ROLL IT BACK

i'm not one for knee-jerk reactions but the lack of activity on the few forums/threads I use almost 2 weeks after the update is shocking. The communities are dying.

I realise it's a long climb down and a bit embarrassing, but you guys need to face facts. The move to Vanilla will kill boards and plans need to be made to move back to vBulletin before it's too late. This is one of only two internet forums I still use and I use it because of the people, half of whom I haven't seen post since before the update and a few still posting hate the new site. It's only a matter of time before they stop visiting as much as they used to and then eventually never visit.

Try this:  https://boards.ie/profile/comments/ 

I am starting to save the ^ many helpful links (the admins and mods are posting in various places) on my profiles "activity" box (copy and paste, then hit share to save them on your profile), so I won't forget how to do what we used to be able to do, and have them at the ready when needed.

Just be aware whatever you post there is public. If you go to the bottom of any page and click on 'Activity', you'll see what everyone else has done.

You're not adding anything private, but just be aware if you post on another user's wall everyone can read it. A but like the old profile page visitor's messages, but no option to set it to private.

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"?