Please go back to the Apple-style, simple, clean website design!
I always thought the Family Search website had a great, clean design, a clean look and feel that didn't get in its own way. The last two or three webpage overhauls, however, have made it busy and just CLUTTERED with duplicative and unnecessary features.
I wish you would stop tinkering with an interface that was almost like Apple in its clean design and ease of use. Now it's cluttered with unnecessary bells and whistles.
For example, why do we need the AI-generated "Brief Life History"? The text reads strangely since it's computer-generated, and doesn't add anything you don't already see right in front of you. I also think the "Name Meaning" box is trivial and of not much use, like the old "factoids" CNN used to have.
I was introducing a person to Family Search today (someone completely new to genealogy websites), guiding her on how to use it, and all this extra stuff got in the way and made it confusing to explain.
This seems to be a trend. Ancestry.com has also changed its design, and not in a good way at all.
Just my two cents . . .
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@upmaurer It sounds as if you were on the "About" tab. Try using the "Details" tab instead, where all the work gets done.
You can also overwrite the AI generated biography by using the the Life History section on the "Details" tab.
I never look at the "About" tab when I'm working in the FSFT.
The About tab for one of my Irish ancestors:
Sarah's Detail tab, clean and simple:
The Brief Life History box on the Details tab is currently empty for Sarah. But, if I decide to enter something there, I can click the Publish box and what I write will show on the About page.
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Aine, I think you just made the same point as upmauer. Why have the "About" feature if you can't trust the information (because it is AI generation and fraught with error) and as you say "you never use it".
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It seemed to me that upmauer never viewed the Details tab, from the description.
Everyone processes information in different ways, and I'm sure that FS tries to take that into account. Some folks need the pictures; some of us want just the facts.
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I agree with Aine, I've never once used the "About" tab. But based on the features shared between the About tab and the Activities section of the site, I think they're meant for the same audience: people who go to FamilySearch occasionally for a fun diversion, not for those who are trying to build the tree.
@melville,dl In this instance, the computer generated life history (which I doubt is an AI, because that would be completely overengineered for this purpose) is only as wrong as the information in the details tab. After all, that's where it gets its information from.
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