The Tabs Drive Me Nuts

Question

<rant>  I have been putting off declaring how much I hate the way the tabs work now.  I tried to give myself time to get accustomed to them.  I thought... this is just me.... But honestly, I've got to yell out... "Please, please change this..."

It is not that I don't understand the reasoning behind the fact that if I'm in "Public View" I can't get to "Private View" or "Edit" because if I was seeing this in Public View and not on the trusted list I wouldn't be able to get there from here.

But...after all, I am on the trusted list.  HELLO Profile!!!  It's me!  You know, the person who put you up here!  Why do you not recognize me? Why is everything locked to me? Why am I suddenly a stranger to you?

Oh!  It is because if I were someone else looking at this it would be locked to me.   But I'm not someone else... I'm ME!  Just, little ole me, trying to get to the edit tab.  

Do other wikitreer's really like this?  It is just so unintuitive. So, thus we have this semi-kind-of-rant.  

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Comments

If it helps, you can get back to the private view. The link is in the notice at the top of the page.

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I'm not trying to be difficult.  On some level... I know the link is up at the top but I just keep going for the tabs.  I think I have been conditioned by advertisements not to pay attention to stuff that is in a block of a different color at the top of the page.  My brain simply blocks it out.

I just liked it so much better the way it once was.  When I was on the trusted list I could just hit any tab and it would work.  Now.  Not so much.

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I feel your pain Gail.  It's annoying to me like a gnat though, not so much a hornet!  Mags

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Couldn't describe it better Mags!  But it is a little gnat that keeps buzzing around my head.  Just doesn't go away.

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Gail, you're not alone. It's a change that I believe came with the new interface, and it makes absolutely no sense to me. I have to first to go Edit tab then Private tab. I can't go directly from Public to Private. It's simply nuts. And every time I do it, I keep thinking: when are they going to fix this bug?

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It is *NOT* a bug.  It was done intentionally.  Chris did say something at the time that it could always be changed back to the way it once worked if it causes difficulties.

After working with it I just can't see any advantage and it is annoying.  

So, consider this a heartfelt request that for PM's the tabs work no matter what tab we are on.  

gail

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I would say that for anyone on the Trusted List, the Private Profile tab should be linkable from anywhere.

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And by the way, I said "bug" because it seems like a bug more than a "feature". ;-)

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I know what you mean Gail. When I first joined (Not so long ago) I spent at least 10 minutes trying to find a way back to editing the profile and in the end I logged out and logged back in again. I know now there is a link at the top however it would just be a lot easier to be able to click any tab on public view.

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It is irritating I must admit.  Perhaps old habits die hard...

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The clickable tabs are now back. :-)

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OMG!  I want to bake you something.  Send you cookies.  Beer.  Wine. Flowers. I want to hug your neck.  You are so extraordinary.  Amazing.  Awesome individual.   Well... you get the idea.  You make us all so happy.  Two things in one day.  It feels like Christmas here!

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^^^^^ Like! Thank you Chris. What's your favorite dessert?

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:-)

Sorry it wasn't done sooner.

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stop apologizing! we want to send you goodies!

Answer 1

This should now be back to the way it was before the redesign.

If it's not working properly let me know.

Comments

Thank you for adding clickable tabs!