Soledad's Journal

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I think I'm gonna delete my remaining Yahoo Groups.

The group has just vanished from my Yahoo Groups list. Does anyone know if it's been deleted or what?

Now that I managed to stay away from anything school-related during the weekend, inspiration finally hit again. I bit the bullet and worked myself through the next chapter of "The Neutral Zone". It turned out surprisingly good, if I may say so myself; I've started Chapter 4, as long as I could go with the roll.

I've made some headway with "Emissary of the Mark", too, which resulted in an almost-finished chapter and in a half-written one. I hope I can finish the almost-ready one during next weekend.

Thank God I decided not to go to that godforsaken school reunion my old schoolmates tried to lure me to. The last thing my battered self-esteem needs would be listen to how they've all become successful and lead great lives while I'm still the nobody I've always been, working myself crooked for "an apple and an egg", as the Germans say, under steadily worsening circumstances.

Yahell keeps messing up. Now I can't even access my stuff in the Files section, which I saved there for the eventuality that my computer crashed. Fat lot of good it is for me now. The Database is also messed up. The data tables were excellent for ordering everything alphabetically by default, which is why I used them for character lists and the likes.

Now that's messed up, too. Records now appear chronologically, meaning the most recently added ones come first - which makes all data tables completely useless for me. A good thing that I've printed out at least the character list for "Beautiful Minds" - but everything else is as good as lost. I've put years of work into those list, and they're useless.

THANK YOU, BLASTED YAHELL, I SINCERELY HOPE YOU ALL WILL EXPERIENCE SUCH PRESENT SURPRISES ON A REGULAR BASIS! MORDOR MAY SWALLOW YOU ALL!

Have you seen the facelift for Yahoo Groups? Do you hate it half as much as I do? Then you hate it with the passion of a thousand burning sons! God, I'm pissed off beyond belief!

All right, I do understand that they need to make everything i-Pad compatible in these days. Bad enough for us dinosaurs who still use proper computers with proper keyboards. But did they have to remove all the photo albums (after they'd already removed the possibility to place albums within albums a couple of years ago, no matter how practical it was)? No all photos are in a big jumble, without any recognisable order.

Also, they've pulled the header pics from each group and replaced it with some random pictures that have nothing to do with the group. And the group description is no longer on the front page. You've got to look for it specifically.

But what's the most annoying part, they also changed the My Group page. Until this morning, the expanded version showed the header pic of each group you were a member of, under which they gave the activities of the last 7 days: new messages, new files, new photos, new members, and so on. Now there's just a simple number, indicating the new messages. And what's worse, you have no way to return to the expanded version - or if there is one, I haven't found it.

If I didn't need my groups as safety storage (Files section), I'd be considering deleting them all. In their current form, it's just too bothersome to look up anything there.

For the last two or three days, Yahell has demanded from me to sign in every single time I tried to access any of my groups. Now, it's either some "fantastic" new policy by them, or I've managed to delete some important cookies during the last clean-up. In any case, it's annoying.

I chose the option "keep me signed in for two weeks", to lessen the annoyance, but it's still stupid. Grrrr!