If I can't find a poster's most recent answer or comment to a thread, I need to leave this site.
I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find an OP's comment to a question.
I'm leaving and this is why. I can't spend time scrolling through endless posts.
The old agingcare set up was better.
But you will be very much missed if you go., so please reconsider.
I sincerely hope you stay with us. I appreciate your wealth of knowledge & input. It’s a shame our complaints about the accessibility on this site continue to be ignored.
How about the rest of us refrain from replying to individual comments and only reply on the thread, even if we have to use quotes from above?
No pressure to stay, it's just that you are a lighthouse in a storm, a source of experience and stability, someone others can trust for answers.
When I get worn out, and need to post less often, I feel it is okay because of people like you, standing strong, holding the line on common sense and reality, imo.
I agree I hope you don't leave Barb. I like to read your insights and it’s to have another New Yorker here.
It is impossible to find the most recent response when it is buried in a reply to another comment. What if we just all agree not to use the "Reply to" feature? It's easy enough to state in your response that you're replying to so-and-so, right?
I do appreciate your valuable input!
I hope this helps.
Please stay, I always have appreciated your input on the different situations on here.
Another irritant is that the issue categories literally have no meaning, as all threads are aggregated together in one long string of threads.
And two more are (a) the limited time for editing, and (b) the "reply to" function for response to a poster's individual comments. These responses are outside of the date order of the post, and sometimes difficult to find. I've gone through threads repeatedly, checking each "reply to" before finding what I'm looking for . That's a waste of time.
If I want to follow or respond to a specific thread, I add the URL into my Excel database. Going through all the posts, or just checking the News Feed is tedious and wastes time.
Perhaps the most offensive and uncomfortable practice though is the inability to delete private messages. We did SEEM to have that option before the management changeover, but in experimenting one day I was able to find posts I had written months and years ago, many of which I had deleted. Yet they were still there. That's troubling.
More than anything else (including the fake posts), this dysfunctionality irritates me and causes me to just go to one of my favorite forums that are configured differently.
The one aspect I do think is worthwhile is not posting all who are online at one time; that privacy is nice.
But like the others, I find your insights invaluable and wouldn't want you to leave, but every time I'm here I start mentally growling at the dysfunctionality and ask myself why I even bother.
I hope you don't leave, though, b/c I always love reading your advice & comments & have learned a lot from you.
Take a break and then come back........we need you!!! :)
Hey Barb, what are you looking for?
The website may be dysfunctional, but you are not.
See you after the break....
Love from Send