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Latest 'glitch' with this site..

carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10

2 years ago

last modified: 2 years ago

So now over the past couple days, I've noticed that if I go to the notifications page, and click through to threads, it switches automatically from gardenweb.com to houzz.com, where I'm not signed in, then, when I try to comment or like something, a sign-in/sign-up window pops up. But it's not every thread - some go to gardenweb 🤔

Houzz seems to want me to sign in with my google account, but I do not want to do that, especially on topics I started, since I then cannot thank people, etc. It does not recognise the password/username I use for gardenweb.

I just think it's weird - and a little annoying - and felt like sharing. I can just replace 'houzz' with 'gardenweb' in the URL, and have been doing that, which is the small annoyance.

And I do wonder about all the HU###s I've been seeing lately - if they're members who got switched around...?

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petalique

2 years ago

I think Houzz has hired inexperienced programmers.

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Olychick
2 years ago
Or programmers who care nothing (and weren't hired to care) about these forums, esp the GW holdouts.
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arcy_gw
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That's happened to me for years. I didn't notice the switch from gardenweb to houzz but it does sign me out if I try and go to a thread from notifications.
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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10
Original Author
2 years ago
What's weird to me is that it wasn't doing that a week ago.

Seems like there's always some new glitch - and they can be transitory...
vgkg Z-7 Va
2 years ago
I noticed a couple of days ago that they did go back to turning thread titles gray from black once they have been read, at least that's how it's been on my end for the past month (was staying black once read).
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woodrose77
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
I just went to the notifications page to see what would happen and it stayed on gardenweb, thankfully. I don't like Houzz and rarely go there. Isn't the sign-in for gardenweb and Houzz the same? I can go from one to the other without any problem.
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foodonastump
2 years ago
Is the notifications page customizable? I jist see a whole bunch of garbage that couldn’t possibly be interesting. Jack liked a comment on this thread, Jill posted on that thread…
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