I totally hate this new format.  This will probably be my last posting of a new topic unless I happen to see a question from one of MY local residents in MY local complex.  I don't care about reading somebody else's problem in another neighborhood, let alone in another city or another state.  Whoever thought of this needs to rethink big time.

Furthermore, I used to check MY forum at least once a day, or several times a day when the discussion gets heavy.  Not any more.  Longer loading time has discouraged me so now I will check MY forum once a week to see if anything else is going to change, for the better that is. 

I'm seriously checking for another site to construct MY neighborhood website.  This particular site, with all due respect, is getting so silly.

I'm sorry, but I really dislike this format. I don't have a lot of time on here and I want to see titles of various topics so I can pick/choose those I want to read. I don't want to have to wade through pages of posts from people from all over the country trying to find something locally relevant.

I'm hoping this will improve with time. I appreciate the spell-check, but I don't like the fact that I can't preview what I want to post and it's WAAAAYYY too slow.

Please reconsider your format and give us titles of topics or some other way to  see what a topic is without hunting through pages of irrelevant information...and also please give us 'our' Muscatine site to ourselves. Personally, I don't WANT to read about Houston or Milwaukee. This is a NEIGHBORHOOD, not the entire country.

 I feel the need to respond & reply to all the other posters.  You may get more posters in the long run with this format, Neighborhood Link; but it's not a format that many of us came to this site for.

   Many of the posters grew up in a "real neighborhood".  A safe place where neighbors were friends & accepted all of our "little quirks" & shared the same concerns we all had in our own little neck of the woods.  We felt safe letting our children go to the neighbors homes; we waved & talked to the neighbors when we got home from work.  We worked together to help each other.  The world & neighborhoods  have changed & I for one was looking for that very thing I felt missing in my life when I found this site,  "Neighborhood Link".  

  I'm NOT opposed to meeting others outside my own little world; I could learn so much.  But, many of us can do that with internet access.  We CHOSE to be a part of this site.  I won't speak for others.  My hope was that I could find that connection once again with  my own neighbors in my own little town &   If I didn't find what I need,  it would be nice to talk to others from another region.  I would want to know upfront that information. 

  HERE IS THE PROBLEM, NEIGHBORHOOD LINK!   You forced this format on all of us with no warning or explanation.  You made this decision w/ no input from the adults that frequent these sites.  Had you done so, you would have gotten the same arguments.  We would have felt a part of the process.  You may have made the same decisions, but we would have had a warning.  Maybe we all would have decided that your format could work & voted for it...or at least voted to try it?  We were not given that option.   

  I want to hear what neighbors think around the world, sometimes.  But when I sign in, I want to know that I am talking to the neighbors in my area;  my very own neighborhood link.  If one of us posts about how Josh Miller is doing; does someone in Arizona care?  WE DO! 

  I want to sign in, wave @ my neighbors, ask how they are doing & what can I do to support & make your day better?  I want to sign in, wave @ my neighbors & say, I had a crappy day, can I share?  I need my neighbors & I think that is what you have heard in many of the posts.