Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

Arkers

Good morning everyone,
6 please Shaggy
Arkers x

cathybird

Morning all, it's 11/21 for me today

sukeyboo

Morning everyone
5/12 for today please Shaggy - good to see you back 

maman

shaggydoo said:

Hi Guys!
I'm in.... :-) 
I'll try and come back tomorrow when I have a bit more time to work on the monthly challenge presentation. 

Shaggy.

It might be best to do something really simple until they get this mess sorted out. I wouldn't want you to go to a huge amont of work.
4/10 AFDs please Shaggy.

cathybird

maman said:

shaggydoo said:

Hi Guys!
I'm in.... :-) 
I'll try and come back tomorrow when I have a bit more time to work on the monthly challenge presentation. 

Shaggy.

It might be best to do something really simple until they get this mess sorted out. I wouldn't want you to go to a huge amont of work.:)
4/10 AFDs please Shaggy.

maman, they may not sort it out unless we keep asking them, is the problem. I don't think the people who did the redesign really took account of the debt-free diaries and challenges. We need the pictures to sit left rather than centre or the problems with emojis will be ongoing.

maman

cathybird said:

maman said:

shaggydoo said:

Hi Guys!
I'm in.... :-) 
I'll try and come back tomorrow when I have a bit more time to work on the monthly challenge presentation. 

Shaggy.

It might be best to do something really simple until they get this mess sorted out. I wouldn't want you to go to a huge amont of work.:)
4/10 AFDs please Shaggy.

maman, they may not sort it out unless we keep asking them, is the problem. I don't think the people who did the redesign really took account of the debt-free diaries and challenges. We need the pictures to sit left rather than centre or the problems with emojis will be ongoing.

Oh, I'm not suggesting that we don't complain/raise the issues. I've been following the 'snagging' thread and all sorts of 'glitches' are on there. All we need is for mse to respond!
I just meant that Shaggy could do something simple as a list until mse get their act together rather than find ways round it.:)

cathybird

maman said:

cathybird said:

maman said:

shaggydoo said:

Hi Guys!
I'm in.... :-) 
I'll try and come back tomorrow when I have a bit more time to work on the monthly challenge presentation. 

Shaggy.

It might be best to do something really simple until they get this mess sorted out. I wouldn't want you to go to a huge amont of work.:)
4/10 AFDs please Shaggy.

maman, they may not sort it out unless we keep asking them, is the problem. I don't think the people who did the redesign really took account of the debt-free diaries and challenges. We need the pictures to sit left rather than centre or the problems with emojis will be ongoing.

Oh, I'm not suggesting that we don't complain/raise the issues. I've been following the 'snagging' thread and all sorts of 'glitches' are on there. All we need is for mse to respond!
I just meant that Shaggy could do something simple as a list until mse get their act together rather than find ways round it.:)

That's completely fair enough, but I think we should also ask repeatedly for the problem to be fixed ... because if the powers that be perceive it as a problem that few people have complained about, they may think it's not worth fixing it. I don't know what possessed them to get the pics to sit centre rather than left. It is as though no one who did the redesign used the site first.

shaggydoo

Season_of_Mist said:

Signed in and cannot stand what they’ve done to the site. Does anyone know how to see at a glance the date/time of a post like we used to be able to do? Appreciate cathybird’s efforts to maintain the look of the thread. 

This is is in no way directed at anyone on this thread but I have got to vent about the overall changes to the forum. Just let me rant to myself for a minute then I’ll feel better...

...but it really does bug the hell out of me when changes to suit the needs of the operators are dressed up as ‘improving the user experience’ or similar. It’s just a lie isn’t it? The MSE forum announcement promised it would deliver a “tech upgrade”. Has it? The feedback I’ve seen has been overwhelmingly negative. Why can’t they just be honest about it and say something like “the existing site is really difficult, time-consuming and expensive to maintain, so to make our lives easier (and a bit cheaper to run), we’re going to dumb it right down and remove all the little quirks that the users liked and were familiar with. Just dress it up as an ‘upgrade’ and they’ll never know”. Well, I’ve had it with this. EVERY TIME there is some sort of IT change, the end result for the poor old user is worse. What about that TSB ‘upgrade’ a couple of years ago? It was absolute carnage. Then later it all came out that the changes were all due to migrating to a cheaper-to-maintain system (and screw the end users). The business I work for used to have a fantastic internal IT system built years ago, in-house by our own IT at the time. It was clunky, it was quirky, but it performed brilliantly, it never crashed, it was intuitive for the end users, us mere minions loved it and it was widely admired by our counterparts in other companies. One problem though, because it was a bespoke system, it was reliant on having supportive IT behind it. Gradually over the years, the folks who built it moved on or retired and the new people coming in started to think, hang on, why have we got to maintain this system? Until various bright spark heads of IT lobbied so hard for an off the shelf replacement system, that eventually the bosses gave in and were persuaded to migrate to a new, shiny commercial replacement.  Cue months and months of an unstable, completely counter-intuitive, buggy, unreliable mess of an IT system that crashes literally all the time and has to be taken offline at a moment’s notice for ‘maintenance work’. But hey, it makes life slightly easier for our IT because now all they have to do is refer the issues to the provider...rather than have to, you know, fix it themselves...and it saves a bit of money, so ultimately that’s all that matters, right? 

Sorry sorry sorry. Rant over. AF weekend for me so I am on 8/24 thank you (no colours! But it’s an upgrade right!)

1. Agree with all of that

shaggydoo

February Challenge 2020

Annie   3/12

Arkers 6/10
ArsenalBarnie 2/16
Barney 9/25
BestLifeNow
CathyBird 11/21
CJRyder 6/15
CuppaTea
HappyMonday 8/19
Honey Bear   9/29
IanTanna 6/14
LoveASale 4/18
MaggieM 7/16
Maman 4/10
Marahouti 9/21
PollyAnna
Pricey 8/23
Rosy 10/29
Season of Mist 8/24
Shaggydoo 5/20
SSDD23 /21
Sukeyboo 5/12
WannaBeeFree 6/15



Please let me know if I've made a mistake!

Everyone Welcome Anytime of the Month!

shaggydoo

February Challenge 2020

Annie   3/12

Arkers 6/10

ArsenalBarnie 2/16

Barney 9/25

CathyBird 11/21

CJRyder 6/15

HappyMonday 8/19

Honey Bear   9/29

IanTanna 6/14

LoveASale 4/18

MaggieM 7/16

Maman 4/10

Marahouti 9/21

Pricey 8/23

Rosy 10/29

Season of Mist 8/24

Shaggydoo 5/20

SSDD23 /21

Sukeyboo 5/12

WannaBeeFree 6/15

Please let me know if I've made a mistake!
Everyone Welcome Anytime of the Month!