General Chat

If it worked and was awful it would be a matter of personal choice, but it's awful and doesn't work...take my tree, well someone has...unless I go on chrome...it's there yes, but to be able to read it and the boards I have to be at 100% or 125% zoom...but you can only use the save button to add data etc at 75% otherwise it is off the screen. OR I can change the font type to bold, but that throws everything off the side of the page...I can change the c0lours but that then has to apply to all other sites...

I'm thrilled for those who love it...but so far they seem to A, be in the minority and B, use the boards once in a blue moon.

Stray - my thoughts exactly. Last time, people were complaining that everything was 'too dark' :-D :-D


I've had a play around on the various functions and it's fine for me. :-D


So, I'm happy with things. :-D

Kitten...I have been a member since 2004. And I never complained before because the changes before - to me - weren't radical weren't contentious.

These changes are. For months and months since they introduced the new tree a majority of members have railed against it. Partly because it did not work. They introduced it before they had sufficiently tested it.

So meanwhile they had more and more complaints and all they have have done is put their hands over their ears and ignored everything that was being said. And it's that that annoys me most of all.

I DO hate it. I will not be leaving but I will not be paying for the site any more. I am not demanding to know what I am paying for. I KNOW and it's not worth paying for any more.

I don't know about modern but it's certainly bright. I am not sight-impaired but it hurts my eyes after a very short time.

Ads don't bother me as long as you steer clear of them so they don't lauch :-)

eeeee it does make me giggle when they change things, and everyone goes monkey nuts, :-D i remeber when they changed it before, and the time befor and the tme before that, everyone hated it everyone was leaving, demanding to know what they pay for ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and were all still here,


altho its seems a bit clean n clinical, its now modern and bright,

i still have ad' too, but they dont bother me lol

will have to have a proper look around i think ;-)

Hi DetEcTive ,
thank you .
Hazelx

Jiminy...no it's not whiter than Family Search but how much subs do you pay for that???

It's much whiter and brighter than A. And the text on A is better and, in the case of the name, bold black.

It's not just the whiteness of the white (and boy is it white) it's the insipid light blue text elsewhere.

Knowing that a majority of people hate the new tree why dump even more on those people with such a poor choice in colour scheme? Why change it all? Please don't tell me they polled people and listened ha ha??

It's just another case of the dictat that seems to be GR.

Incidentally Friends reunited is exactly the same in their attitude to members. Only difference in that is that it is a free site. Perhaps GR will be free to use :-)

it would have been better and easier to read if the print was bold but I don't know how to change it.

Caz

aivlyS.."Love it , and no ads down the side .." errrr no they're still there :-(

Everyone else...time to vote with your wonga...GR just do not get it. They do what they want, they allege they read everything and then send out something that is obviously from a computer not a person.

I was wavering...I hate the new tree but I WAS wavering...now white fright has decided me. And like everything else it's a case of we've done it like it or lump it.

Well there is a third choice, don't like it, don't lump it, don't pay for it

Jude

Really don't like what has been done to my family tree. Hate the way it all looks and acts right now. I think I might take my business elsewhere. Why mess with a good thing? What exactly am I paying for??? :-P

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your ongoing feedback.

Everything we do to the site is done with the aim of making it better and easier to use and as I have told those who have written to [email protected], if the light background continues to be a problem for our members, we will make necessary changes.

We reacted to the first round of feedback from members using the beta site and as a result made the background off-grey instead of white and made the text a size bigger and a shade darker. We will continue to react to your feedback now that the new design can be seen by all members, however, please be patient, we are collating feedback from hundreds of members and want to make sure we make the right changes.

Please, if you have feedback, email [email protected] - It is quite a challenge to keep up with all the posts on the boards, but this email address is monitored daily by myself and Estelle.

Thanks

Katie

Strangely if I view the site on my IPad it doesn't glare as much.

Hazel, the Beta site is what you can see now when it was in its testing stage

I've been trying to compare the colour scheme with one of the competitors. They graduate the background colouring from light at the top to a darker grey at the bottom and possibly use a slightly creamier colour for the profile or tree view background. The graduation 'might' help.

Off to use 'feed back'.

I sent an email to GR

Guess what I got?

Generic response.

Yes, they care!!!

I'm NOT paying for a site I can't SEE!!!!! twenty days to go

I hope I haven't made too many typos, everything is blurry now

Can anyone tell me what the beta site is please .
Hazelx

Love it , and no ads down the side ..

I was advised by GR that, if the brightness of the background continues to be a problem for many people, then necessary changes would be made.

contacted GR
this sites colours are affecting my eyes.
I have eyesight problems, as do quite a few of us.

they said nfortuntely the colour cannot be changed, but they will read all comments.



:-P

HUH? What's happened? Last time I looked things were normal, now this...can't say I like the new tree either. Am rather confused by it all, will not renew next time, it is too unsettling...As Henry ford said ,"if it (they) ain't broke, don't fix it"...the earlier tree version was okay, so why change it? Will not even comment on the threads, they are too strange to waste words on. Thanks GR, great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mine are there!! :-D :-D :-D :-D

Margot

My daughter fixed my screen to my preference.
I have a coloured screen and a larger font
I need to use Firefox instead of Safari.... and the colour change?
Yes Detective, it does apply to all other sites that I visit using Firefox

Anne