Yes, that is a problem. It needs to be reported to both the HelpDesk and the new "Send Feedback" feature, which on some boards takes you to a form to fill out, but on others it opens up a new message in your default e-mail..... Anyway here's the address: boardfeedback@rootsweb.com Please, EVERYONE use the above address to let them know what you think. Jackie At 09:59 AM 12/7/2006, you wrote: >HELP! My list of boards I admin is completely random. It was always >Localities, >then Surnames, then Topics with each section in alphabetical order. Now I have >to look through all 516 to find the board I want. PLEASE tell me this will be >fixed, and SOON. > >Regards, >Sharyn -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.14/578 - Release Date: 12/7/2006

In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:44:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Tribehunter@aol.com writes: <<Username to access my PAID portion of ancestry, is showing up on the boards, which I'm NOT happy about AT ALL!!! How to I change that????>> --- Keep in mind that no one can access your paid Ancestry subscription without your password and that is never made public. If there is some reason you don't want your current username made public you can change it following the instructions on the page. << I'm also not seeing any surname window on any of the messages, and when I tried to edit and enter surnames and click "submit" it didn't work.>> --- How are you entering them? What is happening when you try? Surnames will only be included with a message if the poster included surnames in his post. << And how do I go about getting the messages to show in Date Expanded mode. I think it's the only way to manage/edit messages.....especially when posters are replying to posts that are a few months or years old.>> --- There is NO date expanded display mode on the boards now -- you can expand a thread by clicking the FLAT view link. What has changed is that with the previous boards a new post to an old thread kept the thread in its original location on the board instead of moving it up to the top of the board again. The new boards have the feature that an old thread with a new post added to it moves the thread (not just the reply) up to the top of the board -- so you can find the new posts that way. <<To make matters worse......I'm on AOL and they are delaying ALL my rootsweb email 6 to 8 hours so I'm not getting replies to the problems/questions that are raised.>> I'm not sure that it is AOL--it seems that lists9 which has had some "issues" of late is delaying sending out the posts. This time the culprit may not be AOL. <g> Joan

In a message dated 12/7/2006 1:14:44 P.M. Central Standard I wondered why I got a subscriber emailing me today complaining about the > format, I didn't realize the change over had occurred. I suppose there is > no > more sorting posts on a board by newest date first, is there? > > Bob > (I knew I picked the wrong week to quit smoking) Hmmmmm... Bob quit smoking and I have had surgery. These new changes sure don't mix well with pain medicine....<g> so I am going to have to work slowly through these. But... here are a couple of concerns.... 1. Not being able to change from thread to date order. It was so handy to go to date order with the newest being first and check/edit recent postings. 2. No ability to go to next message (or have I missed something there). Again, with the messages in date order I could open the first one - check it - edit if necessary - and then click and go to the next one. Much more efficient then this new set up where I have to click back several times to get back to the original list of messages. 3. No change in color when a message has been read. 4. Unable to see posters history. I used this a lot as a user rather than an admin. I could check and see if they were posting in the same areas of the country where my interest was. 5. Clicking on the poster's name now takes you to that profile form. All the ones I have checked so far are blank and I wonder if they won't stay that way. Sorry folks but I really don't think my "age group", "education", "employment status", "occupation", or "religion" are necessary for me to participate in a genealogy community and quite frankly aren't anyone else's business. Ok..... Emma..... heading for more medicine and maybe even a smoke.

Laurie, If you review the thread in "flat view" you can see the Classification and Surnames fields on all of them. Marilyn G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Lovelace" <lauryle@manitoulin.net> Subject: [BAd] Re Message Board changes >I need to concur here. I don't like the admin version of the new boards. > Two of the things I particularly dislike: > > 1. I cannot see which messages I have already visited. Guess this means I > will have to keep a calendar showing the dates I have already visited and > hope nothing new comes in on that particular day after I've been in. > > 2. Clicking on a message brings up all the messages in that thread but > only the first one shows the surname field, therefore I have to go into > the following ones individually. Once in I can see the surname fields > have been edited. > My boards all have surnames in lower case, however on the admin board > some show up with the first letter of the surnames in upper case. > Thinking that I somehow missed a message I go into edit and find that it > is actually in lower case. Why is that? > > Laurie >

After MANY attempts last night to login to my one and only board I was so frustrated that, yes, I was ready to give this all up. Then, just because I wanted to look at the new boards I logged in through my public link (that I had saved when I could no longer get search results through the admin board). Accidentally, at the bottom of the page, I saw a link to ADMIN CENTER. Hoping to find the solution to my problem I clicked on that link. Surprisingly, it took me to my admin board - with no login. Try it and see if it works for you, Kathie. This appears to me to be one more major step backwards with our boards. I've posted over 3000 complete obits to the Phillips County, CO board and I'm now in the process of creating new files for each obit and linking to them from the cemeteries on the Phillips County Museum site. Looks to me like they are going to "improve" the boards out of usefulness! Vicki Conklin viconk@chase3000.com Phillips County, CO, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cophilli/ Phillips County, Colorado Museum http://www.rootsweb.com/~copchs/

On the top of ancesty's pages there is a link that says 'my public profile' I believe that you can make your changes there. On 12/7/06, Tribehunter@aol.com <Tribehunter@aol.com> wrote: > > Marilyn, > > I'm in agreement with you and I'm disgusted with this change--especially > after we received the notice that the board updates were put off indefinitely! > I breathed a big sigh of relief when that > notice came out---especially after all the headaches with the list migration. > > Now to throw this at us out of the blue AND to do it 3 weeks before > Christmas is VERY thoughtless. All of a sudden I have to sit here tweaking around > trying to learn how to admin. this "new and improved" look when I have other > things to do to prepare for the holidays???? This "part time volunteer" > job is turning into a full time job! Don't know why this couldn't have been > put off until January when we're all snowed in with nothing to do. > > It took me almost an hour to try to find the login page to even get to my > boards, until Joan Y finally > provided the URL for the old Admin. Page, and now I see that my Username to > access my PAID portion of ancestry, is showing up on the boards, which I'm > NOT happy about AT ALL!!! How to I change that???? > > I'm also not seeing any surname window on any of the messages, and when I > tried to edit and enter surnames and click "submit" it didn't work. And how > do I go about getting the messages to show in > Date Expanded mode. I think it's the only way to manage/edit > messages.....especially when posters are replying to posts that are a few months or years > old. > > To make matters worse......I'm on AOL and they are delaying ALL my rootsweb > email 6 to 8 hours so > I'm not getting replies to the problems/questions that are raised. > > BAH HUMBUG! :-( > Another Marilyn > > ---------------original message------------------ > In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:33:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > marilynandmonty@cox.net writes: > > Then it isn't just me :-( > First of all, I cannot get into manage my boards. No recognition of the only > user name and password I've ever used for Ancestry & then Rootsweb boards. > So I went in like I was just browsing and saw the boards and have to say I > am very very upset if that is the way it is going to be. There is a way you > can see the messages in "flat" style, I think it is called, but it doesn't > look like we can change them from date order to threaded. Maybe I just don't > know about it yet and will get the message that's supposed to be coming > explaining how to admin the boards. > > I always reviewed in Date order and would "back into" each message of the > thread, put them into threaded order and edit an entire thread at once. From > the looks of what I saw today, that isn't going to happen. > > I hope I am wrong and the initial reaction will turn out not to be how I > think it is. Otherwise, it is time to move onto other pursuits and leave the > board admin duties to someone else. > > I never did get the notice on the BAd list about this - I saw it on the > Listowners' list. > Marilyn G. > > > > -------------------- > > I > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Happy Holidays Please visit my greetings page http://www.jasche.com/XMas.html

In a message dated 12/7/2006 1:14:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, cageycat@gmail.com writes: I wondered why I got a subscriber emailing me today complaining about the > format, I didn't realize the change over had occurred. I suppose there is > no > more sorting posts on a board by newest date first, is there? > > Bob > (I knew I picked the wrong week to quit smoking) Hmmmmm... Bob quit smoking and I have had surgery. These new changes sure don't mix well with pain medicine....<g> so I am going to have to work slowly through these. But... here are a couple of concerns.... 1. Not being able to change from thread to chron. order. It was so handy to go to chron. order with the newest being first and check/edit recent postings. 2. No ability to go to next message (or have I missed something there). Again, with the messages in chron. order I could open the first one - check it - edit if necessary - and then click and go to the next one. Much more efficient then this new set up where I have to click back several times to get back to the original list of messages. 3. No change in color when a message has been read. 4. Unable to see posters history. I used this a lot as a user rather than an admin. I could check and see if they were posting in the same areas of the country where my interest was. 5. Clicking on the poster's name now takes you to that profile form. All the ones I have checked so far are blank and I wonder if they won't stay that way. Sorry folks but I really don't think my "age group", "education", "employment status", "occupation", or "religion" are necessary for me to participate in a genealogy community and quite frankly aren't anyone else's business. Ok..... Emma..... heading for more medicine and maybe even a smoke.

In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:38:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, cageycat@gmail.com writes: Where are we to post BOARD PROBLEMS? Problem 1: No change of color on "read" posts versus "unread" posts. Problem 2: In a thread of 5, I attempt to edit post #3 but I GET TAKEN TO Post #1 No matter what I do I can't edit Post 2, 3, 4, 5 This is in flat view Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr making it hard to do our jobs, Ancestry. Judy You can post comments on the newsroom blog: http://blogs.rootsweb.com/newsroom/ Joan

I'd reply on BAD but apparently my posts do not get through, gee, wonder why, LOL. I too tried to do what you said, edit posts in a thread, and get taken right to the first post. Bob

In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:35:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, cparker@telepath.com writes: It would easier to find the login if it were under the Page Tools instead of at the very top in a busy RW advert. Cathie- The LOGIN and LOGOUT links are where they have always been--that hasn't changed. Joan

In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:28:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, cageycat@gmail.com writes: Uh. From sleep reading to blindness.... WHERE is the Admin link into the Boards? I'm logged in. I only have ONE loggin. I just don't SEE the Admin LINK. Can someone point me in the right direction? Where is the list of Boards I Admin? Finally, I kinda hope they get lots of complaints cos this "new look" isn't so great, IMO. Emphasize MY opinion. Judy Judy- Go here: http://boards.rootsweb.com/Default.aspx?view=admin ...The annoying thing is that only THREE boards (seemingly random) show up and you have to click EXPAND to see them all and it revert to the same three with every link you click. I've made a suggestion that the link hold once you click expand--I hope they change that. Joan

Oh, my goodness, after complaining there was no way to see what I had not read, I read your message about the orange dot! That is better than nothing - thanks! Oh, unfortunately, those dots are only visible once you open the first message of a thread. You can't see at a glance like you used to be able to do with the colors of the Unread messages :-( Sigh~ I'm sorry, Jennifer I don't have any answers for you. I didn't understand your first question about the author name - are you saying information on the author you can see on the message itself is not what was listed for that same message on My Notifications? I just found another disturbing thing. Whenever I was about to move a message, I would always right-click on the author of a message to see if she/he had already posted the same message to the board to which I was planning to move the message. If so, then I would see if that message could go to another list - a second surname mentioned, locality, etc. Checking the author's name no longer brings up all the posts made by that person. Will that be a feature that is returning? Marilyn G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Jackson" <jacksbox4you@gmail.com> Subject: [BAd] Questions - Please Help > Good Morning, > > I am sure that we are all working at trying to figure out the new message > boards.....I started last night and finally figured out how to log on with > the assistance of others. Thank you. I am writing to ask a question. > > On one of my boards, when you look at the main view of the board, the > author > that is listed for a particular post is not showing up properly....What I > mean is that the way that the post is listed is not the same as the way > the > notification reads in regards to the author. It is a bit confusing trying > to find the post. > > Is there a way to alphabetize your message admin lists? My list is all > jumbled up now and I am having to search for each board....ie the surname > boards are mixed in with the locality boards etc. > > When I clicked on the notification....it took me to Rootsweb to view the > post and not Ancestry. That in and of itself is not a problem, but I > can't > find the log in on Rootsweb. I think that I am getting old and blind. :) > > The last question, is there some way to know which posts have been read > without going into the specific post? The only way that I can see that a > post has been read is when I actually click on the post and view the > entries....then the orange dot appears to indicate that a particular post > has not been read. I was hoping that we would have more admin tools that > would make things easier, but thus far it is a struggle. Hopefully they > will be able to fine tune things as we go along. > > Thank you for your time reading this and for any help you can provide. > > Jennifer

Yep, you have to switch back to "Thread view" to be able to click on any reply - even if you manipulate the URL you won't get taken to the message you want, only the FLAT view of the thread. In the words of my first programming instructor: GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) Jackie At 05:17 AM 12/7/2006, you wrote: >Where are we to post BOARD PROBLEMS? > >Problem 1: No change of color on "read" posts versus "unread" posts. > >Problem 2: In a thread of 5, I attempt to edit post #3 but I GET TAKEN TO >Post #1 No matter what I do I can't edit Post 2, 3, 4, 5 This is in >flat view > >Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr making it hard to do our jobs, Ancestry. > >Judy > >-- >~PRIMARY NAMES: ANTHONY, BAKER, FLOWERS, LANE, SEPTER~ >Washington Co PA free Websites: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian >http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian >County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ >Send mail to washington.co.pa.webmaster"AT"gmail.com >Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: >http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa >Steve Irwin Warriors please sign map at: >http://www.frappr.com/steveirwinwarriors > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.14/578 - Release Date: 12/7/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.14/578 - Release Date: 12/7/2006

At the bottom of the page now. On 12/7/06, Judy Florian <cageycat@gmail.com> wrote: > > WHERE is the Admin link into the > Boards? > > I'm logged in. I only have ONE loggin. I just don't SEE the Admin LINK. > Can someone point me in the right direction?

Where were you seeing colors on posts showing they were read or not read? They were all the same to me on all my boards when I went through them On 12/7/06, Judy Florian <cageycat@gmail.com> wrote: > > Where are we to post BOARD PROBLEMS? > > Problem 1: No change of color on "read" posts versus "unread" posts. > > Problem 2: In a thread of 5, I attempt to edit post #3 but I GET TAKEN TO > Post #1 No matter what I do I can't edit Post 2, 3, 4, 5 This is in > flat view > > Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr making it hard to do our jobs, Ancestry. > > Judy > > -- > ~PRIMARY NAMES: ANTHONY, BAKER, FLOWERS, LANE, SEPTER~ > Washington Co PA free Websites: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian > http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian > County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ > Send mail to washington.co.pa.webmaster"AT"gmail.com > Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: > http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa > Steve Irwin Warriors please sign map at: > http://www.frappr.com/steveirwinwarriors > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Marilyn, Bah Humbug is right! I don't think it's just AOL, Marilyn. I wrote the message below yesterday evening at 9 p.m. - it was received here at 4 a.m this morning :-( Since I wrote this message, I was able to get in to admin mode (although it took quite some time and when I didn't see a link at the bottom of the page, I found my way to my boards by clicking on the "Back" link on the upper left corner). While there I didn't really do anything except try to find where I stopped reviewing (which I couldn't), what it looked like in "flat view" (which I stumbled on by mistake) and then shake my head at all the changes that don't seem to be advantageous. Just a few minute ago, I was able to access the boards from the old Login page. The advantages seem few, in my opinion. After each board name that we admin it has the number of objections in parentheses (so far mine all say zero). That is the way it was when I first became an admin, about 4 or 5 years ago. We no longer have to open a board just to see at a glance if we have any objections. I like that, along with all of my information (MyAccounts) on one page. I wonder if I change my Login to some of the MyFamily pages if that will all show up as well on MyAccounts page. I will swear that once last night when I did click on my login that it took me to the MyFamily sites I belong to, though I can't get that to happen again today. Perhaps as we use the new boards, more advantages will become evident?? I know we can get used to the "look" but one of my biggest concerns is that I can no longer see which messages I have looked at/cleaned. And that is as bad as not being able to view them in expanded mode without opening each and every one. In expanded mode I could tell if there were duplicates, if surnames were included, if it was commercial, spam, etc. - to see any obvious problems that needed immediate attention. I can't even see the complete subject line the way it is set up! And if I were a user, I know I would like it even less!! As a user I like to browse the surname boards, not search them. Now I would have to open every message to see the complete title. Bah. I do know one thing. If I can't tell by the color which messages I have reviewed for clean-up and/or we are not given a tool to mark them (I can "guess" about where I stopped cleaning on my nearly 18,000-message board), and if there is no way to view them in Expanded Mode so I can see at a glance which ones have been completed and - the big IF - I continue my volunteer administration, I will spend no extra time cleaning up the boards that still need it. I will continue keeping up with the news ones, but I still have a number of boards that I need to go from about a year ago back to their inception and clean up. I can't even get the list of boards to be in alphabetical order!! I was trying to find the TAYLOR board and it took awhile. I would hate to see what that list looked like if I still had 143 boards instead of the current 43 (soon to be 3, I think!!) Oh, and another other thing! - did you notice it no longer shows Rootsweb at the top of the screens - even though my original Login was on the Rootsweb side and that is how I can still get in (thought I have made a new Favorites so I'm taken right to the boards without clicking on my User ID), I am looking at an Ancestry screen and not Rootsweb. It has redirected me. Soon there will be no vestiges of Rootsweb left. How sad. So sorry I wrote a book. I could write more, but I won't! Marilyn G. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tribehunter@aol.com> Subject: Re: [BAd] So-called improvements > > Marilyn, > > I'm in agreement with you and I'm disgusted with this change--especially > after we received the notice that the board updates were put off > indefinitely! > I breathed a big sigh of relief when that > notice came out---especially after all the headaches with the list > migration. > > Now to throw this at us out of the blue AND to do it 3 weeks before > Christmas is VERY thoughtless. All of a sudden I have to sit here > tweaking around > trying to learn how to admin. this "new and improved" look when I have > other > things to do to prepare for the holidays???? This "part time volunteer" > job is turning into a full time job! Don't know why this couldn't have > been > put off until January when we're all snowed in with nothing to do. > > It took me almost an hour to try to find the login page to even get to my > boards, until Joan Y finally > provided the URL for the old Admin. Page, and now I see that my Username > to > access my PAID portion of ancestry, is showing up on the boards, which > I'm > NOT happy about AT ALL!!! How to I change that???? > > I'm also not seeing any surname window on any of the messages, and when > I > tried to edit and enter surnames and click "submit" it didn't work. And > how > do I go about getting the messages to show in > Date Expanded mode. I think it's the only way to manage/edit > messages.....especially when posters are replying to posts that are a few > months or years > old. > > To make matters worse......I'm on AOL and they are delaying ALL my > rootsweb > email 6 to 8 hours so > I'm not getting replies to the problems/questions that are raised. > > BAH HUMBUG! :-( > Another Marilyn > > ---------------original message------------------ > In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:33:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > marilynandmonty@cox.net writes: > > Then it isn't just me :-( > First of all, I cannot get into manage my boards. No recognition of the > only > user name <snip> > I always reviewed in Date order and would "back into" each message of the > thread, put them into threaded order and edit an entire thread at once. > From > the looks of what I saw today, that isn't going to happen. > > I hope I am wrong and the initial reaction will turn out not to be how I > think it is. Otherwise, it is time to move onto other pursuits and leave > the > board admin duties to someone else. > > > Marilyn G. >

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Hi, I'm dissapointed with these new arrangements.... First I am a Ancestry.com subscriber, when at ancestry.com (If signed in to my ancestry account) I used to be able to click on Ancestry Community and get the message boards listings then there were the words Boards Admin.. I could click on that and get to the list of my boards to administer to them... Now I have to go throught some kind of hoops... and rings like a clown... Why did accessing the admin pages change... Dumb... Dumb... Dumb! the harder you make accessing the admin section the fewer admins will want to volunteer to do the work! Nelda Nelda's websites - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ yDNA tests for Hurst, Beatty, Gilpin, Graves; all direct male relatives ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Judy Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> Reply-To: boards-admins@rootsweb.com To: boards-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAd] How do you SEE the Class, Surnames etc WITHOUT going to Edit? Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:35:45 -0500 Problem 3: How do I see classification, surnames on a post in Admin, Flat View, without going to EDIT FIRST? So far, I see only the classification on posts so I think, "hm, no surnames, gotta fix it." But I click edit and it does have the surnames ALREADY. Think I'm going to go away & not try to do boards for a week until this mess gets straightened out. Judy -- ~PRIMARY NAMES: ANTHONY, BAKER, FLOWERS, LANE, SEPTER~ Washington Co PA free Websites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ Send mail to washington.co.pa.webmaster"AT"gmail.com Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa Steve Irwin Warriors please sign map at: http://www.frappr.com/steveirwinwarriors ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000002msn/direct/01/?href=http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5005.2.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The only thing I'm seeing at the bottom of every page is this: Return to Message Boards | Request New Board | Community Guidelines | Board Help | Board FAQ | Send Feedback and this is when I'm logged in as Admin. Does it only show up if one is NOT logged in as Admin, but using a generic login?

In a message dated 12/7/2006 3:13:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, pco94979@bigpond.net.au writes: First (main) problem - the 'signin' page hasn't remembered me - I haven't changed any setting, so if the new logon page uses Cookies like the old, then that can't be the problem, can it ? Second (lesser) problem - I still have to find and click on my Admin bookmark for the Board, as signing on only gets me into the general RootsWeb Contents page. Am I doing something wrong ? Is there an easier way? Peter- Have you tried going to this link? http://boards.rootsweb.com/Default.aspx?view=admin That will take you directly to the admin center. Joan