Thank you!

Thank you. As a member of different groups that experience uncontrolled events as a trigger I and many find the new changes especially hard. In this group s well as others it is so hard to give support when someone is experiencing an immediate nedd. The post if not responded to fall so deep so fast as the layout only allows just so many posts visable. Posts, or topics before also had just the topic and how many responses there are, but not who the last resonse was or the time that used to appear with it. So if someone is in need, I as a friend or just a community member don't see it if comments were made to a few posts since thiers was made. Now on some sites not as active that may not be too much of a problem, but for this one and others that have high activity it can make the poster wonder if anyone hears their cries for support. Previousley we were able to get an idea of who had received some sort of response since the list with only topic heading were more condenced than the current topic heading and several lines of each of the poster dialog. That system takes away from the ability to help and support effectively. Not to mention how the person must feel that started the thread...as if they are alone because their topic/post is so easily buried .
Then there is the dialog box we type in... Two lines visible and then you can't review easily what you have wrote. I am not a typist so my hands can't keep up with my thoughts, so a word might be unfinished or missing three or four sentences back, that change the meaning of what I want to say, and is hard to go back and review since the slide bar to go over your own response is so short and instantly takes you to the top.

The feeling of warmth and inviting is lost, sadly that is a lot of the reason I am here for.I know I am not alone on this, since on other community pages it is what is being said as the experience related feeling. When I came to DS over three years ago after losing John, that warmth and feeling of being understood really did save my life. I was deep in depression and needed to know I wasn't alone, someone understood, someone answered.
It's enough to have DS logo and sharecare logo smaller and off to the side if it allows room for those more inclusive features to be brought back.

Hugs , I am staying because I would not be here if it were not for this place, but I fear that in the exhausting amount of strength drawn from us during the onset of this path, I could not have navigated this site, let alone found all the support, friends and strength I did find, from the old format. Looking at this right now on my computer a full half of the view is covered with my tool bar and the logo and "Friends, Support Groups aand Journals.There is only the two lines that are visible that I type in and then a big Arthritis ad? that takes up the lower third. So effectively the interaction space is 1/6th ( with white margins of separation) of the view-able space. The total writing window is about 3/4 of an inch....3/4 of an inch of interaction space and no visible part of your writing. So if I still had my W/Fog in the brain thick I would not remember who I was writing to or why with out double checking. The send button is bigger than our Avi's.

Hugs to all of you CL's for guiding us through this quagmire.
Jewell, 2/6/2012...saved by DS.

Thank you from me also. I too after much thought have decided to stay, and post more often. Part of the healing I suppose to step out of the shadows more. I miss the old format, and feeling a part of the group even though I wasn't posting. It just feels so disconnected. So perhaps posting will help...........we'll see.
Thank you again
Hugs
Katrina

Thanks for the info on the conference call Martha. You CL'S
I take my hat off to you all....I can't imagine how You, curious Fish, Sharon and the rest of them have all been affected.!!
I've said it before, I'll say it again....I am so thankful for the time, you give to support each and every one of us. We know you all have your problems too.....it's not an easy task you all do.
We are all in this together....as long as the big guns are listening and fixing....we will prevail.........as for me, I'm looking at this whole change as another lesson in life, when the going gets tough, the tough should stay.....hugs from Sandra

Thanks Martha. I had to rejoin the whole site. The New DS did t recognize my email address. My avatar from the old site was the black and white butterfly. Which stood for carcinoid cancer. So I went a little further this time and put my picture with the carcinoid stripes. Since my husband passed away of carcinoid cancer. Anyway glad to be able to access site again.

Thanks to all my fellow members, and especially the CL's for inspiring me to stay with this community after I almost ran with my tail between my legs...Jesusisoursavior is correct that we are all in this together...and if team-DS is adamant that we are just stuck with this abominable circlejerk they have delivered to us, well, that's just one of the things we have to overcome if we are to maintain this community...no matter how hard team-DS has deliberately made it for us, or no matter how funny they think this all is...that's right team-DS,
I'm eighty8 and I'M TALKING TO YOU!
Jesusisoursavior, you did say one thing that I do disagree with..."As long as the big guns are listening and fixing, we will prevail"...it is the "fixing" of the big guns that got us where we are now! I think two things that could "fix" everything immediately are 1). Return the desktop site to the original format before it was "fixed"; 2). An immediate career change for all the "big guns"...to tortilla technician...part time...minimum wage.

Jewells, everything you say is so appropriate and right on; but hey, look! you said this 10 days ago, and i'm only now seeing it because I had to go exploring. If just looking at this post topic from the list that is supplied, I would never have known that my dear eighty8 had bitched only 2 days ago! (even if I might have just guessed on that account...Hi eighty8!) I think we miss out on so much & this site is supposed to have been set up as a support group. How can we truly support one another if a (timely) time line is sacrificed to a cosmetic presentation or an imaginary user base that use only cell phones? Seems priorities are skewed. Should be immediacy and communication, not advertisements & graphics presentation. Also, why do I receive notifications on my email that I've just posted a comment, but I don't get notices of OTHER people, even "friends" posting? (think I've received one notice from another person since this new site was launched) I don't need to know I'VE posted anything, I already know that!

I too have not been able to get back on I was on as Nicker. I get no answers from anyone and figuring out how to get to even here is way harder. WHOSE idea was this anyhow? Some tech person needs a vacation. I have no idea how to use this and its a miracle I got here Sorry help

HI martha what a mess huh? I had to sign up on another email etc. to get here Nicker

I am getting a dozen e-mails a day saying I just commented or posted when I haven't been on the site at all. It is sending those e-mail notifications when ANYBODY posts but they all say that I am the one posting so I can't even see who might have been on.

Diane - Nicker - glad to see you! I lost half of my friends list with the transition, and I can't even search my friends list to see who is still here or supposedly still here. It IS a mess, and we're all going bonkers with it.

I can't get back into my account either which cincerns me as I have pictures and journal entries which are very personal. I need them deleted.

so mirror one other sentiment this way lost the intimate warmth and caring like the way it was set up before. We should be able to see a list of posts like before this is not user friendly. I hope they read what others say