I did a tour of the new Agingcare website and I don't think I like it.
First and most important, my head got cut off in the profile picture, only the torso is showing. That's not very nice. At all. Looks are very important, even to a polar bear. It took me a long time to pose for that picture. haha
Second, when I see an interesting question or discussion, and don't have any relevant answer or comment to add, but would like to read what others have to say, I can just click "Follow" and that tread will appear on my Follow list. The new Agingcare website doesn't have it. Why? That feature is very useful for a newbie like me.
Third, I prefer the large blue font type of the old site. Much easier to read. The new site has light smaller font size on a light blue background. Not as easy to read.
Whoever in charge of Agingcare website, can you fix the above?
Thanks
Also, where do you make the print larger? I saw it somewhere, that you can do this, but for the life of me, I cannot find it! Thank You!
Otherwise, I am slowing getting the hang of it, using a Samsung Galaxy tablet.
Another thing I had noticed. Strange, about the spel check. As you can see the word "spell" is wrong, I did that on purpose, the software underlined it in red but that red line went away when I did another misspelling on another word. I usually don't proof-read until I am through. Thus, only the last misspelling will be underlined. Oops, that's not good, as my fingers have a different dictionary then my brain :P
Thinking I have read somewhere that after 180 days a thread will be closed to new comments.
Surely, contacting the ACCM could help reactivate a thread?
My computer has a spell check, and now I learn the website has a spell check?
Those two little demons must be having a fight to the death, as now I am having to correct every few words! Confirming, YES, spell check is a problem.
Gershun,
The good thing about caregivers is that a little (or a lot) of frustration is not going to chase them away, imo. True though, more frustration is not needed.
One thing that is very irritating to the point I will not read a thread, is the box to select "oldest first", "newest first"!
I know there are some that prefer newest first, but I need to read the entire thread to figure out what has been said already. So, "newest first" does not make reading a thread easy and I may skip it entirely.
Why not place the oldest/newest drop down in the "Profile" or "Settings" area? Then we could choose how we prefer to read a post.
Why am I getting threads posted to my newsfeed that I am not following nor commented on?
AND, when I open a page, I automatically hit END, before I realize that I just moved to the answers from the beginning.
Solution:
1. Give us this option in our Profile (can a programmer confirm if this possible?)
2. If we open a thread and hit Oldest First, can that thread "Remember" this preference for future visits. Like the Old site.... Unless of course we clean our history/cache, it would default back to Newest First.
3. Make all the threads open automatically to Oldest First (which may not be very popular to most.)
And like Book said if it would just remember which way we left it the last time.
This is my new pet peeve.
When you do a "Search" for a person, that person's postings or answers or questions are NOT listed in chronological order. The dates skip around from June 2018 to April 2018 to Aug 2017 to Aug 2018 to Dec 2016 to Sept 2015 to July 2018.
Also, when I do a "Search" I am finding postings or questions that I have NEVER seen on the "Need Answers" or "Recent Questions" lists. It seems like the same questions are listed day after day after day with only 4-5 new questions instead of the 10-20 new questions that we used to have on the old website.
Why do 90% of questions only have TWO ANSWERS and only a few questions have more than FIVE answers? or have 10+ answers?
The color scheme is giving me a headache. Can I change the background color?
I am one of the oldest first type of people.... but all the clicking involved as when I am finished with that thread, I will click back to get the main page of questions/discussions. Click, click, click, click, rinse, repeat. I would also like it if the software would allow us to choose which format we like, newest first or oldest first, and keep it that way.
I often wonder how they are coping.
But........having said that I do miss the old site too!
except for a few irks the old site was so much more user friendly