New feature Anniversaries moved to another column

Question

As much as I respect the makers of the new feature Famliy Anniversaries and the enthusiasm it is received with by others, I do not share the same sentiment (as I expressed on the post of the Facebook page of WIkiTree on this announcement, but that was subsequently removed). Not wanting to go into the details of my un-enthousiastic response, I would however ask if there was some possibility of moving it - this feature - to a 'nice-to-know' column and not have it directly beneath My Navigation Page in the first column. To me it is clutter and not neccesary for the primary navigation.

Comments

I share Philip's sentiments about this feature.

My "Anniversaries" list is a long compilation of births and deaths and marriages of distant ancestors and nonrelatives whose profiles I've adopted. I'm not interested in the birthdays and wedding anniversaries of people who died in the 1700s, so it's not helpful to me for this item to be so prominently featured.

I like the idea of moving it to a less prominent location.

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Hi Philip,

Just to clarify one small point - your post to the WikiTree Facebook page is still there. I just double checked.  Chris replied to it. We don't remove any posts unless they are too inappropriate.

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My apologies on the FB - I still not see my post though; could be that I did not look thoroughly enough (I have to get used to the new features in FB as well; I do not spend nearly as much time there as I did in the past [nowadays WIkiTree is my passion and hobby]- not always sure where I am with the navigation in FB and whom I am exactly posting to / who has access to what I post etc.).

Ellen - thanks for putting into words my sentiments - not only are the dates of birth mostly not the dates of baptism in the 17th-18th centuries (if I cared - remembering my nieces and nephews and their families birthdays etc. is already not interesting to me; only my direct family members and a few living friends), but the dates are also not relevant to me. Too much information-filter-failure in the first place ...

Answer 1

I love the feature. It is a small daily to do list where I can see if profiles that might not normally come to my attention need a little improvement.  It's also easier to tell if I've adopted profiles I need to let go of than it is working from my watchlist. It's like my own watchlist improvement project.

Comments

Paula, I'm sorry to have given you a down vote on this one; it has nothing to do with you using this feature as an own wachtlist improvement project. I've giving the down vote because my comments on to move this feature to a 'nice-to-know' column seem to have prodded some folks to give me no less than 4 down votes ... which means that they also had to go to other postings on other feeds to given me those votes. I find this disingenuous. For clarification purposes - my last remark on 'information-filter-failure' is a term known in the field - I'm working in - the information industry. It is the counter term for information overload, indicating that where there is an abundance of info to the point of it getting to be disfunctional, there is a failure to filter it. And filter-failure begins with navigation (website). If I have to scan hundreds of profiles a day (correct spellings, variations, mergers etc.), anniversaries of happenings hundreds of years ago (perhaps even not that accurate) fall into the nice-to-know category for me. My proposal was simply to move it to a less central place, such as the second column, with no less appreciation of the people who created it, and those who find it useful. I apologize if this is or would seem to be disinguous from my side; I'd like to make a point though.