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  • #5762
    Boards.ie: Mike
    Administrators, Boards.ie Employee, Boards Employee 2, Boards Employee 3 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124259144#Comment_124259144

    Thank you for flagging both of these issues here. I know that other mentioned the ghost notifications I am going to get some clarification on these points.



  • #5763
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,674 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Random forum stickies seem to be appearing across all forums now?

    Eg in this feedback forum im seeing stickies from the S & S forum and the subscribers forum.

    32027.jpg 32029.jpg


  • #5764
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,452 ✭✭✭corkie


    ^^ Can confirm the above private members forum stickies are appearing in other forums.

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • #5765
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,273 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Was just about to post the same, stickies from Subscribers, R&R and Sex & Sexuality are appearing in the Work Problems forum, some non-sticky threads that don't belong there are too

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #5766
    Boards.ie: Mike
    Administrators, Boards.ie Employee, Boards Employee 2, Boards Employee 3 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mike


    @El Gato De Negocios @corkie @Hotblack Desiato Thank you guys for sharing that. I will look into this today.



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  • #5767
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,671 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Here's how https://www.boards.ie/groups look like at the moment:

    Screenshot01773.png

    Opera, desktop.



  • #5768
    Boards.ie: Mike
    Administrators, Boards.ie Employee, Boards Employee 2, Boards Employee 3 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124264050#Comment_124264050

    Hey there,

    Thank you for sharing this. I have cleaned up the new groups section now.



  • #5769
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,259 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I completely by accident found a whole load of posts in the subscribers' forum inviting opinions/applications/suggestions - in the course of trying to figure out how I could bookmark them so I might see such posts sooner I see this glitch in the "follow" button - it looks like the "following" has just been overlaid on the "follow" button

    Also, despite seemingly having followed the forum (the option when I click on that mess of a button is to unfollow), it doesn't appear in the "My Forums" tab

    image.png


  • #5770
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,452 ✭✭✭corkie


    @HeidiHeidi Also, despite seemingly having followed the forum (the option when I click on that mess of a button is to unfollow), it doesn't appear in the "My Forums" tab

    My Forums tab is flooded with most recent activity so probably forcing these threads out of the list.

    Solution bookmarks threads you want to follow.

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • #5771
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,259 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124264566#Comment_124264566

    I didn't know half of the threads were there in the first place!

    The whole forum is getting more and more fragmented, and harder to navigate - particularly the bits relating to the future development of the site



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  • #5772
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    Odd double empty replies to spoilered comments

    Twice in recent days I made a spoilered comment in TV/Film forums and gotten a double empty reply…

    I can't link to the posts without them being activated into quotes here…



  • #5773
    Boards.ie: Mike
    Administrators, Boards.ie Employee, Boards Employee 2, Boards Employee 3 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mike


    @Gremlinertia @New Home


    could I ask if:

    • the notification bell and list on the browser and on the phone at roughly the same time
    • Rough timestamps (with time zone) for when they last saw old or “extra” notifications

    Also screenshots would be helpful.
     



  • #5774
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 62,970 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124265060#Comment_124265060

    I apologise here but I'm not quite understanding the first part, at this point anyway the notification issue has resolved on my side..

    I forget screenshots often, I'll try be more cognisant of that

    *Having gone back to my post to review I can say that issue ended for me within two days



  • #5775
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124265060#Comment_124265060

    Hi Mike,

    I'm getting 30 notifications on desktop (Firefox) and 104 on mobile (also Firefox, Android).

    Screenshot from Desktop:

    image.png

    Screenshot from mobile:

    Screenshot_20260226-085702~2.png

    I tried to mark them as "read", it didn't work properly until yesterday (they would disappear and then reappear after I refreshed the page), I'll let you know if anything is different today.

    Thanks.



  • #5776
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 62,970 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I just looked and have over 40 notifications but I also noted a bit of temu spam overnight so could be those. I only have phone access to boards the last few months, chrome, android

    Screenshot_2026-02-26-09-55-49-89_40deb401b9ffe8e1df2f1cc5ba480b12.jpg


  • #5777
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124266042#Comment_124266042

    Now 52 on the phone and 35 on the desktop, which suddenly switched to 1.



  • #5778
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,671 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124264135#Comment_124264135

    Thank you for the cleanup. Since then though, weird ones reappeared:

    Screenshot01775.png

    Oh, and as other Boardsies mentioned, just found sticky from Sex & Sexuality in Broadband forum.

    ==========

    EDIT: I just spotted "New Group" button on top of Groups page. I always thought regular users are not allowed to create new groups? Correct me if I'm wrong.



  • #5779
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,259 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    There's quite the epidemic of spam today, more than I've seen in one day in quite a while.

    Has something changed?



  • #5780
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 62,970 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    @Boards.ie: Mike just had (14:10) one notification pop up from a post in AH that I had both acknowledged and replied to approximately 08:05 this morning.



  • #5781
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,259 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Is the ability to add tags to new posts gone/broken? It's no wonder the search function is such a disaster!

    I've just made a new thread, and tried to add some tags for it - but it seemed to be doing a search of existing tags or something - when I pressed post the tags just disappeared.

    It doesn't seem to be possible to add tags to new threads.



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  • #5782
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,452 ✭✭✭corkie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124269974#Comment_124269974

    Think you have to chose the available tags and no way to generate new ones?

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058434186/testing-adding-tags

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • #5783
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,259 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Seriously, lads, the spam is starting to get out of hand the last few days - seems like every time I open the home page there's a few more.

    Have a look at this thread for the last few days to give you an idea - and these are just the ones we happen to notice and bother reporting.

    As someone else said, this is the only website/ forum i know of that has this problem, let alone on this scale.

    It's getting to ridiculous at this stage.

    @Boards.ie: Mike @Boards.ie: Odhran

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056955066/spammer-shill-notification-thread


  • #5784
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124270230#Comment_124270230

    +1 on this. I know they're deleted fairly quickly but they pollute the first page all too often. Is there no way new accounts can't create a thread until a few posts are made somewhere else?



  • #5785
    Boards.ie: Mike
    Administrators, Boards.ie Employee, Boards Employee 2, Boards Employee 3 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124270230#Comment_124270230

    I understand that all of this spam is frustrating and difficult to get past. It is very difficult to cut it out at the tart. We had this same issue last year.

    Placing heavier early posting restrictions is counter intuitive and discourages new genuine accounts. Placing bans on things like names and addresses is also hit and miss.

    There is no ideal solutions on this right now but I am looking into tools that Vanilla have to discourage spamming, however, every time I toggle on a feature it breaks something else while we still have the heavy customisations on site. The best thing to do for now is to continue to report and have a mod remove the account or by all means use the method in the bottom of your quoted excerpt.

    Thanks, Mike.



  • #5786
    waterfaerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 714 ✭✭✭waterfaerie


    I don't use any other similar sites so I can't compare to know if it's worse on boards than elsewhere, but I'm seeing more and more posts that are obviously bots - enough that's it's becoming intrusive. I suspect it's a bigger problem with the way the internet is going in general since AI but it would be good if there was some way of stopping it.

    I know it's hard when we want to encourage new users. What about some sort of email that they need to respond to to confirm or something when they're first signing up? I wouldn't find that offputting if I was a new member, as long as no personal information is required. Just some sort of link that you could follow to show you're a human. It wouldn't stop rereg trolls, messers or human spammers but personally I feel the bots are a bigger problem and a fast growing one.

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  • #5787
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,259 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124278504#Comment_124278504

    Agreed. There's very little I sign up to these days that doesn't involve some sort of 2FA. I think people would expect it rather than be surprised/annoyed by it.

    That thread that I linked to (Spam/Shill notifications) is also used for reporting bots and there are A LOT of them.



  • #5788
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,259 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    image.png

    This is happening again the last day or two (this is a copy of a screenshot from a while back when it was happening regularly to loads of us).

    It happened me just now when I edited a post on the Wordle thread - I didn't get a screenshot, but tried to replicate it in the test forum but that didn't work. So it's not every time, but I've had two or three since yesterday.



  • #5789
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124283390#Comment_124283390

    It's been happening on and off for at least a year, Heidi, if it's any consolation. I'm pretty sure it's related to the full-page Cloudflare errors we've also been getting for much longer than a year.



  • #5790
    Boards.ie: Mike
    Administrators, Boards.ie Employee, Boards Employee 2, Boards Employee 3 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mike


    Hi guys,

    I'm looking for some updates on the ghost notifications issue. Are you seeing this as resolved or still happening? @Gremlinertia @New Home or anyone else that has had this issue.

    Any screenshots would be great.

    Thanks guys!



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  • #5791
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 62,970 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124287534#Comment_124287534

    Mine have returned to normal - the ghost notifications are now just spam bots that get nuked before I get to them



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