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roselee z8b S.W. Texas

6 years ago

For those who find difficulty in navigating the GW since Houzz took over maybe it's the way it's opening for you.

This link: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/txgard

seems more like the old garden web than this one:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/gardening-in-texas-dsbr0-bd~t_30021

Do you see the difference?

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lindabuchanan13

6 years ago

I tried both URLs and they both look the same. I even switched over to Chrome and it was also the same. In addition to not being able to post a new thread, I cannot use the "back" arrow. I have to close each subject separately and go back to the main menu. Crazy how this just happened a couple of days ago. There has been no response to my complaint to Houzz.

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bostedo: 8a tx-bp-dfw
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Yes, I like the simple forum format at the old GW link and that it shoves so much less in your face. Though Houzz is understandably herding us off the gardenweb.com urls as it's become noticeably harder to keep from getting sucked over to houzz.com during the past couple weeks.

I still avoid the change because I don't understand how the Houzz cross posting works and there is no help that explains it (that I can find, anyway). Seems like your posts might get placed in all forums listed in the "Your Topics" box in the upper left of the Houzz forum page. Is that right? I've only submitted through the GW page, so don't know where Houzz would otherwise give the option to post a topic to multiple forums. Would appreciate any explanations as I suspect the change is inevitable.
roselee z8b S.W. Texas thanked bostedo: 8a tx-bp-dfw
purslanegarden
6 years ago
I still use the gardenweb address also, so I get the look that we've been having for the last few years.
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Dedtired are you by any chance using a keyboard app like say SwiftKey instead of the native keyboard? If so change back to the native keyboard and try signing in. I have run into this problem repeatedly when using my Android device and SwiftKey keyboard or other keyboard apps. As soon as I switched back to the original native keyboard it signed in just fine. Remember that there are copycat programs that try to fool you into getting them because they have a name very similar to the real thing. It is Adblock plus not anything else or similar. It will have an icon that is a red stop sign with ABP in it. There's a version for just about all the major browsers just select the right one for the browser you use. There should not be any messing up your computer by simply adding Adblock plus to the browser. However if you accidentally got one of those other sound alike programs that installed on your computer you very well may have some problems because some are malware. If you had that happen go to control panel and all programs and remove it from there. The real thing is at adblockplus.org I always recommend making sure that you have the easylist filter added to the filter preferences in the adblock plus settings and in the settings area uncheck the option to allow some types of ads.
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memetexas
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Both pages won't let me start a new topic. Instead of showing the POST button it shows NEXT which goes nowhere....just sits.

I sent a question about this via the help button and got a reply that it's because the system likes Google.

I think many of these websites don't want Internet Explorer and that's what I have...
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
6 years ago
Dang, very strange and not a very helpful answer. Both Internet Explorer and Firefox work exactly the same for me.

I'm not computer literate beyond the things that I do every day. If I have a problem my son can usually figure it out for me. Sometimes he uses Google to get information on computer problems.

There might be some help on the Computer Forum, but of course you'd have to post your question on an already existing thread to ask. But I don't think people mind that when there is no other way.
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
I went over to the Antique Rose Forum to see if they are having issues and THEY ARE, but not the same ones. Evidently Houzz is changing some things around and the program has some bugs.

Emily, who helped us out a lot when Houzz first took over the Garden Web, is aware of it. I imagine they'll have things ironed out in a few days, but it would be nice if they would acknowledge the issues and let us know they are working on them.

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