lavendar_lass - I'm relatively new to the forums, though a long time lurker and advice sponge. Houzz can relegate GW all it wants: those who truly appreciate the GW forums are gathering 'round just fine, it appears.

If they can figure out how to get back in. Putting your old username under 'first name' in "Profile Information" should work.....

Hi there, We've kept the GardenWeb forums and content intact and migrated them to the Houzz platform. Houzz is a very large site with a lot of different kind of content other than forums, but the GardenWeb forums and community are very important to us. You can still access them through the gardenweb.com url, as well as through the Advice section on Houzz. Hope that helps!

I agree, lavender. And the IT staff either didn't think through the switch or didn't care to make it go smoothly.

"Houzz is a very large site with a lot of different kind of content other than forums, but the GardenWeb forums and community are very important to us."..... I accept what you are saying, but for the committed GW users who accessed Houzz for eye candy and GW for practical advice, GW forums now put under Advice, makes it look like a "Ask our columnist" fillers which are in the last pages of magazines and usually act as fillers.

Although I do have some issues with the new Gardenweb, I would argue that they did quite a good job considering the circumstances. It seems that they were tasked with doing it quickly, as the news that Houzz bought Gardenweb did not come that long ago.

Integrating two completely different software platforms together like this can be quite tough to do. Gardenweb had tons of forums, posts, users, and data, and they preserved most of it well. The process did not go without a hitch; there seems to be issues with some people's clippings transferring, and there have been some issues for people who had both Houzz and GW accounts. Still, a few glitches are inevitable when you're porting over a forum as big as Gardenweb and things could really be a lot worse.

Maybe we want to stay hidden? Not such a bad thing. I don't care where they stick us as long as I can get to it. All my bookmarks and auto log-in's in Chrome continued to work. I did not have to change a thing. I suppose I will eventually fix my screen name and I did turn off all social media and email tracking for now until I get a better feel for things.

I don't know, Lavender, it might be nice to (hopefully) quietly go about our GW business rather than broadcasting, "Hello--We're HERE!" : ) I think we're all feeling a bit like we've been spun through a vortex and arrived all disheveled and discombobulated. Here's hoping we can gather ourselves back together again and keep sharing lots of good ideas with one another. Now, can you check and make sure my slip isn't showing and that my collar is back in place? LOL My hair's still a mess, but that hasn't changed any. ; )

Maybe it's my device, but when I click on the same GW kitchen icon I always clicked on, I still arrive at the Kitchens forum. Still getting used to the paler, lower contrast, pretty but weak font. And I'm going to miss Conversations on the Decorating forum...people are talking about a Kitchen Table forum to take its place. Nice to see you around, Lavender Lass!

Hey, it used my Houzz ID, not my GW one, where I'm bpathome. I never posted on Houzz. Sigh, need to check out the questions about username.

Just checking to see if I'm me now...and if MY slip is straight lol!

Emily - I did email about this but is there any chance of somehow getting the conversation side of the Home Decoration site back in. It shouldn't be that difficult to set up.

There already is a Kitchen Table - if you go to the list of forums (on the left side of the list of threads page, click on Home Forums and it's listed under This Community

I am missing the conversations I have to admit.

Unfortunately, a good garden forum is now gone. I am not interested in buying home products but interested in gardening. Too bad. This transition was really Jr Varsity!!!!!!

This will take some getting used to. Will have to poke around to find where things are and how it works. Are our clippings still there? I don't want to lose all that info--especially because our reno starts the 23rd of this month.

Emily....the transition was a bit of a mess. It kept asking me to post my username OR my email, but would not recognize my username. Maybe using email and then making it more obvious where we could add our username....would make this all less frustrating.

I am choosing NOT to wear a slip :)

lavender_lass, you naughty girl! It's cold here, so I'm wearing long-johns. ;)

Thank you for the warm welcome, pegjustpeg.

Does anyone know where we might look for our clippings? Or we're they zapped in the migration?

Thanks pegjustpeg. I didn't realize you guys were affected as well.

twobelles - presumably you should be able to find them under the Bookmarks section of your profile, and some have (found some of them?). Mine are gone.

Where is Gardening Australia or is Australia not worth worrying about?

Keith Melbourne Australia

What a frustrating time! My eyes are tired and my nerves are stressed. Am going to bed and will check in tomorrow. Maybe it will magically heal GW/Houzz merge overnight. Ha.

I'm with tea4all. Here's hoping we wake up in the morning to the familiar, comfortable, old school, supposedly out-dated format of our beloved GW. What a lovely dream....

Breezygirl: I feel the same way. And I worry that it's just a matter of time before the identity of GW forums disappears altogether. I can't imagine Houzz wanting to support/sustain them in this way.

Very interesting. I had written a short paragraph about GW being swallowed by Houzz but that part wasn't posted. Is this accidental? Censorship? Huh.

Newbie here, when I found this gardening club, it took 15 minutes to sign up, search, and hook up with 4 fellow gardeners with trades. I stumbled onto this forum after trying over an hour to get to my lists and messages. Joined Dec. 31, it's currently Feb. 10, hope to find my stuff before Feb. 11!

I want plants, seed, roots, starts, rhyzomes, leaves, stems, petals, DIRT! Don't want to stumble through my kitchen or bathroom to find them. Sorry, new school disappointed, cause old school GW was ideal.

I hope it's not censorship Breezy. I think we should be allowed to vent. I must say that navigating today was much easier than last night and I do like that posting is so much easier. This format though is very hard on my eyes.

They've been letting me vent...a lot. Breezy, you might try posting again. And post some kitchen pictures, if you can. We need some EYE CANDY!!! :)

I also have said on other threads, that I thought we should at least have a TAB at the top of the House page and not be stuck under Advice. What were you thinking Houzz?

"Advice" isn't a very encompassing term. Forums or Discussions come to mind.

I have always loved Houzz and used their pictures as inspiration for my kitchen reno, however, it was GW that helped me pull it all together. I got actual sources, advice, support and, dare I say it, "love" from GW. A totally different thing from what I've used Houzz for.

This merger doesn't make sense to me, unless Houzz was somehow worried about the power GWers had on large purchasing decisions.

If you like the GW enough to buy it; then let it be. It wasn't broken.

Thanks for the opportunity to say my piece.

GW approached Houzz to save it from closing, according to an admin post I saw on another forum. Maybe GW wasn't broken, but it had a few cracks.

I don't understand why you all have to go into advice. At the top of the Home Decorating forum page to the left - the different forums are listed. That's where I go. Actually I have everything bookmarked.

Yes, at the top left column on each GW forum home page is the link to all of the GW forums. They are divided exactly as they have always been on GW, Home forums and garden forums. Exactly the same categories and forums.

I too have all of mine bookmarked so it's only one click away. The listing for related forums is still up at the top of the page also.

Personally, I like being considered an 'advisor' :-)

breezyyyyyyyy! There you are. So what's the word on the backsplash? I am very much enjoying my pull placement by the way, thank you for your spacing 101 post for single pulls on a drawer. Look at me posting completely off topic. I think I am still feeling fumbly with the merger. See how I worked that in to save my post?! I guess just waving hi!

Keithgh, go to bottom left of main page and comments page. You will find a drop down with the various countries to choose from. Australia is one of them. ;)

I am actually kind of enjoying the merge. Although I still can't figure out what happened to my GW profile, since I was an avid Houzz user, it automatically logged me in that way... or I missed the other option... I didn't have any clippings saved though, I don't think. I kinda like the "like". I can give kudos with out having to post!

OH!! Autumn_4!!! How are you? :)