My apartment complex has just been sold to another company. Lots of millennials in suits flitting about looking serious. Maybe the same has happened at Houzz, maybe there has been some new change where they have to look earnest and micromanage stuff that worked fine on its own.

Just wanted quick feedback that day from names I recognized.

Exactly, that is what I want when I post here, and I would not want anyone from Houzz second guessing me either.

Lucille, I love your explanation and I bet you are spot on!

Shee, what art topic? I rarely go to the Other Side. :)

Why does it say this post is by “misformink” on the list, but when you click on it, it says “sheeisback?”

And I don’t know why your post is gone, that is also bizarre!

I support flagging for spam, but I believe we ought to avoid flagging posts otherwise. I catch some of those spam movie posts almost every day and I support flagging posts that are folks selling their products without adding to the conversation. I do not support flagging a post because someone doesn't like the subject or thinks it has gone on too long.

The art topic had like 1700 comments and going. I didn't look today but it's probably still there. They were just chatting back and forth. It was bumping everything else down and just annoyed me. I think threads should have a limit (remember 150?) and after so much time as passed, just as you can't alter your comments after two weeks, you shouldn't be able to drag old threads back up from 2008. A new thread could be created and referenced back/linked to the old one.

There are others here that their name shows up different too. It's because after the Houzz takeover I created a new account using the name misformink and I couldn't get used to it. If you go under Your Houzz, edit profile, whatever you put in first and last name will be publicly displayed. Also says that there in parenthesis. The new name used to show up both places and eliminated me creating a new account. It wasn't until recent changes with Houzz that now the account name shows on the main page while displaying the new name inside a thread.

The thread is gone from Conversations and the mods moved it to those two other forums. I went to reply and post a photo of the stand and thought it was deleted. I had to go into my Houzz and look up posts I created to find it and can see where it was moved. I'll agree you could call it miscategorized, especially since the main theme of Houzz is decorating, but so is a lot of other things that are posted here. I suspect it was flagged first. Fine.

Now I remember the art post. I couldn't believe how many replies and for someone with that amount of money, they couldn't hire a decorator for help? Strange.

Sorry about your real life, I feel your pain. ;)

Thanks for the heads up writersblock.

Oakley, thank you. I actually just came back to delete that part because I didn't post it looking for sympathy. It was just an observation I'm surprised I didn't fully notice sooner.

It sounds like a member flagged it as miscategorized, which is weird because mostly old-timers post on HD Conversations. I can't imagine a moderator seeing it here and moving it.

I posted a new thread in Home Decorating (about which direction to run hardwood flooring) about an hour ago and as far as I can tell, it still hasn't shown up. I can go to my profile and see it there, but that's the only way I can see it.

It's very noncontroversial. Are they doing a wait period before it can be posted? Lots of threads are posted quickly in Hot Topics, far more spicy than flooring. And then there's the 1.8K art thread that refuses to die.

I see the floor post here in conversations

Bunnyfoof, your new post is there, the first post, and it says it was posted 9 minutes ago. So I guess there's a waiting period.

Yes, you posted it here on the convo side, Bunnyfoof, if you were looking in regular home decorating.

Thanks everyone. I actually posted it twice. The first time was in Home Decorating (wider audience but also flakier). It still hasn't shown up there. I reposted it here and it showed up immediately.

Both show up in my profile list. The missing one. No idea.

I get a 404 page when I click your link, for whatever that's worth.

"Lots of millennials in suits flitting about looking serious. Maybe the same has happened at Houzz, maybe there has been some new change where they have to look earnest and micromanage stuff that worked fine on its own."-aaaaaa!! Lucille you made my afternoon

I don't know what happens here lately but some threads magically dissappear and then re appear..numerous times. It can give me a 404 page one day, and be back the next. Or within the same day even. does remind me of somebody in a suit hurrying all serious. Oh my ears and whiskers. But he did get some stuff done in the end. As far as I remember, Here..not sure lol

UGH! Just UGH!

FWIW, you can stop receiving notifications from posts by checking or unchecking for notifications in 'Advanced Settings' in your account section. Click the 'Your Houzz' icon @ top of the page and then select 'Edit Profile and Settings'.

I recall getting constant notifications on that same "art" thread too until somebody else pointed out this feature.

HTH

P.S. I believe this site has quite a few glitches - growing pains?