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

How long has this turd been released now, 4 or 5 months?

Its still only barely better than the day one release..whats going on. Its a total **** of a site..do **** something.

This attitude really annoys me - what do you expect to get from it? Maybe a PM attaboy from a Mod or something? Or is it just to rile people up?

The site is a shadow of its former self and 4/5 months later shows no real sign of getting back to even that previous level of functionality. Communication and feedback is almost non-existent (with the exception of Niamh who's been left to put out what updates she can - and I get the feeling she's often not looped in either on things behind the scenes) and Odhran seems to have vanished. Now admittedly poor engagement with the users has been a long-standing issue with this site, but it's especially obvious (and painful!) since this migration.

Recognising these things, asking for information and a direction, or expressing deep unhappiness and regret over how things have turned out is not trolling or moaning - many users have put hundreds of hours and several years into contributing to this site - sharing their insight, knowledge, help, modding efforts, and just random banter... all of which Boards.ie the company has been using as a selling point to commercial customers and advertisers (and presumably continues to do so). It's not too much to ask that those same users be given clear statements as to intent and the future of the site.

It's attitudes like yours that are a bigger problem. Apparently content to just take what you're given and put up with it. There's a lot of people like that in this country though. It explains why things are still broken in that sense too.

Im not sure why you reference attitude when I am stating facts. You cant deny that the new site has attracted trolls and in many of the feedback threads I see the moaning and complaining from the same people yet most of them dont have anything positive to offer.

However I agree with most of what you say as I have made my feelings known both here and in private. Vanilla is a disaster as far as I'm concerned and while some improvements have been carried out there is still a serious amount of sh1t to be sorted out. Im one of the few mods speaking out publicly on this matter but (and probably against my better judgement) Im sticking it out for the time being. But if things dont improve in the near future then I'll be gone from here.

That's a very clear outline of the kind way things could be implemented. I wonder if the powers that be have put similar thought and effort into how things could be fixed.

Of the things that you identify that could be fixed, I suspect the categorisation of reported posts is most likely, assuming that the thread they are located on is also identified in some way.

Have we any idea of the features current being worked on? I get the feeling that users and moderators are being strung along here, and that there will be no significant features added to the current site.

Copy the part of the post you want to respond to, click Quote, then paste into the Comment box, highlight it there and format to a quote.

That error/issue just involved one extra click to access your PMs.

Nice that it's resolved, but any news on the hyper-sensitive drop-down menus at the top of the desktop page, which are a major PITA?

Or the fact that you can't format text in a post on mobile (or couldn't up until a day or two ago, haven't checked it today, but I'm assuming it hasn't been fixed)?

I'm honestly trying always to be constructive and stay positive - but there's a serious feeling of moving deckchairs on the Titanic about all of this. I can't remember the last fix that actually improved the user experience for me on Boards. (YMMV)

How do I get to use emojis on mobile

I think that was a problem for all users but in terms of priorities it would have a very low priority problem.

I think this one was the culprit - 'Notify me when people comment on discussions I've participated in.'

So even if you unbookmark, you get notifications by default. I'm sure it's been discussed many times but couldn't find anything

I've posted so little that I'm only noticing this now

Anything on the advanced functionality for moderators in the works?

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Wanted to look something up so came back here today.

Months later and almost all the major issues are still present. You cannot see the time for posts that aren't posted today, and you can't see the date for anything posted before 2021! This is a forum, why is this issue still here???

No most thanked posts, still extremely difficult to navigate, stupid pop ups which just interrupt the page (why can't I just see my followed forums on a webpage?).

Also the emails are just a nightmare, at least you used to be able to see the thread in the email heading, now it just tells you the user, which is totally useless.

Honestly lads, you've taken one of the most enjoyable Irish websites created, sh*t all over it in the promise of making it better, and then not even attempt to fix major issues which plague the site months after the changeover?

If you are using uBlock Origin, disable cosmetic filtering for this site. The eyedrop picker to block that ad placement element on the frontpage results in that.

This has happened recently.

Anyone that uses an AdBlock app on iPhone getting this issue when trying to open certain threads? Never happened until today

How do you even tell on thread who is a mod these days?

Was reading a thread and the below post

It really looks like a random poster issuing instructions. The User Panel on the left needs to show Mod status.