Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

What a wonderful story, Betrayal. My Mom and I made my wedding dress, going away outfit and two bridesmaids dresses. The other two made their own although I don't remember if I paid for the material or not. Suspect I did and sent it and patterns to them. My sister wore the bridal gown with a different veil. When it became clear that neither of our daughters would wear the dress, we let my niece wear it for her lead in "The Pirates of Pinzanne." Ken and I traveled from Maine to Boston to see her in it. Janet has it saved but I don't see any of the next generation wanting it either. My great nieces are much taller than either of us and I have no grandchildren. One of my cousins has my grandmother's lace handkerchief. I can't even guess how many have carried that as "something old." I should remind my sister to track it down as her 6 granddaughters are probably the next brides.

Warmer weather this week. I'll be glad to get back to the golf course.

Somehow I missed the announcement that BCO was adopting a new format launching today. what a surprise and I do think it will require some adapting to finding things since the headings are prominent but the forums are shadowed. Moderators if you read postings please note that this is a negative as is the print size of the postings.

Mary, I read Taco's posting earlier but did not reply so I do not know why it showed as unread. I am finding that on fast moving forums, it is a challenge to go back a page or two. Either slow or access denied for no valid reason. Hope they work out the kinks soon.

I've noticed it's slow as molasses. Sometimes I can find my favorites and sometimes it's impossible. Puffin, your photo shows so I hope the rest of them come back. Needing to read the names is much slower than looking for the photo.

I'm so mad at DH I'm not sure I want to share the bed with him. The couch is not very comfortable, however. His neurologist thinks he may have Parkinson's and is prescribing a medication that needs to be taken 3 x day. He has cognitive impairment and can't do this on his own but doesn't want my help and doesn't want to use a mediset (he's the only person on the planet in his 80's who isn't using a mediset). I'm trying to be patient with him, but it's getting very hard. He has been watching TV programs on his phone and we're $100 over our limit with 9 days to go. They have a site to go to change it to unlimited but I get an error message. I'm going to get someone on the phone at Verizon in the morning. In the meantime I'm not sure I can be nice tonight.

My computer or this website has gone crazy. It took me forever to get here. What happened?

OMG the switch is NOT phone user friendly. I watched the video on the new system. Then everywhere I tried said error on the page. I gave up entirely. Today I only found this through a roundabout way. I haven't found my favorites at all. On a cellphone the screens don't look like the video.

Any way…. I'm not sure I've told you ladies how I received a “wrong number" text message. Started out “Lisa I'll meet you in the usual place." I replied wrong number. Person was chatty, sent a picture - young Asian woman w gf out drinking; have a great night & gave her name. I sent picture w 3 gf, told her to have a good time w gf. Long story short - she/he text daily - a good afternoon, have a great day, good night. It went on for about 4 days. One picture she sent showed her out to dinner w her daughter, saying taking the kids out to dinner and going over cryptocurrency nodes. I know NOTHING about that so I just said enjoy dinner. In the short time we text - hobbies, upstate NY, SWFL - I gave out info I shouldn't have but no details. At one point she asked me “how do you afford your expenses?" RED FLAGS so I replied “It's not for you to worry." I never replied again, and blocked the number 2 days later.

Fast forward to 2 days ago on our local new channel. A woman had a similar text, “hi, is this Jan from the pet store?" She replied wrong number. Her scanner was saying he was a man. Her texting went on over weeks, she told him she had cancer and more personal information. Weeks of daily texting she believed she had a friendly relationship with him. He/scammer showed her how much money he was making on cryptocurrency and encouraged her to look into it - he sent her a link.She clicked the link, believed it to be real and started investing. The police and fbi aren't sure if it was a total spoofed site or some other technology used - but the story says she lost millions. I think my “wrong number" was leading me to the same kind of thing and I'm glad I was suspicious sooner than later. Cautionary tale. I know better but still engaged. If any of you get something similar do not engage, and if it goes longer than the one text of “sorry for bothering you" BLOCK that number.

Back to normal- 73 and sunny. I should stop keying and get out on my bike.

I'll try to find this group again but there are no promises I'll be able to! I might have to bite the bullet and use my kindle or my laptop. Have a good one

Mary: I am seeing this message above your mcbaker, Wisconsin, etc. posting. It reads "Img (which is underlined), underlined 20191120 on the second line and underlined 185149 on the third line. I have also seen this for another poster on another forum as well. Don't know what it means nor why it is posted. You may want to report it since they don't respond to me. It may have to do with your avatar?

I have already sent the moderators 2 complaints about not being able to page back to read previous postings or receiving an "access denied" to other forums I have accessed and posted on for years. While I realize they may think this is an improvement I am finding it difficult to get online due to slow processing, difficulty in finding forums under the bold headings due to small print and even the print in postings is small. Haven't heard from moderators and doubt that I will since they seem more likely to appear from the ether when they don't like your posting than to respond to legitimate problems identified.

I am using my desktop computer with Chrome browser as my Kindle with Silk browser no longer works with the website. Page numbers for the thread appear at the bottom of the current page and I can navigate the pages by using those numbers or by using the ones at the top of the comments on the page.

Cindy, good luck using your Kindle!

Unless I can get back to using my Kindle, I am no longer a fan here!

I got my avatar back, but it is awfully distorted. I am going to get a more recent picture. More wrinkles.

So blurry no wrinkles show.

Much better, but still no wrinkles.

I've already sent them my complaints. I think we all should.

EVERYTHING about the new site is HORRIBLE: tiny fonts (even the icons atop the Message box), gray typeface, distorted tiny round or even missing avatars, and all that blinding and glaring white space. "Soft launch" is a dumb idea: if you want to beta-test software you have to affirmatively download it rather than have it shoved in your face. We should have been given a heads-up and a beta URL if we wanted to try it out. It loads insanely slowly too.

Did they decide to hire a millennial or Gen-Z web designer? Do they not know that many if not most of us who use this site (not just these threads) have "older eyes?" Y'know, when I had my first website (designed by a PC magazine tech writer) the major criticism was too much white space and undifferentiated pages. That was in 2000.

This site is painful to use--and I'm on a laptop with a trackpad that can zoom in to enlarge the font. Tried it on my iPad, which was no fun. I can't imagine what a goat-rodeo it is on a cellphone.

Mary: Your new picture is lovely and you no longer have the upload info where your face used to be.

Sandy: Concur with your complaints about this "update".

It is very slow loading. I am on a PC and have it zoomed to 150%- that way it fills the page.

I've sent a couple messages to the moderators and they've promptly responded. Except this time it took me half an hour to find my email to see what they'd said!

I was unable to sign in from my phone for the last 2-3 days. Today it still didn’t look like the normal sign in but somehow I got in. Here’s a quick picture of my favorite hibiscus

This new site has been a disaster for me. Today is the first day I have managed to log in. The font is too small to read with comfort.

Something bad has happened that really preys on my mind. Last Thursday I went to a hair appointment, wearing earrings. I took them off and placed them on the counter of the work station. When I left, I forgot to pick up the earrings and didn't think about them until yesterday. They were missing. I texted my hair stylist, who has her shop at her house. She replied that she had not found the earrings. I am certain she did find them. One odd thing is that she said jokingly when I took off the earrings that she might keep them because they were so pretty. They were drop "diamonds" that I had made at a jewelry store with white gold. She probably thought they were real diamonds.

Today is my birthday. I'm 79 so this is my last year in the 70's. DH and my younger sister and I are going out to lunch at a favorite seafood place.

Glad I was finally able to get back on our Oldies forum. Hope this post works.