UGH!

Also...As you all can see, they have changed my name...That was probably my Houzz name..How they knew or how this happened is a mystery.....

Oh, there is a pencil icon for editing.

I'm a bit lost... I lost my name when they merged my account -- someone else was Gooster (or I was and forgot which email I signed up with)..... I'm wandering around the new forums dazed....

Helllooooo? Wow, this is different. I think I'll be fine as long as everybody is still here. (taking a few deep breaths)

Melle where's the pencil icon?

I would also suggest everyone going into their profile and update their privacy and advanced settings, depending on how much you want to share. There are a lot more features I've noticed and you may get inundated with FB feeds and emails if you don't update your preferences.

This is really, really different and I'm not sure I like it yet. No, it won't be fine, even if everyone is still here. For another thing, I can't open the topics in a new browser page, which means I have to keep going back to get to the original forum rather than keeping it open. I often have 2 or more topics open at the same time until I'm ready to make my comment. For another, there were some issues getting signed in. Seems to have gotten that straight (I don't really know how but it seems to have worked). Having main topics of decor mixed with conversations about random stuff and the gallery mixed in is a mess. Just my humble opinion, but that's gonna be a big fat mess. And is there no 'preview' before we submit?

4boys2 - I saw Tamara post this over in Kitchens: "If you click on 'Your Houzz' in the top right corner and go to Edit Your Profile, you can change your display name to your old member name so that name is shown on your posts."

Upper right.

Only there within your own posts.

That was to Melle

This is definitely going to take some getting used to.

I'm freaking out just a little bit. I don't like having photos of my house on Houzz. Feeling very exposed here :(

Seeing if I can add more than one photo to a post -- sorry they're non-decor related . Edit: I like the new photo capability!

Can't figure out how to get my name off my profile - I'm funcolors. I rarely, if ever, use my real name but I guess I could start...

Thx Robo..

Gooster ~ thxs for the tip to edit profile !!

Now don't get me started with downloading photos..

Plus, the oldest comments are loaded first, so you have to scroll through all the old comments to get to the newest ones.

funcolors - "If you click on 'Your Houzz' in the top right corner and go to Edit Your Profile, you can change your display name to your old member name so that name is shown on your posts."

It's not as important in most of the home forums, but I see our gardening zones or approximate locations are missing. Information that can be critical in advise given on the gardening side of the forums.

Where is spellcheck ;) & Preview

I think I have a separate Houzz login, how is this going to work? Do I use my GW login? I think my Houzz login was also melle_sacto but I never posted on the Houzz forums.

To edit, on the upper right of your posts is the pencil, and also a delete I think.

I am traumatized!! I wish we had some warning, this was kind of a shock even though I knew changes were coming.

Now I have a GW account, and a Houzz account, not sure how to combine them.

funcolours - you need to try to go back to funcolours. I already respect the advice you give under that name. And now I have to learn lori.... There's already so much to learn. :)

I looked at an old thread that was quite lengthy and it looks like Houzz cut off at a certain point. Is there now a character limit? And if there's no preview button how is one to know if they're going to be cut off?

HI Guys,

You can actually change the name that displays with your posts, separately from your username you use to log in. To do so, just click where you see Your Houzz in the upper right corner of the page, then Edit Profile and enter the name you would like to display with your posts where you see First Name on the Edit Profile screen. That will update the name displayed with all your past and future posts. The actual username is used only to log in and is part of the url for your profile page. Hope that helps!

I'm thinking there is no use in claiming someone is a spam poster since advertising a service is allowed here ??

Sheesh~ You can click the top "comment "button to get to the bottom of thread.

Just like Gardenweb..

I wish they would take us to last comment read when we open a thread.

I just wrote a new post about being lost, and it went somewhere else/I put it in the wrong place - I want to delete it or edit - how?????

Still am not seeing a pencil icon where I typed or in a thread I started.

I found the icon. Gramarows, to the right of your post there's a light grayed out small pencil beside an x.

Gramarows you posted here..

To find it in the future click on your name .

http://www.houzz.com/discussions/2828965/what-have-you-done-with-our-homeits

Thank you Shee!!! BTW, I see another potential problem, in that the original post date is not displayed upfront - not till you open it are you aware it could be YEARS old!

This is TheRedHouse checking in. The user name theredhouse is already taken here at Houzz and I just bought a cute blue house, so I'm prettybluehouse now. I'm really hoping we can all settle into the changes so our GW community stays healthy and strong.

I tried to edit my profile so funcolors shows up. Not working. I think it's because I already had a pro account here on Houzz. crap.

Can you do funcolours.20? or funcoloursGW or some other reincarnation of it?

Do you think you can make this a little more confusing!

Oh dear, so far I am not liking this. I will try to be open to change and hope I get used to it. Thank heavens my computer remembers my password, because I don't. I wonder what my name will be when I hit submit? I really wish Conversations were separate. I really like chatting with the people on Home Decor. I've gotten great info here.

Oh fer pete's sake. It's me Dedtired, known as 4eyes4me on Houzz. I would so prefer to have different screen names on each site. So now, which one do I choose? I also notice that we don't get a preview of our post before submitting. That has saved me from sounding like an ass more than once.

Well, I had to register with a different name, since I had deleted my GW email address. Then it wouldn't let me use my old name, Allison0704... and I had a professional name with Houzz from when I wrote for Atticmag, but I retired last year. Grrrr..... I don't like this new format either. Don't think I will be around much anymore, even just lurking.

funcolors - this is what I did...maybe might not work for you because of your pro profile?

Go to your houzz and click edit profile, then...

Then on the profile...(hover or click on picture to see in detail)

Hope that helps!!

FYI, to the poster about that asked about editing. It is available. Top right of your post, next to the X is a little pencil.

I very much agree on the conversations needing to be separate. I am not completely opposed to change but I am picky about how much energy I will exert in adapting to change. I have not made a decision one way or another on this change. I suspect some will be positive but whether or not that is outweighed by the negatives? Too early to tell.

I hope this does not drive too many people away :( . It took me a few tries to figure out whether I needed to use my Houzz pw or Gardenweb one

My initial reaction is to have a freak out when I'm faced with change. Then I open my mind and take a look around, and before long, I realize things are better than they were before. I'm still in the freak out stage.

But that didn't stop me from uploading pics to my profile page!

Thank you, 4boys2. That will make things easier.

I think we should give it a few days and hopefully we can all adapt to the change.

Is there a way to message through profiles?

It seems that you can only msg them if they "follow" you...

I could be wrong.

I HATE THIS! I want my old garden web back! They said they weren't going to change much, but now it's ruined!

Thanks, 4boys. That's unfortunate.

Kind of interesting that we can't message, huh?

Rather embarrassed about my "toilet paper" post now...LOL

I enjoy both the decorating "discussions" and "conversations", and I hope Houzz will consider separating them like they were under gw.