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Is there a way to see the old View?

Dee Smith 111
Dee Smith 111 ✭✭
November 1, 2022 edited July 12, 2024 in Family Tree

Is there a way we can see the old view??? I can't use this --- it is such a nightmare!! How would I ever teach people using this mess?? Now the life sketch is at the bottom??? no one will ever see that! This is like someone is super old fashioned and made up computer screens like the olden days. Where I live, a lot of people don't even own computers so teaching them to navigate this would be horrific. You should make this a choice for people to use or no use. Why do you constantly do things like this without ever addressing or fixing your current sofware problems. I am convinced that the people who create and maintain this software don't ever spend any time using it or researching on it. If your focus was on fixing things and not just building new things you could have the best software there is. If you spent hours a day working on Family Search like we do, you would understatnd the frustrations you cause for people. You are forcing people to go to ancestry now to do all of their work and then if they are members they will maybe enter the info into family search-maybe not. They have a much better search engine for finding records anyway.

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  • Sam Sulser
    Sam Sulser admin
    November 1, 2022

    @Dee Smith 111 I would recommend that you join the New Person Page group where the engineering team is interacting with users and collecting feedback. You can join here: https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/316-new-person-page

    The old view toggle had to be turned off for a while today as they were working on something. Had they left it on, it would have created additional issues for you trying to you use the person page. It will be turned back on when they have completed their current tasks.

    Sam

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 1, 2022 edited November 1, 2022

    @Dee Smith 111, I agree that the new design has its problems (such as red/pink as a highlight color instead of the alert/problem/warning that it normally is), but it has many improvements. In particular, you can move the Life Sketch back to the top if you want, using the "My Layout Settings" button under Tools.

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  • Dee Smith 111
    Dee Smith 111 ✭✭
    November 2, 2022

    Yes, thank you for the info. I did use that section order thingy but I don't think it should default that way (with life sketch at bottom and such...) It's hard enough for newbies.

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