My GW and ancient houzz usernames and passwords had to duke it out. I am not sure who won and which passwords work but I got on finally.

Green tea with mint, verbena and lime leaf this morning. No crumpets just oatmeal.

Who is agmss15? Please sign off at the end with your name...or I don't know who you are. I miss our old forum :)

I finally got on. wish I'd had some email addrs for others in case they got lost... kind of a mess right now.

I didn't have a hz acct so no problem with that. BUT I had changed email addrs and couldn't get the confirming email from them...

anyway, anyone who wants go to link below and sign up so not to lose you again! momto3kids (I think it is) is keeping all our email addr to contact us if we get lost. check it out. don't freak out at first. it's a back up plan for future if needed. She notified me Mon a.m. so I knew why I couldn't pull up gw and how to get to it. email addr holder and notifier

This site sucks!

hang in there... let's see how it goes. better than a total loss.

did you have another username on gw small homes? I hope all our buddies can find us tho!

The kitchen forum was a disaster last night, but it's getting better as people figure out how to post their usernames. It's like you're standing right next to someone you know, but you can't see them!

Glad to see that the home forums are working. Great frustration in the roses and books forums.

Hi all, llucy here. I had GW bookmarked on my computer, when I clicked today I saw change had happened. Did it start on Monday? I'm just glad to see they kept the forums. And despite the confusion and frustration, it's great to see people helping each other navigate and encouraging them not to give up.

Well, I had a HOUZZ account too, but I liked the way GWeb listed the number of posts to a thread, and they made them a different color if no new posts were on a specific subject.

What I want to know is, how long do the photos stay on a thread? Can they be uploaded direct to the forum? And, can I include HTML (like my Flickr albums) to insert a picture in the post? I really really regret I did not have a chance to download all my CLIPPINGS! Some of those things were fantastic. Like how to do the potting mix. How to get rid of certain bugs. I'm on the gardening forum too for HOSTAS and such. We were in the middle of a Hosta Alphabet A-Z and I will sorely miss all those pictures.

I have also belonged to HOUZZ for some time, but it served a different purpose for me.
You know me as MoccasinLanding, which is also my ID with HOUZZ. But I don't see my name listed beside my photo. Must I rewrite a GWeb profile now? What about "favorite forums"? What about sending a member a note through GWeb? Is that all gone too?

And LavenderLass, I discovered Teavana last week. I also bought a lovely cast iron Japanese teapot with koi on it. It will be the first thing I do with my new gas range, make some tea in this ritualistic teapot. I also have some Ophra Chai Tea with lots of cinnamon and stuff in it.

They start laying the hardwood floors in the morning. Oops, I see DH is in my Teahouse, moving things. He cannot block in the appliances! Let me go supervise. :)

Steph, if you have my email, give it to the list keeper, please. Thank you. See you around, if I can find you!

Oh yeah....I'd like to see a preview of what I've typed before I submit it. I'll miss that.

ML - so good to 'see' you again! I worried about those on here not finding gw 'us'. I did see mamag on kitchens tho, so she is 'here'. I don't have your email addr...maybe Idaho does? the link I posted above will get you on the list tho. It's a temp site - in case it was needed. If not needed, it will go away soon (after things settle here) but they will keep the usernames/email addr list in case something like this happens again. They will notify us of a new 'home'.

I had an email first thing Monday morning about the change over. Numerous more thru-out the day keeping me up on what was going on here at hz and what possible other options there might be. In one email someone gave me the email addr to Tamara so I could get started on a fix for signing in here. It seemed like a lifeline to me on Monday! I was very grateful.

Also, could those on your garden forum repost the mix recipe and some of the photos you are now missing? I have a folder on my computer for gw and I copy over to a word doc things I want to save and put in it. photos I save on my photo prog I've been adding 'gw' to the name so I know it came from someone here.

I also hope we get the email msg option back (not that I ever used it but it was available and I guess I should use it!) and the preview! oh that preview - I use it a LOT!

I never had a hz acct. I went there maybe 2 times and all those little pics drove my eyeballs nuts. I figured I didn't need that - or more confusion of all those layouts, designs etc. gw was my speed... and SH's the best.

Everyone really should be able to find us - when they click on their usual SH site it'll show them what happened and how to get here.

I did have a day delay because I had changed my email addr and didn't think to notify gw people of that. Tamara fixed it so I could get in using my same screen name. Bless her heart - with all that was going on she managed to get my msg and fix it! They do seem to be working hard to make it all ok for us.

now where is Idaho? and idie? might take idie a bit... I dont' know that she comes here that often these days - and I do miss her!

I'm still here- reluctantly. I'm not liking the changes, but then, I'm a grumpy old man who isn't very tech savvy. Time will tell....

I seem to have done all the right things by omission. Didn't have a houzz account to cause problemzz. And I, too, use bookmarks to quickly find my favorite forums, so the journey was without event. I was out of internet contact most of the week-end, and busy with my father most of the day on Monday, so when I showed up Monday evening, others were already offering valuable advice and instructions.

I've been trying to read and comment on all the roll-call, welcome, and advice threads in the forums I frequent. Very happy to see you all!

I am taking a wait and see posture with this whole thing. I had no idea what was going on, as I am one of those who didn't get the "big" email. I get all the other emails, but I guess not the one that said, "Surprise! We are totally going to mess with GW and freak everyone out". I only found out about it when I signed on to GW and saw a thread lamenting this change. *sigh* I am not thrilled about it by any means, but I haven't yet thrown in the towel.

Apparently I had the same exact sign-in info for Houzz that I had for GW, so at least that part worked out well for me.

I am here! (waving frantically from the distance)
I have been hanging in the Bathrooms Forum when here at all. We still have not started the renovation and I am now trying to pin things down and get purchasing. Meanwhile, I have been hanging out at pages devoted to these crazy lifetime illnesses I have that did not get diagnosed until my late 50s. So that is why my Smaller Home friends have not seen much of me.

I had a major meltdown the other night when I typed in "THS" on my URL line and got Houzz instead of Garden Web. I mean I was sobbing. Too much change going on recently for this girl! But things are looking better and I am hopeful that our community won't disappear. Surprisingly, I have seen a few Houzz threads (or "dilemmas") turn into several thousand-long posts of little mini-communities in the last several months. So there are a few Houzzers looking for folks like us, but for the most part, I am hoping we will be left alone!

I hope all of you here are well. I just wanted to check in and see how you were doing with the changes. Hope to catch up a bit soon. Great to see that ML is making good progress on that Kitchen! Hi Lavender Lass, Steph, Jay, Shelayne, Jakabedy,and Mama!

Hi Nancy, welcome to the party!

I managed to get it but I think it is now my Houzz user name and pass. not sure . I am so not fond of changes but I guess we will get used to it. My book marks do not work for here either. Sigh. Darn it. I see many of us here so that is good.

Thanks for the welcome, Mama G! Chris/Shades is here, too! I am just minus my little underlines since I used the same username at Houzz.

nancy - it is so good to 'see' you! I saw your name on another forum here and wondered if it was you.

I was very worried about SHs board. Kitchen got notice of it. I had no idea they wouldn't let us know in advance of doing it - so I was also shocked that Mon morning. Someone on kit gathered up email addrs in case we had to start our own board somewhere. She's keeping them in case of a future mysterious disappearance here... I posted the link in an early on (here) post. Go there and add your email for future notice of a new home. Just in case.

When gw didn't come up, I checked my emails and already had several from her. It was a lifeline! I also realized then that I had no way to contact anyone here! Such a panic.

I'm glad you made it here Nancy. I think as we get older change is so much more difficult. It sure is for me. then we have 'age' problems adding to our challenges.

I'm not sure if my accounts are merged - I had the same username with different e-mail addresses. As in infrequent poster on GW, I guess it doesn't really matter as I am the only one who would be posting with my user name.

I don't know why people always think they have to "change" things. This new format absolutely STINKS and i'm being polite!

I just gave up......
After having a Gardenweb account since forever, since back when it was an offshoot of the "Parent Soup" channel thing at AOL.back in the mid-late 1990's and was still doing the same thing at the various changes and new corporate whatevers and never had an issue before or after changing my email address to Gmail in April 2004.
I finally just entered a new account name at the same exact email address I have maintained since April 2004 and seemingly have either no "old" account or the new account has no
conflict with the old. The old just not being able to "sign in".

I have been doing this sort of thing since 1990 before even AOL back when "online" was a BBS running off of a hot rod 2400 Baud modem plug in card on an Apple IIE. I have never been one tobe concerned with site appearances, but the Huuzz scheme fonts colors layout everything, is absolutely horrendous.

Just my $.02 worth.....
YMMV

not a problem to get here or get on, but what is the point, very difficult to find anything you are looking for, the gardenweb was a breeze
, i can not get the hang of this so going elsewhere or no where

Hi guys, if you continue to have issues with your accounts or have other questions about the site, be sure to contact us through support.houzz.com. We're happy to help.

I've got a question. Who is Sophie Wheeler and what makes that user a pro on all things everywhere? I'm pretty sure the user wasn't on GW.

According to:
http://www.houzz.com/pro/hollysprings-sophiewheeler/sophie-wheeler

It seems that Houzz intends to bless us all with learned person comments and critiques on all things now.
No doubt just one of many huge improvements that are very soon to bless our pointy little heads.
Now that Mr Spock has passed, I suppose that it's only right that people be appointd to steer us in the "right" direction.

Just my personal opinion here, but, it seems to me that the Houzz folks are really just here to bring a slow and painful demise to what has long been quite fine as it was.

Sophie Wheeler, a/k/a hollysprings, is a long-time, much valued GW voice. If you read her homepage, linked by pyreneesparent, you'll see she's been a member of GW since 2002. A number of other helpful, knowlegeable GW posters are also here now as 'pros', still giving great advice as they did before the move to Houzz, and one would do well to give all posters the benefit of the doubt before suggesting that they have ulterior motives.

Yeah, well Sophie can stop her "snarky" comments any time now. She's anything but a "pro".

Well, I'm confused! The first day of Houzz, I read that Hollysprings was being kicked off the forum, which I thought was over the top. Now, I read that she's Sophie Wheeler and a 'pro' on the new Houzz. Is there no happy medium?

Yes, Holly was abrupt and sometimes a bit harsh, but I grew to respect her opinion. I did NOT like that she was apparently banned on Houzz Day 1. No one should be banned, for stating their opinions. Maybe encouraged to find a more 'constructive criticism' way of stating things, but not banned.

I don't need a 'pro' either...I just like talking to people and sharing ideas. You know, like on the old GW :)

Golly! Banned? I hope I did not get myself in trouble with Houzz with the email I just sent them. The main point of it was:

"We are not "advice." We are not a Q and A place. We are friends who have
been around for 10, 15, and more years."
and

"Give us an icon to click on, for goodness sakes! How about "The Forums"
with Garden Forums and Home Forums underneath to chose from once you
click? Give us some way to find our community on your site! We are not a
secret that needs to be hidden, what, are you ASHAMED of having us join? NO?
Then where is our welcome?"

So if I disappear, it was good knowing ya!