Another Downgrade Of The Upgrade

that does suck! I have had to refer back to discussions in the past - glad I bookmarked the ones I go to all the time!

Hi pye, i don't mind you ranting all and I don't like this downgrding, not many users like it as I have so many people complaining about it, my discussions only goes up to 5 when there used to be more, well thats what mylot does, yes its SUCKS. Bright Blessings. Tamara

ooh.i didn't notice that part-i'll have to go look at it. they must have needed space or something.

Good Grief Pye! I go away for a couple of weeks and the whole world turns upside down. What's going on here? Why all the changes? This is crazy, I like when you reply to a discussion and it comes up first, if I'm understanding what you're saying. I'm afraid to leave again, I can't imagine what will happen next. You should be able to review your older discussions for reference like you said. Doesn't sound very fair to me.

Hi Pyewacket, I have been away a while and hadn't realised there had been upgrades but that would explain why I can't find a lot of my discussions too. Like you I like to refer back and also as we have banter on here I like to see if there have been any added commetns which we get no notification for but alasI cannot do that. Thank you for answering my discussion as it makes sense now so at least I know I haven't been in some wierd time warp and it is a blip in the Lot sytem instead. I can understand why you would be a bit disgruntled by it as you post a lot and 10 pages is nothing. I also remember receiving a response to one of my discussions that was over a year old and I responded to one that interested me of the same time span and through that I got to meet a very lovely myLotter in person who came and stayed at my home for a few days, it is sad as this now will no longer be possible to have happen. Huggles. Ellie :D

The only thing I can figure is that all those discussions were taking up a lot of server space that was costing them more and more money to maintain. I have a lot of discussions I haven't decided BRs on, so I don't know if I'll be able to now. I trie about once a month to get a bunch done, but I fell so far behind. Unless, they have them on a different server to make room on the active server, but when we delete the ones we have, they'll bring the other ones over to the current server - assuming that is something that can be done.

Well - this is just another to add to the list of things to do to add to the destruction of a decent site. Everyone should bombard the admins using the "contact us" page, & demand that they undo this monstrosity. All that it does is make it difficult, especially if they don't get emails when getting responses, to find new responses to discussions.

Makes my blogging techniques look all the more valuable, Linking all your personal writing together... I haven't yet linked everything but the more I apply myself the more likely I am to get to the point that I capture every word that I write...

I can see how that would piss you off, Pye. After all, that's how you found Tigger's story broke up into several discussions for me. Have it all saved to disk at that so I never lose it again. lol I don't go back to former discussions unless they are my friends' discussions that I want to respond to since I wasn't active for quite a few months on here. If I'm rambling its' cause I can't see straight for being soo tired.

Just a week or two, and just before myLot went wild with the so called upgrade, I was able to save all my discussions in notepad. It includes the URL of each discussions. So whenever I wish to back track to them, I can easily go to them. Question now is are tey still available? Did myLot deleted those oldest discussions, 3 or 2 years old?

Hey Pyewacket, I just got back so I am still trying to absorb all the new things that have happened...I am on your side though...if a discussion has been responded to it should go back to the top of the list...it only makes sense that the most popular discussions should be more easily accessible...

I'm a long, long way from having the volume of discussions that you have, so I hadn't really noticed. However, I'm not really surprised that some of the older ones have been removed. If you think about the huge volume of data stored, sooner or later it would have to be 'cleaned up' just so that it becomes more efficient. It also makes it less likely to have duplicate discussions and be penalized because you happen to start a discussion that was the same as one started 5 years ago, that you didn't even know about. For the discussions that are still available, it's a shame that there isn't some sort of filter where individuals could sort them by author, date, last response, etc.

I am not going against the idea of being able to go back to what you wrote to be able to reference items you have written. The thing is on the other side of this, as Mylot grows it to needs space to save all that is done by each member. That can take alot of server space. See you can't just put it on a hard drive and it is acessable to everyone, it doesn't work that way. It takes programing as well as security to keep up with all of the entries made by each member of Mylot. Also takes bandwidth that also is a cost. It could stay the way it was, then to pay for this service it would probably cost us in what we make with the writing we do. So looking at the cost vs saving to pay its members, which would you do? Now on the members end of the upgrade I can see how for years you were able to go back to your previous work. I actually have gone back in some people's profiles of things they have written and found some very interesting discussions. It is sad that they have disappeared. It isn't an easy change for us the members to all of sudden not be able to do this. Still change comes, and we have to be able to change with it. That's what they keep telling us older folks...lol I am constantly told by my kids "mom catch up to the times" lol Thing is in some area's I am actually ahead of them. So in my opinion we help each other stay up to date with life. Its all we can do here is help each other to get through the changes of life, or here at mylot.

Yes its something you might want to complain about but have you actually sat and thought about why the change was needed??? Its not big surprise to anyone that understands the internet to know that there is some way to get back to your older discussions - it just takes a little bit of time to honestly think of a way to do it because nothing disappears forever. The thing is mylot needed to free up space to save them money and with over 180,000 members and continously growing can you imagine if all those members had over 10 pages worth of discussions? Do you realize the amount of space that would take up? Its about saving money and being able to still pay the growing amount of members and still be able to save on overhead costs etc. At least they aren't premanetely deleting older discussions. Plus do you think you are the majority on mylot? Do you think most go back and look at older discussions - no. Most members won't even go back to look at the responses to the discussions they start, so again majority wins. And it would be a shame to waste the space when people with a ton of discussions sometimes tend to be the type that start 10 a day which is over kill since they are the ones that don't go back and look. I understand you've been here awhile and that is why you have so many, but a lot of newer members "spam" the interests.

Some of the glitches I noticed a couple of days ago I have noticed have gotten better, and things are a little more random here. Maybe that is to help get more responses? But it can be quite frustrating for someone who likes to go back to their older discussions especially if you have a lot of unresolved ones as well. I think it would be nice if people could have more control on looks and choose which upgrade they like, etc. as well. But hopefully some of these glitches are temporary and we can see things like before as well.

I have been working a lot of long hours lately :( and so had not noticed the changes you mentioned. However, it does sound as if they were not changes for the better.

I hadn't noticed, but then, I rarely use that feature. That's probably why I have so few posts for being here the same three years as you.

Hi Pye, I will say I haven't looked but do know that some of my first discussions were quite interesting and now am known better here it would be nice if they are still there, but will look and find out. I remember you did answer one of them...it is really bad if that has happened, sometimes people like to backtrack on others old discussions and it is nice to have a response to those, so am rather annoyed that has happened. The Upgrade here is certainly a Downgrade...bb LoLo

hi pyewacket I was just thinking of a saying we used to use,my hubby and me. If it aint broke, dont fix it. I liked it the way it was.it wasn't broken so why fix it.I liked to check to see if I am repeating some old discussion now I can't. shame on them the old way was the good way.wah boo hoo and gr gr gr.

I wasn't on for a while and today is the first time I spent a fair amount of time on here and I hate hate HATE this 'upgrade'! It really isn't fair for new users who are trying to make new friends and get into Mylot because their discussions just float right to the bottom and get lost in the shuffle (even more so). And for established users it makes it very difficult to keep up with their friends' discussions, especially if they haven't been on in a while. And I really hate that I can no longer go back and check out old discussions. Some of them represent a lot of work and a lot of thought went into them. I hope you're listening Mylot, because this really does SUCK.