** You may notice some changes here... **

Still not logging in correctly, having to re-login every time and drowning in notifications from "subscriptions" for threads I have no contact with or interest in, so have taken David's advice and cleared the lot!

It would help if we knew what the changes were supposed to do and how to work with them, just bunging in a load of new titles like "subscriptions" that do I don't know what! (Other then losing all the threads I was contributing to in a maze of "stuff" about comps' and bens' or questions about answers to level 5).

There seem to be a load of new options/directions but not a word of what they do (or are supposed to), and I totally disagree with the new up/down  "like/dislike" choice. If I don't agree with something someone has posed I can and should offer my own opinion or confront theirs with explanation of mine, not just simply "dislike" what they have said. That is how animosity and Trolling starts and on a professional site I do not find that at all acceptable.

I now feel completely out of place and uncomfortable even trying to pick my way onto the site, never mind contributing to it. If this is the direction we are going, then maybe it really is time I let go and left you all to it. I have always advocated change as a dynamic progress, not a series of step-changes to struggle over and I think this time the bewildering step is just to high for the old dinosaur's legs. I contribute here to offer back what I can to our profession, not to feel out of place and deluged with random comments and unsolicited material, or to spend hours trying to find, or offer, some comment or submission I have an interest in or might usefully contribute to.

Disappointing. Sorry.

P.

Hi Peter - there't a lot there fior us to digest, and I think the voting up/down sits uncomfortably with us, too and I think we will chnage it. To be fair, we're trialling this new functionality in this Group only. All the other groups remain the same.

I'm confused you've been deluged with notifications as we have turned these off completely for the time being. You should not have received a single email notification.

The increase in point size when composing posts will be pushed through to this live site in the next day or so.

I'll be posting about the login workaround... but we hope to have this fixed shortly, too.

FYI, I'm receiving widget notifications for this thread only.

The notifications thing has changed from being notified of those posts I have contributed to, or have other links into (like the Champions page) to seemingly getting notifications of every new post on site! I  have cancelled all the "subscriptions" and left my "notifications" as they have always been, selected on my "profile" page.

The "voting" issue worries me because whereas the "like" is a positive for any contributor or contribution, imagine the feelings of a first time posting student member getting a prompt and unexplained "dislike" from a Chartered F with several hundred posting listed! We want more members on site, not a "black ball" means of rejection!

Having our membership status linked is valuable, since it does give some quantitative authority to answers, rather than one having to "guess" whether the person responding (or asking) is speaking from years of experience or their first week of a level 3. We can all be wrong, whatever our grade, and I certainly don't feel my grade makes me "superior" in some way, but I think it is justifiable to suggest that our professional grades do have significance to our responses....Otherwise why do we have them at all?

...and to some degree so do our enumerated contribution to the site. I am all for personal equality, as I hope I have shown here frequently, but again, this is a professional site, not a social chat-room, and experience and qualification status is relevant (or should be)!

I hope that's of some value because at the moment this is he only thread I can access with any sort of reliability or confidence, and even this means a full log-in since I am getting no notifications for it, but still loads of random discussions from who knows where!

P

We'll certainly be adding in membership statsus. That should have been carried across, but wasn't.

Notifications on the site (i.e. at the top of this page) will be coming through, but we'll have sorted all the notifications on Monday, so that you won't be seeing 'everything'.

We'll certainly be adding in membership statsus. That should have been carried across, but wasn't.

Notifications on the site (i.e. at the top of this page) will be coming through, but we'll have sorted all the notifications on Monday, so that you won't be seeing 'everything'.