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Re: What has happened to Findmypast?
« Reply #72 on: Tuesday 31 July 18 03:35 BST (UK) »
I got the dreaded dashboard today - its completely pointless and is already irritating me no end. 
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Re: What has happened to Findmypast?
« Reply #73 on: Tuesday 31 July 18 14:48 BST (UK) »
The dashboard has just been inflicted on me.  About the only useful thing I can see so far is that my sub renewal date is there staring me in the face, and as it's pretty imminent I need to decide whether or not to renew - in previous years I've tended to forget until after the event.  That's not to say it wasn't on the previous home page, it may well have been, but like everything that we see day in day out it gets filtered out as "noise".

As there's a link to "manage my account" I thought I'd take a look and I've switched on FindMyPast offers (hoping for a big renewal discount  ;)).  Has anyone given them a birth date?  I'd be interested to know what the special birthday surprise might be.  Unless it's a decent bribe I'm inclined to give them as little personal data as possible.

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Re: What has happened to Findmypast?
« Reply #74 on: Tuesday 31 July 18 14:57 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Jomot on Tuesday 31 July 18 03:35 BST (UK)
I got the dreaded dashboard today - its completely pointless and is already irritating me no end. 


Quote from: familydar on Tuesday 31 July 18 14:48 BST (UK)
The dashboard has just been inflicted on me.  About the only useful thing I can see so far is that my sub renewal date is there staring me in the face


Mine finally appeared last night with a little popup questionnaire at the side. I think I gave them my opinion  but it's not likely to change anything.

I'll just keep on doing my searches in the same old way  ;D

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Re: What has happened to Findmypast?
« Reply #75 on: Tuesday 31 July 18 15:10 BST (UK) »
The new Dashboard is easily circumvented, thankfully.
Straight to Search for me...

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Re: What has happened to Findmypast?
« Reply #76 on: Monday 06 August 18 11:43 BST (UK) »
Even more annoying is this pop-up which seems to appear on every results page today. >:(

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Re: What has happened to Findmypast?
« Reply #77 on: Monday 06 August 18 12:32 BST (UK) »
I have submitted a problem report this morning about the DNA popup to their supposed "priority" support mailbox:
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Subject: DNA test popup causing serious annoyance

This morning, you implemented a popup about DNA tests.

It appears on EVERY search results screen.

ONCE is enough. Once per day is annoying. To see it for the tenth time in 5 minutes is annoying to the point of me wanting to go to another provider.

You need to get this changed IMMEDIATELY. Not tomorrow. Not “submitted to our web team for consideration”.

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Re: What has happened to Findmypast?
« Reply #78 on: Monday 06 August 18 15:48 BST (UK) »
Quote from: andrewalston on Monday 06 August 18 12:32 BST (UK)
ONCE is enough. Once per day is annoying. To see it for the tenth time in 5 minutes is annoying to the point of me wanting to go to another provider.

I couldn't have put it better myself!  Thank you andrewalston.

It's not appearing now, for me.
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