My early views on the MyLot changes

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After taking time to absorb some of the changes that were made to MyLot today, I decided to give my opinion of the upgrade and some of the things that I like & dislike about the changes I have noticed so far. I know everyone uses the site differently and have different opinions about the changes and how they have been affected by them. I purposely stayed away from these discussions today as I wanted to form my own opinions first before starting to share them. When I logged in this evening, I happened to notice a discussion asking for my opinion, so I jumped straight to responding. After giving my opinion, I decided to paste my response into my own discussion and hope that no one considers this cheating since I am pasting it in as a quote rather than retyping it. When you get to the end, please let me know how you feel about the changes MyLot has made. I know this is only the first day, but I'm really looking forward to discussing some of the things you have noticed that I may not have yet, and I'm hoping we can share our findings on any new tips or tricks to help speed up the learning period. Quote Hi stephcjh. I've only been here a month myself and was actually getting very comfortable with navigating the site, enough that I've been able to assist several new members with how to do things I had already explored. When I saw the new layout earlier today I had the same feeling of disappointment since everything looks so different. To me the timing couldn't have been worse, so I just logged back out. I was a little panicked when I checked my profile page a little while later and saw all my hard work of making my profile page "just so" was gone. As I started seeing the new hotlinks, I was thinking that all those tips I had been passing along were now outdated & irrelevant. Talk about deflated! I had other things to do so I signed out again, disappointed that I would have to start all over again. When I logged back in later, I saw the alert & was relieved to see that we would be able to make changes to the page. I must say I was relieved to see some of my stuff from the profile page had returned, even if it wasn't where I had put it. Just knowing that I would be able to make some changes was good enough for me. I was happy enough to log out again & get the rest of my chores for the day done. When I logged in again a little bit ago, I realised even more changes were taking place as I started exploring the differences I was noticing. I have to tell you I just about freaked when I commented on another members photo & saw a (0) beside my name! I had to jump to the first discussion on the page to make sure all my 600+ posts hadn't been reset or something. Since I had never posted a comment onto another members photo before, I didn't realise that there were different counters. Talk about feeling like a newbie, LOL! Anyway, as I was away from the site off and on today as the changes were being implemented, I kept telling myself that the changes should prove profitable for MyLot and therefore, hopefully, it's members. Naturally, I was formulating my own discussion about the likes & dislikes, compliments/complaints of the new changes. Talk about a hot topic! Since I have only been here for a month, I am still learning anyway so I don't mind figuring out how to navigate the site a little differently. I know the more we explore the site, the more money MyLot can generate and share with it's members so I think the benefits will surely outweigh the minor inconvenience of learning our way around again. I hope you don't mind, but I'm taking a copy of my response to start a new discussion of my own. It's the first time I've commented on the changes and I would like to make sure my friends also have a chance to hear my early views on the changes. I'm looking forward to having more discussions about this and how they feel about the changes they may have noticed too. :)