HealingWell's New Chaper

Interesting. I’m not sure that I received an email notice or anything. Thank you for the update.

How did you find out?

It will be nice to see some more resources invested in HW, it’s been a valuable resource to myself and the other members of HW. Hopefully the new owners can get the traffic to increase.

I got an email... to my old email address that I only check sporadically. I updated my email address on Healingwell ages ago, but somehow communications go to the old address.

When the forum comes back up, you might have to change your password.

Emails were sporadic, not all mods received one, lol. My understanding is they will be making an announcement across the forums soon.

None of us know what changes they have in mind for HW. We will have to wait & see what is in the announcement. Time will tell if HW can be revived or not.

Agree with poopydoop and CC. I much prefer this format.

I received an email on Aug 8th. I couldn't watch the video with the music 🥴(don't get how music is an enhancer), but the notice stated that not much of the format appearance will change👍🏻 Hope it keeps us updated in read only mode as to issues if we can't log in. HW does have a LOT of members...happy it'll remain!

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There's a post from August 10th about it in the announcements forum, which I don't know if anyone ever reads. Worth a read.

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=3&m=4327339

The mods have known for a while now, had a Zoom meeting organized by the new owners but we dared not spill the beans until an official announcement was made. Overall, EHS seem eager to enhance the forums with modern technology, and drive more traffic to the site both things that will benefit us all. Peter's had a long-term relationship with EHS and trusts HW in their care.

The mods interaction with EHS thus far has been positive and they've been real fast and responsive, which is a plus. Before, getting Peter's responses for issues took many weeks or even months at times, given his busy life, illness, etc.

In our Zoom interaction with EHS, we all brainstormed together about improvements we'd like to see, from single login with Google/Facebook to make new signups easier, reintroducing the chat feature that HW discontinued a while back for reoccurring/organized/scheduled group chats, and other like things. Nothing's set in stone or committed for certain yet, but new possibilities are exciting.

I know everyone's a little nervous at change, but as an optimistic person. I'm looking forward to more attention spent to improve the site and a more responsive admin for when there's need to reach out.

I believe EHS said back-end, behind the scenes update at 1st. Likely the September change. So the forums shouldn't look markedly different is my understanding when we all log back in.

Essentially just upgrading the database, and behind the scenes engine making the site easier to maintain with modern technology. Keeping the vast library of posts, keeping usernames, keeping the user experience we're all used to.

When you're returning, new passwords are mandatory. Basically a security issue, requiring more complex and longer passwords: likely a combo of upper and lowercase, numbers and symbols like any other site mandates these days.

Feature improvements would be later, I think.

Post Edited (iPoop) : 8/14/2023 8:54:09 AM (GMT-8)

It'd be a sign-in option for those who want to use it, but not at all mandatory. Pretty much identical to other sites I'd wager.

Post Edited (iPoop) : 8/14/2023 8:54:16 AM (GMT-8)

I am also one who will delete my account if they have it linked to other accounts so hopefully ipoop is correct and that it won't be mandatory.

Maybe because they are younger and don't yet have a professional career so aren't really thinking about the consequences? Friends and family is one thing but I also want to keep my disease private from my colleagues at work (I have a job where I am known internationally, and professional reputation is important).

Anyway, good if the linked login is optional.

Yeah, I do fear some share too much at times in the Internet without consideration of future employment impact, cuz you know employers will Google search you when considering hiring them. Will a law firm, global software company, or globally known hospitality company hire the chronic illness advocate or silly Tick Tock challenge person who went viral? Or worry about embarrassing incidents or judge the future productivity of a worker based on shared public info and choose the other candidate instead? I'm cynical that it could hurt.