Familysearch Engineers ...... Fire Them!
I get the feeling the familysearch engineers do NOT do any research. If they did, they would not have changed it to the way it is now.
It is so frustrating, that very few have taken it on to explain.
I've been doing research for a very long time. When I check the 'exact' place box for example....that's what I want to look at....the 'exact place'.
I know it will not improve until the designers do research themselves. FIRE the ones we have and hire those who actually do research and are interested.
This situation reminds me when I found out designers of RV's don't camp. Designers of Church buildings don't have nursing babies either or they would consult their wives or other mothers on how to design a nursing mother's room...or hire a woman.
It's pretty funny actually all the way around..
Thanks for listening anyway.
Sister Gillett....
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I believe the issue is they used a Social Media browsing model as their basis for these changes and it's idiotic because they are forcing people to scroll scroll scroll like using a your smart phone.
I agree the engineer who is incharge of this is completely out of touch with the research community and I doubt they do any serious research. They have literally made their Search function the WORST of all the other geneological companies. It's unusable, I'm so dissappointed with this destruction of service they've done to us.
It makes no sense to provide LESS features that require us to scroll more unless they are ready to start moving to a more ad based system with embedded advertising or something? Is that the reason they stripped functionality? That's usually the first steps towards this advertising/scrolling based model.
Has anyone ever gotten any response from Family Search on their terrible Search function changes?
It's unusable! This site has become unusable for me because of these changes!!! :(
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I don´t agree engineers don´t do any research. They do it because their work is making sure it´s easy for users using familysearch and the only way for doing that is researching. I know someone that told me she could find a place in familysearch that she couldn´t find in the past.
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Creating new ways to search is always a good thing, but it's important to not lose features. "Exact" should mean exact, it should also give you the option to find similar results as it does now.
The main thing they need to do is give us options, rather than force one way on us.
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Thanks El Dubs.
I agree. I can't help myself nor others when this happens. I have to take the time to play around with it to figure it out.
I have heard from a reliable source that the 'team' is suppose to do a few hours each week to do their own family history but the majority do NOT do this. That is shameful in my book as they are changing things for our "benefit" but don't realize what they are truly doing.
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I'm glad to hear your friend has had success Miriam. I usually scoot over to Ancestry.com to do my major research now and use familysearch as 2nd because it is so messed up. Once I connect the sources from Ancestry to familysearch, then better suggestions come up on familysearch.
I just don't like having to play these games. I like straight forward.
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I also believe one of the major reasons for this - is the trend to social meda / smart device methodology
versus traditional computer based formats.
I just cant even stand trying to use FamilySearch on a tiny screen smart device.
Familysearch works so much better on a large screen computer
and I wish the designers would design it with that in mind
I think FS needs to have two different modes of screen design - that are optimized for each scenario.
rather than forcing users to use a layout/screen design that was meant to be used on a smart device.
Yeh I am totally bewildered at times what the engineers are thinking. . .
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Oh . . . with the number of unhappy users - not just now - but over a long period of time often just totally exasperated and frustrated by things that Just dont make any sense . . .
I think its obvious some sort of rethinking is needed by the engineers - and a new way of ensuring they are getting good feedback from real users.
on the other hand - - - change is always difficult . . .
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