I'm LEAVING Because of This New Format!!!

[Texaggie79]

This is Horrible. I can't stand this. I actually have to look to the other side of the page for the exact same links. There is different look to the site. This is just wrong. I'm calling my psychic!!!!!

It now tells me right when I get in if I have replies! That's so wrong! I liked to click on self search every minute to check if anything was new. I can't believe we have a choice of what topics we have on our sidebar!!! I want to be forced to accept Breaking News and Front Page only!!!

Change makes me paranoid!!! I can't stand having to take 2 minutes to get readjusted to the format. I'm gone GOOD BYE

[shekkian]

Somebody always has to make an exit.

[VA Advogado]

Dude we need you on the WOL (War on Libertarians). You are our side's (the good guys) bunker buster. You can't leave.

[Clara Lou]

Well, I get up this morning, and we're back to..... the old look. Opus, opus, opus.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Oh well, nothing ever improves.

Ah, come on. Diversity is goood. You will asimilate, keep trying.

You mean you want me to be different than the millions of illegal aliens and actually assimilate?

[Japedo]

Learn how to navigate, It's very easy. Click on topics and Add to your side bar what you wish. This is like having our own custom made FR. I think its great!! I love it and I think JimRob and all the people working on this are doing an outstanding job.

[southern rock]

I just came on. This sucks bad. Don't like it at all. Is there anyway to get back to the old format????

Oh man, you missed ALL the fun yesterday!!! LOL!!

[joyce11111]

Just get used to it, I have.

[Texaggie79]

3 words, tongue in cheek.

[ittybittyspider]

Get real. This is a wonderful gonvernment-mediated event designed just for you and I.. Now, take your pills.....

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Well I refuse to write an Opus over a change of format.As a new church planter we always say that the seven words that will kill a church quicker than anything is "We've never done it that way before" So get used to it. Change is life.Life is change. Give me your change.Whatever. And Freep on brothers and sisters!!

[joyce11111]

Oh...I'm sorry....I thought you meant it

I recently got a new PC, and am having a difficulty getting used to XP.

Like some of the posters discussing the new format, sometimes I wish I had my old Windows 98 back...but, I will get used to it...soon I hope. I also have a new keyboard...make lots of mistakes with it..even though it is better than my old one.

[Southack]

Funny thread, but it does sort of touch on at least one real-world issue.

In the tech world, you've roughly got a 60-40 split between "new tech at any cost" geeks versus "any change is to be avoided at all costs" nerds.

The new tech at any cost crew typically has more free time on their hands. They tend to be younger, and they always want to play with the latest bleeding edge tech tools.

You can generally spot them tinkering with things that aren't broken (what' that old saying). The sure test to identify them is to ask them if they asked their USERS first before they made any changes to an existing system. Those who tinker without asking their users first for input are dead ringers for membership in this new tech group.

The other group of techies tend to be older. They usually have less free time on their hands, and they've probably seen a few good systems stop working because somebody thought they were clever enough to implement a new feature (that no one asked for). In fact, they generally don't want any changes (would require re-testing, after all). They don't want to re-train users (ala new interface or new features). They don't want to break anything. They don't want to get screamed at by end-users. Now, these traits would all be great and wonderful except that this group will often demand that umpteen managers sign-off on even the smallest "enhancement". Specs have to be finished, signed-off, blessed, and scores of meetings held before the smallest system improvement is implemented.

So inevitably the good project manager has to carefully balance these two forces against each other so that they come to a consensous somewhere in the middle.

Such is life in modern-day America.

[buffyt]

I liked "I'm too busy Freeping!"

heheh BTW Don't you just LOVE newbies who register the same day that they start posting hateful ugly replies on the threads? Aren't they just precious? (Precious is a word we use in the south as an insult. Instead of calling someone an ugly name, we say "Isn't she just precious!")

I am going to start calling the hateful NEWBIES = "Precious"! hahahahahaha!!!

[buffyt]

Like this one....

Spell Correctly

member since March 30th, 2002

[buffyt]

"In the tech world, you've roughly got a 60-40 split between "new tech at any cost" geeks versus "any change is to be avoided at all costs" nerds.

GOOD COMMENT! My 21 year old son and I are always debating issues like this. Looks like he and I are a geek and a nerd. Just take your pick which one of us is which on any given day. He is in Florida right now having a good time.

[Texican]

Low:
I get his BOOTS you can have the rest, well maybe I will take the STETSON too.

Have a good day and the very best to you and yours.

Semper Fi
Tommie

[RonDog]

heheh BTW Don't you just LOVE newbies who register the same day that they start posting hateful ugly replies on the threads? Aren't they just precious?

Perhaps.

For ANOTHER perspective, though, check out what I posted on a previous thread:

From Complaining Customers are Good for Business:

by Bob Leduc

"Remember the Coca Cola marketing disaster a few years ago?
They tried to switch Coke drinkers to New Coke. It didn't work. Fortunately, the company quickly recognized the problem and had the resources to recover fast. Their follow up research revealed that only 1 unhappy customer in 50 takes time to complain. The other 49 just quietly switch brands..."

THIS is my concern. WHO KNOWS how many lurkers and newbies will leave in frustration.

Fortunately, we have a lot of veteran FReepers who are not afraid to SQUAWK when there is a problem.
And, perhaps even MORE fortunately, John Robinson seems to be a fast learner! ;)

Perhaps MANY of the "newbies" that you disdain are LONG-TIME lurkers, who only NOW are registering to post, when they see what they perceive to be grave dangers to the best hope for honest, open, unfiltered conservative thought and opinion on the Internet.

For many of us, Free Republic is a "precious" national treasure.

[pgkdan]

It's taken me a while...I'm a little hard headed, after all...but I think I'm finally tuning in to your sense of humor. That frightens me.

[Texaggie79]

but I think I'm finally tuning in to your sense of humor

Welcome aboard....

[let freedom sing]

I'm LEAVING Because of This New Format!!!

Still haven't left, huh?