Here's what I liked about the old, classic SI:
When I'd hit [next] to see the next post .... I could begin reading it immediately.
NOW ... I have to click [down] on the mouse 5x before I can start reading most posts. [Or keep mouse button depressed for equivalent amount of time.] My finger's getting sore with all of this unnecessary mouse-clicking.
There's only 6" of usable space (top-bottom) on my monitor, within the Netscape window. That d*mn toolbar, with stuff I don't need or am interested in .... takes up 3" of that usable space!
I'm constantly scrolling down to read what's of interest to me. Before, anytime a page came up - everything important to me was at the forefront. Not anymore.
And, where's that "Search within Subject" option? I used that a lot. I can't find anything anymore.
I'm wasting a LOT of time with this Beta site.
And I'm tired of having to re-submit messages, because I get an error message ... and can't get them posted.
PLUS ... when I searched, using the keyword "chicago" for something I posted ... my post didn't come up. A lot of other posts with the word "chicago" came up. But, not mine. So, I had to waste more time going back to scan all of my past posts to figure out where it was. [And "chicago" was right in the middle of the post. Why, didn't it come up?]
AND sometimes someone posts a link to another SI post, which I'm unable to access [while others can], and all I get is an error message. Real frustrating.
SUBJECT MARKS format wastes a lot of space. Before I could easily see almost all of the subjects I bookmarked. Now I have to keep on pressing that d*mn mouse again to scan down. I don't care what category my subject is in. Why is it necessary to have it listed on the subject line, and take up more space? I'd rather be able to view more subject lines at one time ... like we were able to on the old SI.
I've heard the suggestion, that to get back to the old, classic SI, use:
talk.techstocks.com
Well, it doesn't work for me!
I dislike this new SI beta site with a passion. The only thing I like about it is the option to scan 10 posts at a time.
Cheryl |
