Yes, as others have said, the match figures ( and paternal/Maternal match numbers),are going up and down quite a bit! Hopefully it will settle down soon, so we can make comment on the stable new version.
On assigning relationships, I believe the situation was like this before, in that they want you to have that person/put that person in your tree. I think this is partly in order to use those details to try to phase your matches to your maternal &/or paternal sides.
For me the matches seem better, a lot of my top matches were unknown to me and didn't seem to reflect a close link in my tree/genealogy. Those seem to have disappeared ( well, probably moved further down my list), due to under 6cm segmeents being subtracted from the total cM figure for each match. This I find helpful. Known matches are now much nearer the top of my list, and this makes me more confident that the high matches that I have not been able to trace yet, are likely to be real matches.
Any way, I will maybe review how the up date has improved FTDNA, or not, as the case may be!
, when it has settled down.
