New Message from Knot Michelle

[dev22]

A message from The Bump
This week, we received several e-mails from The Nest and The Bump members with concerns and feedback about the new board format. We greatly respect our community members opinions and feedback so at your request we have decided to go back to the old message board format.

Tomorrow, May 18, at 10:30 a.m. we’ll be reverting all of The Nest boards as well as The Bump local boards back to the old format. Please note that after the boards switch back anything that you’ve posted on the boards after they’ve been converted to the new format will not appear. This means that anything that you’ve posted since Wednesday, 5/9 at 2 pm on the Nest boards (excluding The Nest local boards) and anything that you’ve posted since Wednesday, 3/2 on The Nest local boards and The Bump local boards will no longer be available.

We will continue to listen to your feedback and will take action quickly.
Moving forward, The Bump and The Nest teams will work closely with members within our community before rolling out new features and designs so that we know that they’ll be beneficial to you. Please continue to reach out to me, Nest Dani and Bump Kathleen with feedback and ideas about what would make your experience on the boards better. If you have any questions about what will happen once the boards revert back to the old format, please e-mail us at

[e-mail].

- Knot Michelle

[penguingrrl]

I was just coming on to post this! Wondering why it took so long for them to realize how broken it really was! Or maybe their legal team was working on getting out of the contract with the third party vendor...

[kcb]

well, Knot Michelle, it would have been better to say "That went over as well as a turd in the punch bowl".

[debatethis]

May 17, 2012 18:31:02 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

I was just coming on to post this! Wondering why it took so long for them to realize how broken it really was! Or maybe their legal team was working on getting out of the contract with the third party vendor...

Their legal dept would have to be as incompetent as their IT team to NOT be able to get out of a contract with a vendor who failed this miserably.

[basilosaurus]

A week later to roll back to a shitty format? Good luck with that.

[Deleted]

What's her definition of 'several emails'? I feel like we need a poll on how many people sent one.

[debatethis]

May 17, 2012 18:33:24 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

A week later to roll back to a shitty format? Good luck with that.

Yeah, and you will lose anything you've posted there in the last week, too.
WTF.

I like it here.

[kasi]

I like it here better.

[secretlyevil]

I want to stay here.

[ttt]

Too late. Sorry.

[KateAggie]

We're staying here, right? Wolverines!!

[Deleted]

PLEASE DON'T GO BACK. I DON'T WANNA!!

And KA, if that's a Red Dawn reference, I will kiss you on the mouth.

[IIOY]

I'm a total cheapo and want to stay here because I bought the app.

OTOH, I could get back to having a semi-productive life if we all went back to the glitchy, slow-ass Nest.

[KateAggie]

May 17, 2012 18:54:17 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

PLEASE DON'T GO BACK. I DON'T WANNA!!

And KA, if that's a Red Dawn reference, I will kiss you on the mouth.

[GailGoldie]

yeah- how many emails??? haha.

it's amazing they "listen" to us when we're not even around to complain.

should have read "our hits/clicks were too low to have our adverts keep paying us".

[GailGoldie]

May 17, 2012 18:58:54 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

My husband just brought up a good point, though.

We will never get new blood here, and our board may eventually die because of it.

I'm ok with that - if the boards here die- then it's time for me to stop being on message boards. That's how i look at it.

[secretlyevil]

May 17, 2012 18:58:54 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

My husband just brought up a good point, though.

We will never get new blood here, and our board may eventually die because of it.

Noooo.....we need to keep recruiting all black ops like...

[basilosaurus]

If they listen to our emails does that mean they have at least a mobile site functioning now?

Oh, I crack myself up.

[twotrue]

I thought that after a certain amount of time these boards became searchable on google and thus we might get new traffic.

sent from phone

[frauschmindy]

I wonder if they are also getting flack for further cracking down on swearing on the knot yesterday.

[druidp]

I ain't a'goin' nowheres.

[dev22]

I don't want to go back either. I can participate so much more over here. We can totally get new blood, we just have to remember to go post a link to here every week or every other week. And proboards is no small fish, new people may just find their way here without us baiting them.

[basilosaurus]

Hey, we already got bananawhatever. I consider that a fun success.

[heyjude]

I demand an app!! I can't go back w/out one. This has been heavenly.

If we never go back we absolutely need a strategy to hook new people.

[dev22]

May 17, 2012 19:06:53 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

Ooh, but what if in 6 months, P&CE is occupied by mommy bloggers and anti-vaxxers? IT WILL BE A VERITABLE SMORGASBORD, ORGASBORD, ORGASBORD!

Then we will leave and create GBCN part deux ;D

[doxies]

Is it weird that they have this wrong too? I already see the old format - what is the May 18th at 10:30 all about?

[secretlyevil]

May 17, 2012 19:06:53 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

Ooh, but what if in 6 months, P&CE is occupied by mommy bloggers and anti-vaxxers? IT WILL BE A VERITABLE SMORGASBORD, ORGASBORD, ORGASBORD!

Ha ha - yes the possibilities of snark and verbally beating up those not up to AP standards will be hard to resist.

ETA: stupid auto correct on phone!

[frauschmindy]

May 17, 2012 19:15:37 GMT -5 @publius said:

May 17, 2012 19:03:13 GMT -5 @frauschmindy said:

I wonder if they are also getting flack for further cracking down on swearing on the knot yesterday.

What happened?

They went from being able to say "fvck" or "fuuck" to having to say "fuuuck." Its a three u minimum now. Or three i's in shit. I saw some complaining about it in my lurking.

[Deleted]

May 17, 2012 19:21:03 GMT -5 @frauschmindy said:

May 17, 2012 19:15:37 GMT -5 @publius said:

What happened?

They went from being able to say "fvck" or "fuuck" to having to say "fuuuck." Its a three u minimum now. Or three i's in shit. I saw some complaining about it in my lurking.

I feel like they made this change on the nest a few weeks ago but it only lasted for a while.

[wawa]

I'm 100% positive that we can hook new users somehow.

Please don't go back you guys. I can't post there...at least for now, I can post here!