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Also there are technical bugs that need to be addressed.
I don't like the changes at all.
I tried to go to my own page and look at my articles and could only get it to show my most recent 2, and I wanted to see one that was further back and couldn't get more articles to show up.
I really think this is going to cause me to miss out on some of my connections stuff
If I click on, say Amanda's C. name, and sort her feed by articles because I would like to see what she has published, there is NOTHING there, unless it's been very recent (so far the farthest I've seen it go back is April 7th).
Where are MY articles to spotlight?? I tried to get some stuff spotlighted and it only offered three of my articles to spotlight!! What the heck? I'm so confused!
When you look at your Guarded Viewing settings, do you have each of the four check boxes marked off? If you do not have all types of mature content visible, some groups would still be invisible to you.
All of your articles are still available for you to view, as are the articles of any other member you wish to browse through. If you are on your own profile page, click the "my articles" link, on the orange navigational bar. If you are viewing another member's profile, click the "articles" link on that same orange bar.
wishing you laughter
Currently, you can only "spotlight" content that appears in your feed - therefore, only content that is fairly recent. If you would like to spotlight something older, you should republish it as a new article/image.
Some letters look spaced to far apart, I have to scroll sideways to see an entire page, and my links at the top are all spaced funny.. For example, from this article, at the top, if I try to click on "People" it actually clicks on "Videos"
UGH!
Did you try refreshing your browser?
And thanks for pointing out how to find older content.. I did figure it out finally ROFL.
You can find your Gather Point display on your "My Gather" page, in the left column underneath your icon. Your Points total is a link that will direct you to your Earnings page, where you can view your redemption history and place new orders.
We don't support varying font sizes at this time. I'll pass on your request to have more flexibility with fonts to our design team.
Thanks for stopping by!! I know there is a lot to get familiar with today, so please ask away. We are here to help you get used to the changes. And once you do, I think you'll really enjoy them!
The site is definitely harder to navigate, and I pity the new users that sign up and can't find their way around. One of the reasons I use Gather compared to other social networking sites is because it was easy to use, and pleasing to the eye. This is definitely not, and it really scares me.
I've always loved Gather . . .
oh and for not allowing me to spotlight any of the images or articles that i wanted to. that's a useful bit of garbage.
not to mention that i've now lost connection with someone whom gather seems to not allow me to connect with, only subscribe to, and now i can't do that either.
and can i compliment on you making so that every hateful stalker can now know exactly who i'm commenting to and can now go follow me everywhere i go leaving nasty messages unless i block out half of my friends and potential new friends from reading my content. not that they can seem to find anything, but the spamminators hawking travel websites sure seem to have no problem.
i do not believe that time will make the heart grow fonder with this jumbled mess of unreadability. in fact, it just might make me gather that much less.
Why do the "articles" or "images" selections from the pulldown only display content from yesterday evening? Where's the rest?
I can help you with your question.
You can easily obtain larger font sizes, as well as colors and font 'styles' for your articles by following a simple step. Send me a message if you would like more information. :^)
Try this: go to your My Gather page and click on the Friend Feed Tab. Over to the right of the page click on the Settings link. A window will open that will allow you to chose a specific friend set that you want to see in your feed. Chose the friend set you want to see, or choose all friends, and then save.
At your Friend Feed, you can filter by articles in the drop down. Give this a try and let me know if I answered your question.
Changes take a little getting used to. Especialy when you are really active, like you are. Have you had a chance to read through Jenn Hann's article here in the Help group? Do you have any specific question I can help you with?
I would love to just click on My Gather and see my friends articles like back in the good old days. I hate this new Facebook clone.
I would like my articles to be the primary emphasis on my public profile page. Will I need to republish the articles I want spotlighted? The spotlight feature is not clickable.
i'm an artist. i'm on here to show people my art. right now, you can't see any of my art, but you can sure see comments to make stalking me easier.
I am currently being flooded with ping notifications. See, a friend is having fun pinging other friends right now, and it just happens that we seem to have quite a few shared friends.
So every time the one friend pings another shared friend, I'm getting TWO ping notifications!
I don't fault the friend at all... It would just be nice to be able to filter this stuff out (other than the useless drop down menu.. I say useless because if you refresh at all it resets, this includes viewing someone's content, then clicking back to your Gather page).
You can easily view any of your friends' articles by viewing their profile, and clicking the "articles" link on the orange navigational bar. The same goes for images, video, comments, groups, etc.
It took me a bit to figure that out too and I would consider myself a VERY internet savvy person.
Although the changes sounded good, the implementation doesn't show much thought or originality. I suppose we can expect new members and their content to follow this example. The site can only attract what it exemplifies.
Members/visitors can only see articles, images, comments, or other events that they have permission to see, when viewing your feed. If you publish content that is restricted to certain members, then only those members will be informed of anything regarding that in your feed. The information that shows up in your feed is information that had already been publicly visible, by looking at your separate comments page, articles page, etc. While your feed cannot be hidden, the events that other members see in your feed will be reflective of the content and groups that they have permission to see.
For now, only content in your feed can be spotlighted. Yes, you would need to republish older content if you would like to spotlight it.
From "My Gather" page, if you filter your feed for "images" there is no "next" button at the bottom.
Believe it or not, re-posting has a downside because re-posts do not contain original comments; which can be poignant thought provokers that stimulate more conversation.
I'm still poking around.
One of the keys seems to be in learning the new labels and functions that appear on the lower golden tab bar.
Good Luck everybody.
I have to whine some though too. I think the old version was much easier to use and I preferred it in comparison. I actually liked it!
I don't care for this much, but the views are interesting. Take care.
Why? If I can't select from ALL of my previoulsy published content, "spotlight" serves no purpose. It may be useful to those that publish 5 articles a day but for those that are more selective, not so much.
I LIKE the VIEWS counter !!!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you... for that !!!
i now have to sit there and literally block people on my friends lists from viewing material so that my comments won't show up to the public? and how does that garner us new people that may have been interested if they can't see anything since we have to have it blocked in order to cut down on the clutter? did you forget that a lot of us aren't computer geeks due to the fact that computers weren't around for most of our lives like the younger kids?
i don't think anyone logically thought out the ramifications of this prior to applying. i am seriously re-considering the amount of time and effort that i put into this site if i have to spend needless hours shuffling my info, an action that wasn't necessary before.
you would have been better off allowing us to organize our images in viewable folders where we can change the order of them for easier viewing access. but no, that would have been a positive change.
2) The same question applies to the "Friend Feed" and "Group Feed". How many days, weeks, or months of content will be available?
3) In the prior version we were able to view our friend's activity for any specific date. How do we accomplish this today?
Thanks! ...answers to the above may alleviate some member concerns.
I liked when everything was all on my Gather page. I could see what I had not viewed or commented on. Now I can't find anything. This is a mess. Its not about getting use to it either. I am usually one who likes new updated things but this is just awful! It is unorganized. I'll never be able to find all my connections work. Please listen to what we are saying. At the very least give each person the option to keep it like this or switch back to the way it was before.
However, would Gather allow members to do this, if they wished?
I have a love/hate relationship with it right now.
I DO like how when you are on someone's page, and it has their feed that you can click "next" and it doesn't have to refresh the whole screen, it automatically changes in that little box.
I also like the spotlight feature - but I think we should have had the option to spotlight older content, not just recent ones. It would have been a good way to give more publicity to our old stuff that we're proud of.
I think the page views aren't working right. How can you have like 5 ratings, 3 comments, but only 2 views? That does not make sense to me - does it make sense to you?
I think it's more cluttered. As for privacy issues, why does everyone else need to know who you are pinging? I think that is ridiculous. There are some features that we should be able to change the settings on for our personal default, so when we are on the My Gather page, we can cut down on the mess when we first get there. I liked before how we could see the most recent articles, images, and comments . . . but there's no option to see all of them at once, you can only pick one at a time - and then there's so much wording you have to skim through to get to what it REALLY is, like it's not easy to see the name of the article/image or the author - the image is a tiny thumbnail, not big enough to really see if you would even be interested.
This upgrade leaves a lot to be desired. Hopefully they will tweak it to fit more of the member's tastes.
This is your site and it's free for us to use - with rewards - but I do think that more people than usual are upset about this change.
When you told us that we didn't have to change our friends sets, you might have mentioned that if you don't you will probably hate the next change coming.
I really have no deisre to see what pings any of my friends sent out. If someone thinks this is necessary for me to see, couldn't it be placed on a back page somewhere?
I read somewhere that when one wakes up to clutter, it ruins the entire day. I think that's also true for entering a web site. If the first page is clutter - which it NOW IS - it's not inviting at all.
As it stands now, I'm going to have to go through and delete most of the comments I've made since I've joined gather, just so they don't show up front and center on my profile page.
Kevin (sitewizard.gather.com) V., Apr 11, 2008, 11:10am EDT
well kevin, i would think that if they wanted that to happen, that they would have made it so in the beginning.
Is it delayed or do comments on these articles not appear to our connections?
And I refreshed my My Gather page as Tom suggested to make it look "not messey" ---there was no change whatsoever...its a full page of useless garbage now. Thanks a lot!
Unfortunately, you would need to republish older material in order to spotlight it. New content would mean a brand new comment thread, too.
The other thing I hate is that it no longer shows you how many comments are on an article unless you click on it. I hate that because before i could look at the title and the amount of comments if there was a new comment I would click on it and readi the new comment. Now i don't know if there are new comments until I click on the article.
However, I can say from the get-go that I hate that pings show up in our activity feeds. Horrible, horrible, horrible. It completely teenybopperizes the site and takes away from the real content here. I don't think it was your aim to detract from good content, was it?
The pageviews don't add up at all - I can't have 25 comments but only 10 views, after all. (And the content was, I believe, published after April 7, since that seem to be the magical date here.)
Do we have to reset our feeds every time we leave our homepages? I want to eliminate the pings altogether and was hoping to be able to set my preferences to make that happen, but it doesn't seem to work that way. ?
"I have a love/hate relationship with it right now.
I DO like how when you are on someone's page, and it has their feed that you can click "next" and it doesn't have to refresh the whole screen, it automatically changes in that little box.
I also like the spotlight feature - but I think we should have had the option to spotlight older content, not just recent ones. It would have been a good way to give more publicity to our old stuff that we're proud of.
I think the page views aren't working right. How can you have like 5 ratings, 3 comments, but only 2 views? That does not make sense to me - does it make sense to you?
I think it's more cluttered. As for privacy issues, why does everyone else need to know who you are pinging? I think that is ridiculous. There are some features that we should be able to change the settings on for our personal default, so when we are on the My Gather page, we can cut down on the mess when we first get there. I liked before how we could see the most recent articles, images, and comments . . . but there's no option to see all of them at once, you can only pick one at a time - and then there's so much wording you have to skim through to get to what it REALLY is, like it's not easy to see the name of the article/image or the author - the image is a tiny thumbnail, not big enough to really see if you would even be interested.
This upgrade leaves a lot to be desired. Hopefully they will tweak it to fit more of the member's tastes."
I do appreciate the page view add on, but besides this I feel very overwhelmed with all the clutter. I just invited a new member last night, and I feel so bad that this is what she will begin with. I think this will be very difficult to enter into as a new member.
Just a note on spotlighting - if you would like to spotlight your older content today than yes you will have to republish it. Yet, going forward you can spotlight any of your work that you find in your feed in your profile, which will go back aways. From what I'm told, your feed in which you can spotlight from will go back either 20 days or up to 500 items, depending on how often you publish. Hope that clears up some confusion!
I have had to everytime. It is so annoying. Honestly. This is not fun or relaxing anymore. I have tried to navigate through all this and I really don't like it. I am considering saying goodbye to Gather all together.
This is indeed a glitch, that should be fixed relatively soon.
You're right, as far as the types of events go that you are viewing in the friend feed, it's kind of all or one. I think that in the future, we should offer the ability to filter out specific types, like pings, that you might not want to have in your feed. It's a great idea.
Will you please send me an email at support@gather.com describing your problem with cashing out? Thank you!
Whatever it is Kevin, I would sure appreciate if the Gather team would take this up for consideration. Republishing and losing comment threads just seems completely wrong.
When you log back in after work, try making a Friend Set of the friends you want to see content on. Then you can filter your Friend Feed so all their activity, or just some of it shows in your Friend Feed. Give it a try and please let me know if that helps you find the content you are looking for.
Yeah that is nice except you can not view any of your connections articles before April 7th in that box.
Until now.
It's just awful.
The "My Gather" page is too busy, and yes I did hit refresh. Made no difference at all, because by "busy" I mean there's too much information in so small a space.
I used to log on, check the "My Gather" page for articles by my friends. Now, I'm slammed with everything one of my friends has written, commented on, or as near as I can tell - even felt, since my last visit.
I looked around a bit, found it just too hard to find things and logged off.
I know Gather will do as it wills, but this isn't My Space. Your demographics are a few years beyond that, and you should remember it when you are doing these upgrades.
Also, when it comes to Spotlighting, we realize that it's inconvenient to have to republish some of your older content in order to put it in your spotlight... but going forward you'll be able to spotlight anything you publish as you publish it. So, this is really a one time thing.
Also - you can totally refine your feeds so that you're only seeing content from those you care about most... or only sharing content publicly that we want the world to see. There really are a lot of options here for customization... you just have to play around with the features a bit.
That's not true, Chris. When you are on a friend's profile page, click the "articles" link on the orange navigational tab to view ALL of their past articles.
I also miss the previews for peoples' articles. I'm sure that the change was made to get people to click into more articles, but I'm actually clicking on LESS articles now because I have no clue what they're about. The preview was a big time saver for me--so I didn't have to click into articles I wasn't going to enjoy or comment on.
The only thing that has changed on Gather is your view when signing and what you choose to see. Also, you can customize more easily what people can see of you. Finding articles is just as easy as it was yesterday. Our homepage and navigation is still the same and you can still see the comments before clicking on an article.
The discrepancy between views and comments can be for a few different reasons:
1st - You looking at your own content does not count as a view, that is why the view count didn't change after looking at your article.
2nd - The same person looking at your content multiple times and commenting multiple times only counts as 1 view.
Today on the My Gather page, under My Feed, you only see content for the past few days. Going forward the My Feed will "fill up" to hold up to 500 items for up to the past 60 days. So going forward, you'll be able to spotlight any of the 500 items you have in your My Feed. Today, the work around is to republish your older content, then it will show up in your My Feed and you can spotlight it.
Hope that helps!
I want to see all my connections new material in one place like it was before. Isn't that part of the point of having connections so you can view there work?
Where exactly is that feature, Pam? I know where to set permissions for stories and images I publish, but what about the rest of the activities that show up in "my feed", including comments to others' articles, which are likely set for public viewing. I would prefer that "my feed" did not show up at all on my profile outside of gather.
Please see my reply to John S, a few comments above. I think my reply addresses your question as well. Let me know if you have any others!
Hi CC - If your friends who are experiencing the problem with friend requests would contact support@gather.com, we will be happy to assist. We need specific info on who they are trying to connect with and what happens after they make the friend request. Sorry you feel as though you're being handled with madness and chaos... that is certainly not our goal or objective!!
Seriously this is not a good thing gather team. From Toms earlier article "If your My Gather page looked a little messy before, this should fix it. " uhh. . .. what? No. the namespace NOW is a cluttered mess.
Feeds are a BAD idea. .. why make gather look like facebook? (oh and facebook does allow you to sort what kinda feeds you see. .. only you dont have to reset them every time you log back in). If I wanted facebook, I'd stay on facebook.
I dont like that my recent content is buried. Spot light would have been a good idea IF you didn't get rid of our most recent content (or rather bury it)
Pings are dumb to begin with. . . now they're obnoxiously on my namespace? Not cool. I have turned them off now.
I have an article I wrote last night expressing more detailed reasons why this "update" has left a bad taste in my mouth.
Also, when it comes to Spotlighting, we realize that it's inconvenientyou have no idea how inconvenient and how much time that will cost me apparently to have to republish some of your older content in order to put it in your spotlight... but going forward you'll be able to spotlight anything you publish as you publish it. until it goes past the 20 day cutoff and renders it useless againSo, this is really a one time thing.again after the 20 day cutoff, it makes it a recurring thing
Also - you can totally refine your feeds so that you're only seeing content from those you care about most... i've already heard horror stories of people spending hours organizing only to be given an error message and losing it allor only sharing content publicly that we want the world to see. want the world to see pings and friends connections? i don't think so, i do want them to see art, but that doesnt seem to be happeningThere really are a lot of options here for customization... you just have to play around with the features a bit. i would if i could read them without having to lean into my screen which is hurting my back and making me want to get off gather that much sooner.
Pam Johnston, Apr 11, 2008, 11:33am EDT
thanks Pam, that was not helpful at all.
Pam Johnston, Apr 11, 2008, 11:38am EDT
not unique pam and has happened to a number of people that i know and has not ever been addressed despite how many times we've all written to gather.
Chris,
The only thing that has changed on Gather is your view when signing and what you choose to see. Also, you can customize more easily what people can see of you. Finding articles is just as easy as it was yesterday. Our homepage and navigation is still the same and you can still see the comments before clicking on an article.
Not true Before I had a page that had my connections articles, pictures, and videos all in one place now each time I go to my page I have to click on what I want to see. No it is not as easy to find the articles. I can not see the comments before clicking on the article. I don't know why you are telling me that I can still see the comments because there are no numbers that tell me how many comments are posted on an article anymore. I have to click on the article to see that.
this incarnation of Gather is terrible ... that is the mildest word that I can find for what you people have proudly butchered .....
just WHY did you think that I wanted or needed to be aware of EVERYTHING that my connections are doing? .... If I really wanted to know who my friends were making friends with, I would ASK them .... If I wanted to know who they were "pinging" I would ASK .... but, I really DON'T CARE about things that are none of my business ....
Nor do I care to have my every move published to all of my connections, colleagues, friends, and/or associates ...... If I wanted THEM all to know who I was making friends with or pinging ... I would TELL THEM myself .......
I came to Gather for good writing, photos, and the ability to comment and actually carry on CONVERSATIONS with other people ........ NOT to be treated like some piece of meat that can be turned this way and that with no say-so ...... basically having my every move scrutinized by any tom, dick, and harry that has no sense of boundaries or self-control and wants to be a voyer just because your site enables voyerism ......
I don't care if I am the most boring person online ...... and it might be more fun to watch paint drying ........... If people want to find this information out about me ... they can damn well waste their time on Gather to dig it up for themselves ..... the same as I would do ..... IF I WANTED TO FIND THIS KIND OF CRAP OUT ABOUT THEM ...... which I don't particularly want to do ........
I am not some teeny-bopper who wants or needs a transparent bubble to live in and gleefully watch other people's activities ..... I am an adult who prefers to surf around and read whatever catches my interest at the time I am surfing ..... and I would greatly appreciate it if you people took that into consideration before hacking and chopping at a site that probably only needed a few minor "improvements" at a time .....
As an adult, I have learned to respect other people's boundaries .... and expect that mine will be respected in return ....... about the only "improvement" that I can see, is that you have enabled a counter to show how many people have actually viewed the content being published ...... Thank you for NOT deciding on MY behalf, to name who all has visited the content without leaving a comment ..... Because I could care less WHO hasn't left a comment ...
I might hang around for a while to see if you people decide to correct your "upgraded" site to more clearly reflect the majority of members ........ If you continue to keep it like a YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, or MYSPACE site, I will no longer remain here ...... If I WANTED to spend my time at places like that, I would not have bothered joining Gather ..... I would have joined one of THEM .....
As for my input? ..... you have it above .... this is DOWNGRADE is a disaster and I feel nothing but disgust for the devolution of this site ...
fuming along with a lot of your gather community. Please rethink this whole upgrade, it is terrible.
No, you do not have to reset your feeds every time. If you simply look to the right of your feeds there is a "settings" button. Click that and you can set up all of your feeds to whichever settings you choose.
Please keep in mind that we implemented these changes based on everyone's feedback. It may seem like some work and getting used to today, but once all set up you will only see what YOU want to see when you sign on. Also, you can control what people see of you. These changes are with the best intentions so please give them a chance! If you need any one-on-one help please feel free to send me a message and I will be glad to walk you through these changes.
I havefavorite friends I like to keep up with and they are being buried by bull pucky.
Sounds like you are having trouble redeeming. I'm going to give this function a try and I'll be back to you.
The ping thing being so highly visible? Does seem rather silly for a site such as this. I wouldn't mind that being hidden. But I've turned off pings, anyway, so for me, it's not too important.
I love being able to find specific content for specific connection groups. However, I'd like to be able to set up what I want to look at--whether articles, groups my friends have joined, images--all the time. I'd like to see a settings feature where I could pick the defaults and where they wouldn't change each time I refresh my page or return to it. As it's set up now, the default is seeing everything my contacts have published or said or done. Some people might want to see that, but others might not. You've given us the ability to see everything, now let us control what we want to see without making us choose each time we go to our own page.
We appreciate all your great feedback. I'm glad you could point to some things that you do like!
As I've stated above, I agree that you should be able to spotlight from any of your content, and not just recent content in your feed. I'm sure will exploring this option of expanding the spotlighting feature soon.
I'm not sure yet if there's a problem with the page view count. Keep in mind that you shouldn't rely on the number of comments to be at all reflective of the page view count. We count only unique views, so multiple comments from the same members won't count multiple times. What you say about the ratings has me wondering, though... More on that later.
If you are seeing too much info on your My Gather page, you can change the settings and filters so you ONLY see what your favorite friends are doing.
To do this make a Friend Set of your favorite friends. Then you can filter your Friend Feed so only your Favorite Friends are in your feed. And you can filter their activity so you see all of their activity or just some of it using the dropdown menu on the Friend Feed. Give it a try and please let me know if that helps you find the content you are looking for.
The feeds should update about every 15 minutes.
If you have created friend sets then once you click selected friends your friend sets will appear.
"I want to know why I can only see my friend's articles that are hours old?
I would love to just click on My Gather and see my friends articles like back in the good old days."
You can see all your friends' most recent articles by clicking the drop-down menu that says "all activities" and change it to "articles".
"If you want to "improve" Gather, you'll let it be what it was. Soon you will find nothing but teens hanging out here and pinging their friends to ask "Wuz up?""
No worries, Kay. Gather will continue to cater to the interests of adults. While we move forward, we will continue to make changes to Gather to create an improving experience, while also considering and implementing member feedback. You'll definitely see positive change in the future. The best thing you can do to help is to be as clear and constructive in your criticism as possible. Tell us what would be the perfect Gather!
I think that it's a great a idea to be able to filter out certain event types - like pings - from your feeds, rather than the "all or one" system that it is currently. I'm definitely going to push for that in the future.
THAT makes me hate this update even more.
What the heck is the point of a spotlight then? *Frown*
When I go to a member's page, I would like to be directed to their articles and images FIRST, not have to follow a separate link for articles and a separate link for images.
The "about this person" page would work better if it was a secondary page instead of a primary one. If I could click on a person.gather.com link and see their articles and images, AND THEN click a link for the "about me" page where I could see their recent activity and pings, I would be much happier about this upgrade.
I think it's a shame that the articles and images have been separated. Maybe someone visits me because they saw one of my articles, they may not think to visit my images, and may be missing out on something they'd like. And vice versa.
It's too much work. Not many people are going to click a link to articles, and then click a separate link to images. They're going to look at one or the other most likely.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977307688&nav=MyGather
not only did i take a looooooong time to post my article,but the one photo i included didn't process until quite awhile after i published.....ok, just a temp glitch...i can handle those
now, i am kinda miffed about reading how staff seem to think our less than glowing feedback is due to not being able to cope with change.....umm...change IS what life is all about,so excuse me,but our complaints about ease of navigation and chaotic layout being replaced with some one's idea of a new fangled "uber design" is NOT born out of some fear of change!...LOL...
i am from old school editing, but feel the basics still apply....white-space is a given...clean layouts are easy on the eyes...now, when speaking about site design, the first thing i personally peek out is ease of navigation....if a site makes me jump thru too many hoops, then it is adios!
i am not a techie and bow down to those of you who have such mad skillz...BUT only if you apply features which make your user's visit a pleasant experience....this site is suppose to be a chill place to hang... time permitting....personally i don't want to go thru any mental gymnastics during my visits here.....
i do appreciate your time and effort and am sorry many of us are not as stoked as you and Tom are, Chuck.....perhaps asking for membership input BEFORE new features are implemented would be a wiser approach,eh?
if you have time,be sure to drop by my article to read more feedback
cheers,gayle
I liked the "My Gather" page where recent photos, articles and comments of random friends were posted. I don't want to have feed on only some of my friends. I liked being able to see the newest posts of any of my friends.
Also I'm so disappointed with the loss of the old set up for "My Content". There was nothing about it I didn't like. Now............. it's so confusing and harder to use.
nice list in the manage friends thing ... but it doesn't work for me... first try resulted in many popups re: a script error and loss of whole shebang.
So I tried again .... saving often .... wonderful ... go out when I get to the bottom of the list (that I can see - can't see more ....another error) ... and they are all gone bye bye.
total waste of time :(
ALSO - the article Feeds don't show the number of comments and therefore there is no way to see if there are new comments - you think I am going to revisit them all to see if there are? USELESS unless that number is there - on mine/others
Do you want older people on here or not.
I'm not interested spending an hour just trying to see my friends comments, seeing if their new comments on their articles.
You blew it and you will probably lose many of us.