General Chat

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

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

Margot xx

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.

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.

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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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.

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

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.

agreed PME

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

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.

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

Hi Berona,
If you go to the home page. Look at left hand corner area, where it says...Build Your Family Tree.
Below this there is the link ..... Show mini-tree hompage.

But this only shows you & your immediate family. The arrows seem to depict how a tree spreads. You can open your tree from here, but is slow to download. Also it only opens the same tree that you usually use to work on.

To revert back to the normal home page by clicking on the....advanced homepage? link.

Steve.

PS have changed my name to avoid confusion.

I thought the arrows being on hte home page were bad enough, but now they've put them on my immediate family tree too, greatful they haven't spread to the 'full tree' view yet.

Between the dark blotchey background and these arrows I am getting tempted to give up on using my genes tree.

GR should inform people of such changes, also were possiable give us the option on weather we want the cluttered or uncluttered view.

I appreciate they are making it simpler for people to add people to there tree, but I liked the old method these arrows are downright annoying.

Also the rubbish in the box that comes up when you tranfer from on tree view to the other, making furniture, replanting, planting roots, absorbing nutrients, growing leaves, photosynthesising, I'm tracing my family history not after a biology lesson, what wrong with just putting 'loading', I've never been quiet so glad I have broadband so this rubbish is only on my screen for a matter of seconds.

Hi Gary,
I have IE7 & also downloaded Firefox a few weeks ago as an option.

Using either. The arrows for me only show on the mini tree in the homepage.

When you open your tree to update, these arrows shouldn't appear. There has been many user gremlins within the system, since the system was upgraded.
One of the common complaints has been with using the tree. Though the arrow issue is the first I've heard of it.

Steve

Just tried IE 8 and "Enhanced"? tree is there too.

Gary

Hi Steve,
I don't think its a bug, but an enhancement, The arrows are designed to be there, I can't speak for Stephen but I think I can see them as I am using the latest Version of Firefox with the very latest version of Java. I suspect most peolpe can't see them as they are using old IE and old Java.

Gary

Hi Steve & Gary,
Since GR changed the boards, people here have had various problems.
The tree has been one of those gripes.
It could be a browser issue. One of the repeated problems tends to be if you use IE6. GR tend to recommend upgrading. But if you complain to them, they usually sort out the problem for you.
I'd contact GR support regarding sorting out this problem.

Steve
:o)

ah haa... not just me then :0)

Yes Stephen
I got em too, just sprouted overnight, on main tree not mini tree.

Gary

Hi Steve

I just click 'Family Tree' in the menu bar - it only started happening yesterday

I might try another browser

cheers