General Chat

omg i remember that all hell broke loose didnt it lol quite a fun afternoon though lol

eeeh - those were the days rofl!

i think the problem is that people dont like change. it doesnt bother me,my friends are still here and that is all that matters lol

Did nobody have friends that were suspended or who have moved to the other side then Linda

of course we did linda,but life goes on. susie x

Are you not on the other side then Susie Linda

linda i prefer genes linda.

I dont think it really matters who's on what site really we all had friends that moved over but they still come back on here from time to time Paul

Of course we did Paul and I myself am a member of both sites, but the way it was put sounded, was as if it didnt matter about them anymore Hope I have put this right and you understand what I am saying Linda

I have a button on my tree that says 'Back to old tree' have they done it or was it always there? Tina

tina it was always there lol. linda i didnt mean it to sound as if i didnt care.i still speak to my friends via mail . but the majority of my mates are still here. susie

Ok Susie Sorry if I got it wrong I didnt mean to hurt your feelings at all would you like me to delete. Linda

linda lol dont be daft lol. im not offended at all. lifes too short isnt it,? love susie x

Thank you Susie I didnt mean anything by it and I wouldnt hurt anyone, Yes life is to short to have petty fall outs. Take Care Linda

and you linda xxxx

Looks like number of postings has gone up to 180 and they;ll probably be more if they realised the thread was here. Bear in mind some members who might be away/ill/on holiday but would otherwise put their names down.

If you have only one person in your tree, the new system probably works fine. Unfortunately the new system is a time consuming nightmare when managing a large tree. The longer folk have been active members, the bigger their trees are likely to have become and the more likely that their contacts number a couple of hundred. Therefore these are the very people most affected by the changes. It is nothing to do with unwillingness to cope with change.

Another difference of opinion here Tracey ..LOL ....I don't entirely agree with you. I have 500 odd in my tree and I happen to like the new tree. I'll like it a whole lot more once it's fully functional, but heck Rome wasn't built in a day and I think that Genes are doing their best to try to accommodate everyones needs, rather than desires. I too remember the site changing from Genes Connected to Genes Reunited.... The colour scheme changing, and the old tree when it was the new tree.... and the hue and cry that ensude each and every change! The world keeps turning and change is a natural process of evolution. Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes everyones favourite websites. Adapt and evolve with it, or be a dinosaur and fade away. I wish more people here could see the glass half full rather than a glass half empty. XXX Sioux

tracey i disagree hun i have a few thousand in my tree and i love the new design susie

I'm all for change if it isn't a backwards step or if it isn't rushed through half-complete and would like the new tree better if it didn't take at least 5 minutes to load each time and hadn't scrambled some of my data! I know I'm not the only one having problems as one of my contact's trees in particular has been playing up something rotten since the changes. It had been working perfectly before but now sections of it are floating unattached to the main tree - very odd. Maybe it will sort itself out when all the bugs have been fixed. Fingers crossed! Hopefully GR will rationalise the print tree function too. It used to be possible to select and print sections of trees without colour-fill. But for now, as printing the new tree consumes so much ink, it is back to the good old days of pen and paper!