The problem is that there are folks still having major problems trying to get thru there grief and relying upon this. To make it more difficult creates undue stress on those people.

YES THIS IS SO CONFUSIN, CANNOT SEE MY FRIENDS POSTS, ITS A TOTAL MESS, I FEEL TERRIBLY DISTRESSED, THIS WAS A PLACE OF HEALING FOR ME, SHARING, FINDING COMFORT AND GIVE COMFORT, MANY THINGS ARE MISSNG, OLD HUGS, PHOTOS, WOULD MISS MY FRIENDS ,BUT IT IS STRESSFULL. LOVE TO ALL**

I am just sick right now!! I have been using this site for 9 years for my journal with almost 600 entries. Today I've discovered my journal is still there but it no longer has dates for journal entries. It only states 'posted one month ago' or '9 years ago.' I am completely distraught that I have lost 9 years of important dates and details! But, guess it was my fault for trusting this site wouldn't lose all my stuff. I cannot even put into words how sick I am over this sites new change! It will take me hundreds of hours to copy and paste all my journal entries into a separate file and try to recreate the dates now!! Just sick!!!!

I totally agree with you Tim, although I am not ready to leave just yet. As someone who is blind and uses assistive technology, it is very difficult to navigate, plus I no longer have the option to edit my journal entries. I also have to guess what button to press to log in because, where the old site made it clear to someone with assistive technology, it appears it was not taken into account when this new "and improved" (lol) site was created. I am surprised I got this far....sorry, had to vent...

Dan, I was trying to use it on my iPhone this morning and had to log in twice before it would let me in and then I had difficulty editing my profile. I would say that if daily strength wants to create a more mobile-device friendly site, then they should have left the old one and created a damn mobile app.

Martha, thank you for the information. If the call conference hasn't happened as yet, is it possible for one of the cls to ask something about persons who use assistive technology for example screen readers like JAWS (job access with speech) and Zoomtext for those who are partially sighted. I've been on this site since 2008 when my husband passed away and the journal entries that I have written have been quite therapeutic even now, as I have experience other good and not-so-good life changes. It's served as a way to allow me to express my true self since March of 2008 when I began the grieving process and I would hate to have to leave because nobody took persons who are sightless into consideration. Let them know that Trinilisa said she found it inconsiderate and that she sent an email asking for help last week when the transition was happening and the old system was not recognizing my password I had used since 2008, but nobody responded...up until now. Utterly disgusted...

Skiph, it's the same for me! I've got my journal entries since 2008, but I no longer have dates...some say eight years ago...but I did not post them exactly eight years ago! It's horrible and I am sick about it. I, too, have lost 8 years of dates that I cannot get back...

Hi All,
I know I am sorry to do this, but this is the only way I could make my voice heard about this site.
I tried to send an email through the "contact us" link, and here's what I said:

Hello,
I have been a DS user since my husband passed away in March of 2008. I have spent much of the time writing journal entries as it has become rather therapeutic and freeing for me to be all of the sides of myself. However, since the change, I find it has been quite a challenge to navigate. For example, as a person who uses JAWS (Job Access With Speech) from Freedom Scientific (as most persons who are blind do), where the old site had it clearly labeled for logging in, I have to click on something I do not necessarily want to read in order for a log in screen to populate. I am not sure how it is in the US, but I know that here in Canada, sites need to be accessible to assistive technology users as per the Canadian disability act. Did the designers of this site take into consideration persons who use assistive technology? I highly doubt it because I find it very confusing and not easily navigatable.. Is there anything in the works to come with perhaps a scaled back site or "basic view" (ala gmail) or something to click on for screen reader users (ala googgle)?
Also, last week, when I was having password issues, I did email for assistance, but nobody has gotten back to me to this day...
When I tried to submit my email (several times), it says "request type cannot be blank", but there's nowhere for me to choose a request type, so of course, even though I had keyed in my email and the subject, it was not sent! So hopefully someone who actually gives a crap will read this. Sorry again for venting again...

I have also lost all my friends but 3 (I had 133) and I have no more hugs or messages. I know I don't come to the topics list often, but I still felt like I had friends on here (well, at least by looking at the hugs sometimes) and that was still comforting. But now I have no hugs and only 3 friends; this is insane. I am now discovering these things. And I cannot edit my mood; it says "okay" and it's supposed to say "horrible"...

It's difficult for me to leave; there's a sense of "uprooting" because this has been my safe place since March of 2008...not sure what I'll do...

I agree! It's too hard to navigate, find friends, post, hug - everything! Yuck! I need this support! Please change it back!

Even though I can log in now, I still don't like this format at all, its a mess, and still all of my photos are gone, I may drop in occasionally, I miss some of the people I made friends with, but it is just so difficult to navigate on this site, this whole change only makes me sadder than I already was.

guess I should have given feedback. This layout is cumbersome. The Index of all my support groups that used to be on the left side is gone. Now it has these huge images that really do not enhance but take up space. I liked the list of posts so I could read the headline and decide if I wanted to read it. Now it's just a long list of abbreviated posts. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. ugg. Sorry but not an improvement.

It is harder maybe we will get used to this

I signed up for another site called mysupportgroups.com it seems easier to use. And straight forward.