I figure it out from my computer but using my phone isn’t easy. I click on home decorating and was getting everything but.

Please add me to your list. I just messaged you through here.

DLM2000, I tried to message, but I'm not sure it went through. Could you add forhgtvonly@yahoo.com to your list so I don’t lose you? Thank you.

DLM, I would be interested too. Please add me to the list: anniedeighnaugh@gmail.com. Thanks!

I’m in! :)

Hey all - I've been a wee bit busy so haven't responded yet to everyone who messaged me, but once I get your info on the list I do reply to let you know. It is easier for me if all the info is in one place rather than some here and some in messages. Much as I hate the clunky (quelle surprise!) Houzz message system, at least I can archive all of it once I've transferred your info to my own document and email contacts. Hang tight.

Hey, I’m a long time lurker but would love to be added to the list. I love this place and would be lost if I couldn’t check in daily. You can contact me at Sbryals1@sbcglobal.net. Thanks!

roarah, my concern is not just with the changes of format. It's the change in culture that bothers me.

Since the takeover, Houzz has consistently tried to skew the site towards a different demographic than it originally catered to. For example, Emily and others started to "seed" questions/posts that appealed to a younger, hipper base. I don't blame them - houzz is in it to make money and that is the crowd with the cash.

They also are trying to flood forums. Again, I get why - increased traffic, means increased profits and I'm happy to see new faces here and elsewhere, but the flooding seems to be erasing the old community.

In my work, like many businesses, we are undergoing tremendous change in all areas. The administration understands this and we are starting to look more and more at "change management". I'm not unaware of how to deal with change, but this is not my work and I want to interact with my "friends" in a relaxing and meaningful forum. That is why I appreciate what DLM is doing. I don't know if it will work, but I hope that I will always have a way to keep up with this community that is a very important part of my social existence.

Thank you, DLM!

Thank you, DLM. I very much appreciate your work.

Pretty sure I am already on the list....can't wait. I will away for almost 2 weeks but still should be getting my emails. Sometimes I can't get on conversations from my cell, but you know I am in!!

DLM I don't know how to contact you, but please email me if we all move to a new site. My email is: Maretich@Comcast.net I've been at the Kitchen Table forum since the first day it opened.

I have lurked here for a very long time and just wanted to say thanks to DLM for her efforts to keep this group together. This group is like no other!

Thank you DLM!

PLEASE READ - if you message me through Houzz please include an email address. I can't do a group message through Houzz when the time comes to send a link. We'll have to discuss if that should be posted openly here or not. Let that rattle around in your thoughts for the moment. I am responding to those of you who have messaged me to let you know you're on the list or to ask for an email. I promise I won't use it for anything else but there's just no way for me to contact everyone through Houzz. What I'm trying to set up (while I'm also responding to all these messages) is a forum for conversations because that's our nest. It appears there is a way to have more than one forum just as we do here but that's going to have to wait till I get organized. Decorating, building, kitchens etc won't get axed from Houzz but I'm not confident about us because we hold no promise of generating $$ for them with our conversations. So this is just a heads up to those of you from Kitchens or wherever who are messaging me - the door is open but for the moment a new site will be conversations. Just don't want anyone surprised on the other end. Thx

One more thing - some of you have asked and I will BCC any group messages so your email remains private. HTH if you're hesitant.

Oh crap.... that will teach me to read all the way to to bottom before responding. I just sent you a message and didn't include my email.

Just sent a message & thank you for doing this!

I want to be on the list and can't seem to contact you ~ ~ and am hesitant to put my email addy out in this forum. What to do?

sc_irish, go here

https://www.houzz.com/user/dlm2000

and click on the "Message" button on the right to send DLM a message. Hope that works for you.

Thank you! Done.....and done!

DLM I received 2 emails from you but I have not been able to initiate or respond to emails. For some reason they get sent to my draft folder. I’m on my way to the beach for a week and will try to resolve upon my return. A great big thanks to you!

I'm on your list and I'm looking forward to a system that works for us BTW, I tried to read a forum on my Android phone last night. Impossible. An exercise in masochism.

Done!

Me too!

Sent you a message. Thanks.

Sent a message also - thanks for doing this!

Done and thanks

I messaged you. I can't figure out how to add "message" on my profile.

Count me in. I hate the new layout

I don't really have an issue working with the format-- some things are better, some things are worse but it's all usable for me. That said, this is a for-profit site with a mission. Whether we think they're doing a good job or not, their mission certainly doesn't align with our desire for comfortable community to chat about -- anything. O think the effort involved to maintain a community elsewhere is greater than most imagine.. but I appreciate the effort and would like to participate. I'm in!

I have never minded the ads or the moneytizing of data. Don't see why that's incompatible with a functioning social network. Maybe a sign of the current times - i.e. not worth the trouble.

Perhaps this is the beginning of the moneytizing of ACCESS, i.e. speed and bandwith. Or pay to play.

This new format is an unmitigated cluster. I'm looking forward to starting in a new home with all of you. Thank you so much dlm for what you're doing. I just want a nice place where I can hang out and chat with my GW friends. This isn't it anymore.

Message sent...with email address, thank you!

louise_mccarthy2002@yahoo.com. Yup, I'd like to join :)

I can't figure out how to add "message" on my profile.

eandhl2, go to your profile ("My Houzz"), and on the left side of the screen under "Account", click on "Advanced Settings". On the Advanced Settings page, scroll down to "Privacy Settings" where you'll see

"Who can message me"

and then choose either "Allow users I follow" (assuming you are following DLM) or "Allow anyone to message me". I have the latter.

I'd like to be notified, also. Will try and figure out how to get my email address to you.

I Sent a message, dlm. Thank you.

I sent you a message, thank you!

I sent a message, too.

Thank you, DLM!

I am so incredibly happy, DLM. BIG sigh of relief! I’m in for whatever, whenever you get it set up,

Hello! Thanks so much! I sent you a message!

I may have messaged you a few months ago when you first mentioned this brilliant idea - but I'll send another one just in case. I don't have a problem with things as they are but as others have mentioned 'conversations' may be on the way out.

Thank you so much for doing this.

Maire.

Thanks for taking this on. I have messaged you.

Whoa! Busy weekend here - I'm looking at my Houzz messages now and have a lot of catching up to do! I respond to you through Houzz messages once you're on the list so check there - I'm not using your email yet.

Thank you so much for taking this on. I'd hate to lose the collective wisdom of GW and I'm looking forward to having a better place to land than this place is now.

DLM, your willingness to initiate this is so appreciated. Thank you!

Thank you again for setting this up. I sent you my email address awhile back, so unless I do not get a notification about our new locale I will assume that you have the old list. You are the best!

Hi DLM, I am a long time lurker. I check in everyday and I feel like I know all of you even though I don’t participate. I would like to be included my email is tamareta@aol.com. Thanks, Tammy

The response from last night - which was a complete non-response from Emily - regarding our concerns cemented it for me. GW is dead. I don't want to be here anymore and am looking forward to landing in a new place.

Thanks from me too, DLM I am still hoping to set up a new email aat and hope to send you it over the weekend. : )