Important Site Changes for Community Members....

Thank you in advance for your efforts.   I am missing the close friendships and associations we have lost with many past forum members due to the difficulty with navigating.   Good luck looking forward to a positive experience.

We will try our best to change things for the better, we will start with the taxonomy and site structure and then move onto other areas.  All I can say is your feedback is important and that we can't change everything at once, so please be patient.

I have virtually not posted in months because if there is more than one page to a thread I can't GET to the last page..  That's crazy.  My email is callieatcritturs@yahoo.com -- PLEASE email me about the AIHA or IMHA thread (about the biggest thread on there -- and that information is vital  to folks with IMHA dogs).   I'm glad to see something is being done.  It's been frustrating not to be able to get TO anyone to get help.

Let's see if we can't put a quick fix in for the paging,

I think the IMHA therad would be a good candidate for becoming it's own group "kennel" .  By turning your interest into a group you will be able to communicate with the users that are interested and are part of that group.  You would also be able to have separate conversations on sub topics and also use the blogs to report on news.  Would you like that?

I sure hope that real changes will be made, the whole last change - of which I was supposedly a part of - went in the direction it wanted despite constant feedback that it wasn't what was wanted.

In addition to making the site easier to navigate and less ridiculous, please fix the issues with the Chrome browser, the need to login in over and over despite having the box checked to "remember me"

If anyone else is experiencing an issue with staying logged in Chrome or any other browser on please post here. FYI We will be changing to use your email address for logging on in the next major update.

The paging issue has been addressed

It's not very helpful to have moderators who don't eliminate the spam. Right now a new poster put the same post in 3 different categories under training, but nobody has bothered to eliminate 2 of them and remind the newbie to refrain from placing multiple identical posts. The home page is cluttered enough.

Are you going to be able to pin a topic to the top, like the way the Mindless Chat thread used to be? Or the IMHA thread? Scrolling around is a total PITA and despite the option to switch to the more linear format, nothing is plainly visible.

Signatures don't work either.

Tina

We will be allowing key members of the community to become moderators in due course, for now Michele68, kpwlee , Kaitlin58 , miranadobe are your current moderators and I'm sure they are trying their best to moderate content.

Issue noted about signatures, obviously please remember somethings may not get fixed as quickly as others as we said in our original post the first action we are performing is the reorganization of the site and page layouts.    

@baddog

for now Michele68, kpwlee , Kaitlin58 , miranadobe are your current moderators

Seriously? kpwlee seldom comes here and she has stated previously her moderating abilities, such as removing spam, don't work. @mirandobe hasn't been here in at least a year. If the others are doing their best, well, they've failed.

Make your excuses - this forum has been ruined.

Tina is correct - I have attempted to remove spam and can't

Heck I often have a fitful time flagging it

If the forum were to become more user friendly - especially on mobile devices - I would be able to access it more frequently.

Mirandobe isn't here any longer and I don't expect her back

Kaitlin58 & Michele68 haven't responded to my emails or questions in many months

We are looking for constructive discussions sharismom We are trying to make positive changes, if you don't want to be part of the changes that's fine, please don't post on this thread.  All we have is a list of existing moderators, we do not know their history. I also made it clear that the moderators would change in time, once we have addressed other larger issues which will take time to put in place.  

kpwlee you should be moderating at this link  ? community.dog.com/.../Moderation the flag system is a separate system, used to flag approved content.

I think you should read the thread titled Site Petition filed under General Chat and dated 10-1-14. In a nutshell, many of our members have stated how difficult this format is and why they now seldom come here. There are other threads asking for help and stating how user un-friendly the updated format has been, including one titled Improvements to DOG.community, started by Kailtlin58.

You asked for opinions. I'm sorry you don't like mine. This once was an active community and like family. I can accept change; we've been asked for input before and nothing seems to have changed, so how can I not be skeptical?