Welcome to the new Boards.ie platform - Version 1.0 :)

I posted, so hopefully this is the only way you know.

I bet I'll get bloody notifications for it now! 😂

I know things take time, and on a human level, I can only imagine the stress and pressure in the Boards office in trying to salvage this situation, but jesus, what a mess.

I can only presume there was very little forward planning or testing done, or that the team fell for a pretty demo and accompanying 'assurances' from a Vanilla salesperson. As a project, there will surely be many, many 'lessons learned'.

I don't want to heap on the misery, as it must be blind panic at this stage, but this can reasonably be called a failed migration, with traffic down and users seemingly dropping off. Sad to see it as I love Boards, and it didn't/ shouldnt need to have been this way, particularly if you bear in mind that there was a speedy rollback previously on changes to the touch site - was nothing learned from that? This change was seemingly rammed through, with no consultation and only paltry, low visibility communication to warn of the change at the last minute?

Boards admission that there is 'one developer' trying to work through this in conjunction with a Canadian IT company 4 hours behind (and who won't provide emergency support in evenings/ weekends), is... I don't know. That poor developer must be inundated, with some pretty unreasonable asks on them.

That being said, how boards have still not managed to implement seemingly straightforward changes such as editing 'my bookmarks' to read 'my threads' is a little mind boggling. indeed, there have been very few if any notable improvements in the last fortnight.

I can only presume that the Vanilla formula was not meant to be quite so specifically edited to suit what Boards actually wanted, and we are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

The mobile site (which is all I use) isn't terrible at all, but it no longer has any of the specific quirks and features that made Boards such a unique and wonderul forum, and its hard to understand if it will be possible to ever get there with the level of clarity in communication we have from the brass. And while I am reasonably adept at technology, I would hazard a guess that many Boardises are not, making the transition harder. Yes, vBulletin sites have been around for a long time, but there was a reason for that - they worked, and they were simple and easy to use, at least for the userbase.

Again, understand there is serious pressure to get things right, but 'we recognise the faults and are working on them' is a bit nebulous, and it's not clear if things actually can or will be fixed, how long that might take, and what will be left of the 'community' once we get 'there'.

It's unbelievable that the site (desktop at least) has been left so horrible to navigate for so long. I cannot comprehend how somebody wasn't shouting orders down the phone to Canada 10 minutes after the site went live.

The shouting should have been done before it went live. I feel sorry the employees trying to fix this.

Please go back to the good auld days!!!!

On the mobile site is the only way to follow a forum for the moment, but when it's done it carries over to the desktop "categories "

I’m using the mobile version and yesterday my followed forums (personal issues and relationship issues) no longer appear in discussions - it just says no discussion found, despite them being there since the changeover. I went to categories and the option there was to ‘unfollow’ so I clicked that, then clicked follow but still nothing. Other forums that I click follow on seen to appear in discussions no problem.

don’t know how to resolve? Happen to anyone else?

How nice.

I am just loving this new site, so far. Very impressed with the engaging community spirit it inspires.

Feel free to change my name to Spam Boo, so.

Wonder will we get an update this evening..