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

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?

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.

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.

It didn't though that's why they needed to change it.

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.

Touch site is a total ui ballache now, not far from over’n’out to be honest, good luck sorting it out!!! I now drop in once a day at most and don’t stay long, you’ve completely lost the stickiness boards once had - shame!

I can't see your email address. Where is it visible?

Nope, your profile is private. If i click on your name i get page with 'permission problem'. If I click on your avatar, I get a box with PRIVATE in it, no links and not even any your join date

Same as mine - I hope.

Yes it certainly has not done it any good but it could have been down at a worse time than the Euro final. Thankfully it was back up for the British GP last weekend.

Hopefully we get back our drop down menu with what we follow and if there is new posts or not in them and it becomes more user friendly.