Organizer, I meant organizer, the person who posts the threads. Anyways, it’s been fascinating, I don’t mean to bail on this thread, but it’s getting off-topic.
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Sure there are places like that. Here, for instance!
Desperation on whose part?
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I have never read chowhound but it is mentioned often enough on HO that I wondered what the deal was. I didnt bother signing up but from just a glance its so crowded with information I wouldnt know where to begin.
Makes me appreciate how streamlined HO is.
I caught it at the end of its natural life. So many good content providers!! I couldn’t believe the melt-down, the contempt for the posters who really had something to say.
Now, here we are. Keep the content coming! Cool weather is on the way. Good cooking weather, people!
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Dan you win a special award! No, I’m serious, there’s an entire thread devoted to you.
May I ask how you found HO? You are a rarity, most of us are from Chowhound, I think I found it when my posts started disappearing and I knew I was going to get das boot soon, someone told me to post here. It was @Presunto ! Why yes, it was. I used to post at another forum with her and I was complaining about Chowhound. Still not banned, yet… maybe after my last post, now I am. 
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@small_h I’m not ignoring you, I just don’t feel it’s worth discussing anymore, it was a mean-hearted post, especially since I belong to another group that has members that still post to CH.
It is what it is. I’m happy here. I don’t care what they do.
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Kathy, at this point I dont remember exactly how. Its very likely I fell into a rabbit hole and woke up here. I recently retired, my wife is still working p/t. Now that Im off the road months at a time, I have taken on meal planning and kitchen detail. Giving myself a real challenge to cook more at home and learn stuff from scratch. So I was actively looking for help…and low and behold…I found it.
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Ok. I was just confused by what you wrote.
I, like many others, had passwords changed
somewhere along the way.
So now I can’t even interact with my own threads.
Really lost interest after they eliminated regional boards.
Must say, I haven’t had any inclination to even type in the address.
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Site design changed! Title kinda difficult to read with the new font (usually reserved in fashion magazines, actually several years already). Mhh
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Your post prompted me to visit CH. Those fonts hurt my eyes, oh my. 
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I find the font difficult. But there are some aspects of the new design that are cleaner and more informative.
Interestingly, since there was such enormous outrage over the “heart” icon I find it ironic that you can no longer easily see if your post has been “hearted” by clicking on your “post” column. A person would actually have to go back to the thread and look at the full post there.
Their response to that whole fiasco was what started the mass migration away from CH. And now they no longer are invested in the darn thing enough to make it’s usage easy for the members to monitor (if they actually care)!
The problem with that font, besides the fact that its hard to read, is that it doesn’t match any other fonts on their page. Its like decorating one of the room in a house in post-modern style while the rest are in Victorian.
The problem of these type of serif fonts (Didot, Bodoni), with large contrast is usually set in used as display font in large size, and usually in print. With the small size used in CH and web, one can’t see the fine lines very well, the worst is italic. Also, these fonts are used a lot in fashion field (e.g. Vogue), maybe CH is trying to appeal to those people?!
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It’s funny because they say they were trying to make it easier to read, but it’s so much harder on the eyes.
At least they are soliciting feedback, let’s see if they do anything with it. One would wonder why they wouldn’t solicit the feedback beforehand…
It’s amazing how there are little (or not so little) design features here on HO that are so intuitive and user-friendly (bookmarking threads, for example) and by contrast CH becomes less so.
I still enjoy some of the threads with strong communities, though, but it’s disappointing when the site design mostly get worse.
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I think because that came back to bite them in the past.
They had enlisted a number of frequent/long term posters to test a beta model of what eventually became the “big” change. People took their participation seriously, invested much thought and time into providing feedback. When the new design came out it seemed to have ignored a great many of the issues the testing group had warned of. These issues in turn became some of the main issues the rest of the community disliked.
After putting in all that energy to help a community they cared about many of the testers seemed to feel used, disrespected, etc. They were very much invested and it felt like a slap in the face being treated with so much disdain. Which added greatly to the bad blood during the reign of “CEO George” who left CH after leaving disaster in his wake.
I was not one of the testers so this summary represents my impressions formed from many comments, posts and private emails during that period.
I’d be quite interest in the perspectives from any HO’s who were involved in testing during that period.
edit: should be VP George
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Who ever designed this system did a great job! It is very intuitive and seems to have taken human nature into consideration during the development.
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Yeah, I just checked it out for the first time in a while and a quick count shows at least 6 different font styles. Not so Bueno to the eyes.
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Yet I never made it past those fonts to find out. They were so hard on my eyes that I wondered if they could have been a coding mistake.
