I used the mobile format, which made it easy to find the latest posts. The topics were displayed in an easy-to-read/find – compact - manner. And just typing this, the line width is twice what it was.
Sometimes change is good, but change for the sake of change often isn’t.
Edit: Spent an additional few minutes trying to find all my old haunts, and this sucks. Can you please change it back to what it was a couple of months ago?
This redesign is so poorly thought out it’s a joke. I used to work in publication design, and when there is way too much white space, and very little to distinguish between different components, the brain is forced to constantly scan and hunt for what it’s supposed to be focusing on. Top it off with a very thin sans-serif font and it’s pretty much unreadable. Drives me nuts when someone whose job is to package information in a format that requires READING somehow does not bother to consider whether the end product is even remotely READABLE!
Oh well, I’ve been meaning to cut back on the time I spend online anyway, so thanks to the “designers” of this completely unusable format for making that so much easier!
@RandyErika how did you get your reply to be dark, bolded font?
@socaldad2002 Using some code you can get bold and color changes. People do it for results postings all the time.
How about this theory. 2mm students per year means an 8mm high school college bound cohort. 16mm parents. They do a user survey among students.
Common complaint. Too many parents and old people. Perhaps too much honesty being shared and they don’t really want to hear it?
Hobson’s well let’s modernize and squeeze out the content providers. Who cares about the quality of advice. That’s not what the kids want. They really want a parents free zone or be told they are a shoe in for hpysm or whatever.
Result is this…
@privatebanker doesn’t that make more parents than students? Maybe this is because I am mostly on a school forum but majority of users over at the UCLA forum are students. Very few commenters are parents. The parents forum is obviously where the adults and power users hang.
@10s4life, there was only one featured thread in the UCLA forum, and it was very old. I “unfeatured” it and no other thread replaced it, which is odd (usually another random thread would have taken its place). There are several PINNED threads in the forum, but there are no featured threads now.
@MaineLonghorn Ya very confusing on what’s feature vs pinned. The pinned threads are correct tho. Those I intentionally pinned.
@10s4life Exactly right. But short timers on the parent side. I’m just guessing but I don’t think the power users make any economic difference. Snapchat and instagram for college admissions. A business model that isn’t dependent on quality advice. But traffic.
The new layout is much worse. It was nice to be able to see lots of threads in one glance with the previous layout, and you can’t do that now. Way too much scrolling is necessary to use the website.
I still don’t understand why, when at least 99% of comments have been ‘we hate it, we want the old site back’ we are told it’s impossible to get the old site back. Why?
I like your theory. But do students do surveys any more than adults do? I know that I don’t participate in a survey unless I’m really interested in changing something. It doesn’t seem like the students who post on a college admissions/advice website care enough. After all, there’s Reddit.
Many of the comments against CC in Reddit state this exact thing – that the posters (students) there don’t like being talked down to by the know-it-all parents here (they think that, not me). And, in thinking about it, even the students who post here could be thinking that. How many threads are there where the OP never returns? Adult posters spend lots of time giving thoughtful, informed advice to students who many times appear to ignore it.
I don’t give advice to students. Sometimes I do look at the finaid forum, as it’s always interesting to see the entitled kids who think they are so unique that they should get lots of money simply because their parent(s) don’t want to pay.
But I really come to CC for the Parent Cafe.
I wonder – how many months will it be before CC is no more? I definitely think they are headed that way.
What do I type in the search engine on reddit to find everyone here?
@conmama See post #1063 but don’t expect much.
Roger Dooley is the owner and board chair of CC.
If nothing is done to correct this mistake, it’s likely means it’s his “top down” style of management kicking in.
@conmama search CC members in r/ApplyingToCollege
Thanks @doschicos . I think it’s harder to post over there. I’m still miffed enough to not want to contribute to any threads or start my own, other than this one, right now.
I won’t be using any longer if it takes me forever to find pages I commonly go to. I have been on for over 15 minutes and can not find the forums I most often read.
Roger doesn’t own CC. Hobson’s does. Hobson’s bought it in 2008 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080604005246/en/Hobsons-Acquires-College-Confidential. But yes, the limited response to the loud shouts of disappointment is frustrating.
Thank you jmy626 for your clarification and about the Hobson purchase.
According to Bloomberg [1], he’s still the managing director of cc:
Mr. Roger Dooley co-founded CollegeConfidential.com, Inc.
and also serves as its Managing Director. Mr. Dooley is responsible
for the business and technology aspects of the
CollegeConfidential.com.