Ancestry SideView Technology to be Extended

[SplanK]

I lost my side view as well

I'm sure it was there last night which made me think it was something to do with just getting my wife's DNA results through.....  seems as though it's a coincidence.

I hope they don't remove it, I found it quite useful!

[frostyknight]

My was there up to last night, haven't looked today yet.

[Millmoor]

It was there for me this morning but has now gone. The overview is still there and, given it is Beta, I feel it will return 'ere long.

William

[phil57]

A few posts on Reddit indicating it was withdraw to some users 3 days ago. As Millmoor says, it was still in beta, so either they are preparing to rollout a new version, or have decided it doesn't work reliably...

[LizzieL]

It would be a shame to lose it if the reason was that it wasn't 100% reliable. All of my verified common ancestors / thrulines were correct. I did find a few of the shared matches coming up with what appeared to be a rogue "mother's side" when the match being shared was a definite "father's side" (and vice versa). But these were matches with no tree or not enough of one to verify that Ancestry had actually got it wrong. I do have one definite "both sides" (assigned by me), possibly if I had pursued those two lines, I could have rationalised the apparent rogues. But with all Ancestry's assignments gone now, I'll never know.

[Biggles50]

Yes its gone from my Wife’s and my own results.

I would expect its due to an update of the algorithm that they use.

[brigidmac]

It's gone on the ones I manage too
I hope it comes back as I was finding it useful
I wish I'd given some positive feedback maybe they only heard from people having problems

[QueenoftheWest]

I still have SideView on both of the tests I manage 

My father's was very accurate with the majority of matches assigned (22000 out of 23000) and correctly too; my mother's was awful, with hardly any matches assigned (less than 1000 out of more than 13000) and the ones that were were not correct!

Queenie 

[Millmoor]

Just checked and mine has reappeared!

William