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Re: Have Ancestry been messing with 'Messaging' again?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 14 February 22 17:58 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: scotmum on Monday 14 February 22 14:13 GMT (UK)
Oh dear, have checked and all my messages have also changed to 'read' now too. Maybe they thought too many people were being put off sending messages as so many go un-read that they decided to change their status to let us think they have been read.
There now seems to be a green dot by the message icon in the top corner, that I presume is meant to indicate a new message, instead of the old number, which was fairly useless as you couldn't expect people to remember how many messages they had last time they logged in. That would be a useful change, however, since I know I have read all the messages, and it is still showing a green dot, it is still as useless as the old number, until and if they fix it ::).

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Re: Have Ancestry been messing with 'Messaging' again?
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 16 February 22 12:46 GMT (UK) »
All messages now seem to say read the moment you have sent them, so that's obviously nonsense, and another thing broken. Messenger also now seems inaccessible 75% of the time, tried different browsers.

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Re: Have Ancestry been messing with 'Messaging' again?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 16 February 22 15:07 GMT (UK) »
For me paragraphs seem to have reappeared in sent messages.

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Re: Have Ancestry been messing with 'Messaging' again?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 16 February 22 15:35 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: jnomad on Wednesday 16 February 22 15:07 GMT (UK)
For me paragraphs seem to have reappeared in sent messages.

Back for me too.....hopefully search by keyword content will return also. Can't imagine they will be able to remove 'read' from messages which haven't been though, however we can but hope.
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Re: Have Ancestry been messing with 'Messaging' again?
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 07 May 22 08:23 BST (UK) »
Hello Scotmum,
I too have the same problems. Keyword searching on Messages has disappeared, and if I put a punctuation mark in a message it changes to an ASCII code. "Can't" becomes "Can't".
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Re: Have Ancestry been messing with 'Messaging' again?
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 08 May 22 10:24 BST (UK) »
Ancestry has been messing with the whole set-up.I find it impossible to use now and I've cancelled my account. I've complained several times to no avail. Earlier one could edit search details within a family tree. That option has gone now. I want to find a baptism for Maggie Smith but ancestry insists on giving me a long list of Maggie Brown, her married name. If I search for a marriage of Tom Brown and Maggie Smith I get all the marriage banns for their 10 children but not theirs. It's just so frustrating.
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