General Chat

My board is like it's always been *sob* no clinic, no stars, nuffink!

I lie - it's just changed!!!! I have a cinic to attend!!

I think I'll need a rehab clinic if they dont get this site sorted soon

Why didnt they run a ghost site to make the changes and leave the existing site running until they had ironed out the blips?

Bl##dy ridiculous this is......I can PM, I cant PM. I can get to the bottom of a thread, I cant
I can see the posters name, I cant. I can past onto a thread/PM and then I cant

Anyone got either a large brandy or a shot gun....

Well I had a reply to my complaints.

Dear Ann in glos

Thank you for taking the time to write to us.

I am sorry that you are not happy with the recent changes that we have made to the Genes Reunited website.

We have reacted to feedback from our members to make these latest developments but inevitably, some of the changes suit certain member use more than others.

We are currently receiving a lot of feedback and suggestions from our members so I will not reply to your points in detail but please accept my assurance that your email will be individually read by our Management team and will be taken into consideration as we work to continually enhance the website over the coming weeks and months.


Sooo is anyone admitting to asking for these particular changes?

At this point, the complaints have nothing to do with "changes", they have to do with non-functionality. Maybe they've figured that out now.

When I submit this post, will I get sent to page 1, to a "jump" url (it refers to the actual post number and not just the thread number) from which I cannot exit (the page number links in the row of numbers don't work then), to the Katzenjammer "surname board", or the moon??

you never know, they may even bring the old chat room back,lol

ps,i like the changes

Yup. I posted, and the url for this page is now

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/chat/thread/1249325?jump=7356131

You can't go to any other page number from that.

For instance, if I click on page 5, the url for that link is

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/chat/thread/1249325?jump=7356131&page=4

And that just reloads the page I'm on.

If I change it manually in my address bar to

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/chat/thread/1249325?&page=4

then it works and I get page 5.

How difficult is it for a tech person to figure this out ... and FIX IT?


Of course, now that I am editing this post, I will get sent back to page 1 ...



-- I have sent the content of this post to info/support @ GR. If I can figure this out, surely the people they're paying can.

And yes, when I edited, I got sent back to page 1. At least the url wasn't "jump" anymore so the page number links work.

Ice-Ice...............hadn't noticed the 'new' bit when you hover the mouse until you mentioned it, but if you look at the numbers before that, it is the membership number...well. I think it is...try it on Janey's posts as she has several on this page.

DET

Making an example of me! ;) Do you know, I actually have no clue what my membership number is, but I assume that's the right one.

I think the "new" refers to the fact that the URL you're seeing is actually the link for sending a message. So it's the link for sending a "new message".

Hey, that's my guess.

What I'd love is if the link for a username actually took one to the user's profile, as is the case for any normal website.

It would show date joined and basic info if a user wanted to give it: location (could be very general), number of posts, interests and such.


What I do note is that nothing's being done about privacy/security yet. I've been giving them some grace time before starting in on that.