Anne, if the archives are very important to this product's staying around, then they need to be more flexible like they were before. The date-only option that now exists is a big turn-off to researchers (including the potential new folks that you seek to enlist). They need to see the threads. And they need to be able to click on a poster's name to find more posts that might help them. Perhaps you have misunderstood Lin and me. We are describing how the archives used to appear to everyone -- not just admins. In other words, we want the archives to be user friendly...as you say you do, too. I am happy to send you a screen shot of how things used to look if it will help. Mary At 07:12 PM 4/17/2018, you wrote: >We disabled the download after listening to the people on this list. >People can access the information on the site. > >The archives are very important to this product staying around -- they >bring people in via google search. Ad revenue and maybe will get people >interested in the list and be subscribing to the lists. > >Don't look at them from an admin point of view but a user point of view. > >Anne > > >At 07:15 PM 4/17/2018, Mary Richardson wrote: >>I vaguely remember a name sort. We definitely had a thread >>sort. Now we only have a date sort. Which is pretty much >>useless. The point of archives is to provide access as much as >>possible to further one's research, but now we have no way to >>easily connect the dots :-(. >> >>Mary >> >>P.S. I assume that we can no longer download the archives because >>they were in mbx format which few if any of us could use. >> >> >>At 05:52 PM 4/17/2018, Lin Duke wrote: >>>I cannot see a way of sorting archives by thread/date/name as under the >>>old system. >>> >>>Neither can they by downloaded (I could a week a so ago). >>> >>>At the moment they are neither use nor ornament.
I know what the old archives looked like, but making things work the way they used is just not an option. It would require many weeks of development time and my engineers have a lot of other projects they are working on at the moment. I realize that you all are hearing no from me a lot but that is where we are. As much as you don't like some of the features of this version of the product, I do believe it is better than the alternative which is no system at all. Anne On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Mary Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > Anne, if the archives are very important to this product's staying around, > then they need to be more flexible like they were before. The date-only > option that now exists is a big turn-off to researchers (including the > potential new folks that you seek to enlist). They need to see the > threads. And they need to be able to click on a poster's name to find more > posts that might help them. Perhaps you have misunderstood Lin and me. > We are describing how the archives used to appear to everyone -- not just > admins. In other words, we want the archives to be user friendly...as you > say you do, too. I am happy to send you a screen shot of how things used > to look if it will help. > > Mary > > > At 07:12 PM 4/17/2018, you wrote: > >> We disabled the download after listening to the people on this list. >> People can access the information on the site. >> >> The archives are very important to this product staying around -- they >> bring people in via google search. Ad revenue and maybe will get people >> interested in the list and be subscribing to the lists. >> >> Don't look at them from an admin point of view but a user point of view. >> >> Anne >> >> >> At 07:15 PM 4/17/2018, Mary Richardson wrote: >> >>> I vaguely remember a name sort. We definitely had a thread sort. Now >>> we only have a date sort. Which is pretty much useless. The point of >>> archives is to provide access as much as possible to further one's >>> research, but now we have no way to easily connect the dots :-(. >>> >>> Mary >>> >>> P.S. I assume that we can no longer download the archives because they >>> were in mbx format which few if any of us could use. >>> >>> >>> At 05:52 PM 4/17/2018, Lin Duke wrote: >>> >>>> I cannot see a way of sorting archives by thread/date/name as under the >>>> old system. >>>> >>>> Neither can they by downloaded (I could a week a so ago). >>>> >>>> At the moment they are neither use nor ornament. >>>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb > Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: > https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe > > View the archives for this list at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestr > y.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/ > > Your privacy is important to us. View our Privacy Statement at > https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement for more information. > Use of RootsWeb is subject to our Terms and Conditions > https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions > > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community > -- Anne Mitchell http://clustergenealogy.com <http://finding-forgotten-stories.com>