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Are we back to normal?

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brummiejan

brummiejan Report 26 Nov 2010 08:33

I see the Help Clinic has effectively disappeared, and the star has gone from my name (at last!). Phew! At least they have listened to us so credit due there.
Jan

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 26 Nov 2010 08:48

Well I never got my star and Estelle is not answering emails from me and a couple of others.

GR did not think it through very well.

Oh well having seen a lot of the threads critising the Help Clinic I think I would rather leave things as they are

GB

Katie

Katie Report 26 Nov 2010 08:48

Pleased we are all back together again on an equal footing. Still some glitches with the site which need sorting out though. GR are aware so hopefully there will be some action soon. I find it strange that recent changes have been reported on Facebook ( to which many don't have access ) rather than this site.
Katie

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 26 Nov 2010 08:51

Yes, it would have been nice to have been told! But never mind, let's just put it down to experience and get back to normal.
Jan

Joy

Joy Report 26 Nov 2010 08:53

It is here -

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/help_clinic/

RobG found it for me yesterday.

But I daresay only those that have already posted in it and the powers that be will read it :-)

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 26 Nov 2010 08:54

Well I flatly refuse to use sites such as Facebook

So why are GR posting info on that site when it should be shown on here

GB

Joy

Joy Report 26 Nov 2010 08:54

And Mildred has kindly told us that the powers that be posted on facebook that the help clinic page will be closed -

http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards.page/board/chat/thread/1250245

Would have been nice if we, the customers, had been told first.

Katie

Katie Report 26 Nov 2010 09:06

No Facebook or similar for me either, they seem very trivial and far too intrusive.
Katie

Joy

Joy Report 26 Nov 2010 09:08

And my message to them asking where the help clinic was and what will happen to my posts in it - no reply received.

My thanks to Rob for finding it before they did.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 26 Nov 2010 10:12

not normal yet - having great difficulty adding info to many threads over the past week

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 26 Nov 2010 11:29

Is that you that isn't normal yet or the site Ann?? lol

Normal? What IS normal I ask myself?

Nice to have you back Jan.




Cx


AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 26 Nov 2010 14:03

I'm not normal either!!

~Looby Loo~

~Looby Loo~ Report 26 Nov 2010 20:46

Oh Dear,

looks as if I'm not back to normal either as I've now got %7E added to either side of my name now!

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 26 Nov 2010 20:52

I did give in on Wednesday evening and joined fb .... just so I could read the GR board or wall or whatever it's called for myself.


I swore I would never join fb ....... but I was fed up of being left in the dark about GR's intentions as they were posting them only on fb


GB

I get emails from Estelle ................. but I cannot reply to them, or send new emails to her or Support. My server tells me they are blocked?!!



LoobyLoo

hope you get back to nornal soon!!



sylvia

Ozibird

Ozibird Report 26 Nov 2010 21:20

brummiejan, have you kept your free subscriptions? I hope so after what you've been through.

Ozi

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 26 Nov 2010 22:54

Nice to have you back, Jan, and you do look better without that big yellow star on your shoulder.

My main probelem now is the fact that people can delete their post without it showing on the board. I was accused yesterday of talking to a ghost because I had responded to someone who had deleted their post.

There were a lot of posts yesterday that made no sense because people were responding to posts that had been deleted with nothing to show that a post had been deleted.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 27 Nov 2010 01:26

I didn't accuse you, Margaret

........... I just said it would have been nice to have been able to see slartibart's postings so that it didn't LOOK as though you were talking to a ghost!



sylvia

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 27 Nov 2010 14:41

You're right, Sylvia, you didn't accuse me. I tend to exaggerate. My excuse is it's in my genes as I'm finding out as I disprove the stories that my ancestors told me.

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 27 Nov 2010 15:20

If anyone wants to read the Face book page, you can find it here.....

http://www.facebook.com/genesreunited

You don't need to sign up to FB to do so, but you won't be able to post.

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 27 Nov 2010 18:37

Hello peeps.
Thanks for the "welcome back" comments, much appreciated. Not sure I'll ever be "normal" but here's hoping.
Jonesey, I still seem to have the "extras" but not sure how long for. One problem I had all along is that I can't view any FMP images on the account set up by Genes, though I have no problems with my existing 1911 account.
Jan