Another issue: You removed who was the last poster in groups (as shown in the activity feed). I'm sorry, I mean no disrespect, but with each change you make, it makes it HARDER, not easier to use this site. Please, at least explain why you're doing this. Why did you remove the user name of the last poster? Since you never added a TIME stamp, there is now NO way for us to tell if the thread has new posts. You took away the number of comments, the time stamp and now the last poster. PLUS you don't move the thread back up in the activity feed OR send us email alerts LIKE YOU USED TO WITH THE OLD PLATFORM.

I'm sorry to say this, but its almost like you don't want us to have an easy time when we come here. In order for me to continue using ds, I'm now going to have to withdraw from the few groups I was in and limit the number of friends. Obviously, how your changes affect your stakeholders (ds members), isn't of concern to you. This site has lost its ability to serve its original purpose. And that is a serious disservice to all who are still hanging on here. :-((

Sent a request to DS.

Since the upgrade, it has taken away the last person name to post, just shows date stamp & numbers.

We are human beings not date or numbers.

Please look into this.

Thanks,
Brooke

I have no idea if this is why DS made that change...but I've noticed that when the name of the last poster isn't put up...internet fights go way down. Same with taking off the time stamps.

I'm sure others have said this, but it's hard to read... there is a lot over overlaid text.

Wow. I wish I could read what the intended updates were, but this seems to be about the worst update I've see. Why? There is no longer a last "updadted user" for posts. Personal space has bee squashed. It's always been severely darkened, and now it's just a tiny splash of a photo. I don't even want to explore things. I'm sad.

Sorry Patti, you mentioned the last poster, too, and the fact that time stamps have never been here, except in the very early days when they would post 22 hours ago, etc.

Also, when you signed in before, "support groups" used to give you your own groups. OK, I can get them by looking at my profile, but still.... why?

It's impossible to read postings. There is typing on top of words. I have to scroll several replies down to be able to read what was printed. What's the point of that when the original post can't be read

So, I went to the group I am the founder of today, via my notifications. I could not get to the other posts in my group, without going to Support Groups, then MY support Groups, repeat rinse.

Is DS purposely TRYING to destroy this forum? It would sure seem so, given all the terrible glitches, errors, changes no one asked for or wanted, let alone the things we did ask for and wanted they did not give us.

But not being able to negotiate a forum without the tedious method of going through 2 levels of support groups! Who are they kidding? This is the death knell for DS. I don't have the patience anymore to deal with a forum with awkward scrolling, with my bad fingers, and wrists, let alone how stupid the entire format is, let alone that DS is hemmoraging people.

Think "User Friendly" and you will realize DS is officially dead! So sad!

Ok, I figured out how to negotiate the groups. Thanks for the change I couldn't figure out. Us old people need a lot of help. But who cares, because we will be dead soon! This forum is for young people. But wait... most young people are not sick. It is the old that really pile up the illnesses.

Oh, still waiting for "Support Groups" to mean MY Support Groups. You know, like on the old DS, where we could see all our groups, in alphabetical order, right next to the forums, hug book, journal, pictures (I know, what are those?? Haha!) Yep, easy access from one page, no scrolling necessary. Water under the bridge, I know

So, just to apologize. Because I am not tech savvy to figure these things out.

Thanks for that info Fish.

I am having a very hard time with there being no last responded by. I am finding myself not wanting to revisit a thread because I have to open it and thumb through all pages to see if anyone has commented after the last one I had already seen. If it has more than 15 replies its doubtful I will open it back up.

One thing I noticed on my cell phone is the original post is outside the set container parameter so its overlapping other text. I cannot read half the post. If I am on my tablet or laptop it does not do that.

Dooo, I'm on my laptop and like you said most of the post are overlapping each other and you can't read them, gosh how do I figure that one out, if there is more posting then I can read them just not the first, second or third post wth is that about....I was hoping that issue would get fixed.