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. >