ROLL IT BACK

So two weeks later and the site is still a complete and utter shambles.

The owners need to swallow their pride and go back to the old version of the site. Everyone has no confidence in the new site and the longer the owners prevaricate, the more users they are going to lose.

Change it back now please before it is too late.

Finding this site a nightmare to use. Why can't you delete old posts? So many missing features, did anyone think this through? The website barely functions as a discussion forum.

Please rollback, the mobile site is an absolute shambles. Its so difficult to use and navigate. I’d assume a lot of people like myself use mobiles when browsing boards.

Its as though the move from the old boards to the new platform was a basic scrape of the existing posts/threads data and plonked into the new platform. Its the shoddiest platform move iv ever come across to be honest, its quite amateur tbh. To think boards.ie is a for profit business too is sort of mad.

It's time for the Boards executive team to meet in an emergency session and find the quickest way to bring in outside expertise to roll this back as soon as possible.

Once that's done and a project timetable has been agreed and communicated to the users, the executive team should resign, with a couple staying on in caretaker roles to facilitate transition.

Ahhh boards, will you just fix the "My Threads" and "Thanks" menu buttons. I can live with everything else. It's next to impossible to find the hot topics and my active discussions.

Can't believe this has only got 11 likes! Maybe there are other similar posts that say much the same thing that have hoovered up other nods of approval.

My Forums, My Threads, My Discussions.......MY ARSE!!!!

How about just "My Posts"? Nice and simple. Unambiguous. Easy to follow. I can't believe it's such a grind for a database programmer to implement either. This must have been a "strategic" ie deliberate decision by those commissioning the "upgrade" (sic).

(desktop) It's not the same but here's a direct link to your posts/comments - on desktop there's no official link in your profile 🙄

https://www.boards.ie/profile/comments

(mobile) It's under your avatar-->view profile-->scroll to bottom-->comments

It took me 3 minutes just to find this thread again! Oh man, this really needs a look at. Surely being able to find your active discussions WITHOUT bookmarking the discussion or searching for it needs to be top of the list of things to fix.

How was this missed in "testing"?

Been a great 20 years here, went though a lot of life experiences on boards, I'll still visit but less and less, this forum format is frankly the worst i've seen anywhere anytime and i've been on boards since newsgroups were a thing.

Thanks to all the admins and mods for all the time and effort you put into making this place it became and once was.

is it just my computer or does no one else see that the clock is out by one hour, all the time, you would think that would be a very easy fix!

Aghhh

Asking for the site to roll back is futile, as that is never going to happen.

What we are witnessing here is the death kneel of the site. From the absolute ham-fisted new layout, to the fact that there are more bugs than in the amazon rain forest to the mishandling of users data and private messages, this is death by a 1000 cuts.

As I said previously, I'd really love to know who gave final sign off for this because invariably, when something like this happens, there is one person ultimately driving it.

Fcukin screen would blind you and can’t find a fcukin thing unless it comes up on the front page.

In wouldn't be so sure.

It's time to talk about organising a site-wide boycott, to start suspending posting activity on Forums for 24 hours at a time. If that fails, category Mods who feel the same as posters here, can start resigning. Beyond that, users can start deactivating accounts.

Who would support me in spreading the word across Forums (categories) to suggest a poster's strike from Midnight Monday to Midnight Tuesday?

That's what I mean by a crazy over the top reaction. Calling someone deluded? Everything just seems way overblown. I was able to log in, quote you, reply to you, you were able to do the same to me. I don't see why everything is so Doomsday? Shambles? Unusable? Any chance we're going slightly over the top?

The main issues are that the navigation of the site and the search function are completely broken. You can't hover over the topics to quickly jump to a forum and instead have to click on topics which brings you to a massive long list of all the boards that are seemingly randomly ordered and not in even in alphabetical order. As for the search function! It's absolutely atrocious.

There are also numerous small issues like not being able to highlight/bold someone you quote, the bloody clock/time is all over the place with parts of the site showing the right time but other parts being an hour behind.

The most damning aspect is that certain forums, which used to be very busy, have seen huge drops in usage/posts. The Soccer forum (one of the busiest on boards prior to the change) is a relative graveyard at this stage because of how it is hosted on the new site.

The day Ireland win a Gold medal at the Olympics and there's about 30 posts in the dedicated AH thread since 9am this morning. If that doesn't tell its own story then I don't know what will. People are voting with their feet (and keyboards). I can't be arsed posting much anymore on the desktop version and the mobile site is unusable as far as I'm concerned.

The site is dead at the moment and it's getting deader.

Who the hell was in charge of this complete clusterfcuk of a decision?

Roll it Back FFS!

Is anyone from boards.ie even responding to all the criticism and suggestions? it seems bizarre that they are prepared to leave a once great forum die off which is what will happen

Saying what?

I would search for the responses, but that's impossible so....