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
4) Well, back then, they fixed it! THE END!
3) Reading what was said before B A C K W A R D S (in reverse order) does not make any sense at all....
2) When the "classic" website was last updated and became really messed up I spent a lot of time.....
1) TNtechie, Thanks for bringing that up and stating it like you have......
1)Thanks for bringing that up and stating it like you have.
2)When the "classic" website was last updated and became really messed up, I spent a lot of time trying to explain: Posters/users/members reading the forum need to read this like a book, page one to the last (current) page.
3)Reading what was said before B A C K W A R D S (in reverse order) does not make any sense at all. Do people start reading the last page of a book and turn backwards? At least, if they do this, the page they are reading starts out oldest to newest, then the end. Reading top to bottom, until you get to the end.
4) Well, back then, they fixed it. THE END.
Many to most posts on a particular question are a conversation - reading conversations in reverse order makes absolutely no sense. "Newest First" may be practical for discussions with hundreds to thousands of responses; however, those posts are not the most active.
In short, the default "Newest First" sorting order is inappropriate 90%+ of the time and users cannot not override it. Every time we are forced to "resort" the responses to "Oldest First" we are all reminded of how much the new site is screwed up! Instead of abandoning this site, we might learn to live with it this most terrible feature were corrected ASAP.
When you want to post a new update, you have the option to keep it or delete the old message. By reading this, I can tell when a poster needs a HUG or even a congratulations.
We lost our minds. I had read somewhere that new posters were asking their questions on there; and would never get their questions asked or answered, so they removed that feature.
I also read (my interpretation) that if we all really needed it, that the ACCM would have it restored. I need the feature!!
I really need it, miss it, and on behalf of Veronica posting in July on Dorker's thread to report her own circumstances, unbelievable, I am requesting to have
"what is on your mind" feature back, please. Veronica, Countrymouse, and myself all used this feature. If one is following a friend, this feature reaches out to several friends at one time. It is a good thing!
P.S. I don't mean to speak for Veronica on this, she probably was using Dorker's thread as a teaching moment for Dorker.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND?
What is on my mind, and has been for awhile, is to bring back this feature.
Today, I needed to express my burned out frustrations but no thread would do.
I was so sad, upset, at the end of my rope so to say, disheartened and angry too!
But that is "Dorker's thread". See? No thread would do.
Just express it, get it out, wanting no replies or questions, needing to work it out myself.
Uffda!
Ali,
You want it back, huh?
You are very intelligent, one of the most un-daft persons I know.
Now all we get is the total number of responses on a thread. I may be losing my memory😧 but geez I have no clue how many rsponses were on a thread when I commented originally. So, I have to go to each thread, then find my last comment, then read what has been posted since. Sometimes there are posters that have replied to a specific response so that makes it even more confusing.
Now, I will delete ALL the topics, and wonder if I will be getting anything in my newsfeed. It is all very weighty, imo.
More clicks may be better for the advertisers, but in the long run a more user friendly site would create more traffic.
Igloo's multiple posts show another issue which I have had. Sometimes I press submit and nothing seems to happen, so I press submit again and again and then reload/refresh the page and find I have multiple posts. This rarely was the case on the old site, but it is regular for me now.The big X that shows when you edit a post looks like it should be a "delete" function, but I can't see that it has any function at all. I tried to delete my multiples and nothing happened.
ETA Aaah, just found out when I press submit and then the big X, it submits properly.
"Indicate your topics of interest and we’ll customize the content presented to you"
I want the freedom to browse, not have topics "presented" to me, which excludes other things in which I have an interest.
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Wish I could post on the Dinner thread or ANY thread.It still won't let me and Iv'e tried everything and also still no response from AAgingCare either.It's SOooo frustrating!
The new AC site is meh for me; design wise the colors are easier to look as it’s the “spa” color combo but the fonts absolutely suck. The white interior for fonts is just asking for ghosting issues.
Two actions I do like is that older posts are being closed to new comments and there’s a LCSW on staff.
yeah I miss GardenArtist too as she’s so knowledgeable about contracts and other legal. Hopefully she’ll come back.
Who else seems to have joined Elvis in leaving the building?
and for anyone looking for a lovely YouTube channel for music background or to sing along with, “nowhereman” is one. Nowhereman (I assume it’s a guy somewhere in N. Europe based on the comments) YTs Beatles & thier solo careers original songs with the album cover with lyrics overlay and photos. It’s all lovingly done; the ATMP songbook especially wonderful but then I’m biased to George Harrison. His Brainwashed album is wonderful solace for anyone going through a terminal illness and recent death and finding peace in it. I wore my CD out all those months my mom was on hospice.
The only way to see recent activity that I can find is from the drop down under the menu. It would be nice to have everything show on the newsfeed page.