What are your thoughts about the new website?

Lane Simonian

There are already a few threads on this topic, but not on all the forums. What do you like about the new website? What don't you like about the new website? How can it be improved? Even though, it is after the fact, it it good for the Alzheimer's Association to get feedback both positive and negative so that perhaps more changes can be made.

Malka

Personally, I am dealing with enough problems and now you have to change the site. I am not a happy.

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M1

Agree that another negative is that it's harder to page through the different discussion categories. Takes an extra step, cancels out the convenience of staying logged in. Difficult on both laptop and Kindle i can't imagine fooling with it on a smartphone screen

LadyTexan

Thank you for asking Lane.

I don’t like the new platform. I think it is a FAIL that could have been avoided if only the end users were considered.

The cakes, badges, emojis, likes etc are insulting and juvenile. I felt like I was gut punched when I read the cakes were meant to be whimsical…. I am SAD I have a need to be here. I don’t celebrate my longevity in this nightmare journey.

This forum, and the warriors who participate here have saved my life and my sanity. I am eternally grateful

I’ll make it work because I have to. I don’t have an alternative community to turn to. What a shame, AA had such disregard for the end user.

Specifically, the following issues are bothersome to me:

• navigation is more cumbersome than before
• poster avatars and user names are so small and difficult to read, that they are not useful
• key discussion boards that I found beneficial were eliminated
• the SDLC was so horribly implemented, members may engage less or not at all, as a result useful information is not shared, support is not provided. It hurts the members and the benefit to the community.
• I suspect AA valued the user analytics the software provides more than making the application user friendly for a demographic that is already struggling with very difficult circumstances.

I suppose I could sum it up by saying I feel DISCONNECTED, not connected. I am now less likely to engage with what has historically been an especially valuable tool in my caregiver tool box.

Lane Simonian

I appreciate all the responses. I wish the Alzheimer's Association will take them under consideration.

The primary objective should have been functionality, we don't need anything more than that.

I see now that I can read all discussions rather than going to all sorts of different forums. That helps a bit.

I am not sure why the other forums were removed. They were useful for several of us at least.

Best wishes to everybody here. My fear, too, is that some members will post less, or not at all. I worry that some were not able to make it to the new site at all..