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  • #1772
    Neowise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Neowise


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117659268#Comment_117659268

    + 100 this



  • #1773
    Purgative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117659268#Comment_117659268

    Sure, but as far as I can see Mods, CMods, et al are not identified at all



  • #1774
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117658047#Comment_117658047

    I'm seeing My Threads on the desktop. I might have activated the Touch site? I'll send a screenshot in a while. I'm on mobile right now.



  • #1775
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,060 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117659338#Comment_117659338

    Not on desktop unless a mod starts a thread. On mobile it does show up.

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #1776
    mossie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭mossie


    Have they actually dealt with any of the major issue since they launched the new version? There's been a few responses from Odhran, Niamh etc but precious little actual progress.



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  • #1777
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,442 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660212#Comment_117660212

    I'd love to hear an update on getting my forums working in the way it was, and drop down menus



  • #1778
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,222 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    ..... and the shocking speed (or not) of pages loading.

    And can bold/unbold be brought back for distinguishing threads that have new posts?



  • #1779
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117658025#Comment_117658025

    This is what I'm seeing on my laptop.

    Is this the Touch site, or does such a thing exist anymore?


    Boards.png




  • #1780
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 21,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    You need to click the star at the top right to follow threads on mobile. They are known as bookmarks, not my threads.

    To find them click on your avatar, then click on the star in the drop down menu.

    Posting in a thread no longer automatically subscribes you.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #1781
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 21,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    There's a huge discrepancy between the mobile and desktop sites, I think this is why so many are confused.

    You read a post describing a feature or function and are left wondering what the hell you're doing wrong!

    https://forumofgames.com/



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  • #1782
    FFVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    60 pages in and the same questions being asked.

    Good job Odhran and Co.

    And whoever else let the switch over happen like it did. Duh.

    Same stupid carry on a few years with other "upgrade" and all feedback ignored then aswell. I never forgot the stupidity on show back then but you've exceeded even that here.


    Im 15 years here and have barely been on since the F-up.



  • #1783
    FFVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117657662#Comment_117657662

    Your post was stupid.


    Mod Tools. Christ sake.

    Nearly as bad as people complaining about their ignore lists.



  • #1784
    FFVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117658864#Comment_117658864

    What!?


    How often were you gazing at that?



  • #1785
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660834#Comment_117660834

    You joined in 2019 though. Banned account? Going by your attitude that's what I would assume



  • #1786
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,115 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660860#Comment_117660860

    I'm here 18 years. Do you think my previous account was banned?



  • #1787
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Just had a look for the first time at the migrated "My Forums" ... and it's another botch. 15 forums on the list that subscribed to versus the 6 that I previously followed.

    And (as has been endlessly pointed out by others) the desktop site is sooooooo slooooooow. From the time I click on the My Bookmarks shortcut, I can quite literally log in to the new Not Boards site, scan the New Posts list there and make at least one complete reply before this site has finished loading and formatting the Bookmarks page.



  • #1788
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,772 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660860#Comment_117660860

    I'm 17 years here, I assume I'm a banned account as well according to the Book of Overheal?🧐

    Bad attitudes aren't one way, ex-mod!

    This country established its own government – hopelessly imperfect though it may be – to serve and vindicate the needs of Irish people, first and foremost.

    The electorate are a huge part of the problem. You put shite in, you get shite back.



  • #1789
    Ultimate Gowlbag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 360 ✭✭Ultimate Gowlbag


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660860#Comment_117660860

    You've had a nightmare here 🤣



  • #1790
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    I just dont want to use this anymore. Every thread I was following, dead. Every forum, dead. The only semi active threads are ones reacting to the boards downgrade. What's the point in even browsing here if it's a ghost town.

    And whoever signed off on this, well, you made a real dogs bollix out of it. You literally couldn't have done any worse if you tried. Boards has essentially been down for three weeks because I don't class this as an active site since then.

    Any "fixes" in the future are only taping over the cracks of a horrible horrible design that literally nobody wants to navigate.

    Rip it up, start again, you get a solid F for effort.

    Good luck.



  • #1791
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,877 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    The most disappointing part is that all the functionality is probably all there, it's just scattered around the place and called something different (categories/discussions vs forums/threads etc). So your depending on users to figure it out and come up with their own hacks to get things right.

    Any bit of communication in advance or testing with users would have highlighted these issues in a heartbeat. Seems like it's fucked.



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  • #1792
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660860#Comment_117660860

    See, that problem right there is the kind that a platform ‘upgrade’ will never fix.



  • #1793
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,214 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Fair sick of when I go onto the touch site on my phone and scroll down on the homepage it very often shoots back up to the top of the page for no reason.

    The rest of the updated site itself is also absolute dogshit, but everyone seems to have mentioned that already.



  • #1794
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660997#Comment_117660997

    I've no idea, but you aren't displaying a poor attitude either. Maybe you lost your account in the hack, maybe you changed names to avoid a reputation. Maybe indeed you had some kind of ban. I just know I've always just been Overheal on here and I regard with suspicion young accounts who claim a seniority.



  • #1795
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117661175#Comment_117661175

    This is pretty much it.

    The boards.ie custom theme hides the forum title and Follow link on Desktop which effectively breaks that feature and makes the site feel very different than mobile.

    I don't know if this was intentional or not but the site makes a lot more sense with them visible.



  • #1796
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,028 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660330#Comment_117660330

    I've been asking for the questions/resolutions re: mobile and computer to be separated since the day of the changeover.

    The main people involved have ignored me completely. However @Boards.ie: Mark did reply on one of the threads (I can't find it anymore) saying they would prefer a megathread but if others agreed with me they might look into it.

    If you can find my post (I can't) and you agree with it, maybe with a bit of support they might look at it.



  • #1797
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,028 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117660297#Comment_117660297

    Afraid not. The only things that look familiar are the words "My Threads", "My Posts" and that lovely blue colour.



  • #1798
    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    Which one of you's had a little too much tippy tippy. It's actually embarrassing reading all this, bickering pre-pubescent schoolboys over who's football should be used.



  • #1799
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,109 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Boards has always been on Irish time for me in terms of the time stamps of posts but now it has changed to my local time (+7 hours). Can I manually change the time zone on the site back to Irish time?

    Most of the new site's failings have already been covered, definitely not an improvement so far.



  • #1800
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,988 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    What pisses me off is they haven't even bothered to look at something as basic as the colouring. Surely vanilla has a range of present pallette to work with... But even if not, 60 seconds by a dev adjusting the pallette will make this place look at a lot better, even if functionality is fcuked



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  • #1801
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,988 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Just discovered another problem


    In old threads that had a pic or file "attached" the attachment didn't migrate over.... Rendering the thread (or post) useless as it references the attachment



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