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New Boards Layout

Squall Leonhart

No no no no, no thank you. Put it back the way it was!!

Nothing like removing me from my comfort zone to show me just how conservative and resistant to change I can be :pac::p

Seems it just changed for a short time, when is it being rolled out for good?

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smash

I don't think so. When I enter a forum, around 40% of the screen is taken up by a header. If I hover over a header link my whole screen is gone. When you do it accidentally it's even more annoying. On certain sections there's scroll bars inside scroll bars. When I scroll down the page the large header goes away but now I lose my search. There's a pile of major fcuk ups from the get go.

Then down to the content... big banner... then buttons, with no primary or secondary colour scheme for priority. Everything seems on top of itself. A third of the content area taken by space for a sticky banner, fantastic!

Thread summaries look awful, and I can't hover to see the first post any more. I can't go further, back to legacy view please.

Duggy747

The design and colour scheme is way too simple, scrolling down the Latest Posts isn't intuitive and just becomes a wall of text making it difficult to see what threads belong to what forums.

Look at the state of the Trending box

That surely is beta or testing, right? They're not going releasing this in any way, are they?

HensVassal

This new format is fucking dire. Whose idea was it to change from the original format? Where are all the normal features? Have to scroll back up to the top to go to the next page and when you do open a thread the car-crash of a view is just painful.

Complete and utter trainwreck.

smash

Duggy747 wrote: »

That surely is beta or testing, right?

Observation would lead me to believe this isn't even Alpha.

TerrorFirmer

It looks dreadful - it looks like something from 1999.

frash

Duggy747 wrote: »

The design and colour scheme is way too simple, scrolling down the Latest Posts isn't intuitive and just becomes a wall of text making it difficult to see what threads belong to what forums.

Look at the state of the Trending box

That surely is beta or testing, right? They're not going releasing this in any way, are they?

Add your reply here.Your 'trending box' link doesn't work in the Beta version - only the legacy

Who tested this ****e?

FAILSAFE 00

From when it was first shown a long time ago the overwhelming response was negative yet its still being developed

Harry Palmr

It seems to be the thing to do these days - digitalspy introduced a hideous new look and traffic suffered, they did tweak it a bit to make it more useable but the old software was so much nicer.

Maximus Alexander

Is this just change for the sake of change? From a user perspective there's no need for it, and indeed users seem to consider it universally awful. Strange decision.

Maybe they're trying to appeal to some hip new crowd and they don't care about us anymore.

silverharp

I got a flash of it and thought my browser was crashing, it looked some cr@ppy web mail. Were the developers checked for colour blindness?

beauf

Form over function.

Benimar

Dear Jesus, that is awful!

What are they thinking??!!!

Tabnabs

Saw this and thought of you, Boards.ie

https://cdn.meme.am/instances/65080378.jpg

Professey Chin

It definitely looks like something that was designed by photo blog trends instead of thinking of that sites actual purpose

mad muffin

I would pay a €1 a month to keep the old layout. That's how much I dislike the new one. And I don't pay for nothing on the Internet. :rolleyes:

Michael D Not Higgins

I'm getting deja vu from every Facebook redesign. I can't even remember what Facebook used to look like.

Knex*

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

I'm getting deja vu from every Facebook redesign. I can't even remember what Facebook used to look like.

I've never minded the changes on Facebook, or YouTube or even on Boards before. This one though, jaysus.

duffman3833

If it aint broke just leave it. People who use the site like it for what it is. Why change it on them, why

Wibbs

Candie wrote: »

Traffic is obviously waaay down since the cloud flare thing, and forcing this mess on people is going to be another nail in the traffic coffin.

It's been dropping since before the DDOS attack. This is not the time to be changing people's comfort perceptions. Maybe it's just the old fogies like me who are thrown by it? Still you're going to lose many of those IMHO.

It would be wise to keep this old version as an option for the sake of keeping users.

+1 and I'd even pay for it.

Why go ahead with something so despised, with something your users don't want?

Professey Chin wrote: »

It definitely looks like something that was designed by photo blog trends instead of thinking of that sites actual purpose

IMH it's a way to make the desktop look more like the mobile site as more and more browse by mobile devices. It's a "thing" in the industry. Apple tried it with elements from their iOS moved to their desktop. Some were utterly 'kin stupid too. EG removing scroll bars from windows unless you were scrolling, like on a phone. That makes perfect sense on the limited screenspace of a phone, but is completely retarded on a desktop. Reversing the scroll direction was another genius move. And that's Apple FFS. They made their name with look and feel. At least with Apple they left the options to go back to the old behaviour and the majority of folks I know clicked those options.

mad muffin wrote: »

I would pay a €1 a month to keep the old layout. That's how much I dislike the new one. And I don't pay for nothing on the Internet. :rolleyes:

I'd pay a fiver per month to keep it TBH.

This all reminds me of when a pub local to me that was always stuffed with people decided to "have a meeting" and brought in some expert or other and they totally revamped it. Nice jobs going in the revamping, rolled out a flashy opening night and then... tumbleweed. It's so empty these days I dunno how they keep the doors open.

cherryghost

I'm using the beta right now and there's so much wasted space I could vomit. Can we at least change how posts width appear? It doesn't seem to scale on window size beyond a certain point anyway. Instead I have about 1/3 of the page with posts, rest is blank useless space, and the posts are squeezed down multiple lines instead of one on the legacy.

Boards pls, what the actual.

Magico Gonzalez

Harder to use, way more space for advertising, can read less posts on one page and see more sh1t that has no relevance or use to me.

If your objective was to make the site significantly less user friendly and significantly more annoying at the expense of ad revenue it has been a resounding success. If not, it's a sh1tshow.

Duggy747

Really does look like it's built to be formed around adverts since they take up most space and are the only colourful things that pop out.

Adding the fact that the Talk To is so prominent there gives you an idea where they want to go with this forum.

PabloAndRoy

is it just me or is this new look actually unusable in chrome?

None of the "My Threads", "My Forums" links are working.. even the header menu where i can select topics is not working. I don't even have the "bring me to legacy" button or whatever its called.

I didn't switch it on and now can't switch it off. Am in Ireland on a common Irish network.

Currently have to use Firefox, which is nice

MillField

I'll settle for it as long as you guys keep the dark theme!

smash

MillField wrote: »

I'll settle for it as long as you guys keep the dark theme!

a dark theme of the new unusable layout is still an unusable layout.

MillField

smash wrote: »

a dark theme of the new unusable layout is still an unusable layout.

Ok, dark theme and a usuable layout please.

Rayne Wooney

It's like something the government would come up with after spending 10 million with an extra 15 for consultants

Dyr

Just change the site url to https://talk-to.ads and be done with it

Birneybau

*Checks date*

Sh1te, 19 days after April 1st.

One eyed Jack

I accidentally had the beta site come up earlier on my phone. There's far too much padding and white space. On 40 posts per page, I'm scrolling enough already! It's less and less like a discussion forum Boards is becoming tbh. I don't know what this latest effort is about or who it's aimed at.