Stefan

You may not know history of this forum. Used to be a terrific place with lots of very experienced - and friendly and helpful members, from all around the world. Many were on this forum for years. So many left, i's not funny. Sure, some ppl would leave anyway, and that is normal. But after houzz purchasing it, it just went down the hill. There are many problems happening now very often.

So, some of us care and would like to see forum at least performing without lost posts, lost photos, having no problem posting...and one can go on and on. I am not sure what the reason is - maybe because we, succulent and plant ppl, do not purchase anything here and therefore are not too important? Who knows...

I think it’s still a good place. Many forums are helpful. Yes, it used to be better.

Rina, you should hear the people on the rose forums! Not only the succulents.

For the rest exactly what Rina says!

Dinie

I think it is same with just about all forums. I don't read rose or other forums any more. Used to follow posts on Hot peppers, and almost all members left (they opened their own forum, I do not go there anymore).

Stefan

Would you mind explaining what you mean by "too uptight"?

I agree fully. I'm a member here since somewhere in the ninetees. A lot of good plantfanatics were here and went somewhere else. I was expelled once by recommending another site, so I won't do that again. So if you want to know, send me a personal message.

ps. Rina, I cannot find your emailadres anymore

Harry

Can you send me message thru houzz? (I can't send you one). If you do, I'll send you my private email address.

no success.. here's mine:

For me, I'd be afraid to even make threads like this. God forbid they get fed up and just drop this whole forum and then we have no where to go((

I too have issues posting here, especially when posting pictures. Sometimes I can't post more than one at a time. Then when I try to post more than one at once, it says" sorry refresh page" and it's gone.

It use to be great but it is still better than others for me))

After all, it was here even now that I have continued to meet so many people and friends despite its quirks.

I do know that anyone can 'flag' anything they don't like or agree with, and make that post just go away even over little things. That should be fine tuned..

Stephan, For instance I can 'flag' your post and it will disappear watch sorry to use your example but you can rewrite what you need I’m sure you won’t mind me showing ))). There was nothing wrong with it but all I have to click that I don’t like it, and it’s gone. Watch.

Mike

I ve dont it before(the flagging posts). This forum(unlike cacti guide and bcss) doesnt instaban for bad behavior. Which part of the reason i have a "dissagreement" with them, rina. I dont want to talk about it further any if you dont mind.

Stefan

Not at all, I just didn't understand and rather asked than assumed wrong.

Its okay. Im sorry if the tone i used is a bit severe. I avoid getting into fierce arguments after that whole ordeal if nothing else.

My main complaint is expressed beautifully in Mike's 2nd paragraph. Photos rarely get into arguments. I love seeing what other people are growing. I am amazed what people can grow in the northern latitudes and the more tropical climates. I have a shelf of garden chemicals that I am reluctant to use because of personal health risks or potential damage to bee populations or runoff to underground water. One poster (I'm sorry I don't recall the name) educates me on which products work and how to best use them. I'm sorry I don't read most of the 'how to' grow posts because at my age all the damaged plant experiences that ended up rooting themselves without my help taught me all I need to know on that subject. Sorry if I am rambling. In conclusion, I am most interested in other poster's beautiful pictures. I am frustrated that this platform may prevent people from posting that which I most like. It also prevents me, at times, from posting pictures of plants I am proud of, or which I feel might be helpful to those not as gnarled and old as I.

Aloebot I stalked this forum for a year before joining because of the pics. There is a GW member by the name of Atzqm or something along those lines. I’m sure most of you guys know who I’m talking about;). The pics of their cactus flowers stop me in my tracks. I can look at them over and over again.

The way this forum is laid out makes it ideal for looking at pics, but with more and more ads, and not being able to upload pics it makes the forum not as great.

I check out other succulent forums from time to time, but their layouts are old school. They remind me of how forums use to look in the early 2000’s.

Glad to know there are other pic loving people out there.

I'm sure it doesn't help that so many folks have drifted over to FB. With less traffic on a forum, there is less reason to spend time and $ on its design and functioning. Unfortunate, but rather understandable. Problematic though for those of us who do not like FB. I much prefer the better organization of forums to the chaos of FB. So much easier to find threads I'm actually interested in on a forum.

Houzz tech support is very condescending and patronizing when they tell us to update our browser (mine's automatically always up to date), ask us to let them know what the problem is, and then it still doesn't get fixed. Sometimes when searching old posts I wonder where all of these great people went.

Maybe I'm on the wrong groups, but people here have more of a maturity than on FB. FB can be good with some more specialized areas. I've set up bulletin boards in the distant past, but it's too impractical now. There used to be migrations from a problematic site to one run 'by the people'. I guess we just figure out how to post (i.e. one photo at a time) and go from there. And be thankful for what we have (after I did all of this complaining).

I've noticed aloebot and some others not posting as much. I miss it.

hablu, if you see this, could you message me? I can't message anybody until they send to me.

I've been on GW/houzz for a long time but I'm mostly on FB now because I can comment directly to a post instead of one long thread. I love the pix here but if there is too much writing I won't read it. hehe. I missed something about the rose forum (from Rina) but they are nasty people there! Like some big competition where they feel the need to one up you! Quit them a long time ago.

FB has planet euphorbia that I love! People from all over the world for sure, very cool. Some of the other succulent groups not as good.

My visits to this forum significantly dropped after it became a pain to post in it. What was supposed to be a very interesting browse can quickly turn very aggravating when these updates get rolled out. Clearly, whoever is handling it is not very good in doing their job.

I am one of those who moved to FB. I have been fairly active in about three of the plant groups, one specific to succulent hobbyists with cold winters. I have a couple which i joined but left because of i found some members quite problematic. Its just not worth it.

Laura

I never visited rose forum or commented about it... I do not grow roses :)

I said that many people on the rose forums were complaining too, not only the succulent people.

HaHa, you Ontario people all sound alike.

Polite, eh? ;-)

I’ve cut down my posting drastically because I no longer seem to be able to post photos- did something change and are there some new instructions somewhere?

All you can do is post one photo, then go back and add more through editing your post. It seems that Houzz either doesn't care or their web people don't have the ability.

I just tried to post a single photo on the ‘blooms’ thread recently and it didn’t work so gave up, has the resolution threshold changed?

Do you wait till the pic stops looking grey? Idk if others have this issue, but while the pic is uploading it will be grey and or upside down. Then when it’s ready to insert the pic will turn normal. This has been going on for a couple months. It never use to be like that.

I havent uploaded a photo in a while so.... here's a test..

it works fine.....

Ok here go again...

Kara, you were right, i think before I was hitting submit when photo was greyed out

Glad Ive got this sorted. I'll put that photo where it belongs now.

Yay more pics for me to look at;)!

Yeah, I forgot about waiting for the photo to come in. There isn't a file size limit as far as I know. However, with multiple photos, even when waiting for them to all appear full color (and larger on my system), it sometimes doesn't work.

Gdinie, I was just laughing about you and Rina (both from Ontario) getting your identities mixed up. My dry(ied up) humor was paying homage to the saying "you '######' people all look the same".

Aloebot, I obviously had not had my coffee yet. It now makes perfect sense... Not your fault, I just was still half asleep. ;-)

I have a real beef about this forum. I read it at all scales: phone, computer, and tablet. The phone is an interface which is clean and amazing. Why is the tablet less than the phone? It's the whole web format that needs to be resized to fit the tablet, so 2010.

I use a regular web browser on my phone and tablet. I can't remember why I don't use the app, but might that help?

I only use a real computer though. A lot easier for me, as much as I like mobile devices.