my answer is C and C

iPad & age group D

Hi Martha, I hate the new site! Ok,that being said I use C and am in group C. I miss all the discussions with last replys on the old site. Don't have a smart phone. Thanks for everything you do!

I use iPhone and tablet and desktop and I am C.57

Hi Martha, I'm in category C and C. Thanks so much for looking into this. Much appreciated!

Well, so far, it's looking like most of us are on laptops or desktops and in the "C" category for age. I would like to hear from as many folks as possible so that whatever I take back to TeamDS is as accurate as I can make it. For those few of you who access the site on your phone as well as other methods, if you could quantify percentage-wise how much you use the phone, that would help, too. If you access the site on a phone only 1% of the time, that is a big difference to say 40% of the time, so it would be helpful. Thanks everybody!

I use a laptop and tablet. Never a cell phone. I am 70. And I really do not like the new format. Thanks.

C and C for both questions and I agree with you 100%. I don't use an iphone or a tablet exactly because of the reasons you mentioned!

Try posting this in some of the more popular groups like "depression" and "alcoholism" for example. You will get alot more replies, I am sure. Good luck and God Bless!

C and C. But I'm just barely in that age group, ha ha. I haven't used my phone for this site, but since I've just now checked back in, I might give it a try. I do use it a lot for FaceBook and other apps.

Hi Martha, I am using a laptop and am 76. Dolores.

Hi, I was sent this link and thought I could leave a reply. I am C-B. If they truly wanted to make this for mobile they should create a separate downloadable app for it .

I use a tablet. Age group c. I am vision impaired and find the new site hard to see.

C and C. Thanks, Martha. This new site is really bad, and that's a shame.

Martha, I admire your patience, and your faith in your fellow man, I'm afraid I fall short on both counts...someone has told you that this "new format" was "designed and optimized for use on a mobile device"...most members, yourself included, choose to give everthing a fair chance...you are all better than me, because I just don't see the way clear for it...perhaps I'm more jaded and cynical than most, but with over 35 years in the trucking industry, this is not the first time I have been bent-over by technology-run-amuck...and it is very clear to me that I am not alone.
The first question is, who are "they"? Who was the brainchild who came up with this idea? The second question I have, is whoever responsible for this abomination one of us? Are they, or at least one of them, a widow or widower who understands how important DS/WW is to us? We are not a bunch of kids insulting each other on social media because it's fun, or we don't have anything to do...we are all victims of a particularly injurious tragedy by no fault of our own, which is so painful and permanent that, as we all agree, is impossible to be understood by anyone who has not experienced it...and due to varying states of emotionality, it is impossible for ANYONE to perdict how one might personally react to such a deep tragedy...I remember what it was like for me in the first 3-or-4 months...I was of a mind that if someone ran me over or shot me, or if I died of a heart attack or "something else", then I would be with Marylou that much sooner...and there are only two thing that brought me back from that...one was the promise I made to Marylou to spend the rest of my life looking after the girls and our grandkids...and the other was..."was"...the very strong sense of community I felt mingling with all the wonderful souls here on DS...when our members say that DS is...or was...a "lifeline", that needs to be recognized for its true merit.
I know that you and all the members reading this understand exactly what I mean...and I also know that it is impossible for anyone who has not lost a spouse, to understand what that means...and that is the intuitive feel I get for all this...that whoever is in charge of this abortion is someone who does not understand, doesn't want to understand, and couldn't care less'
They will read this, then they will tell you that eighty8 is just a loud-mouth agitator and they're glad I'm gone...if that be the case, I would invite any of them to call me an agitator to my face, and if any of them want to take me up on it, I'll be happy to submit my email to get that ball rolling.
Why am I so angry? Because we were promised that the "new and improved" version would make everything easier, but they delivered the EXACT OPPOSITE! How dare they take this essential lifeline away, when they don't even understand WHY it is a "lifeline"...but if they DO understand why this is a lifeline, but they did this anyway, then that's about ten times worse.
Martha, I assure you that it is my deepest desire to be wrong about this...if I am, then I could probably come crawling back with hat-in-hand...the community of us as a group would be worth it...but I agree with raininseattle, if they really wanted compatibility with mobile devices, they could have created an app for that without destroying the original desktop format.
But why didn't they? I'm sorry, but my feel for all this is, that they just flat don't give a shit...but, if they are out to prove me wrong, I will recognize that with equal vigilance.