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CMT: Facebook Annoucements CLOSED

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GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 7 Jul 2011 18:16

So nothing has changed then.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 7 Jul 2011 21:22

seems so GB



For the record

........... I NEVER go to FB before looking on here

GR is my second stop, after a small private site


Visiting FB is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down the list




Please, GR ...................... have the common courtesy to post announcements ON THE SITE where you have paying members! Posting on FB can follow later.




sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Flick

Flick Report 7 Jul 2011 21:36

Peter

If you ever return to this thread to which you posted on May 6th,...................

You are completely missing the point..............

TootyFruity

TootyFruity Report 7 Jul 2011 21:36

Your members should be informed first of any scheduled maintenance giving as much notice as possible. A banner at the top of the boards would be best as then a larger number of members are likely to see it.

Scheduled maintenance is an expected hic-cup in using the site and members only get annoyed when not even a cursory thought is given to them. The members on your site are your bread and butter. Without them you have no business and it far easier to keep the members you have than to go touting for business.

It would be appreciated if you would be more considerate to your membership

grannyfranny

grannyfranny Report 7 Jul 2011 22:40

Well said, I agree.

Researching:
Freeman of Berwick upon Tweed

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 7 Jul 2011 22:57

Well finally joined Facebook as fed up with finding out there is more information about this site on there

Something I said I would never do but driven to it my GR's lack on information on THIS site

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 8 Jul 2011 01:17

GB

that is precisely the same reason why I gave in and joined FB back in February

I also had said that I would never ever join that site.


However, I am not on there under any name that anyone outside a favoured few would know, so I'm safe from unwanted approaches.


Have you made sure that you have ALL the privacy that you can get?



sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Island

Island Report 8 Jul 2011 09:40

GB, as I posted on this thread on May 6th - "You don't have to join Facebook to look at the GR pages"

:-S

Researching:
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 8 Jul 2011 13:08

Thank you Island

I had tried that before and I could not get it to work but seem to be working fine now.

Probably me :-)

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

philmoir

philmoir Report 8 Jul 2011 13:42

Hi Everyone, Our apologies for the posting that occurred on Facebook. This unfortunately was our only option at the time.

For those that have ever experienced "blue screen" drama on their PC, we had a very similar issue on our primary database server. Which effectively took down ALL the websites that run through this box, including all genesreunited sites, www.findmypast.ie, www.findmypast.com.au and some of our internal functionality. None of this was intended or planned and took us a little by surprise.

I do appreciate and agree that Facebook should be a secondary or backup option for making annoucements, but under these circumstances it was our only option.

Sorry,
Phil Moir - Genes Reunited

Researching:
I am the former lead developer for the Genes Reunited website team and the former lead developer of the Findmypast Tree team. I do not work for this company anymore. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions. My research areas of interest are East London, North-West Cumbria, North-East Scotland and Edinburgh.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 8 Jul 2011 13:55

Thank you replying again Phil

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 8 Jul 2011 14:46

What, this site has a Facebook page - never even knew about it.

I am on facebook, have 5 friends!!!! Use it for the Now and Then Walworth board mainly.

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

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