@qualitygal wrote:
Ok, so I'm back for a minute!
I was thinking, what I feel is sad, is that, we've come in here and helped each other out, and through some of life's troubles. Others have been encouraged to vent, to help them get through trials in their lives.
I still am deciding if I'll come in from time to time and give it some time to try and figure a few things out.
I'm in a point in life where, I'm pretty tired from life's events and while I'm happy to help with any experience I might have had, and either give or seek advice, this sort of figuring things out, gets to be a bit much. I really miss what we had. I had no idea that the problems that there were, would lead to this total turnaround.
I'm still deciding.
I so agree with all of this!
It's much too frustrating to spend time here now. What used to be easy and a place I came to often has turned into far too much work. Sometimes I can find threads I responded to, and sometimes I can't. That's the biggest problem for me. Posters here have been wonderful about trying to help each other, but it feels like a sinking ship.
I used to get a lot out of these forums - company on a lonely night, interesting interactions with people in other parts of the country, playful banter and laughter, exchanging ideas about topics of interest, coming here for advice, going thru sad global events together, and yes, offering words of encouragement to others. I remember people who were going to be alone on Thanksgiving agreeing to post together that day so they would feel a little less isolated. And posters reaching out to console someone who had suffered a loss. Or was just having a bad day. There were posters of all ages, and I think now about some of the older ones who weren't especially tech-savvy, but were able to easily navigate the old QVC site. I can't imagine how lost they must feel right now.
It's all overly-complicated. Too many bells & whistles with some essentials apparently gone. Too little guidance, too many people still - a week later - trying to figure things out. I've been thru forum changes before, but never this drastic and never just so wrong on so many levels.
It doesn't even look welcoming, and visually it's hard on the eyes. There's not one thing I like about it, other than occasionally seeing a familiar name.
Like you, I miss what we had. And I also had no idea that things would change so drastically. It doesn't feel at all like the same place
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