The boards are nearly impossible to run on a potato phone, and take a while to open on a normal phone. The goal of boards is to read text, I don't really need to spend alot of time waiting for pages to load.
The boards site is way to script dependent. It takes forever for the scripts to load all the assets, and it usually ends up with the browser taking a big chunk of the computer memory. This problem is on mobile and desktop.
The lack of a mobile friendly site is a huge oversight. I find it a bit shocking that start up game companies can get their forums to have some sort of mobile friendly site, but Riot, when remaking their forums, doesn't have one.
As I understand it, the major problems with the old forums were back-end, such as security and handling user volume. The problem (in my opinion) is that when they upgraded, they chose an interface and system so radically different that what people were used to, there was a huge backlash... and forcing the switch just aggravated it.
Just for the record, I don't like the boards, either. I like the report function and a few other things, but mostly it feels like it's just a mess.
This board is such an upgrade guys idk what ur talking about /sarcasm
In the year of our lord, 2014, riot still has no care about mobile browsing. It's downright painful watching each (empty) post load in one by one, then the avatars struggle to load, the finally if I'm lucky maybe the text will appear. This new forum is a downright travesty, and if they aren't going to fix it, then they should just save themselves the trouble and bring back the forums that actually worked.
