If I can't find a poster's most recent answer or comment to a thread, I need to leave this site.
I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find an OP's comment to a question.
I'm leaving and this is why. I can't spend time scrolling through endless posts.
The website may be dysfunctional, but you are not.
See you after the break....
Love from Send
Hey Barb, what are you looking for?
I hope you don't leave, though, b/c I always love reading your advice & comments & have learned a lot from you.
Take a break and then come back........we need you!!! :)
Another irritant is that the issue categories literally have no meaning, as all threads are aggregated together in one long string of threads.
And two more are (a) the limited time for editing, and (b) the "reply to" function for response to a poster's individual comments. These responses are outside of the date order of the post, and sometimes difficult to find. I've gone through threads repeatedly, checking each "reply to" before finding what I'm looking for . That's a waste of time.
If I want to follow or respond to a specific thread, I add the URL into my Excel database. Going through all the posts, or just checking the News Feed is tedious and wastes time.
Perhaps the most offensive and uncomfortable practice though is the inability to delete private messages. We did SEEM to have that option before the management changeover, but in experimenting one day I was able to find posts I had written months and years ago, many of which I had deleted. Yet they were still there. That's troubling.
More than anything else (including the fake posts), this dysfunctionality irritates me and causes me to just go to one of my favorite forums that are configured differently.
The one aspect I do think is worthwhile is not posting all who are online at one time; that privacy is nice.
But like the others, I find your insights invaluable and wouldn't want you to leave, but every time I'm here I start mentally growling at the dysfunctionality and ask myself why I even bother.
I hope this helps.
Please stay, I always have appreciated your input on the different situations on here.
I do appreciate your valuable input!
It is impossible to find the most recent response when it is buried in a reply to another comment. What if we just all agree not to use the "Reply to" feature? It's easy enough to state in your response that you're replying to so-and-so, right?
I agree I hope you don't leave Barb. I like to read your insights and it’s to have another New Yorker here.
No pressure to stay, it's just that you are a lighthouse in a storm, a source of experience and stability, someone others can trust for answers.
When I get worn out, and need to post less often, I feel it is okay because of people like you, standing strong, holding the line on common sense and reality, imo.
How about the rest of us refrain from replying to individual comments and only reply on the thread, even if we have to use quotes from above?
I sincerely hope you stay with us. I appreciate your wealth of knowledge & input. It’s a shame our complaints about the accessibility on this site continue to be ignored.
The old agingcare set up was better.
But you will be very much missed if you go., so please reconsider.
We receive a notice of a post by someone, on our own news feed. It is not stated if it is a reply, or just an answer. We go looking for that person's post on that thread we may be following. It is irritating because we cannot find it.
A part of the problem I have experienced is this:
THERE IS A DELAY POSTING IT ON THE ACTUAL THREAD! MINUTES MAYBE. THE NEWS FEED POSTS FIRST!.
So, maybe waiting, then scrolling through the many posts on a thread.....
just as ridiculous, and I have given up finding replies altogether.
In the New Year of 2020, time is short!
Maybe the Admins can fix the problems?
The suggestion to include a link directly to the new reply is a good one. We will approach the idea with the tech team, as it is always our incentive to implement improvements for our members.
In answer to other questions, yes, there are Admins here. But it has always been our policy to loosely moderate the forum. We are all adults here, so while some posters might be more provocative than others, we do not censor posts by taste. Posts are only edited or removed in accordance with our comment policy. That said, personal attacks are always removed because caregivers are here for support. It is common practice on public forums to close the edit function after a period of time. Editing/deleting posts causes issues with continuity of a thread or historical context. Any concern about a post can be handled by contacting an admin directly with the "contact us" function or by email: kim.barnett@agingcare.com
Although you have pointed out frustrations with the workings of the site, you are all providing what was intended in the creation of the forum- answers and support for other caregivers. Especially after a stressful holiday season, large numbers of caregivers who are struggling find this site. Every day your interactions with them provide solace. We sincerely thank you for helping others who are in need and appreciate the important role you are providing in the lives of other caregivers.
Please don't leave! You have such wonderful insight into the problems of the elderly and give very helpful advice to all of us.
I also find the "Replies" part of the forum frustrating especially when the reply is to a comment/posting that is not one of the most recent postings. It might be better if the "Reply to" feature was removed and ALL postings were listed in chronological order. The person posting would have to say, "In response to _____'s comment on 01/04/2020: >>>>>>>". But maybe that would be better than what we currently have.
I also agree that some of the "Replies" are not helpful comments that attempt to clarify the poster's comment, but snide, catty, negative remarks about what the poster said.
Sometimes we need to take a break from a situation and I hope that is the only thing that you do...take a break. We really need your knowledge and insight and caring attitude on this forum. Please do not leave us forever, just for a little while. {{{HUGS}}}