Boards.ie update - 25th November 2021

I wonder if the stock theme would have been more useable out of the box than the custom boards theme that was implemented. Especially on mobile which I assume the majority of users generally are these days.

I also wonder if the overhead of migrating all the old data outweighs the cost of migrating it and the value to current users. Since you can't reliably search it, or add to old threads.

What's done is done. But those are still valid questions. Are customization and maintaining legacy data viable going forward with reduced resources. As others have already said the core of the site is the moderation.

Posted by Odhran:

They don't want us firing in PR's for every small change so in part it is to discourage that. Also however we don't want to be doing it either - the longer we keep making a bespoke platform the more we will have to maintain it. Ultimately we want to move to a more generic version but that will be a longer journey.

What does this mean? Isn't that where you started with Vanilla and have now spent the last 4/5 months trying to beat it into a usable shape? Is there ANOTHER migration on the horizon? Within Vanilla or to another platform again?

That can't be a serious consideration after the last 5 months?

After seeing that post yesterday, I got to wondering about this obsession with trying to replicate the old boards within a framework that clearly just doesn't fit.

Is it not an option to just run with whatever "look" Vanilla is meant for, and can run without adaptations and endless bodging? Which seems to mean fixing one thing while breaking two others.

We're all big boys and girls here, we can adapt to a new-look site (even me, and I'm absolutely allergic to change!) - would take a bit of getting used to, but it would have to be better than the current set up which would drive you to drink sometimes.

Yeah, totally agree that feedback, good and bad is what this forum is for.

But calling the guy a bollocks, calling for people to lose their jobs, demanding access to accounts, calling Niamh names, calling them incompetent, saying they have killed Boards etc, etc. is not what the forum is for.

Not implying you've done these things btw, I don't pay much attention to user's names, but I assume you've read the same as I have.

Absolutely people are entitled to express their views on the change over / state of the site but are not entitled to resort to personal attacks on Niamh, Odhran or anybody else.

Someone said that maybe they should just have run with the look that Vanilla is meant for - I think that would have been the end of the site as Vanilla is pretty poor on any forum I've seen. The big drop in traffic on the site reflected the users unhappiness with / difficulty navigating the new site and I don't think a lot of those would have come back if they had simply left it as it was.

On that specific example. On the old site you could turn off auto bookmarking, on here you can't. And yes it's a major annoyance and is affecting my post count

The autobooking should be optional, it doesn't have to be either/or.

People want and like different features and Feedback is where they are supposed to post about it.

I want to know how Beasty has so much money and is still able to spend so much time here ? 😋

There are still some brilliant posters here and the other place has not gained any new subscribers. People waste so much time on the internet, I absolutely love it.

With the Follow thread option now on the desktop, and on the mobile very soon, I hope. We can now start again.

There are lots of people here who get a real kick out of helping people. Myself included. Sharing the passion.

My passions are food and business.

No. 1 Rule: If you don’t ask, you don’t get.

The other No. 1 Rule: Do it, review it, change it.

Have no fear,he will be back to say it was a tongue in cheek comment or something like that

I feel the need to point out that in this thread and forum I am an ordinary user/member. Like everyone else here I an entitled to an opinion and I am entitled to post that opinion.

So Im wrong, I'm not entitled to an opinion?

in case you missed the obvious I'm talking about posting an opinion here in this very thread about the topic at hand and other posts.

I'm at a complete loss as to why me being a mod of another forum has got anything to do with the price of tea in China.

I would like to think that any comments/opinions/posts made are acceptable but at the end of the day that is not up to you or me to decide.

I have yet to see you or anyone else here challenging another poster on the content of their post/expressed opinion. For some unknown reason you wish to single out people who donate their time freely to this site. Personally I have no modding responsibilities in this thread yet you only take exception to anything I or any other mod posts. As I said earlier I dont understand what beef you and others have with people who are mods, Cmods or Admins.

Can ye give it a rest.

Exactly That's what I don't get either.

Spot on. The fact that after what, 4 months, we are still waiting for something as simple as a 'delete post' function to be implemented is astonishing.

And the Boards solution: PM a mod to get it deleted. More work for the mods, more effort for the poster.

How in the world can not be possible to get a Delete post option added to one of the lists being sent through to Vanilla? Surely something so basic cannot be something that would take long for Boards to request or for Vanilla to implement.

I remember when you were but a pleb like the rest of us. No idea how you became a mod though.

Good to know you now know your limitations as an underpaid, under valued member of boards 🤣.