Two more bugs on Ancestry Beta. Does anyone else get these problems?
With matches set to 'distant', and the filter set to 'matches you haven't viewed', click on the name at the top of the list and ... the name doesn't open. Instead, you're returned to the list of all matches (distant and otherwise) and without a filter (i.e. regardless of whether you've viewed them or not). Set it all up again ('distant', 'not viewed yet') and the name at the top of the list has disappeared because you've clicked on it once before, even if it hasn't actually opened for you.
This is a grade 1 pain when you're looking through <20cM matches because you have to scroll through all 'distant matches' (without the 'not viewed' filter) to try and find the name again (finishing War and Peace whilst you do this). This also requires you to remember the name.
You might think an easier option is to (a) make a note of the name before daring to click on it, then (b) look them up in the Member Directory if you get thrown out of the filter. This is fine as long as the name isn't John Smith. Fortunately, it's been happening on some obscure names, but here we have bug no. 2. For several days, if I click on a member in the directory, it says:
We're sorry, information on this page is temporarily unavailable. You can try reloading the page in your browser, or come back later.
How much later is 'later'?
As ever, I'd stumbled across a name that has info I need but will have to scroll from 20cM down to 14cM to find it again. Unless I 'come back later.' Losing the will
