Comments on: Introducing Hint Notifications and Preferences

By: Karee

Karee — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:03:23 +0000

This “leave a comment” feature automatically blocks honest evaluations of the so-called “improvements.”
At 22,000+ hints, it is a ridiculous feature that is bogging down your program. From what I can see only a small percentage are not “hints” of my own original entries.
Stop spending my membership $ recruiting new members to a slow, flawed program. Give me what I have paid for since 1987.

By: Karee

Karee — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:56:46 +0000

What is your problem??? For a week I have been getting “Come back soon” messages and the loading is so slow. In fact, it appears the page is double loading.
I have had an Ancestry membership since 1987 and each of your “improvements” just slows your system & my research down.
And as to the “hints” at 14,000+ hints, it is not a feature I will be using as most of the “hints” are my own original entries…
Maintain services for existing customers before you spend my membership dollars to advertise for more memberships.

By: Karee

Karee — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:52:28 +0000

What is your problem??? For a week I have been getting “Come back soon” messages and the loading is so slow. In fact, it appears the page is double loading.
I have had an Ancestry membership since 1987 and each of your “improvements” just slows your system & my research down.
And as to the “hints” at 14,000+ hints, it is not a feature I will be using as most of the “hints” are my own entries…
Maintain services for existing customers before you spend my membership dollars to advertise for more memberships.

By: Denita

Denita — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:10:23 +0000

I would love to ignore hints from entire trees. I have trees that I’ve been invited to that include information from research that I’ve already done and I don’t want to see anything that is posted on those trees. Please consider adding that option in the future.

By: Mark Thomson

Mark Thomson — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:53:21 +0000

One thing that would be great would be the ability to delete/ignore blocks of hints. There is so much crap in the hints that it virtually makes the hints useless unless you have hours to scroll through thousands of stupid images such as flags, etc. Need a way to process the data quicker and get to whatever good stuff is there

By: Lori Dickman

Lori Dickman — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:57:06 +0000

Recently, I have gotten new hints of photos added by members I am connected with that are photos that I originally added and I even get some hints for photos that show that I am the member that added them. Why do these show up as “new” hints when I added them to my own tree originally?

By: BEE

BEE — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:19:53 +0000

Well, it looks like this is going to be an ongoing problem.
As far as the 1940 census, I think I for one will be glad that other states I am waiting for are taking longer to be indexed, because the almost 500 “hints” that have popped up with the Maine indexing will be enough to get through, especially when I am already getting hints that aren’t there.

By: BEE

BEE — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:08:18 +0000

In case anyone is wondering, I received an email from Aaron, and while there are still some “currently no People hints” it has greatly improved – 101 down to 27, so I’m hoping that I will finally see an end to this issue.
So thank you for your help, Aaron.

By: Britt

Britt — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:56:21 +0000

I don’t know why you keep changing things that work fine as they are all you keep doing is slowing things down in the long run

By: dannieb

dannieb — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:17:57 +0000

To Liz 7 – Messages you saved are still there – click on the envelope icon and your messages box will open.