If you go through the Houzz app, it does not even let you edit a post. You have to post all over again after the one you just did. It stinks..

And, I can not save a bookmark anymore. When I press 'save' it does nothing...It's quite aggravating.

Yes, about "save." Also, when I click "Your Houzz" I get the spinning ball "waiting for response" before the page opens several seconds later. There must be troubles with the site.

I have noticed a couple changes in the site, nothing big, though. For example, at the top of this page, there is a little bubble that has "Cacti & Succulents" in it where there used to be nothing. Again, just a small change, but it might indicate a bigger update that happened.

Haven't noticed such issues. After reading a post and hitting "back", it takes me back to the C&S site as always. No trouble editing. I'm using IE if that makes any difference.

After reading this thread, I went to the 'bubble' up top that says C&S, clicked there & it asked me to get started w/ "Welcome to Houzz advice" & to click on 'get started'. It wants me to select topics of interest, I have no interest in this modified interface whatsoever.

It does not return me to the C&S site as it used to. Now I have to go to my laptop 'tabs' & selected C&S forum which was my default entry to GW.

I no longer seem to be able to just click from one GW/Houzz plant site to another, like from C&S to Houseplants, to Sans. to Hoyas, my 4 main forums of interest.

I know it's their site now, but I HATE IT when folks get it in their heads to fix that which is not broken.

A simple notice of or indicator that they're working on the site & redesigning some navigational features would have been welcome (& appropriate).

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

It's not that I hate change, it's that I'm used to speed, going as fast as I want, not having to slow down to relearn how to do each single task.

If relevant, at home I'm on laptop, at work on PC, using Google Chrome on both.

Karen, that is exactly what happened to me too just a while ago. It's a big square that does not let you escape from it unless you click 'continue' or you have to back track. It does not give you the option to say no. What a pain. I did press continue then it went away. So frustrating. Why they have to make all these changes when it's perfectly fine is beyond me.

Mike

Well, thanks Mike, we can reassure each other than we're not losing our marbles ... sigh.

I had tried the continue or right arrow, but that got me further into Houzz.

But the BACK button (or left arrow) seems working just fine & importantly, returns me to top of the site w/ the option of other Forums (whew). As Paul said, Back seems to return me to the original top of forum we're used to.

When you first come to this re-designed site, the pop-up asks you to select the topics that interest you, it creates a list "Your Topics" on the left side, basically shortcuts to your favorite forums, such as this one! Okay, that I like.

I see only two choices of how to view the list of threads, with or without photo. I chose with the photo, but it doesn't have a clean look anymore. I liked the previous look, it feels so cluttered now, my eyes don't have
a place to settle. I really wish the photo to the thread was on the
left. The photo and the thread title are too far away from each
other.

I don't know why we must have a 'top commenters' on the left side, I so don't care, it's just a waste of space on my screen.

So when I click on a thread, the original poster's pics are full size, but all the commenters pics are half the size, if I want to see larger I have to click on it and it opens. :(

I had pop-ups trying to re-direct me to home improvement sites. This started 3 or 4 months ago. I got so frustrated because they were popping up every time I clicked a topic. I finally went to a Houzz help site and stated that if they didn't turn off the pop-ups I would have to quit using Houzz and miss all of their advertisements. That solved the problem. The pop-ups stopped within one day.

Wasn't there a "bookmark" function before? I swear I used to be able to bookmark posts but now I just see "save" and it goes to my "idea book."

This succulent forum should move to an independent site IMO.

I've always hated how hard it is to stay in the cacti and succulent forum instead of getting re-directed to general houzz.

You can add me to the group that sees no difference in navigating this site. I have been a member of Garden Web since the days of Spike before the millennium and while I do see various references and redirects to the Houzz side of things, they do not divert me from my regular forums. I access everything the same way and all my regularly visited GW forums - and I visit a bunch of them - are accessed the same way and look exactly the same as they have always done.

I will add that I am always logged in to GW, so that might make a difference. And I bookmark using my browser's bookmark feature (not via Houzz), which can be sorted into various bookmark 'notebooks' - I have a GW notebook, as well as a recipe notebook and a couple of others. Works ideally for me.

Honestly, while I see this same complaint/comment on various forums, I really do not understand why some folks seem to have so much trouble with the site, while my experience is pretty much unchanged since my beginning membership here. It is perplexing and must be maddening for those affected.

If you see the Houzz screen:

If you see the Houzz type, scroll up to stories and advice. Don't click, just hover. It will bring up a screen for GW. Select Gardening (or one of the others), then select African Violets. That will get you into GW. I usually have "All Discussions" selected.

This is from my post on AV forum. Just pick the forum you want.

Now is anyone figures out how to make the save button work, let me know. They replace bookmark with save and it doesn't work.

Gabby

It used to be Garden Web until it got gobbled up by houzz...and yes, your saved posts go to Idea book now - this is what houzz says:

..."Your Houzz Bookmarks

Your bookmarks now live in an ideabook, you can save everything in one place!"...

I do not have any problems but am logged on same as gardengal, so maybe that is the difference...

Gardengal, I have posted the same instructions on several pages just today. I have started just printing something I really want to keep. I used to look at the "Rate-My-Space" site on HGTV and they pulled the plug. I lost everything I saved.

Rina, I to am logged in to GW and my link on the computer takes me directly to GW. My old bookmarks are in the folder they talk about, but I can't add any new ones. The save button doesn't do anything.

Not me. I am having essentially the same experience that gardengal48 reports above...although I access this site the same way she does and I am on an iMac, which perhaps makes a different. I don't know. I'm not an old-timer here. Found GardenWeb about 6 months before Houzz took it over. I was unhappy to see that happen. But I had bookmarked the "cactus and succulent" page from the start; that and the Sans area are the only two I ever use. When I want to save posts or pictures, I bookmark right onto my Safari saves and retitle in a meaningful-to-me way. I have constantly avoided idea books and any other real interaction with Houzz.

It’s one of the reasons I use this site less. It’s 2018 and yet it seems like this page is stuck in 2008. All the issues are easily fixed.

Mmmmh, I’m sure there was a ‘say thanks icon’ somewhere or was I dreaming?

Gill

Gill, it seems not to be an icon, rather under the Like or Save Icons, my screen shows in green "Say thank you" just below that.

My office GW/Houzz view never returned to normal, I can only read there not post (older password problem). At home I'm on Window 7, at work Windows 10, wonder if that matters here. Now I can't readily switch between different forums.

So many of you by phone now, must be all kinds of interface oddities.

Thanks to Sherry & her tip abt hovering over 'Stories and Advice' I can still get to various forums, just not so easily.

I don't log in & out, just leave it on both here & at work.

Houzz is going to lose people over this, even more than we've already lost.

Yes, it was in green and not exactly an icon, but positioned wher you said Karen, as you rightly remind me! Lol. Anyway, it’s not there now on my iPad! Stupid Houzz, what have you done now?

Gill

My "save" button doesn't work either.

When I am on the c&s page, links will change from green to black when I visit them. If I refresh the page or return later, ALL of the links are green again, without any changes or additions to the post. I cannot easily tell if I have visited a link and I find that aggravating.