General Chat

Hi Berona

you can choose mini tree or advanced for your home page (no mini tree)

as Gary said I think these are meant to be enhancements because they give you shortcuts to add kids, siblings and parents - it's a pity because it makes what was a very good interface look much more cluttered now

I really don't understand why we need these - it was easy enough to add relatives before this

Berona, I woud say zoom out to see them all, but that makes the text so small its unreadable, at most I can view six siblings in one go, but if I zoom out again the text is unreable.

What are GR playing at?

My subscriptions up for renewal shortly, no way will I be paying for gold again, actually might not renew at all.

agreed PME

the planting roots etc. box - what's that all about then?!

planting roots etc,

Some arty farty programmer trying to be clever/funny. pity they don't spend as much time getting gedcom import/export up to standard.

I have three trees on GR and all are doing the arrow thing. Moving from relative to relative is quite tedious! And to make it clear this isn't the mini tree on the home page - which I don't use and have turned off; this is the full tree.

I'd already asked the help folk why the need for the re-design a couple of weeks or months ago (time flies) as I thought it was much slower than before christmas. They felt there was no issue to address but I really don't like the arrows, it's even slower now :-(

For the record, mine grew arrows last week, I've since lost enthusiasm in bothering with it all and might go back to using the Family Tree software I bought. If anyone finds out how to turn it off can you let me know?

Sarah

mine too have developed the arrows overnight. as you say it is all rather tedious to navigate now. and as for the messages as you open your tree which i find tend to insult your intelligence

"sprouting roots" etc as if we cannot understand the simple word loading. i am sure it is meant to be faintly amusing but i find it quite silly!

i would quite like to have my old tree back which did not stall everytime i clicked on a rellie and wait to load!

Lee.

Hi Sarah & Lee, it seems that GR have now rolled this new format out across the board & we're not happy bunnies.
Like yourself, I now have watering saplings, absorbing nutrients,loads of arrows etc.

...... *sends bunnies out to eat saplings*

GR as usual didn't notify us about the changes made.

Like yourself we all find it is twice as slow to download each part of the tree.
The only useful changes made are that you can now add children, where you have multiple marriages/partners to a specific parents & you can now see via the drop down (of those who you've granted access to your tree) how many people they have within their tree.

Steve
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I don't go to GenesReunited much these days - I find it too busy and much too stressful. But I got a message, so ...

Thought I'd see if I would live long enough for my tree to open. What the f... are Generating Forests and Sprouting Roots?? Ah well, at lease we have the option to Cancel. For the time being.

My tree finally opened and I've sprouted arrows as well - pink for females, blue for males.

Wonder what other little useless geegaws we are going to get lumbered with. This site must be competing for a prize for tizziness.

It's a crying shame that GR didn't go for a webpage designer who had at least some interest in genealogy.

I had all the arrows ,sprouting trees,watering saplings etc. added to my full tree last week,much to my disgust.The final straw came when I had to actually negotiate a Google Earth type navigational aid to move around my tree,which made the tree bigger or smaller,and the numbers of rellies that you could see at any one time change,according to whether you clicked on the bigger or smaller symbol on the navigational icon.It nearly drove me around the twist,made moving from rellie to rellie a downright pain.
In the end I gave up,furious,and frustrated.Why are these so called "improvements" foisted upon us without any consultation,or input from us ,the members???? We are the ones who pay to keep the site going after all,we SHOULD be consulted.I think that that ridiculous and totally unnecessary navigational thingy has gone now,mercifully,maybe other people complained too?????However I still have those ridiculous and totally unnecessary arrows all over my main tree-thanks for nothing,GR!!! I want them off,and pronto!!

Margot.

Wombat47-my sentiments exactly-those stupid arrows ARE "useless gewgaws"-love that description! lol

Margot xx

hi stephen.
mine has sprouted arrows as well.
and this morning l cant get into my tree.
victoria