Knock on wood, I'm not having any difficulties. All my bookmarks still work as usual. I can start threads. Keeping my fingers crossed!

So far no problems but keeping fingers crossed! I haven't started any threads though but have commented on them without a problem so far.

I too cannot start a discussion. I can begin by clicking on the line to get the screen to put in my topic and then type my message, then click on next, but nothing happens. Other than the option to close, which also does nothing, there seems to be nothing else I can do.

Hopefully they'll fix this quickly gazania. Although they've ignored my emails for over a week concerning this problem. Guess they've been busy.

I've also had my postings go blank suddenly after I've thought I was going to post with no problems!

Well, finally I got a post to work. The difference is that I posted through AOL rather than Internet Explorer. I am not really sure what the difference was that made it happen. See my post about book recommendation.

Glad that worked for you! I've tried both chrome and firefox, Android and PC.

I still can't start a thread. Soon as I type a word than hit spacebar or period my word disappears. Very frustrating and like Moonie there seems to be no

Houzz help.

Moonie, it is frustrating for you. Hope it works out for you soon. There are many capable people here willing to help. Have you cleaned your cache?

Ava, that is the only help from Houzz I have received... clean your cache/cookies/files. I have done that numerous times over the last 11 days.

MP, I've been able to get a little further than you have but have the same problem of words being deleted. I even go back and reinsert the words only to have them disappear again! lol so not funny!

moonie, computer issues are no fun, whether it's the machine acting up or a difficult to navigate website. I hope all of these issues (for you and other members) get sorted out over the next few days. I can certainly sympathize with your frustration.

I haven't tried to start a thread yet, so have no idea how that is going to go if I ever make an attempt.

Best of luck to you!

That sounds frustrating. I can't even imagine what the issue would be. I hope it resolves soon!

What happens if you try to edit your original post?

Chi, i'll have to try editing my OP later. It's such an effort to post anything even half-way legible that I haven't tried it. I have attempted going back and making changes before actually posting and some corrections take, others don't. If I hadn't done that it would be completely unreadable.

I also have problems on the PC. The whole post will suddenly go blank when I hit NEXT.

Moonie, I understand the frustrations. I had to change browsers to use Houzz months ago. Very frustrating but it works for me. I just don't have the shorcuts I like in Opera. Have you tried a different browser by chance? I haven't tried a new thread yet so I can't comment on that. Hope your frustration settles down and issues are resolved soon.

I made a quick video of the problems posting on my phone. I just type "test" and space afterwards and you can see how it immediately deletes. The only way I can keep the words is writing "testtest". Adding a period automatically deletes the word. And at the end of the video I try to delete what I've written and it struggles to do so.

Cynic, chrome and firefox, both android and PC. Latrr, on the PC I'm going to try I.Esome of you may have experienced it for brief periods of time prior to this.. and Google on my phone.

What?????? "some of you may have experienced it for brief periods of time prior to this.." that auto inserted just as I was hitting the submit button.

Yep, chi. I was going to say wouldn't it be be wonderful if it were strictly an Android problem but no, i get the going blank problem on the PC. I seldom get on the PC because I'm outside from sun up to sundown so an android problem would be a struggle for me.

Yeah that's strange because it works fine for me on my PC. But the phone is obviously a problem. Hopefully it's the same bug and when they figure it out, it'll be fixed across all devices.

Moonie, have you sent a separate email to houzz or emily to see what they can suggest or if there is a fix? If not, I’d wait a day or so for the dust to settle and then reach out to them.

"Is it acceptable to you if your friends or other forum members are not able to participate as they ould .?"

NO! It is definitely NOT acceptable that friends and other forum members are unable to participate! We all have different levels of computer abilities, and it looks like we all also have different levels of how Houzz is working (or not working, as the case may be.).

I don't use Houzz from my phone at all, just on my PC. So far, this post is working pretty much as usual. I haven't tried to start a post, so I don't know how that will work.

Change is often a challenge for us 'older' folk to get used to, but usually, given some time, we can manage it, even get used to it, IF it is working properly! Moonie, yours is certainly not working properly!

After the little bit of nosing around I've done since the change yesterday afternoon, my biggest gripe is the hodge-podge way forums are listed in the 'Explore' section. That certainly discourages me from 'exploring', I don't even like trying to find the forums I know are supposed to be there. It's ridiculous!

I hate that people are leaving because of this, I hope they will take a weekend break, and try again in a few days. Hopefully Houzz will come to their senses and get everything working properly for everyone soon!

Rusty

ETA: Another gripe, what happened to all the older posts? Why is there only one page of posts? Don't they realize that people often like to go back several weeks or even more, to check something that was discussed last week, last month, or even 6 months ago?? ?

Rusty, to answer your ETA, the posts are here, they just aren’t paginated the way they were. Instead it’s now a HUGE HUGE HUGE (as in so freaking long) scroll. My hopes is they will bring the page system back so it’s easier for us to follow.

The problem with this change is that in many ways, from a users perspective, it lacks common sense. The scrolling page vs layered pages, changing the jargon we’re accustomed to like forums to topics, having all the forums listed randomly instead of alphabetical or catorgorized in a way that makes sense or making it so the back arrow doesn’t work and having a new window open for every thread we read instead. It’s just baffling.

Lukki, yes i've emailed them several times over the last 11 days when, lucky me, these new updates started for me. After several days they finally contacted me with the proverbial "clean your files" crap. What really burns me up is, from my emails, they had to have known I was experiencing the new updates, and they blew my problems off. In some of her postings, Emily even said some members might have had the changes already. So, email them? No, i won't but thank you for the support.

Rusty, thank you.

Nope, lukkiirish, not on my PC. Only 31 threads show on the main KT page, the last one updated 5 hours ago. That's it, the end. No more listed. I was trying to find the Friday quiz thread, it's no where to be found. Wanted to reread a couple of others from yesterday, too. Apparently not gonna happen. Frustrating!

Rusty

It's definitely going to take some time to get used to this new format. Wish it was back to the way it used to be too. Hang in there everyone. I hope we don't lose anyone.

Rusty, have you tried scrolling down with your cursor? When I scroll down the page, it pauses while more are loading.

For me, sometimes more load and other times I get an error msg that tells me to contact Houzz if it continues.

I have a feeling that the Browser one uses may make a huge difference. Since I'm on a Mac, I use Safari as my default Browser. It works just fine.

As I posted on another thread, I switched browsers late last night, from IE to Chrome. That was the problem with not seeing all the threads, They all show up now, as mentioned, no pages, just a long, loooooooooong scroll!

Now if they would just learn to categorize and alphabetize the topics list. . . . . . . . . .

Do you suppose that is too much to ask? ?

Rusty