The place seems to be a bit of a ghost town since the move, many people haven't come back
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 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.
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?
The new site reminds me of the description given to the British Labour parties election manifesto in 1983
" the longest suicide note in history "
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 Admin are the Arthur Scargills then. Cool.
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.
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?
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.
Another big issue is that when drunk it's even more impossible to find your threads and forums. Tested that last night myself.
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.
It just plain sucks. The old site worked. This, does not work.
It didn't though that's why they needed to change it.
It did work. Or at least it wasn't about to keel over.
Is there an alternative dedicated Irish forum we can use to discuss things?
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.
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.
Painfully slow all the time
Find myself browsing reddit vastly more now
It's just plain shitę
Also I continually have to log in
And even though set to PRIVATE mine and others email addresses are open to the public
I dont get any email notifications….
Not to posts Ive bookmarked or old forums I used to be subscribed to.
Cannot see how to resubscribe to forums again…
New site stinks but it's still better than Reddit, that thing is unreadable
This is important. How can you tell? Has others told you?
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!
It was about to keel over and did so with more and more regularity.
I can't see your email address. Where is it visible?
Very big deal if true ...
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.
Thank you. I will never have to frequent this god aweful site again. Thank you so much.
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.
Any F1 race is only a speck compared to a major soccer final.
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