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I Want to Improve the Experience Project

Your Own Worst Enemy?

By: datura
Written on June 23rd, 2012
By: datura
Age: 56-60 , Female
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77 responses
  • AgeingThinker

    I completely agree. But as a computer person, I've got empathy for the EP developers as well. Systems like this end up carrying the scars of past decisions. Like layers of archeology, all of them present at once, the numerous features and functions take an expert to make sense of it. Please, don't just add functionality without considering the impact on the whole picture. Simplicity, ease of navigation, rememberence of things past - should be the guiding principles. I'm sure you are trying hard, for a free site. All the features we find annoying have been requested by one of us in the past. Keep up the good work, and make it better.

    Jun 24, 2012
    4 likes
  • wiseowl

    So true. I went from a devoted , energetic member to a bored, fed up member. Here for 5 years and know full well how simplicity was the gold star about EP. They have out grown themselves. I've ask for help 3 times and no response..We begged EP to fix these horrible profile options. They seem fed up and just ignore what they won't change.All the annoying points you mentioned with the beta profile is 100% true.I'm not here often because of it..I know logging in will be like a bad dream in slow motion.

    Jun 24, 2012
    13 likes
  • HealingWolf

    I couldn't agree more. It seems as though the more we complain, the more the EP staff feels the need to make more "changes" that are even farther from what we want!

    Jun 24, 2012
    9 likes
  • conceptualclarity

    This thing is so royally screwed up now that I literally am not able to see the comment I just made. I only know it posted because of the activity feeds. It says at the bottom "11-12 OF 12 COMMENTS" but it's showing 1-10 and I am unable to switch pages to see 11-12.

    Jun 24, 2012
    8 likes
    • KittenHasaWhip

      I am having the same problem.

      Jun 24, 2012
      1 like
    • Orangetas

      yes, what was once a source of pleasure (coming here reading and writing stories) is now a source of irritation sadly

      Jun 25, 2012
      1 like
  • conceptualclarity

    17 rating, pretty good for a story that's been up only a bit more than half a day. Thanks, datura, for another well-articulated story.



    Please, EP, remember the saying "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The comment thread feature on stories used to be attractive and user-friendly. In many months of monitoring this group. I NEVER saw anybody complain about it, except when there were glitches with the replies. Why did you turn it upside down?



    Why did you do the same uglification to the experience group home page, getting rid of an attractive format for an ugly one that hides polls and other features? It's like you're wanting to get rid of polls. I also NEVER saw anybody complain about the group home page.

    Jun 24, 2012
    11 likes
  • Thapadiya

    Dai thapadiya movana siva ni mattum ean numbera yadukalana sathiyama sethuduva.da.punda movana una veri kondu thadidu iruka niya clear.panalana 2daysla policeku povean.

    Jun 24, 2012
    2 likes
  • juice0620

    I am a new user and yes it is a little tricky to manouver around. Hope I get it soon

    Jun 24, 2012
    5 likes
  • GrownGirlUp

    Well said! Great piece.

    Jun 23, 2012
    6 likes
  • fungirlmmm

    I had a wth moment this morning when I was trying to reply to a person's comment on my story. I don't normally complain but I cannot figure out how to comment or read the comments in the new format so i just gave up today. Hopefully this new look is just a glitch that they will spoon fix. I haven't had an activity feed for awhile so i agree that is frustrating too. Sorry that you are seeing this and thanks for writing about it.

    Jun 23, 2012
    8 likes
  • ChakraSolipsismMGP

    This is what I have been saying! As Well! So why is the Circle Friends Latest Activity in our Home Page back to saying there is not Friends and Groups to Show. This was a Bug 2 Weeks ago. EPArsinih said it will be fixed and was and now these Bugs come right back like they where again. I do not feel at ease when Bugs are Fixed. Because they are only temporarily Fixed and come right back again at a later time, being this Bug that seems (To Me) to be really the Settings for this Site. Plus I'm getting suspicious of something else here. But I am not sure If I should say anything about it.

    Jun 23, 2012
    7 likes
    • lunadelobos

      please do speak up or i feel i am daily loosing my mind, err loosing stuff from my old beloved EP that's morphing into a new strange EP.
      or you can pm me. thanks.

      Jul 16, 2012
      1 like
  • trailguide

    I feel the same way. The development of this site progressed from one of the neatest, and user friendly social network sites to a confusing nightmare. The useful features were substituted by useless, tangled up mess. And all the changes are called "improvements". I think you are very right.. the developers of all those new shiny features don't use this site the way we do, and don't realize what kind of mess they are actually creating with all the transformations. And so the pleasure of visiting this site transformed into a very frustrating experience.

    Jun 23, 2012
    12 likes
  • MDenise

    Well said. It seems like they're doing everything to make the site bad, and I don't know why. I agree that the changes are frustrating and that EP is their "own worst enemy" in that what they're doing would make them lose "customers" or members. But I would hate to see many people, especially those well-known on here, leave; hopefully EP would eventually start really improving the site, including fixing these changes. I plan to stay and wait for that.

    Jun 23, 2012
    10 likes
  • Tummie

    I agree. It was lot better when it was minimalistic

    Jun 23, 2012
    11 likes
  • destry

    RATE UP, RATE UP, RATE UP!!



    all those things are maddening!!



    Plus, I keep having problems submitting anything. It sits there forever "working" just to finally tell me it can't save the comment, or the page just times completely times out. It takes at least two, sometimes 3 times of refreshing the page, just to get it to "take" the reply, story, wb, gesture...whatever. I have to remember to copy what I write before I hit the post, or reply buttons, because otherwise I lose it. It has been doing this for three days now, and it is making me crazy! No...it is making me not want to BOTHER much, anymore! ARGH!

    Jun 23, 2012
    11 likes
    • Duchessforthright

      I get thrown out of EP three times today in the middle of venting. Phew! What a ride;)

      Jun 25, 2012
      1 like