Suggestions

Have we stood back and realised how ridiculous this "head in the sand" attitude of only considering the few customers who know their way round the complaints/suggestions procedure.

On another site, Detective gave some idea of the numbers subscribing to Genes. It is not far short of the number of customers visiting Tesco every week. How many of them know the finer points of GR etiquette? Or want to know?

And I can tell you for an absolute fact that, if there was a letter of complaint sent to the Dingwall Advertiser or a group of shoppers complained about the Dayglo posters in Aberytstwyth Tesco, the Operations Director and the Chief Executive would have that information and would be responding to it immediately. No way would they demand that the shoppers in Aberystwyth sentt their complaint to a certain Tesco department in both Welsh and English, cc'd to Welsh Government in Cardiff Bay. The papers would eat them for breakfast.

And they get far more moaning than GR. Everyone thinks they can run Tesco better. An efficient retail industry (and Britain is the best in the world) means literally life and death to many. Family history is a hobby, though we sometimes think it is more important than life and death.

I also came onto the site for the first time after a couple of months being away, and found the site totally changed. All the details I had entered on my old tree on each of my ancestors - dates of their birth, marriage, death, occupations and notes of further information- have all gone. It has taken me 5years of hard research and quite a sum of hard cash to collect my research and place it all into my tree and now it's all gone, I've lost it all because GR has wiped it all from my old tree when they done a site makeover. I will certainly be seeking legal advice on this matter, and I will not be renewing my membership. I have also informed the " GR Team" about this matter.

I came onto the site today for the first time in a couple of weeks (been away), after looking at it for a few minutes I had to close the page down. It's way too white/bright and causing me headaches. I have e-mailed to let them know and asked they put it back to the colour it was. As I can't use the site for more than a few minutes at a time I will not be renewing my premium membership here if something is not done about the colour scheme. :-(

Rose


if we all keep sending emails, then there is no way they can say "we have only had a few responses, and they have been positive'!



I don't use the tree ......

.................... but I do find the background colour glaring, and uncomfortable for long term use.




sylvia

Sylvia, I have just sent another email, just reiterating what I have said previously about the background colour and text etc, but also adding some comments re difficulty with my tree when using IE8, particularly not being able to scroll to the 'save' button unless I alter the zoom down to 50% where I cannot then read the words at all lol.

PLEASE, PLEASE ........... send an email to theteam@genesreunited.co.uk


This is the only way in which to ensure that the team at GR knows about your problem.


This includes problems with your tree, the colour, text size, etc etc etc.


There are only about 12 GR staff members, and they very rarely have time to read ALL the threads on ALL the Boards, and even less time to respond to them.


This was posted on another thread on this Board on Aug 1, re the Makeover .........................


I'm very sorry that you feel we did not take your initial round of feedback on board. As a result of the feedback we received from the beta testing, we darkened the background of the boards from white to off grey, as well as made the text a size bigger and darker. We then sent an email to all those who had sent feedback and asked them to look at the changes we had made and feedback again. Only a small number of people did this and it was mostly positive.

If the light background continues to be a problem for people, we will look into other solutions, but of the 5000 people who we invited to test the beta site, only a small percentage sent feedback and this was a real mix of positive and negative, so now that the site is visible to everyone, we will be able to gather more feedback and see what the wider reaction is.

Katie



NOTE that Katie is saying that they had few responses ......... that means responses by email to "theteam".

The Boards were FULL of threads complaining about the glaring effect of the background colour.

The Boards have similarly been full of threads re tree problems for months and months.


All that starting a thread, or posting on threads started by others, about your problems achieves is some relief of your angst, and the knowledge that you are not alone.


Please ALSO email GR at theteam@genesreunited.co.uk ........... then Katie can no longer say "we had only a few responses, and they were mainly positive"!




and keep on sending the emails!!





sylvia