Just bugs / missing functionality reports - no griping

FYI, my Boardsie Enhancement Suite extension for desktop browsers allows you to restore the sticky breadcrumbs.

Install from the links in my sig or from the link above, then click the settings 'cog-wheel' in the header, and you can choose to sticky either the header, the breadcrumbs, or both.

Genuine question here. This endless jumping on the mobile site - is this something that has been affecting all Vanilla-based sites, or just Boards?

If it's the former, then they'd probably be bankrupt already as such a disrputive flaw, having gone on for so many months, must be catastrophic for business, and if it's the latter, then how has it come about and how can it take so long to fix?

I literally have not seen it before on any other site, ever, so it seems baffling that it's not an easy fix.

Vanilla, out of the box, looks something like the link below. You can see a similar style on Boards if you spoof your user agent to a mobile device on a desktop browser.

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/38343/is-there-any-seo-manager-plugin-or-application-in-vanilla-forum-like-yoast-seo-is-in-wordpress

This style was, not surprisingly, seen as unacceptable to the Boards userbase. A previous attempt to introduce a new design (the "responsive" site) was not taken too well, although in fairness I'd have taken the responsive site over what we have now! Therefore, it was decided to add customisations to Vanilla to try to emulate the default vBulletin theme. The problem is, being a cloud service, Vanilla make regular changes to the backend and these changes can break the customisations that Boards had made. In addition, like the numerous Linux distros that try to emulate the look of Windows, it doesn't take long for you to get past the theming and to realise that the rest of the system is very different.

Digital Spy is the other site I've mentioned before that uses Vanilla, they don't seem to have the same problems as on here. But they're backed by the multinational Hearst group, so probably have more resources to dedicate to it.

If that analogy held the plane would dive into the Irish sea if a passenger flushed the toilet.

I understand it is detrimental to the sites survival but u could no longer tolerate the jumping to installed AdGuard. Problem solved. Sorry Boards.ie but you brought it on yourself

The jumping issue seems to be getting worse - though it's probably just my perception as it seems to affect more and more of the threads I open.

At what point does this become unsustainable. I know Odhran is pretty much an absentee landlord on this site, but how much visibility/awareness/care does he have of issues like this?

Fundamentally it's breaking and discouraging the use of a site he is paying his money to keep going. Surely that's SOME incentive to get it fixed?

It's honestly hurting my eyes at this stage. Sometimes I just close it as I can't take any more.

A discussion forum without quotes would be not fit for purpose

Again we are left scratching our heads why an entirely unsuitable platform was selected.

If the site had been turned over to the community before the vBulletin migration it'd be in a much healthier state now

I was trying search and got this

The web server reported a gateway time-out error. Ray ID: 9470edf57be2bdfa

It is every time I try to paste the link which is from Dublin Bus of all things !

Doesn't seem to be able to handle such a complicated procedure ! oesn't

Considering Vanilla has been owned by Higher Logic, a US based software outfit for a few years at this stage, I'd wonder how much longer this will actually last. They pulled support for the open source version of Vanilla back in March of this year and seem to be moving ahead with uniting Vanilla with their own product lines.

Also, given the current political situation in the US, should Boards really be hosted as SaaS on a US customer care platform, which is what Vanilla now is.

I asked that yonks ago and was told not a chance so I just gave up reporting spam. The main page was full again after 3am with it.

Is there any way to embed a Bluesky post à la Tweets yet?