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What is going on? SW has always made it difficult to find out what friends have said in reply to posts. Now it seems to have become impossible. Why? Why weren’t we consulted? Why weren’t we told in advance. Why does SW have such contempt for its members? Or am I (I hope) missing something?
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Nuno · Admin
The Replies page is under the "Whiteboard" page now.
Profile -> Whiteboard -> Replies.

[quote]Why does SW have such contempt for its members?[/quote]

Have we been that bad to members so far?
ArtieKat · M
@Nuno It might have helped to have publicised that fact - avoid all that bad feeling which Martin has referenced.
MartinII · 70-79, M
@Nuno Thank you. I’m glad to learn that I was missing something. But I still think you show contempt for your members by making changes like this without consultation or warning. And throughout SW’s existence I and others have complained intermittently about the difficulty in following friends here compared with EP, but nothing has been done nor has any explanation been offered.
Nuno · Admin
Thank you for your feedback.
Unfortunately, if we had to ask users for every single change, our development would significantly slow down.
If you look into my profile and Andrew's, you'll see we do ask user Feedback about bigger changes, even before we start developing them.
We thought that moving the Replies link wouldn't cause any issue, and we apologize if it did. Thank you for understanding.
ArtieKat · M
@Nuno It's my experience - not just here but with all social media sites - that techies are out of touch with the way ordinary users react to change.
Nuno · Admin
@ArtieKat Fully understand and agree with that. We try our best to be as close to users as possible, and that's the reason we're here replying to you and listening to your feedback :)
ArtieKat · M
@Nuno :-)
MartinII · 70-79, M
@Nuno Thank you for your response. I have looked at your various posts under “Admin announcements”, and they are indeed helpful. The trouble is that members will only see such announcements a) if they happen to be online when the announcements or replies to them are posted or b) if they check the Admin announcements group regularly, which, I’m afraid, is not my idea of fun! I think you need a means of alerting all members to such announcements. An obvious possibility would be to send an automatic personal message to all members saying something like “Please see important message under Admin announcements”.

You haven’t responded to my other point. To recap, on EP we could see a single page listing all contributions, both posts and comments, which friends had made in the public forums. It was easy to scroll down and stop to read anything that interested us. On SW we have to access each friend’s profile individually to see whether they have been online and what they have said, which is quite laborious. I have raised this point six or seven times since SW opened but have never received a specific explanation of why the SW facility can’t be replicated here. It would be good if you could provide one now.