Thursday, March 20, 2008
Who is willing to fight for our site?
Are you? Are your Babycenter friends? Link them here, pass this on and sign in the comments that yes you are. Let's get a good count of those of us willing to keep fighting for our "home" even with the odds stacked against us. Call it the first petition, strength is always in the numbers!
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Give me a break! Why don't you wait and see how the final version turns out at the end of all the testing before you get your panties all in a wad over it!
We already know pretty much how it is going to turn out.
http://community.babycentre.co.uk/
Note that if you have a public profile and pictures, I can easily dl your picture by right clicking and saving image as. So anyone can take your pics and anyone can read your journal unless you make it private. The bulletin boards are fractured too.
This is what you get when you go to group talk
http://community.babycentre.co.uk/talk
The default sort is by popularity, but you can sort alphabetically
http://community.babycentre.co.uk/groups
Their mummies of children with autism has 2 members and no activity compared to the board on our current US bbc where it is hard to keep up with all the members and posts.
There is no atheist group, though anyone could create one.
They are still making changes, I guess, but it looks like much of their old membership defected.
Dorothy
The final version is enought to see, go to Babycenter UK or Mayas Mom. I am on the new site, and they are all clones of each other.
It is not about the "final version" but about the fact that we don't want/need a "social networking" site. If we wanted to be on one, we have MANY to choose from. BBC was different, it was better, and now it will just be one of many. :-(
Maybe they could launch Babycenter Junior for the younger parents. :P
Really, they already have a huge marketshare and most of the people I see posting are not super-young. I really like Babycenter but I think it will all fall apart once the changes are implemented!
I want to fight for the board too, but it just seems like the powers that be are not hearing what we are really saying. Also I feel like there is a lot denial on boards that this is not actually going to happen. For that reason people aren't being spurred to action, they are so sure that something this radical could never come to fruition. What can we do to gt this movement jump started?
I've been on BBC since Feb '03. If the do chance I'll leave. Sure I'll give it a shot, but I don't like anything about it now and can't say that I'll chance my mind much once it is complete. I'll hate to do it and I'll really miss it but I HATE the new format.
I like the idea of BBC Junior! LMAO! I've been invited to the new "community" site and I don't prefer it at all to the existing message boards. It takes a lot of getting used to and offers up a lot of info about me that I'm not so interested in people having access to - like what threads I've posted on or when I've modified my settings. The existing format is way easier to use and read through new posts. I wish they'd have at least asked the existing members what they thought before running full ahead with it. Even mothers who are already there are not warming up to it that quickly. Some are happy they just don't post much. It's a shame to change something so drastically when it already works just fine. I'm not against change, but this is too much.
Whine, whine, whine!
Not true that we already know how it is going to turn out based on babycenter uk or mayasmom...it has been said repeatedly that all the sites are still undergoing modifications. I don't think you are going to be able to stop it, so there are probably more productive uses of your time and energy than whining all over the net about it. Oh, and for the record, I am over 40 and I love the new format!
I love the new format too. Crybaby. Didn't you get an invite?
I much prefer the new site to the "old" thing. The boards are easier to navigate. The format is nicer. It's just a better board now.
But I hated the last change they made. The format at the old BC just sucks bad. Anything would be an improvement over that.
Grow up. Get off the computer and take care of your kids.
How is it easier to have a ton of boards dedicated to the same thing one used to? The new BBC has already split people up. Don't like what someone says start a new private group. The info that is easily and freely shared is not going to be on the new site. I am there right now,I keep going back to see if any changes have been made that were "promised" and NADA it is still the same as when I was invited over a month ago now.
And my kids are all fast asleep in bed. But thanks for wondering.
Again, what a crybaby
no... not our baby center!!!!!!!!! don't change our beloved site.
I too am just disgusted that babycenter made such a radical change. I have tried to get use to the new board and I can't. Its all over the place. It totally does not have the same feeling/vibe that it use to. It was so fun and easy to use and so easy to post your feelings and see/read the responses. I was a member since 2002. I really feel they lost sooo many people and sooo many people really lost a very helpful place to go. so sad. What else can we do??
for those of you who dont like the new I would like to invite you to my message board
http://www.chatterscene.com
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