Is it me or is it quieter aorund these forums since the changes....?

Ssssssshhhh. .......

must say I'm not enjoying the new layout. Mine never seems to update. 2 hours ago mine was still telling me there was no new posts since 8 am this morning!!!

And have I missed something? Not a clue what the small/ Big red dots or the yellow star mean!

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I must admit i havent been on much since the changes lol.

i dont like change ahaha

Yes I agree =(

I thought the same. I find it confusing I'm not sure what I've read and what I've not x

I prefer how it used to be.

Nobody ever seems to like change when layouts get changed up... however, I don't think this was very well thought out. It feels like a step backwards and everything seems too big and too samey...

I agree. I can't tell who is saying what. It's just a big white screen. Messy.

Its not an improvement to be sure.

Honestly, if I hadn't already been here I'd not have joined or posted. I don't care about being able to use a site on my phone - I use it at home or in the office - and now its horrible for that.

Its really not a good experience.

It worked/looked really well before but was just a little buggy at times.

Hope the powers that be see this thread.

I don't bother with it very much now. Shame really :-/

Yea, it's put me off coming. I just talk on Rock and Roll Bride Facebook now x

Was just thinking this. was going to put a thread up, and saw yours!

its just all so big in the wrong places, and cluttered in others

I always use my phone and it's now even worse than it used to be. So much for 'improvements' :-/

I'm finding it harder to use on my phone

it doesn't always fit my screen and sometimes it just stops typing and I have to go out and in again sI sometimes don't bother posting.

Also I find it cluttered on the screen with the thread info repeated on each post and the poster info underneath.

I I don't have any problems with seeing which posts I've read or haven't read.

I hate the changes too, and havent been on here as much. Just seems harder to decipher one post from another and its frustrating. I've never used hitched on my phone, so that change made no difference to me! Maybe its the new company that owns it?

The worst part I've found is trying to get to the 'my wedding' section to get to your budget planner etc. When it first changed I couldn't decipher where it was and it's just so much more awkward to get to these sections; at least before the shortcuts were easy to find!

The new look is modern which isn't a bad thing but that's probably the only positive.

It's always quieter at this time of year. A lot of wedding stuff goes on hold now until the cooler months of September. This has a knock on effect on forums, supplier enquiries and so on.

It's possibly why they decided to make the change now, to impact fewer members.

I'm not a big fan

It's harder to look around, and each forum post takes up the whole screen on my laptop which makes me want to read a whole thread less. Nothing stands out anymore.

I think that the changes have put quite a few people off and also, I don't know if anyone else thinks this, but I feel like the OM's are not here as much?

The new layout isn't my cup of tea. I think I've been here twice since it changed. I'm looking for other forums, to be honest.

After we postponed our date, I need an active and attractive forum and this just isn't it any more.

We're not, and that's cos pretty much every time we post, we get reamed out for being too honest, blunt, daring to have different opinions, etc, and usually end up being told "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". It doesn't make us feel like our experience is valued at all.

I have entirely given up trying to hold a reasoned adult debate here because I'm sick of being screeched at by over-sensitive women who can't properly defend their side of an argument. I've had to bat off personal criticism about mine and my H's choice of surname, and I even got told that I should hold back because some people aren't confident in their choices and can't handle criticism. That is not the sort of forum I want to be on.

Don't get me wrong, most of us are still reading at least occasionally. But we prefer to have our chats and discussions in a private area now, where we don't argue round in circles and come to no satisfactory conclusion. Unfortunately this is what the B2Bs here have created.

Incidentally, I still get around four messages a week from people asking for my edit of that infernal Tom Odell song for their first dance. Interesting how people are nice to me when they want something.

That's what attracted me to this forum in the first place, I used to love all the lively debates, threads used to go on for 20 pages +. It's certainly not as fluffy on here as some other forums I've read but it does seem to be heading that way.

It used to be so busy in WP and on OT but it's completely dead all the time now, everyone's left! I doubt I'll stick on here once I'm married tbh because they'll be no other OM's to talk to!

As for the forum layout, it doesn't look that different and it's not that hard to get used to. Some forums change there layout a lot more dramatically that this and it's hard to find anything. I think it's just quiet because everyone used the fb groups and no one sticks around once they're married. I've been on here since 2011 (under a different username for a while) so it will be a shame to have to leave because there is no one on here.

I don't comment as much anymore main reason is i don't think our om ideas are respected (if that's the right word) or listened to because we're not advising sure hun it's your day you do what you want or sure that idea is awesome because the fact is although we are being nice we have no need to butter things up either listen or don't we have no agenda like your family and friends do to keep you happy we just want to pass on our experience /tips when I first joined here I read and took on board what the oms was saying and their experiences and tried to make it not happen if I needed to ask for advise I took it on board and Even if I didn't agree with it necessarily or fully act on it It made me think twice about things in return through the process of the wedding I got help I couldn't ask for irl and actually ended up making friends with some wonderful ladies who I can talk to and share experiences with this place is what you make it

I think its not a problem only on this forum but other kinds of forums as well.

People post "can I have your opinion" type questions but what they really mean is "can you tell me that I'm right and don't answer if you disagree".

I don't agree with people who post things that they wouldn't say to someones face nor do I agree that you should intentionally be mean to someone, but if your going to post on the www then you need to open to lots of different opinions to what you might have been looking for.

Well I for one like the OM opinions and think OM's were an asset to the site. But I really do hate this new format and even if the OM's were to flood back, I think I might still be leaving. Sorry hitched.co.uk!

It's going to be such a shame for future B2B's (myself included) because we're not going to have the experience of the OM's to draw on. They've been there, done that, and we're not going to have them to help us in future.

Ah everytime I try and post on my PC it just shows a blank reply!!!

What I was going to say is that I agree with Bliss Balloons - I used to love the debates that went on for pages on end and reading the OMs advice. To be honest I find this forum quite boring now and people ask the same questions all the time!

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Also a lot of people don't come back to do reports or flash pics, you follow people all through their planning and are really interested to see how their day went and then they just leave.

Seriously, has the revamp even had a week?

It's July. People are getting married and have holidays.

Plus, many threads are repeats. I mean, how many topics are there in wedding planning? Not many - so there are bound to be a heap of rehashing of the same stuff.

I use Hitched on my laptops so it's as usable as it was before, the changes have not affected me. I think it gets quieter/ busier at different times of year.

The changes might be a coincidence.

I'm so fed up with the OM whinge of 'we're shot down for having opinions' - I've been around now to see two generations of OM's, and I'm a part of the second. It's a fact that people who have been around here a long time, and who know one another and have their safety in numbers, are blunt, rude and hurtful on occasion, and then flounce about for being called out on it.

And let's be honest - that's NOT the reason OM's aren't here any more.

It's boring here, that's why!

I'm never intentionally rude alas my mum brought me up to be truly honest never rude about it but always be up front