Poll, Do you prefer the new Boards.ie homepage?

Celly Smunt · 04-07-2013 06:03PM

Is there any way to turn off the awful black and yellow style?,Boards is blue! always blue!

edit:Back to normal for me

PaulieBoy · 04-07-2013 06:05PM

Bad move. Old style was better.

username123 · 04-07-2013 06:16PM

I dont like it. I am using a skin that looks totally different to it - deliberately because I hate that blocky looking font and ancient "look and feel". Where is the forum menu gone from the top?

super_furry · 04-07-2013 06:20PM

Don't really see the problem with it. For the minute or two a day I'd spend on it, it seems to be improved by the additions of the tabs. You can see your threads, favourite forums and most impressively what's trending at a glance.

Chucken · 04-07-2013 06:22PM

super_furry wrote: »

Don't really see the problem with it. For the minute or two a day I'd spend on it, it seems to be improved by the additions of the tabs. You can see your threads, favourite forums and most impressively what's trending at a glance.

But what about other forums? How do you see what new threads there are?

super_furry · 04-07-2013 06:24PM

Chucken wrote: »

But what about other forums? How do you see what new threads there are?

Just use the 'latest posts' tab - there's five pages there that update instantly when you click through at the bottom.

The Backwards Man · 04-07-2013 06:30PM

I like it.

Then again, I've never seen the previous homepage so I've nothing to compare it to.

goulders · 04-07-2013 06:31PM

Logged in and thought the site had been hacked and they put up a sh*** page just to annoy evryone

looking_around · 04-07-2013 06:44PM

I don't use the homepage at all... I find it annoying. I have my control panel bookmarked and I always start & work from there :P

Peregrine · 04-07-2013 06:54PM

Guys if you click the number of posts, it brings you to the last unread post on the thread.

I don't really mind it but just a few things..

I wish the list was longer rather than having to go to the next page..I hate doing that. If you want to hide something from me, stick it on page 2 of a forum, I'll never find it
The 'Last unread post' function would be better if it was beside the thread title
You should bring back the 'Last page' button too make sure the 'Last unread post' is MORE accessible
I've run out of things to say
But I said I have a few things to say
Okay this is fine

Edit: Aha! I thought of another one. The line below the thread title 'Latest post less than 1 min ago by Joe Bloggs in XYZ forum'..There seems to be too much in that.

eirator · 04-07-2013 07:03PM

Looks to me like they have made the space for the advertising bigger.

04-07-2013 07:06PM

I agree on previously clicking into random threads, it was really interesting. Can't do that now.
No latest post button, no forum on the left -only hidden under the thread title, no number of replies (I think), too few threads on display.

Not to mention I really hate the whole fisher-price theme. I don't like it on touch so I don't use touch, I don't like it on the homepage. Too much white and it hurts the eyes

Peregrine · 04-07-2013 07:09PM

bluewolf wrote: »

No latest post button, no forum on the left -only hidden under the thread title, no number of replies (I think), too few threads on display.

The number of replies are there, it's the column to the right of the thread name. And if you click on the number of replies it will take you to the latest post

Come on guys, be nice. Think about poor Danny, Ronan and the rest of the crew who could read this

username123 · 04-07-2013 07:09PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Not to mention I really hate the whole fisher-price theme.

Nice way of putting it. I wonder how many regular users have chosen to use an old skin because they dont like the old fashioned look and feel of fisher-price?

04-07-2013 07:10PM

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

The number of replies are there, it's the column to the right of the thread name. And if you click on the number of replies it will take you to the latest post

Ah cheers, the new homepage seems to have disappeared for me so I've only seen it once or twice... enough to know I hate it

Jimoslimos · 04-07-2013 07:12PM

What's the need to have number of thanks listed for each thread? Completely pointless IMO.

Change frightens me.

stop animal cruelty · 04-07-2013 07:14PM

Lingua Franca wrote: »

No. I used to click on the arrow to go to the last post I'd read in a thread. Now there is no arrow.

aw feck didnt even notice that

Mech1 · 04-07-2013 07:16PM

New thread exposure time has been drastically cut due to the list length. This is bound to effect the whole sites number of posts per day.
Very bad idea I think.

pippip · 04-07-2013 07:16PM

New homepage limits seeing whats happening on threads you might be interested in. Trending threads will only ever show the same few so is relevant to most people.

New homepage just doesn't do what a homepage needs to do. Old one was much better for users

MadYaker · 04-07-2013 07:24PM

By the looks of the feedback thread this is staying whether we like it or not. Makes you wonder why they asked for feedback.

starlit · 04-07-2013 07:26PM

Ya its grand.

Amalgam · 04-07-2013 07:29PM

username123 wrote: »

I wonder how many regular users have chosen to use an old skin..

I'm one. Using 'Classic', whatever the proper name for it is.. I want a clear vista, a live moment, not something that I have to process mentally. If someone has to mull over where they're at, on the homepage, you've lost, as a designer.