New website

I am finding the site quite slow.   I do hope we don't start getting ad pop-ups next. 

We were promised a brand new website but it seems all we have is pretty much the same but with different colours which make it harder to read, most of the bad parts kept and some of the more useful functions not working. It also seems to be very slow and we have less posts per page so need to page back and forth more.

Oh I really don't like the new discussion pages, can't seem to find anything. I can't see it all at a glance as I could before. It needed tweaking but personally I  now don't find it user friendly at all. I will be opting out for a while at least.

Can one of the staff address the problem of us not being able to find the discussion we are following easily.  I have clicked the 'follow' button but have had no email notifications.  I have to keep going into my profile and finding the threads there - such a time consuming pain.  Could another way be found so that we can follow our discussions easily please.

I tried to access it on my Samsung tablet last night but could not get the Compose box to come up. It works on the PC though so not sure if there is a problem but will try again later.

I read on one thread that Rochelle is putting together a tutorial which may help you. I have also seen somewhere on a thread that a poster got an app for his pad which has worked. Not sure if it was an ipad. Sorry can't remember the thread titles.  Must have been something to do with uploading photos

I'm sorry but I find the new site a backward step. Not intuitive at all. The side swiping is slow and nowhere near as good as before. 

It took me ten minutes to establish how to reply to a message.

Whoever did the design for the interface should not be paid!

the only thing I can say is it's brighter,however where have the stars gone and whats happened to "My posts" It's my first time on the new site so time will tell

Ian most of my photos on the pad are from my 12 megapixel camera so were much too large. 

I downloaded a free resize app. This is very quick, select the photo in your photos, select resize parameters and resave in photos. This leaves your original intact.

Image resize app

It is a bit of trial and error as you don't know the file size on the pad. For mine I started at 800 x 600 pixels. That worked for one photo but it refused to upload two. Reducing to 400 x 300 allowed five to be uploaded at acceptable quality.

Hope this helps. Still a bit cumbersome, but much easier than before and can be done on an iPad.

Roy, I think the Meeks are no longer in the remit of the CC (farewell article in the Dec mag.)