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First of all, let me acknowledge some recent changes for the better. I see that group logos have been restored after a long absence on EP. That's heartening. I hope that it foreshadows the restoration of many other features whose loss we have lamented, including blogs.

I also see an option for leaving experience groups, which to the best of my knowledge was gone for a good while. If one clicks on the Groups tab and then hovers one's pointer on the right side of the Groups panel, one can see an "Leave Group" option.

We are told that EP had to change the profile page because its code was about to break. On our end we can't see the code, but we can see that with the results in the new profile page we are for the much greater part losers.

I have addressed the issue of the negative change regarding the whiteboard at <a href="http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Want-To-Improve-The-Experience-Project/6974547" target="ep_blank">EP Link</a>

I am disturbed that the default view of a member's profile page no longer includes his featured story and a sampling of his other stories as well as a sampling of his Q&A action. Yes, Stories can still be accessed through a tab, but it was desirable to have several story blurbs visible on the profile page as previously. One of my old questions got a tremendous number of answers over time simply because it was readily visible on my profile page, but that can no longer happen. And the answers archive is altogether gone. I no longer have any means of searching through my answers beyond what is on Recent Activity. That's lamentable.

I passionately agree with others in this group in deploring the removal of the views counts for our stories. I feel likewise about the removal of the links for months, years, and topics on the Stories menu and its conversion to a mere Facebook-type timeline.

Recent Activity is changed for the worse because of the silly posting of the icon beside every activity and the making of each item wastefully large, which greatly limits the number of items visible on the page before one has to click "More". The same wastefully large format for the Questions menu likewise undesirably limits the number of items visible before clicking on "More".

Under the People tab, I don't understand what the icon to the left of the envelope icon is for. It would help if there was a text label when one puts the pointer there.

Since we are told the profile page change was an emergency measure, I hope EP will be flexible regarding it and will be looking to be changing it in the ways we members are requesting.
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pinetreeguy
Users are 100% responsible for content on this site. I once wrote hundreds of personal stories to share with my group of friends. Not any more. In the past couple of years I have posted a news article, but see no value in writing anything to contribute. It doesn't even get a title. It can't be read by anyone for very long. Waste of time. Most of my hundreds of contributions are just gone. Why would anyone bother contributing content to a site that doesn't appreciate those who produce content?
lifedwg01
I agree. The website itself is pretty poor. it's the people and their stories that keep me coming back. I only tolerate the actual website. it does seem that when a change that is good finally occurs, there is always at least one good thing that disappears. That's no way to improve things.
As for the content I've posted. I've learned long ago to save anything I write of any consequence to a Word file that's stored on my computer. You never know when something will just "disappear" for no discernable reason.
It is true indeed that without us users, EP (and even K a n j o y a) has no product. Therefore they should appreciate us instead of taking us for granted.