I officially HATE the new TDK site and format

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  • #790474
    WillowandWindismom
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    I have tried multiple times today. Obviously I am logged in, because here I am posting. And yet, if I try to respond to any other thread, even one that I started, it tells me that I have to log in. I AM logged in. And what the heck is up with having to do math problems to log in?

    I have been a member of this site for many, many years… actually six. But I am done. This is totally frustrating and I don’t have time for this. I am sorry that TDK has become inaccessible to so many who have been here for so long but obviously that is how it is supposed to be. Why we should be shut out of this site is beyond me but I don’t have time to try and figure it out.

    This is the *new* TDK. I am thankful that so many of the *old* TDK family are over on FaceBook… you know that site where you can actually post and talk. I know that some of you hate FB. But you know what… you can actually post there without hassle.

    How sad but this is it for me.

    #790477
    SylMiaFelixsMomma
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    I agree with you WWM! This site is really frustrating!! Why oh why did KMv2 decide to redo it in the first place? I am only here because of the news of Debsterwiz. Even if we were all to try and come back, it is next to impossible now to keep up with what is going on due to not being able to see the threads anymore. Ugh is right!!!!!

    #790480
    jcat
    Participant

    Um, I’m confused. I thought the new site was supposed to be a lot more like Facebook. (Obviously I don’t know for sure because I’m not on Facebook and don’t plan to be.)
    If you look to your right, you can see the latest answers to the latest threads under the title ‘What’s Going On’.
    If you go to ‘Chat’ at the top of the page, then choose a category (eg General Chat) then go to that then at the top of the page, where it says ‘home — chat — general chat’ you can backtrack to chat and see all the threads in all the categories.
    If you go to ‘Show Me What’s Happening’ and look to your right, you can see a list of all the threads that are presently being posted on.
    I’m not saying it’s not annoying (maths questions and capchas all the time) and difficult and time consuming trying to find my way around, it is. But I think it is worth sticking with. WWM, I’m sorry about your log-in troubles, hopefully KM will be able to sort those out for you.

    #790489
    SoxsMom
    Participant

    JCat there are really a lot of us that have had difficulty logging in–I keep getting the “Forbidden” screen! I think to add to WWM’s frustration is that for years she had been riding for Debbie in the MS 150–it is hard to have someone die you are working so hard to help find answers. The changes seem to be trying to make it like FB, but it isn’t. The frustration is a need of communication. People don’t know if KM knows all the log in problems–because they can’t get in. Between death and grief and extreme change there is frustration. It seems every day things get a bit better, so ride it out and remember the love of TDK!

    #790492
    jcat
    Participant

    Well, that would drive me mad too, SM, I’m sorry to hear that. No wonder WWM is frustrated. If I kept being told I was forbidden, I wouldn’t bother any more either. Has Kittenmaster been alerted? because he really is trying to fix everything we point out to him on the ‘Testing the Forums’ thread.

    The news about Deb is a shock and so sad. She is the second friend I have lost to cancer this week.

    #790494
    SoxsMom
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    No I am the one that is getting the forbidden screen. WWM is getting a screen telling her to log in and she already is–the site isn’t recognizing her. She isn’t recognized and I am forbidden.

    I buried one of my best friends last Friday–his kid calls me Mom. I lost a coworker and her unborn child (4.5 weeks from scheduled C-section) and my best friend of 16 years is dead and in an urn by my bed. I am not functioning well either and to be forbidden is truly upsetting.

    #790495
    SoxsMom
    Participant

    Not to mention Tuesday I got to sit with another coworker who is burying their 21 year old this week, and his wife is pregnant. When crap happens it happens in great amounts.

    #790497
    jcat
    Participant

    It does, SM, it does. I am sorry for your losses.

    #790517
    Susan
    Participant

    I’m so sorry for your losses to both jcat and SM. It seems like there’s more loss and pain happening at the moment then there usually is. Wish it would just stop.

    I don’t know if anyone can convey this to WWM, but I had the same problem with being logged out when I tried to post. I found a fix in one of the other chats, where someone mentioned that you just need to hit refresh on your browser and it recognises you again and you can post without any problems.

    Can anyone tell me how to crop an avatar? I can upload from my PC fine, but when it comes to the cropping step there’s no way that I can find to change the section of photo that gets cropped. Since I don’t usually take photos with my furries faces in the top left hand corner, I don’t have a photo which is usable.

    #790521
    anncetera2
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    Refreshing your browser should fix that “forbidden” error once you’re logged in. That should work regardless of which browser you’re using (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.).

    I’m so sorry the new format is causing stress for folks, at a time when additional stress is not needed. Hang in there!

    #790526

    Sorry to hear that as well as problems some of you are having with the new site (these are being looked at) that there is so much else going on causing sadness.

    Susan, with your avatar it might be better to crop the picture first in paint (or some such program) and then upload it as an avatar. If you would like me to crop it for you and send it back to you to upload then you can email it to me at kittenmaster[at]dailykitten.com.

    I’ve turned some of the security and caching settings down to see if that will help with the login problems, but certainly as anncetera2 has mentioned, if you have logged in and find your self on a page that says you need to be logged in then a click on the refresh button seems to do the trick.

    Soxsmom, if you get another “forbidden” screen can you take a screen shot of it and send it to me? I’ve not seen a forbidden screen yet so it would be good to see it so I can tell where it is coming from (i.e. is it coming from the server, the security, or the site).

    #790535
    SoxsMom
    Participant

    KM it is a white screen with the word Forbidden in the upper left side of the screen.

    #790540

    Thanks Soxsmum, we’ve made some additional changes, it should help with forbidden. If you wouldn’t mind, if you do see it again, could you copy & paste the address of the page giving the forbidden error and post it here?

    Login issues should have been fixed for now, however, please do let me know if you’re still having issues, or if you’re aware of others having issues. I’d be happy to help those that can’t get logged in via email, so send any issue to me at Kittenmaster at dailykitten dot com.

    Thanks again for all your patience!

    #790591
    Siobhan
    Participant

    I did ok this time around 🙂 YAY! Takes some getting used to, but I think this new format should be ok. It’s just new…..

    #790593
    Shelby
    Participant

    I’m having Avatar problems as well. Paint didn’t do anything to help. It seems the size of the image does matter so my original pic was 640×640 pixels so I took it down to 300×300 still cropped it wonky. Took it down to 100×100 and that’s what I have now and its to small, but when I did 200×200 or 250×250 it cropped it on it own. Can we just not have a cropping function? Or can we get a cropping function that allows YOU to crop it and not the site? It’s getting pretty frustrating really….

    #790597
    katzenjammer
    Participant

    I’m not dissing anyone who has problems/doesn’t like this new site. But KM, I like it. OK I am new-ish so don’t have years of history with the previous site. Yeah there were issues at the outset, but my not the latest version of Safari seems to have handled them, or fellow TDKer’s provided advice. Just sayin’.

    #790602
    Shelby
    Participant

    I’m new too, and although I like the layout and everything, posting pictures and doing my avatar is a bit frustrating. I had sign up for a flickr account and all this stuff. I figured that out easily enough I just want to be able to put a cute pic of my little one as my avatar haha

    #790605
    Renee in Arkansas
    Participant

    I had many of the same problems as others but finally made it on. Why is the site trying to be like facebook . I know that some spend alot of time there and like it but it seems like anyone on this site that got hacked believed that facebook was the cause of them being hacked. I do know that a lot of places I visit want you to now log on useing your facebook account which might be the cause . If all your accounts are linked ,it just seems like it would be more likely that all your accounts information would be easier to get to. After I get on and off facebook I will get numerous emails that want me to check out this are try to tell me that I am missing something and a new batch of friend request from people that I have no ideal who they are other that they know someone that knows me and they want to be friends just because they want to run up their friend count. I guess I have ranted long enough but I just miss the good old days.

    #790606
    0ona
    Participant

    I am just now seeing the new site format. I came over because the RSS feed for ‘The Daily Kitten’ is not working correctly. I subscribe to it all over the net on various journals, but lately the cat photos are not showing, and the feed says there is a parsing error. I hope someone can check into this. Thanks.

    #790610
    katzenjammer
    Participant

    Well I’m not on Facebook and never will be, based on problems/unpleasantness that friends have warned me could easily happen. I am on LinkedIn for professional reasons, but hardly ever go there, and yeah, I get e-mails asking me to “endorse” so-and-so or “you may know” so-and-so, or job offers that are totally unrelated to my skills, they are somewhat annoying but I just delete.

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