Firstly, LDS tries to portray itself as the modern day pious scribes toiling in the catacombs of history all in a selfless effort to keep accurate records... THAT is complete BS. They did have the best bastion of information and I will gladly give them kudos for that.
But oh man these people didn't just ". Drop the veil..." they dropped it after they used it for a tissue, tripped over it and curb-stomped it to hell... they have just completely blown it! Whoever came up with this genius plan should be let go and fined for having no idea what they were doing messing around in this website. This used to be a user-friendly, relaxing, delightful website full of easy to retrieve and store family history info. Now, it is a "re-designed" "improved" "prettier?" nightmare of aggravation and tail-chasing.
Well hey! Now they are just like Ancestry.com and every cheap, ineffective website like them. Ancestry.com, the original, jerk-you-around-for-hours until you are utterly frustrated and feeling, well, completely jerked around having accomplished nothing except many many many many many profitable clicks for the company and you are left with nothing.
I called FamilySearch.com and the nice person wanted to hold my hand to help me "clear your cookies"... puhleeeese don't patronize me. You have destroyed the best global genealogy site which used to be good for an afternoon of family enjoyment and a useful, efficient tool for genealogists and turned it into an incredibly annoying waste of time.
They have actually lost information and they have messed up the ability to upload saved information (that you spent precious time finding and saving). You put in date parameters and "exact spellings" only to have zillions of dates completely out of the range you put in and unbelieveable misspellings and inaccurate information! It is positively unbelieveable. Even the error messages are ridiculous and make no sense: "We can't upload your file because we can only handle twice the size of your file"... quite literally the message---want to leave feedback? Well it says, "Looks like your new here... sign up or login to leave feedback..." Um, I am logged it but since they have a new format, maybe I should try to sign up. Nope. When you hit "Sign up" or "Login", you get a big, goofy, annoying "Whoops! We cannot auto-connect because...". Seriously, this has to go down as the biggest, self-inflicted snafu in website history. Things were just going too perfectly for too many years... can't have THAT!
Now, let's see if they can admit this is a collossal disaster and revert to the former recipe for success or will they insist that everyone LOVES it and continue laboring under the delusion that everything is swell when in reality, not only have they made a GRAVE ERROR in judgement but whoever is responsible for this was in no way qualified to alter one thing as evidenced by the end product. What a SHAME.