I did a tour of the new Agingcare website and I don't think I like it.
First and most important, my head got cut off in the profile picture, only the torso is showing. That's not very nice. At all. Looks are very important, even to a polar bear. It took me a long time to pose for that picture. haha
Second, when I see an interesting question or discussion, and don't have any relevant answer or comment to add, but would like to read what others have to say, I can just click "Follow" and that tread will appear on my Follow list. The new Agingcare website doesn't have it. Why? That feature is very useful for a newbie like me.
Third, I prefer the large blue font type of the old site. Much easier to read. The new site has light smaller font size on a light blue background. Not as easy to read.
Whoever in charge of Agingcare website, can you fix the above?
Thanks
I didn't even realize that you have to go to the main page to see recent activity. I always navigate to my newsfeed that is what I have my shortcut set to. I will use the caregiver forum. It does seem to be very quiet around here since the change. Missing Garden Artist, especially. Gardening as therapy is a nice normal people thread, I guess. We all have our normal moments I suppose. 😉
While posting or reading on the other threads like Whine or Dysfunction, etc... I do periodically check on "Recent Community Activity" because that is always changing by the latest post (whether a new question or a recent answer.)
Yes, even in this new site, I find myself automatically looking on the right to see the activity - only to remember it's gone.
P.S. when I first found this site, the Home Page was very helpful for me. When I was considering POA, I automatically checked there, too. But most of the time, I automatically go to News Feed.
Thanks for all your work.
I have this perception that more quantity of users are finding current threads this way, as these threads are staying active for days longer and getting more comments than they did previously imo. That's only my perception and could be your metrics indicate something else, I have no idea.
I think an ideal situation might be to leave the row of current threads on main page and add a column similar to the old one on the right of user's news feeds, so that would be two ways, not just one, to access current questions/discussions.
Yes, I do navigate directly to my News Feed.
I must admit I didn't know there was another way of using AC..?
One of the larger issues that we are hearing is sort order, please understand that everyone prefers to sort their answers differently, so we can't win by choosing one. We have heard the requests, and we are working on a tech solution that would allow for your preferred sort order to save while logged in so that you don't have to re-sort each thread.
The reason I'm here now is to clarify another specific request. On the old site, there was a small box in the right column titled "Recent Community Activity" that listed 5 items and was only present while you were using your newsfeed. Are you looking for that element to be brought back? I hate to ask this on the open forum but are any of you willing to share exactly how you use the site. Do you navigate directly to your newsfeed and not use the main caregiver forum page? More specific information and requests are very useful to us in determining our focus. Thanks!
CM, Golden, et al, I think the "featured threads" row at the top of the main screen is supposed to be the new way AC tells us what threads are active on any given day. But I don't like it as much and I can't figure out exactly why. Used to be the "highlight column" on the right side was based on last active thread, am I remembering that correctly? So then it was a listing of the last 5 or so threads someone posted or commented on. The row of thread links at the top of main page seems to be trying to do the job of the old column-on-the-right. But... it doesn't work as well for me, either.
Does anyone know of a website for people who are receiving care. I’m finding being on the other side of the caregiving issue frustrating. I have way more help than most people, and I’m very capable and able of taking care of many tasks myself, but sometimes it is difficult. And things crop up that one never thinks of. Maybe a new thread on this site?
except for a few irks the old site was so much more user friendly
But........having said that I do miss the old site too!
I often wonder how they are coping.
I am one of the oldest first type of people.... but all the clicking involved as when I am finished with that thread, I will click back to get the main page of questions/discussions. Click, click, click, click, rinse, repeat. I would also like it if the software would allow us to choose which format we like, newest first or oldest first, and keep it that way.
When you do a "Search" for a person, that person's postings or answers or questions are NOT listed in chronological order. The dates skip around from June 2018 to April 2018 to Aug 2017 to Aug 2018 to Dec 2016 to Sept 2015 to July 2018.
Also, when I do a "Search" I am finding postings or questions that I have NEVER seen on the "Need Answers" or "Recent Questions" lists. It seems like the same questions are listed day after day after day with only 4-5 new questions instead of the 10-20 new questions that we used to have on the old website.
Why do 90% of questions only have TWO ANSWERS and only a few questions have more than FIVE answers? or have 10+ answers?
The color scheme is giving me a headache. Can I change the background color?
And like Book said if it would just remember which way we left it the last time.
This is my new pet peeve.
AND, when I open a page, I automatically hit END, before I realize that I just moved to the answers from the beginning.
Solution:
1. Give us this option in our Profile (can a programmer confirm if this possible?)
2. If we open a thread and hit Oldest First, can that thread "Remember" this preference for future visits. Like the Old site.... Unless of course we clean our history/cache, it would default back to Newest First.
3. Make all the threads open automatically to Oldest First (which may not be very popular to most.)
One thing that is very irritating to the point I will not read a thread, is the box to select "oldest first", "newest first"!
I know there are some that prefer newest first, but I need to read the entire thread to figure out what has been said already. So, "newest first" does not make reading a thread easy and I may skip it entirely.
Why not place the oldest/newest drop down in the "Profile" or "Settings" area? Then we could choose how we prefer to read a post.
Why am I getting threads posted to my newsfeed that I am not following nor commented on?