Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Changes to The Nest Message Boards
Many of you have asked questions and given us feedback regarding the changes made to The Nest Local Boards, so we just wanted to clarify some things.
-We are working on enlarging the font size so that the posts and usernames will be easier to read.
-The email feature will be removed, but you will still be able to send private messages. Please note that currently, when someone emails you, they do not see your email address? but you do see theirs when you receive an email sent via The Nest.
-The points system is based on several things: How many posts you make, how many replies you submit, how often you rate posts and your blog and photo gallery entries. Basically it reflects how active you are on The Nest. Once we see how the points are being distributed, we?ll post the exact values for different actions, but for now we?re just testing this new feature.
-The Newbie badge means that you?ve made less than 500 posts in our new forums area (but it does include the posts made on the old local boards that were moved to the new ones). There are different levels of posting so if you continue to post on your local board you?ll quickly advance to a new level.
-Also, we?re working to import your ?Nesticles? to the new boards, so all will not be lost. We know you?ve worked hard for those and you?ll still have them when all the boards are moved over.
We hope this helps. We are working on further improvements in response to your comments which will be announced soon and we want to make all the improvements you?ve suggested before we launch this new format anywhere else.
If you?re curious as to what all the new features are, check out this post which gives a good summary from Nestie NDLauren on the new features: http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/364551.aspx.
Feel free to reply with additional feedback!
Thank You,
Knot Anni
Re: Changes to The Nest Message Boards
Mr and Mrs EST 8.19.06
DD#1 3.28.12
Thanks for updating us and answering some of the frequently asked questions. My suggestion is to make the list of boards on the left collapsible so we get a little more room on the screen. Between the advertisements and this list, it's a little crowded!
I'd also really appreciate a smaller advertising section.
Thanks for listening!
She's probably not reading these but..
How about on the main page. Get rid of 'Chat with other online nesties' and change those to online CONNECTICUT board nesties only. We don't want to chat with other nesties other than our own.. I think it's a FANTASTIC suggestion.
It seems to me like the biggest change is the "bumping" of posts to the top when someone replies....why not add another option to the "View" menu (at the bottom) so you can sort by original post date OR last reply date?
Seems like a good compromise to me...
Hi, Anni, and thank you for the updates....
If I can add anything it's that the 'bumping' really is difficult to navigate...I can go half a day/whole day without 'nesting' and it's so hard to take the time to figure out what I've seen and what I haven't. It also makes paging people VERY difficult (ie I page someone, they don't go on the nest for 5 hours later, and the page is lost on page 8..).
For that reason I agree with the previous poster--it would be helpful to have a 'view by original post' date/time if at all possible...
Also, having boards listed on the left is difficult as it's making the center area so much smaller....Especially seeing that they are the local boards, it's odd to me--why would we need to see all of these? I know many of us may be on 'border' states, but really I think the majority of us have no use for the ENTIRE list of local boards...can we do away with that? Not a make or break for me, just a comment...
Thanks again for your time and we appreciate that you are trying to improve the community, but hope that you also understand our need to be vocal about the changes as we are the ones using this community.
~Lisa.
Everything else I can get used to but the bumping... terrible. I would not have even seen this post unless someone else brought it to my attention since it was already lost in a sea of posts from this morning, etc.
At least give us a choice. If it is this bad on a relatively active local board I cant imagine the mess it will be on a Natl board.
You are losing users over the bumping; I really suggest you consider allowing us the option to view the screen normally again.
Thanks!!
I think some of the new features are great. I agree that the menu w/ other local boards on the side isn't really necessary and here's another vote for No More Bumping!
Thanks for taking the time to explain!
In case you are actually considering the feedback...
Then I'd also like to suggest you do away with this bumping of posts. It makes no sense and in order to keep track of our own posts, we really need some kind of chronological order. At least have it as an option, as other nesties have already suggested.
And I also agree with the others about the list of boards on the left. Why do we need to see that? Why does the Dleaware, or Kentucky, or California board need to see that? No need. And I, too, would really appreciate it if you toned down the advertising.
Thanks, Anni!