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

Thanks to the person (possibly Wibbs), (apologies if somebody else as I can't find the post) who set up the thread for announcements.

Does anybody know if the the announcement about the private/non private messages was actually posted there by Odhran or did it have to be moved there from yet another "update" thread that I haven't come across yet?

This is absolutely unbelievable. The "owner" of the site is clearly so unfamiliar with how boards is used he can't even post his (bafflingly infrequent) updates in one place as a sticky... it's left to a volunteer to do it off their own bat.

Some serious privacy issues have been totally unaddressed, and not acted upon for days or weeks after having been reported.

And to top it all off I find that 15 years of my PMs have been deliberately deleted with no warning??

Seriously. What the hell is going on around here?

Re. writing down important info that was in PMs, I agree that anything like that would have been copied. But for me there's a lot of, for want of a better word, personal stuff in there that I am really unhappy I have lost.

I made a good few close friends over the years here. I even met my wife through boards.

I have to say of all the issues, losing all my years of PMs is the one I am most pissed off about.

Yep I just read that. Cheers lad. I just wish it had been made clear earlier!

I haven't read through this thread so this has probably already been asked but...

Please, please, for the love of God, bring back the "my forums" quick link that was on the right hand side of the old desktop site. I am finding it too tedious and time consuming to navigate to my most frequented forums as the site stands. I used to use boards every day, since the migration that's more like once a week.

Also, if the desktop site could be modified so that hovering over the topics link brings up a dropdown menu like it used to do that would go a long way to improving the navigability of the site.

If anyone is having issues or had issues with old PMs reappearing and they were related to to any of the business from the TalkTo forums, contact those companies Data Controller. Most of these companies have a strict policy on where data should reside, and would be horrified to find out that boards.ie have made them non-compliant with their own terms and conditions regarding data.

They will follow up with the Data Commissioner for you. It’s not just the current TalkTo companies that you can contact, you can contact all of them including the archived companies.

These companies will be very interested to find out that boards.ie moved their customers data outside of the EU.

Yeah, more popular indeed. Among bots harvesting data from our then (un)deleted PMs. ;-p

If you hover over the button that says "1 Like" it shows you the users that liked that post.

Not possible on the mobile/touch site

It's incredible how different the two versions are in terms of look and usability.

Hence the reason I repeatedly asked from the beginning that the two problems should be separated.

Eventually one of the people involved in the changeover replied and wasn't too sure if it would work but would see if others agreed.

I can't find the particular post or remember which of the feedback threads it was in so I don't know what the uptake was.

@Neowise Maybe, but I wonder how much they're posting? Boards is one of tabs (currently) that loads when I open the browser. So I'm here everyday, usually its open while I do something else. Haven't posted squat in two days, and gradually that need to pontificate and share my wisdom is disappearing.