The place seems to be a bit of a ghost town since the move, many people haven't come back
So there are no page numbers on the front?
Christ on a bike, I can't even quote part of a post: it's all or nothing. I think I'm done here.
It's honestly poor.
It's a bit like a Renault Megane II.
It's ugly and filled with issues.
Not one to complain, especially about a free website but I have to admit I am finding it hard to enjoy the new site.
I wonder are their plans to abandon this upgrade? Are user numbers way down? Find it so hard to navigate the new site, and when I do get to the forums I want they are mostly dead suggesting others are having the same issue.
when I come on here I feel like I am fumbling around in the dark.. my breaks are ruined... use to love loggin on - checking my notifications - enjoy - log off.. i keep coming back in the hope that its better - but its not - and my breaks are being ruined.. I shud just go.. its v v v sad and unbelievable what they have done.. I mean, I was not just here to pass the time or for fun/time out (only sometimes), I have gotten a lot of invaluable information off this site over the years.. now that resource is gone - thats v v sad.. feel a bit of a void info wise.. was v good for recommendations, on important things as well as just miscellaneous stuff.. such a shame and a loss
It took a week to come up with this heap of s**t.
Yeah it’s pretty good. :) I registered over there the other day too.
It reminds me of the way Bebo went.
seems hopeless.. when i am on other forums - that work really well, it highlights even more to me how badly they have messed things up here.. its mind boggling tbf
Im going to try that now.
I thought i would come in today to give boards one last try, but sick of it already
**** it seems.
I wonder where everyone will go? or will they just stick to youtube or some other site.
Boards seems to have lost a lot of functionality for end users which is very strange for an upgrade. Is there a FAQ on how to use the new platform? For example how to check post history, how to edit or delete a post after posting, etc.
Edit: At least I've found out how to edit a post after posting (click 3 dots on top right of post), but it's still time limited, in fact the time limit seems shorter. Don't see anything to delete one's posts other than perhaps reporting it and asking a mod or admin to delete it, surely contrary to the spirit of the "right to be forgotten" EU rules.
Boards nuked their own site. I never thought it would end like this.
Idiots.
I just can't be arsed anymore to be honest.
I've made a couple of posts in feedback and elsewhere and I am still keeping an eye on things once/twice a day, but the "communication" is the same random list of updates/fixes every day with almost no engagement with users outside of that - and certainly none that addresses the issues and frustration of posters.
It shouldn't be necessary for the technical users to write fixes and workarounds to partially address the massive functionality and usability issues with the site. As appreciated as it is, I haven't seen any recognition of that from the staff either.
As usual boards staff are just plowing on with their own agenda regardless of user sentiment and I've no desire to overlook that anymore. Once the mods get their tools restored (as that one seems to be important to someone), the experience will only get worse.
It's become too much effort to bother posting anymore (while trying to write this my keyboard on the phone seems to randomly disappear for whatever reason) and things definitely seem to be a lot quieter anyway so it would seem that many are voting with their feet.
I'll probably keep checking back for a while yet but I've also moved to that "other" site and it's a far more welcoming place all round than this place nowadays.
The demographics aren't even the death of a site like boards, even assuming you believe that the yoof are the only game in town. Usefulness and interest are the key drivers of anything, and a well supported site like boards can juggle multiple demographics ... if it wants to. It's down to the users to provide the content and the site/volunteers to moderate the tone. A discussion board can never replace an instagram or tiktok, but then it doesn't have to if it does its own job well, but that needs traffic, of any type. I would love to see what the traffic levels on boards leading up to and after the change.
It's almost a month now that the site is down/ become less user friendly, it's dying a slow death. While you might expect some teething problems, there's an awful lot required just to get the site back to some semblance of what we had before. The only positive change I can see is that you can save a post as a draft and come back to it later, everything else seems to have went backwards. It seems to take a lot more hassle to get to threads than before, also, there seems to be less interesting discussions going on than before, a sign that traffic is down hugely, the soccer forum is a disaster, if you have no access to it, you can't even browse it, if you have access even finding it is a chore. It's a real shame as the site was a great resource before the changeover, now it seems an awful lot of posters have left and those still here are giving out about the changes.
This place is as dead as a doornail. not sure it will survive. pity.
That's promising. Cool.
Digital Spy’s discussion forums use Vanilla. It’s way bigger than Boards.
Given the comments and feedback over the past 10 days or so, it's obvious that the regular posters are very unhappy (rightfully) at these stupid and unnecessary changes and I would also agree that it does look like Boards is dying a slow death.
Wibbs made a very good point here that as the demographic of Boards has aged over the past 20 or so years, the needless changes to the familiar format of the site are only serving to drive posters away.
I'm on a few forums that have updated over the years and were running the same version of vbulletin as boards, they still use it, without any complaints and update it as needed. Not sure why boards didn't do this.
I come on to boards and realise I can't find any threads I was following, can't continue any discussions, and so I leave.
I'm Struggling to stay here. The law of averages tells me that eventually I will land on a site or forum that suits me better than previous ones I have landed on, and I can't imagine I'd be using boards as much from then on once that happens.
EDIT - I'm outta here again now to go browsing/look elsewhere, when normally a Monday morning would be my tea, Danish and boards..
Not true about most of the discussions yakking about here.
There's one or two threads and I think it's extremely normal for an Irish based site to discuss something happening in Ireland that affects mostly Irish people.
There is 1 person dealing with around 200 posters most of whom are just talking about boards. Small sites are easy to manage as instant decisions can be made and everyone is on board with the newness of it. Was Niamh to start making new forums or deleting old ones on request without consultation with a wider audience the feedback would be overwhelmingly negative.
Simple business rule is small businesses are fast moving and can easily respond to change. Large companies are slow and resistant to change.
Well that's pretty shocking if it is the case. How on earth could someone make such an ill-informed decision with something so big?
I'd expect to be looking for a new job if I did something like that.
And this must be the only largish forum online that doesn't host themselves or have access to the codebase. Having to wait for people in another country to sign off on pull requests when those pull requests are your entire business is fairly unheard of.
Boards has been dying for a couple of years now anyway. It's gone far too liberal and any kind of conversation that mods don't agree with is removed and posters warned/banned/lectured etc... Good posters who don't have mainstream opinions have left or been banned in droves and all you are left with is an echo chamber.
It doesn't seem this software is meant to run a forum website. It's meant to be integrated for support or a small section of a bigger site.
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Is it any wonder it struggles to come in after vBulletin? It was never meant to. Xenforo was the obvious choice and it's a joy to use. Bananas decision that could handily cost people jobs.
I've seen a few different changes and policies declared as the thing that would kill boards (And some of the smaller fora have been dead or dying for a while), but I do worry this may actually kill boards.
Posting is way down across the site, in a way I've never seen before. The soccer forum in particular is a disaster as it is designated a group instead of a forum.
The longer this goes on, the more you'll wonder can things recover.
Well, not a lot of traffic to moderate so far, plus newbies maybe on good behaviour
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