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've found the old site to be intolerably slow on occasion, so far the new site seems to be performing pretty well for me in that regard.
I'm not seeing any weirdness around the avatars, the interface looks very clean and simple to me.
If I open both sites side by side I do notice that the font is bolder in the old site, I can see where that might be a problem on some devices, especially for older eyes.
I imagine most of the people who use AgingCare are over 45 and many are much older than that, so although we have had to embrace technology in order to function in today's world we often can't navigate changes as intuitively as those who've lived with it from the cradle!
Send, if you scroll all the way to the top while logged in as a member you should see the option to return to classic view, or leave feedback. If you don't see that please let me know what kind of device you are using.
Becky, realizing you are not a "pro" computer user ;-), I'm wondering if you know how to create a screen capture. If so, could you let us know where you are seeing overlapping text? That sounds like a bug that would certainly need to be addressed.
Please email me if you have further feedback and can send me a screenshot. kim.barnett@agingcare.com
The fact that you all are providing constructive feedback is really helpful. Thanks so much -Kim
The major thing for me with the new format is that you see 4 questions, then you need to go to the arrow to get the next four. After awhile that zipping makes me seasick. But I did find a way around it, but I worry about others who come on who have the same motion sickness issues, won't stay to learn the other way to get to the questions.
Then once again I ran into the issues of paragraphing... had paragraphs in the writing box, but later it was presented all scrunched together :( Since I still had time, I went into EDIT to once again create the paragraphs but it didn't work.... went back to EDIT and tried triple spacing between paragraphs, that didn't work, either.
How does one toggle back and forth? Once there, at the new website, there is nothing to get me back, like "click here to return to the classic website".
Some of my friends are afraid to try it, not only for this reason that I have just mentioned above, but who wants to get their head cut off? Poor Polar Bear. At least, you got all the paragraph spaces you needed!
Aging Care, do we really really NEED to put all the new questions in a box? Each one?
I'm sorry to hear you are disappointed with the new site. I'll report your concern about your profile image. I wanted to point out that a +follow feature does still exist on the new site. We realize it is a very useful feature, so it is still possible to follow all content, authors, and other members by clicking the plus sign. I'll also note your comment regarding the font color. If you would like to increase the size of the font, you can click the circle with Aa inside. That button is located on the page to allow you to choose an increased font size. Thanks for the feedback!
I hope some of our members will not have frustrations switching over.