Welcome to the new Boards.ie platform - Version 1.0 :)
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During a conversation with a user yesterday who was havibg trouble with their signature, I discovered that sigs were automativally switched off on the mobile version of the site. I've switched them on to see how that goes. You can update your own preferences for seeing or not seeing sigs in Signature Settings if you would rather not see them.
On Mobile, go to Edit Profile then scroll down to Signature Settings
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- How can I find my individual posts (not the thread bookmarks)? Go to 'Comments' - this will have all of your posts. To see threads you have started, go to 'My Discussions'. To reach these on mobile, go to View Profile and then scroll to the links at the bottom of the page where you will see a link to Comments. On desktop, go to your profile and select Comments from the end of the list in this menu:
- Why is Search still broken? More often than not when I switch the sort order from "Best Match" to “Newest” I get 0 results.
This is a known issue and search is still being worked on. There should be some updates to it this week or next with more still to be done.
- What’s the deal with the star rating system? Everyone I can see is 1-star and so this is a waste of screen ror neeal-estate. Which neatly brings me to my favourite....
This is to do with ranks and roles and still needs to be tidied up. It's not top of the list at the moment.
- Can you offer anything in way of hope that the white space might possibly be reduced at some indeterminate timeframe? Was there no CMS target that could promise a cleaner layout?
I can't really say for sure what will happen with the space except that it is not something we are specifically looking at right now. Sorry.
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Hi folks and Happy New Year to you all.
For those interested in how I put food on the table … it’s not from Boards. I don't pull a salary. We had to put money in to keep the lights on ... and will have to again. This is not my day job. I have a few of them and they pay the bills thankfully. Im starting to sound like a broken record at this stage but once more….
Boards.ie had and has zero funds. It was out of cash and no reserves. It makes no profit and is loss making. We had two options - shut it down or keep it going. We decided to keep Boards alive and I still believe it was the right thing to. Boards has a valuable place, and more to say in Ireland's online story. So lets move on and do that.
Over the last few months we have been successful in reducing cost and are starting to stabilise revenue. We will be pushing out some partnership agreements soon that we hope will also help boost revenue... In a world of ad blockers and more we cannot rely on ads alone - something I have also said before. We will roll out with a few of those asap and see how they go.
I am going to share some stats below but the good news is that the numbers are going up. The stat that is most encouraging is our new user count which averages at about 75 per day. We will start sharing some key monthly KPI's so we can all measure traffic.
The Q&A feature is starting to get a bit of traction too and we would hope by making this more prominant on site we will get more engagement especially from new users that are not as familiar with how things work. We will also be making the contribution details public per below.
We will also share similar stats around whats busy / growing etc.
So we will look at pulling some key stats end Jan and we can all monitor each moth from then.
Left Nav
We used to have a mega dropdown which did not work. That has been the case since the first one that was put in place. Way too many categories and sub/sub/sub categories. While some might not like the new left nav... for the volume of categories we have its difficult to get around. We could do better around naming I think to make more discoverable - but an alphabetical list for a large amount of data makes it easier to find. I would like us to start looking at some of the naming conventions and will talk about that again.
Niamh will share good news we hope on some important tickets raised here shortly.
Thanks a mil
Odhran
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Guys the TRENDING TAB on the desktop homepage is back up and working - no more July content for another six months. Sorry it took so long, despite being an easy change in the end it required some wading through a lot of parameters and functions to get to what needed to be changed.
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