This is so frustrating. It is exactly what we went through!

Soemtimes people just get busy and don't post for a while.

I also think the difficulty of using the iVillage boards has
something to do with why people drift away from them.

For example, I know most of our activity on this board has switched
back to the iVillage board, but I still have a lot of trouble even
getting access to that board, so sometimes, especially when I am very
busy or very tired, I just don't bother to go by there at all.

Also, I find it very frustrating on my slow dial-up to have to wait
for each message to load on that very slow board.

Remember before they fancied the iVillage board up, how we could see
all the messages at one glance and decide which one to click on? Now,
if there are 30 messages, you have to click through them one by one,
and sometimes you just don't have the time for that and would rather
see them all at once and make a choice. But they only let paying
members have that choice now.

When they changed the format to the one they have now, that is
exactly when our board began to die off. Some of our members couldn't
even access the board (including Laura, who was one of the co-
founders!), and using the board became slow and inconvenient.

So after making it hard for us to use the board, then they wanted to
close the board because we weren't posting enough.

I am on AOL. They have just decided to switch to an ad-supported,
free email model. They finally figured out that was where the
revenue was. iVillage still tries to make money on subscriptions.
What they don't realize is that all their ads get ignored because
even when one gets to access the site, using it is so inconvenient
and time-consuming that there is little time or inclination left over
to go clicking through ads! iVillage will kill itself this way.

I agree. Deafess is a special disability and one that gets buried
under more visible ones. We need our own special site.

If you have the emails for some of the more useful and active members
of that baord, maybe you should do what I did with this board: start
your own on Yahoo and invite them to join it. ---Tina








--- In deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com, Braillesign@... wrote:
>
>
> Ladies,
> Here is a message I posted on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired board
on
> iVillage. I am sending it to this board because I fear it will be
erased before
> anyone else can read it...
> Dawn
> I have just been to visit the "Hearing Impairments" board
> (_http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-pphearing_
> (http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-pphearing) ) in the
Pregnancy and Parenting section of iVillage. It seems that the
> merger monster is striking and they will be shut down and merged
with a "Special
> Needs" board next week. I cannot tell you how upset I am by this
(some of
> you can imagine because we have been through this with this
board). I am trying
> to choose my words carefully, however, so that I don't get myself
in
> trouble. It was my opinion, when this board was in danger of being
shut down and
> merged with "Living with a Disability," that the unique needs of
deafness and
> hearing loss would be lost among "higher incidence" disabilities.
I've
> expressed this to the powers that be in the past and, well, it
seems to have been
> fruitless.
> I don't know what else to say...
> *shakes head*
>
> Takes two to tango, and if one doesn't want to dance no sense
whirling
> across the room."
>