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

Hey Mike. Welcome aboard. Long time user but only very occasional poster here nowadays (unfortunately). Tech issues aside, I dissgree with the free hand some non-staff seem to have on this site nowadays.

It's ironic though that customisation under Vanila is being given as a cause of the ongoing performance issues on desktop in particular when a long-standing complaint from the (former) staff and justification for the move to Vanila in the first place was the customisation and maintainance requirements of the old vbulletin site. I'm not blaming you for it - you can only provide the feedback and updates which is appreciated - but it seems that we're back where we started, but on a far inferior platform with (from what I can see) very limited support from and influence over the vendor.

For what it's worth, the site itself seems to be working albeit very slowly on Windows/Chrome anytime I've been on lately. As Emmet above says though, this isn't reflected on mobile (Android) which is interesting as I thought it was the same core just formatted differently?

In any case, you have your work cut out but welcome again and happy new year to you and all!

hence non-staff

From mobile

I'm still collecting unneeded drafts the whole time - mostly of posts that have already uploaded to the thread, but a draft is still saved.

It's only 4 showing now - some have disappeared as I have since posted again in the thread, so I've "used" the draft.

I thought all this auto draft saving stuff was to be switched off?

On desktop, there is a button (very well hidden, which is another gripe) to view posters' comments.

This works on mobile, but on desktop it just refreshes the page showing threads (discussions) started by that person.

It works on desktop for my own profile, and displays a list of my comments) but not for viewing other posters' comments.

Is there any plan to make this button actually work?

Unless they put up a pic it's going to be more or less impossible to figure out what they're talking about...

If you install Boards Enhancement Suite, when you hover over a user's name you get this

Very bad loading times this morning. Between 9-14 seconds. Makes it pretty unusable to be honest

Exactly this.

I would often glance at other users post to see if they are someone I should seriously engage with, or if they're just a WUM or ****-stirring (very frequently if a post gives me pause, they turn out to be exactly that, and duly get reported).

I agree that digging up old posts to throw at posters (also a form of ****-stirring) should not be tolerated.