<p>@justamom - never mind as soon as I put the “and” sign etc it just reverted to "just"aMom too. sorry your name is screwed up</p>
<p>We share in your passion for this site and the amazing community. We also value your privacy immensely. Facebook integration is purely optional per user. Members who like to share content via social media will find that the Facebook integration allows them to share a thread on their personal Facebook wall to their “friends” as well as the ability to sign in quickly and easily. Members who do not like Facebook or social media do not have to use the Facebook integration and can ignore that feature. It’s 100% optional. And remember, no private or personal information is ever shared or will ever be shared. </p>
<p>@Midhelper - Regarding the new CC “Like” feature, you can retrieve a list of the posts that you made that others “Liked” by going to your profile and clicking on the “Like” link. Your profile will then display all the thread posts that you made that others “liked” for you to retrieve or revisit at a later time.</p>
<p>@doughill is that the same for ones you marked helpful because it’s the helpful ones I would like to retrieve not the ones I liked. Sometimes one “likes” a post but does not need to ever go back to it but a “helpful” one I probably want to refer to it again later.</p>
<p>@Midhelper - You are correct! You can pull up the thread posts that you have marked as “Like” or “Helpful” within your profile page. </p>
<p>@doughill Thank you!! Figured it out. Took me a moment to figure out how to get to profile page. Are the email addresses visible to everyone?</p>
<p>Midhelper, I just looked at your page and I don’t see any e mail addresses for you.</p>
<p>@pennylane2011 oh really? Thank you so much for confirming that!! When I go I see a bunch of things totally different than what’s in my inbox so I thought it was all visible. Thanks for your time. I had a student confide in me about something and it would have been awful if his/her identity was compromised.</p>
<p>I don’t know if its been mentioned, but my iphone cc aps is not working with the new format. Delete and Reload does not work. Ideas?</p>
<p>Now that I’ve used this for a few days, some perhaps constructive feedback:</p>
<p>Main issue I have is the font sizes and colors on the sidebar are the same as the identifiers for individual posts, meaning the information like date, while the names of the posters are smaller but the same color. This has two effects I don’t like. First, it’s hard to focus on the names of the posters, which matters a lot because I recognize the name and tend to pay attention or tune out based on the person. Second, though the intent of whitespace in this iteration of web design is cleanliness, the top of each page turns into a busy jumble with a bunch of blue text mostly of the same size interspersed with avatars.</p>
<p>I would consider increasing the white space between the sidebar and the column of responses so the column sits in white space at the top with less competition against the sidebar. This would include making the section underlines in the sidebar a little shorter. It could also be done by shrinking the main column width a little. I would consider changing something about the type in the sidebar, perhaps making it less opaque or a little lighter color so again it sits separate from the main column. (I doubt darker would work but maybe.)</p>
<p>I would also consider reversing the colors of the user names and the information under them. Like my name would become black or gray. This would fit with the idea of the top of the column that says in black the name of the thread and that it is “Replies to …” Given that, the black should be carrying information about the repliers not whether they’re senior or junior members. Since there is no visual indicator the names are clickable links, that wouldn’t change.</p>
<p>In other words, nice modern shift that could use some minor tweaks. I have to say I think sidebars are going away too and that a more modern take would be to imagine them instead as boxes or tiles, some as fixed containers and others dynamic. So for example, a little shading and the bottom box of “featured threads” can become more a tile. The impact is, as I’m sure you know, more of signage and conveying information as though through a sign rather than the metaphor of lists of words.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I pretty much hate the whole thing, but especially all the extraneous white space, both in between the specific posts and on the page listing all the recent threads. Too much white space and too much scrolling. </p>
<p>Meh – I’m getting used to it. I figured out how to go straight to the “new since last time” posts (by clicking on the title of the thread). To whoever was complaining about all the ads: Just download AdBlock. It’s worth its weight in gold. (And it’s free, too.)</p>
<p>@Midhelper, @pennylane2012 is correct. We do not expose any private or personal information, including email addresses to anyone. We value your privacy and guard it closely. Thanks for all of your loyalty and contributions to this site. We love this community as much as you do. </p>
<p>VH, from my own page, no matter what I click on, I still only go to my own last post.</p>
<p>@artloversplus, it was announced that the CC app would be inoperable briefly, pending a few changes we need to make for optimization. Until then, please use the new mobile version of the site. We hope to have the app optimized soon.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>So much so that you’ve made it infinitely easier to share our posts all over social media? 
</p>
<p>In what way Romanig? You could always link a thread to a Facebook page? It’s just easier now than before when you had to grab the URL, open FB and paste it. What am I not grasping that has everyone so upset?</p>
<p>@romanigypsyeyes, as stated in the FAQ and in the other feedback threads, the social media integration, (the Facebook integration) is 100% purely optional. I will copy and paste for you here. Thanks! </p>
<p>"We share in your passion for this site and the amazing community. We also value your privacy immensely. Facebook integration is purely optional per user. Members who like to share content via social media will find that the Facebook integration allows them to share a thread on their personal Facebook wall to their “friends” as well as the ability to sign in quickly and easily. Members who do not like Facebook or social media do not have to use the Facebook integration and can ignore that feature. It’s 100% optional. And remember, no private or personal information is ever shared or will ever be shared.</p>
<p>Also it should be noted that when a user that has opted to use the social media feature to share on their personal Facebook wall, it only shares a link to the thread. It does not share any personal information. It’s the same as copy and pasting the link into your Facebook status for your Facebook friends to view the thread. We’re just trying to make it simpler."</p>
<p>@doughill Individuals can choose whether they personally share things to their Facebook page, but there is no way to prevent someone else from sharing the comments we make here. I can click the Facebook icon and post someone’s comment, with their picture and user name, etc. and they can’t opt out of me doing that to them. (no worries, I won’t be doing that, but someone could).
@momofthreeboys I understand that someone could like a thread before, but you may have had to sort through many posts to potentially recognize any one poster. This feature posts that person’s specific comment, Avatar and all. It’s a little different. I think those using real pics of themselves may want to reconsider doing that.
@midhelper If you go to your profile, in the upper right, you do see your “likes” and “helpful” click numbers and if you click on “helpful”, you can see the posts, so that functionality is there.</p>
<p>I notice we seem to like being able to tag people! I’m on my desktop computer now with a large HD screen and the font doesn’t seem nearly as tiny as on my laptop. </p>
<p>I think part of what’s bothering people is the overemphasis (through font size and button sizes) on some things but the things we really want to see, like the user’s name, are de-emphasized and less obvious. Probably the thing that throws me the most is once you’ve hit the next day, the time of the post disappears. </p>
<p>Doug, How do we even get to FAQs now? And does that offer some sort of key to work our way through this new version? I signed on after the change, got the request to change my pword-- and that’s it. No nothing. Other posters are telling each other how to find the inbox, abort a post, whatever. I said elsewhere that one neat thing is to see how the digital community pulls together- but… Thx.</p>