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@Boards.ie: Odhran No PM's restored on Desktop for me! I am just getting the same error I posted earlier when I try to access them...

Not seeing any added navigation on the right hand side of the Desktop either...

To be fair to Vanilla, Odhran's point about the financial situation of the site explains that.

They clearly chose Vanilla as one of the cheapest options for the base platform, and figured they could "customise" the rest (which as I keep saying too probably puts them back in the same position as with the old site in that regard - except it'll potentially cause more issues when Vanilla change the underlying software)

The issues here lie entirely with those who made this decision in the first place, and whomever project "managed" the migration. It's obvious that there was either little to no testing in advance, or they went with the tried and failed "ah shure it'll be grand!" approach, figuring that the user base will do the testing and feedback for them anyway (if it works for Microsoft....)

Unfortunately they've completely misread (yet again) that user base, and when added to the usual tactics of ignoring anything that doesn't suit, we end up where we are now - a fundamentally broken site, angry and frustrated users, and they clearly have no ideas beyond "plow on regardless".

I certainly don't envy Mark or Niamh. As far as I can tell (from what I know of the staff structure) the responsibility for this mess lies squarely with Odhran.

The way things are going, I will be amazed if this site is still online by the end of the year

I know I'm being picky, but the category menu on the left hand side (on desktop) is ugly and feels out of place / different from the rest of the site. Is it temporary or is it here to stay. Not a fan of it's alignment. Feels like it should align with the Latest Post header.

Sorry.

What happened with the big navigation release?

I do wonder were vanilla the cheapest bidder.

I fear it’s too late now to put things right, shame

Same here, I am down to between 6-11 seconds on loading most pages which is slightly better than the 11-16 seconds up to this week. 🙄

It is just a chore logging on here lately.

Will the button to set the site to desktop mode on mobile devices be returned? The mobile version is terrible.

Yeah, I actually quite like it as a sidebar. The formatting could do with a bit of work, but I wouldn't object to it staying around. Though that could be just Stockholm Syndrome after a month of no dropdown menu!

Definitely, I think it's actually a bit better than the old dropdown. It would be nice if they could make it a floating object so it follows you down the page. I'm able to find forums I haven't seen in weeks now!

Yeah, but please include "Regional" and "Talk to..." in that navigation menu ......

Glad to see progress and also glad to see I'm not the only one who thought the Regional set was missing. Thought it was buried somewhere different.

I'm guessing since it's a temporary fix that they didn't fully implement it across the site, but maybe if there's enough feedback saying that it should be a permanent addition they'll fix it up. Hopefully they make it permanent

Yeah, it was the topics dropdown I was talking about, it was the main way I navigated the site. I agre about the followed forums options. I really don't like the way Bookmarks works, and I find My Discussions a bit pointless. I won't even start on Notifications....

It's pretty badly styled alright but hopefully it's temporary and the right and natural way to implement a sitewide dropdown is back soon.

Also, how hard is it to stick a 'back to top' button at end of every thread page? I know keyboard Home can do that but 'back to top' is again a natural way of doing things.

And 'My Bookmarks' should be permanently on the blue nav bar alongside Disucssions etc - reduce those damn excess clicks.