Feedback on New Format

SarahMaude thank you for your eloquence. I, too, am sorry for the loss of experienced support when you need it. This was also a significant concern for me. I hope you will continue to check in as the site gets corrected.

Dear Members,

This is what we posted on the Glitches thread a few hours ago and we too are currently unable to access that topic.

We know many people are still experiencing login issues around access, slow load times, readability and profile glitches. Without a doubt this is frustrating. We are truly sorry for the stress this is causing you.Please know we have heard you and are working hard to get everything up and running the way it should. We will continue to update you regularly with the latest information.You can always contact webmaster@breastcancer.org or Private Message our moderators if you experience new issues that you haven't seen already reported. Many thanks for your ongoing help.

The Mods

If anyone has the energy and can admin a proboard forum it might be an althernative for now (or forever). I am not up to the task cognitively but have been a member on a couple of proboards and they were great. Many threads can be created or just a couple to hold you over.

https://www.proboards.com/

👎 Very very very slow , to sterile ( I have had enough sterile) white. Not use friendly. If I had not been using this site for the last 5 years, I am not sure if I would use this site. Love the old format!

I really prefer not having the white background and since glaucoma The darker background was easier on the eyes and I imagine even those without vision issues may feel similar as well. A tint to the background would help.

I spent 35 years in IT design, development and deployment. You will likely lose a lot of members .With todays technology there is no reason for this site to be so slow . The application is so slow it actually will time out . I suspect whoever designed and deployed the new application did not perform ANY performance or load testing. I fail to see how the application passed any system testing requirements. I realize my feedback is negative , however it really is sub par application.

We know.

In addition to the excellent post by Miriandra showing the extremely poor layout of the forum, it would be helpful if the Announcements were all removed from All Topics and placed in a section specifically for announcements. (Including all the Zoom meeting notices.) A new member trying to get to the discussion forum will undoubtedly be put off by having to scroll for pages to actually get to the topic listing. (I'm not a new member and it annoys the hell out of me.) Also, the topic listing is spread out in a ridiculous manner. It would be much more intuitive and user-friendly to have the topics listed in the old standard forum layout.

Still waiting on a decent readable font and background color. Thanks.

I,m really struggling to figure this out. That’s one reason I haven’t been on here. Can’t find search. I wanted to search forum for ogliometastic or MBC only in one place, the liver. Thanks. Be

Not happy about the new layout. There is a chronic "overlaying" of the image "name" on top of the image that members are using for their avatars and this happens in random places; I don't like the TNR font since Calibri or another sans serif font has been shown in design to be easier to read on screen; the white and black background is pretty awful, and it takes forever to load discussion threads and find them. New website not an improvement for this user. I have a brand new Macbook pro, so it isn't any old technology on my end.

I agree with claireinaz! I don't like the new format either. As stated by others, too much white. Also, active topic seems endless. Of course, my biggest disappointment is that so many of the people I knew are infrequent posters or have left the boards altogether. In particular, I miss beesie!

I posted a couple of things on here, of course no responses to my posts. Was it the normal weekend "drop off" of activity, or drop off of participants altogether?

I don't know if I want to reach out here anymore. The set up doesn't feel familiar and so many seem to be MIA. (BTW, when I saw claireinaz's post, it did make me smile as I always found her posts to be worth reading!)