I can’t even find the roses forum in that ramdom order, and why a search on disease resistant roses comes up kitchen stuff forum??? Grrrr!

I just had the same shock, thought I'd become senile all of a sudden. Why do they do this to us? Are there any better rose forums elsewhere?But I'd hate to leave my friends and acquaintances here. The only Swedish rose group is on FaceBook and is useless, short snippets that disappear fast.

I am so mad that I wrote on Jeri's thread Houzz screwed up. I am just shocked. Oh, man !! I got to write to John. This is unbelievable. I can't do anything ...I have to calm down and follow Jackie's advise on how to find rose forum.....grrrrrrr grrrrrrr :(

Jin

Can somebody please make a forum just for Rose Lovers. I bet John and Virginia will join.

Jin

Moreover, every time I logon, I get two (not one, but TWO) "Error 404" messages. I don't think it's possible that they don't know how screwed up this is.

Mariannese -- there are some really good rose forums on FB -- but I fully understand if you don't want to do FB. Even so -- Those forums work smoothly, and are well-managed.

You can type or paste https://www.houzz.com/discussions/antique-roses-forum-dsbr0-bd~t_29817 in the url bar.

Jeri, what FB ? Like the names Bec I I have no clue :I try to find stories and advise. I can't find it. So I messed around a little and decide to go to Topics. Saw roses but my page won't is still here and now I have green borders all across saying short cuts and X button to erase won't work. Freezing up. So I got green on first 2-3 threads. I think I need a time out for tonight and maybe tomorrow too.

If someone figured this out email me plsssssss.

Jin

Up until this afternoon everything was “status quo” for me on Houzz. I wondered why I wasn’t having problems while many others where. This morning this forum worked the usual way. This afternoon, same as Jackie, I couldn’t find my “Rose related forums” on Houzz. Is there no way to jump back and forth between Antiques, Roses, Rose Gallery, and Rose Propagation and Exchange? I don’t like this at all. Where else can we go? Lisa

I can't even post a new topic of my own!

Every word gets deleted when I press the space bar! I'm on a mobile phone.

If this keeps up, I'm going to leave for a very long time like I did the last time when Houzz took over and ruined gardenweb the first time.

Absolute bs!

***YEP. Sorry guys. I'm leaving Gardenweb. Houzz has fudged this all up so bad. I can't even use talk to text to write a sentence. When typing, the words disappear after I press the spacebar, and when I used talk to text, the sentence disappears after the sentence is completed. I can't post any new topic. Absolute crap.

Steven

Well, at least we're all in good company. If I'm to be a cast member in a sci-fi ambush, I can't think of more preferred co-stars.

I've been walking around the Houzz maze for days! I know that somewhere near the heart is either a centaur or the Antique Roses Forum, but, truthfully, I can't locate either. So, once I'm on ARF, I try very hard not to log out. If I must log out or shut down my computer, I Google "Antique Roses Forum" and select the link when it shows up at the top of the search. Trying to navigate through Houzz is just labyrinthine and fruitless.

I see Jo Pye did a test post with photo that worked, but she also noted that if you edit your text, then you must reselect Antique Roses Forum as your target audience. Really?! When I posted a couple of days ago, I had to deselect unrelated or undesired forums and then recruit a scent hound to locate ARF in the scrolling list of choices to make certain it was still selected. (I learned to check for random forum targets after Jeri double posted in the Appliances Forum and my vase of Barden roses was double posted in Landscaping.) Who programmed this software? Friends at Apple used to make the old joke, "It's not a bug, it's a feature." But Houzz has stretched even their weak arguments to ridiculous proportions.

EMILY (Houzz), if you are reading this thread, can you ask that the forum design and protocols be reset to earlier configurations? The current format and user interface are causing people to run screaming into the sunset!

Thanks,

Carol

I have set my Topics to the forums that I usually visit. So I can easily get to the forums I like to read.

But I miss the Gardenweb page that listed all the forums alphabetically because there are occasions when I like to browse through the different forums And sometimes I need to specifically read about a particular plant - I got a heuchera a few months back and gathered a wealth of info from that plant forum but don’t need or want to add that forum to my topics. The GardenWeb page was easily readable on my phone. Here’s what I see now:

What a horrendous UI design and totally unusable without zooming and scrolling and rotating and hunting.

Jo

STUPID and totally unnecessary. I, too, have the topics on the side, but MUCH prefer the set-up of the garden web. Why don't they listen to our complaints and leave it the way it was?

I switched from Chrome to Firefox today and at least for now, the site is back to normal for me.

Roses • Rose Talk • Rose Share • Rose Exchange is one of the FB forums. And I'm subscribed to some of the European ones that concentrate on Austin and antique roses. Jin, there's one for Sustainable Rose Growing in Florida that might be helpful to you.

But honestly, this forum is a good fit for me. Gardenweb was! I have dipped into a few other GW forums -- Brugmansias, for instance, and succulents. I just wish they would leave it alone.

And I am NOT switching to Firefox just to come here. That's too much hassle. I'll leave, first.

I just finally figured out how to access the web site help part of Houzz - it is sort of hidden, so it took a while. Anyway, I sent them a message asking if they could put the Garden Web forums in alphabetical order, instead of random. I frequently look for other forums, not just about roses, depending on what kind of interesting plant I saw - impossible now. They immediately sent me an email that they had received my request and would get back to me. We shall see.

I first tried the old way of getting to the Support - scrolling down to the bottom of the page. Well, that did not work, as apparently this page does not have a bottom anymore! So, I clicked on FAQ. In the lower right hand corner of that, it says "Garden Web Users". I clicked on that, and then on the "submit a request" button on the upper left. There is no option after that for web site support, so I tried several buttons. The one which worked for me was called "Professional Support", which of course I had thought would give me a list of architects, interior designers, etc. Instead it is just a form to send the web site support folks a message, which you cannot tell - I only figured that out by trying the buttons one at a time. Why don't they just have a place which says "web site technical support"? Perhaps because I speak English, and they only speak web site tech?

Jackie

Houzz is the worst website with rose forums, ever. I miss the old gardenweb, it was so much easier to use. Presently when I access Houzz and try and find their Antique Rose forum I get a jumble of rose postings from the last decade or so. No page has listings from most recent to furthest years back.

AAARRRRGH!