Google Groups grossly broken again

Search by date instead gives search by relevance.
And there's no blank line between sections, so it's all run together.
In that resultset, click on by date, still there's no way to see latest
articles, only start of whatever thread contains latest articles.
And when I click on see as tree, I don't get a tree, all I get is
indentation in which it's impossible to follow the structure.
Even when I use a message-ID that I cached the other day when it was
still working, I get the first 25 articles of a thread instead of the
specific article whose message-ID I requested.
Basically Google Groups is totally useless once again.
No way to browse the latest articles of a newsgroup, no way to find
followups to what I posted recently, no way to find single article by
message-ID, no way to do anything I normally used Google Groups for.

I hope they keep the gross night time groups because the algo at it is a
super easy one. I could rein supreme with the beta night time algo.

Sam <. (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

I hope they keep the gross night time groups because the algo at it is a
super easy one. I could rein supreme with the beta night time algo.

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:45:22 -0800 "tinyurl.com/uh3t"
used 13 lines of text to write in newsgroup: alt.internet.search-engines

Search by date instead gives search by relevance.
And there's no blank line between sections, so it's all run together.
In that resultset, click on by date, still there's no way to see latest
articles, only start of whatever thread contains latest articles.
And when I click on see as tree, I don't get a tree, all I get is
indentation in which it's impossible to follow the structure.
Even when I use a message-ID that I cached the other day when it was
still working, I get the first 25 articles of a thread instead of the
specific article whose message-ID I requested.
Basically Google Groups is totally useless once again.
No way to browse the latest articles of a newsgroup, no way to find
followups to what I posted recently, no way to find single article by
message-ID, no way to do anything I normally used Google Groups for.

Lookie what I found:
http://groups.google.co.in

Good 'ole groups!


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-Graham

Remove the 'snails' from my email

rem642b (AT) Yahoo (DOT) Com (tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:

Search by date instead gives search by relevance.
And there's no blank line between sections, so it's all run together.
In that resultset, click on by date, still there's no way to see latest
articles, only start of whatever thread contains latest articles.
And when I click on see as tree, I don't get a tree, all I get is
indentation in which it's impossible to follow the structure.
Even when I use a message-ID that I cached the other day when it was
still working, I get the first 25 articles of a thread instead of the
specific article whose message-ID I requested.
Basically Google Groups is totally useless once again.
No way to browse the latest articles of a newsgroup, no way to find
followups to what I posted recently, no way to find single article by
message-ID, no way to do anything I normally used Google Groups for.

Give them some credit. It took some pretty hot programming skills to turn a
clean, easy to use research tool into crap.

Write 'em at http://groups-beta.google.com/support/bin/request.py
I just did...

jw
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JW wrote:

rem642b (AT) Yahoo (DOT) Com (tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:


Search by date instead gives search by relevance.
And there's no blank line between sections, so it's all run together.
In that resultset, click on by date, still there's no way to see latest
articles, only start of whatever thread contains latest articles.
And when I click on see as tree, I don't get a tree, all I get is
indentation in which it's impossible to follow the structure.
Even when I use a message-ID that I cached the other day when it was
still working, I get the first 25 articles of a thread instead of the
specific article whose message-ID I requested.
Basically Google Groups is totally useless once again.
No way to browse the latest articles of a newsgroup, no way to find
followups to what I posted recently, no way to find single article by
message-ID, no way to do anything I normally used Google Groups for.


Give them some credit. It took some pretty hot programming skills to turn a
clean, easy to use research tool into crap.

Write 'em at http://groups-beta.google.com/support/bin/request.py
I just did...

jw

Don't bother - you get an auto-response, then a form reply:

"Thank you for your feedback on Google Groups Beta. Your input is very
important to us. If, at any point, you'd like to provide us with further
details, we encourage you to submit a 'Suggestion/Feature Request' at
http://groups-beta.google.com/support/bin/request.py. This allows us to
easily track which features are most important to Google Groups users.
After you click the 'Continue' button, you'll see a screen where you can
tell us exactly what improvements you want us to make to Google Groups
Beta.

We really appreciate your assistance and your suggestions.

Regards,
The Google Team"

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:26:21 GMT, Brent Colflesh
<bcolflesh (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Don't bother - you get an auto-response, then a form reply:

Did you try to respond to the form response?

Just curious as on Yahoo and some other places they send out form
replies and you respond back - may get another form reply of a
different flavor - respond to that and generally you will notice the
wording now looking so "form response" in wording/tone ... While some
places you just to respond back once and get human.

Carol

From: G. Morgan <alarmprosnail (AT) snailgmail (DOT) com
Lookie what I found:
http://groups.google.co.in

Aha! Thanks!! Because of you, I've been able to use Google Groups again.
I wonder if 99% of Google Groups users will discover the India server
is still working, and switch to it, and if so I wonder if staff at
Google Inc. will notice that 99% of USA users are now connecting to
India instead of using the local server, and if so I wonder if they'll
get a clue why?

rem642b (AT) Yahoo (DOT) Com (tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:

From: G. Morgan <alarmprosnail (AT) snailgmail (DOT) com
Lookie what I found:
http://groups.google.co.in

Aha! Thanks!! Because of you, I've been able to use Google Groups again.
I wonder if 99% of Google Groups users will discover the India server
is still working, and switch to it, and if so I wonder if staff at
Google Inc. will notice that 99% of USA users are now connecting to
India instead of using the local server, and if so I wonder if they'll
get a clue why?

I've updated my links with this one. Hope it makes a tiny difference and the
Googlebillionaries' eventually decide that newer is not necessarily better...

jw
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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:36:49 -0800 "tinyurl.com/uh3t"
used 10 lines of text to write in newsgroup: alt.internet.search-engines

From: G. Morgan <alarmprosnail (AT) snailgmail (DOT) com
Lookie what I found:
http://groups.google.co.in

Aha! Thanks!! Because of you, I've been able to use Google Groups again.
I wonder if 99% of Google Groups users will discover the India server
is still working, and switch to it, and if so I wonder if staff at
Google Inc. will notice that 99% of USA users are now connecting to
India instead of using the local server, and if so I wonder if they'll
get a clue why?

Ummmmm... you're welcome?

I don't think 99% of USA users will find that link. Shhhhh!


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-Graham

Remove the 'snails' from my email