creaking along but the bridge analogy above is perfect. You can replace software but you can't replace habitual customers. Once they're gone, why would they come back? It's not like they're being offered a better experience here.
The engine of a discussion board isn't the software or a server, it's the users having a discussion. If that's not happening, you've no momentum and you're dead in the water.
I guess I'm starting to understand the frustrations. I've never a prolific poster in the past, but I suppose if I was and had invested as much time as some I'd feel the same.
Still hope they manage to recover the situation.
Just for the record, I take no joy in posting that or recommending the other forum. My preference was always for Boards to come back improved but they've made a total and complete balls of it.
The lack of a public "look, we screwed up, it's been a disaster, sorry folks" stings too. We all know it, it's received almost a 100% pasting by the user base. And management clearly know, but are playing it off like it's acceptable. It's not.
Looks pretty good. Just registered.
See a few familiar names there.
Beginning to lose patience myself, we're 3 weeks in now and the site is still awkward to use. Threads Im subbed to used to get 40-50 new posts a day and now they are down to 4 or 5 posts a day at best.
This migration was supposed to make Boards more user friendly and financially viable but the main migration that has happened here is a big chunk of the community has gone over to Reddit. Even if Boards somehow worked perfectly in the morning there is still very few people around to post and many former posters won't be coming back, thus advertising revenue will be way down and the objective of making the site financially viable is completely scuttled.
Sad to say but I think this whole migration fiasco is the beginning of the end for Boards. Its hard to see it being around in 12 months time when the user base has been completely hollowed out and found other forums to post on.
I don’t doubt that a change was needed and the site was being held together with sticky tape, but I’m not sure why they went the direction they did. The software is shite and I’m not sure it was the best option for a community platform. Someone on another thread mentioned Xenforo and at a quick glance, what they offer is far superior to what Boards has gone for with Vanilla. Xenforo was even created by the lads behind VBulletin. So while a change was needed and a move understandable, this ain’t it
Looks decent enough. Gonna register.
No info now from a username about who is a mod or what forums they are on.
Can't figure out how to search within a thread, the old advanced search was great if you were looking for a particular post.
Drafts are saved whether you want to save them or not.
How can you see what posts you've thanked?
It's already happened, over at ****
Boards. What have you done? This new platform is about as good as a kick in the nutsack. It looks similar to the old platform, but has none of the useful functions of the old. I mainly use desktop version. Multi-quote is missing and I can't find my previous posts...only threads I started. I'll give it a week or two in the hope this sheetshow get's fixed. If not, goodbye boardsies. It was fun....moreso in the early days when mods in some of the forums didn't let the power get to their heads. I think a lot of people won't return here. Booooards!
I think someone is going to take advantage of this and setup a new Irish forum site which users will flock to.
Just copy the list of forums here and set it up on another forum software and to save money only allowed embedded images.
I can see it happening with the right person doing it.
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