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

Hi folks

We made a few small updates today - one of those was post numbers are showing on Desktop now. We also will work on getting them over to mobile also. We are also working on amongst other things:

• Bookmarks icon on desktop (like mobile)
• Time stamp
• Most thanked
• Mod utils
• Notifications
• Popular Forums
• My forums
• Our staging environment is out of sync
• Moving all css updates off 'pockets' and in
• Adding an additional new post above fold on mobile
• Investigating reports of deleted threads - this was resolved and not an issue
• Ad placements - currently in pockets which do not work so need to be hardcoded to site

Some of the above need to be hardcoded and submitted for approval and we try to get as many of these in at once.

We have the old top nav built but decided not to push it since the right hand panel has been there for sometime. We will however utilise the drop down and share here over the coming weeks. We want to add in a few more ways to get too popular forums too which will help users find areas that are not logically found in search at the moment.

We have been working with Vanilla on resolving issues with search performance / speed. We have reindexed lots of times now and its still pretty poor to say the least and there seems to be some pretty big issues here. The Vanilla CTO is investigating and we will be following up again over the coming days. Currently search relevance is set to give weight to the title of the discussion and much the search term(s) are mentioned within the discussion which means we get back results from 10 years ago that don't make sense. There currently is a drop down menu to select results populate which we will look to setting at newest by default as a short-term fix.

The above are just some of the things we are working on. We also have plugins to create for various items - modtools, gdpr, homepage updates including timestamps etc - so these things take a little bit longer to complete and as you know we have a very small team working through a long list.

Over the coming weeks after we get some more of the bigger ticket items sorted we will share some data around posts, traffic etc. We are certainly down in some areas ie new post count vs pre-migration - a lot of that is down to issues that have been raised here... some fixed, some being worked on... but we are starting to see some positive signs there and hopefully that continues.

We are collating all feedback that is posted here and adding it to a master list and have a lot to do so please don't take us not responding to every reply as not listening... we just have to prioritise a lot of work in the background that consumes a lot of time... and we are few. You will see from a lot of our fixes / updates have been flagged here - so thanks again for that it is really helpful.

We are getting to a better place everyday. Slower than I hoped and it goes without saying that we are not happy with how the migration went or the pace of change - that is on me. But I have said a few times that we had a to make this change or there would not be any Boards.ie anymore and I stand by that. We will never be the Boards platform of old I'm afraid - We are trying to get to a place where its similar and we will get there are getting there through your feedback.

I have taken note of a few issues noted around bookmarks & notifications. We had several fixes roll out on this so will PM some of you directly to see if there are still problems.

Thanks,

Odhran