OK, now I'm freakin' out here, re: the new 'My DU' button!

[Richard Steele]

They gave us DAYS of warning about the new 'journals'
feature, and took their time building up to it.
No problem there.

But suddenly, without a hint of warning,
the 'my posts' feature was smysteriously replaced
by a button labelled "My DU";
and clicking it takes me to a strange, unfamiliar
page where I have to search to find the "my posts" page!

I used 'my posts' as a serious navigational tool,
to keep up with issues I cared about as well as
actual conversations with my fellow DUers.

I suddenly feel like Grandpa Simpson here:
"I used to be 'with it', but then they changed what 'IT' was.
And suddenly, what I was WITH wasn't 'IT' anymore,
and what _was_ 'IT' seemed strange and frightening to me."

Is it just me, or does a total change in an old feature,
one that gets used thousands of times a day,
deserve at least as much 'heads up' as some totally new thing
that no one has seen here before?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You are probably right, my dear dicksteele.....

But now it's here, and we might as well get used to it....

I suspect it won't be too long before it feels as normal as our old Posts button felt!


:shrug:

[Suich]

2. I just noticed, an hour later than you did!

It happened this afternoon, right? Please don't tell me it's been that way for a few days!

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

6. Right. nm

[DS1]

3. This isn't serious is it?

"Holy shit" if it is

[Richard Steele]

5. We FEAR change.

[havocmom]

4. Not just you. I too clicked what I thought was My Posts

after returning to my desk after several hours. New page came up and it was like, 'where AM I? What is this? What was I doing?'

Damn, I still need more rest.

Cool feature though. Think Skinner and Elad were just feeling frisky and decided to spring this on us to watch our reactions?

[Shine]

7. Testify, friend! I can totally relate.

for me, the jury's still out on whether I think the "MY DU" button is an improvement or not. I've been so used to it being a different way....

AAAAAHHHHHH......!!!!!!

Sigh. Breathe.

Change is the only constant there is.

We just gotta go with the Flow, babe....

:hi:

[hfojvt]

8. it now seems to go right to "my posts" anyway

so it is not that much of a change. I thought it was gonna be 2 clicks instead of one.
But I never was "with it" so I do not mind being "out of it" although I might care if I get a round tuit.

[realisticphish]

9. I didn't notice until you mentioned it

I have a seperate bookmark button for "My Recent Posts" next to the regular DU button, so I just click straight to My Posts

[Richard Steele]

10. That's not a bad idea.

Maybe I'll set mine up that way.
Thanks!

[realisticphish]

12. no problem

it saves a LOT of time for a frenetic DU post-checker like myself

[obxhead]

11. I'm lovin' it!!!!

your posts, your PM's, all right there....

I'm lovin' it!!!