Recent Change to Ancestry Layout

[familydar]

I've just been given a new Ancestry layout.  Do any search, select any record and if there's an image you see just the very top of it (page number for instance) at the top of the screen with a button far right to view the image.  The record detail is below and has much bigger gaps between the lines than previously.  If more than half a dozen lines or so (as for a census) you have to scroll down to see it all, then scroll back to view the image.  Perhaps it looks good on a phone or tablet in portrait view, but it's horrible on a wide screen desktop monitor.  No warning about it and no option to switch back to the old layout.  Progess I suppose.

Jane :-)

[bearkat]

It's definitely not an improvement.  You can get an overview of the record before you click on it so why get the banner obscuring the record you've asked to see?

[familydar]

Something else - if the record had previously been saved to someone in your own tree it told you so near the top of the record, who and which tree.  Now it's at the bottom (more scrolling) and you have to click the "1 person 1 tree" link to get any more info.

Jane :-)

[AllanUK]

Yet another Ancestry improvement ... I don't think so

[familydar]

I've sent some feedback.  I don't expect anything positive to come out of it but you have to live in hope!

Jane :-)

[bearkat]

It also encourages viewers to just save the image rather than download it.  Of course that option is there once you view the image but Ancestry would rather you saved it so you have to keep your subscription to view it.