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Joe, I really enjoyed reading this! Since I don't pay ANYTHING to use this site, I figured you didn't really owe me anything. :-)  (So I ain't complaining!)

I love this: "Users aren't our product." It's also good to be reminded that the focus of the MyChurch developer team is churches. And speaking very frankly, I am GLAD to be supporting churches, they have a really good mission. So if my meager time contributions here (as just another blogger) benefit the site, the member churches, or even the individual users, I am being used by God, which leaves me overjoyed!

God bless you and your endeavors, Joe!

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I like the new layout, although my voice is not as loud as churches, I still say thanks!!!!!

And as Mike n Laura said, it is free, why complain! I could understand all the complaints if they were paying for the use of the site.... but they don't.

All the complaints I was reading kind of reminded me of what Moses had to contend with, all the murmuring.  arrrgggg

Joyful Servant - of course you are welcome here even if your church isn't on (yet).

Angela - yes, people make up the church.  Not sure how you read that we're serving church buildings...

(to me, "serving churches" means serving organized groups of people which constitute various local manifestations of the body of Christ ... that's how I read that)

 Individuals are responsible members of chruch.so both are like both side of a coine.

To equip the body of christ for advanceing mission commitment.

oh and by the wat if you reread the last comment you will see that I said I can't afford to waste any energy on a sight that doesn't serve the church as individuals but groups them together by denominations...not that I can't waste energy on the indiviaduals...I love you all!

Note to self: Proofread next time

I would say I'm a bit confused by the "church vs. individual" thing as well.  Probably because if it is anyone's "job" from my church to get others from my church here... well it's probably me.  And I'm guessing I'm not alone among individuals.

If this is supposed to be the social community of the (my) church (which maybe I'm making an assumption there) one of the important things is that the individuals from my church feel comfortable there and that they were heard.  If not why am I directing them here.  If this is supposed to be yet another website for the church, well... I (personally) don't have time to do two websites.

I guess the picture I'm stuck with in my head is of a church ordering pews and they come, but what is noticed is that every few feet there are a couple of tack points from where the cushions were fastened.  The people in the church are going to be the ones uncomfortable (and "complaining") but the pews are what the church asked for.  I realize that's not a great analogy because I don't mean to suggest things are defective, but I do think the people in the pews are having trouble focusing.)

 Sorry if that seems negative, but that's how it appears.  I don't have any complaints with the changes although it did take me a while to figure out how to go find a friend's blog.  I'm pretty sure I still took the long way around (throwing out the misteps, profile name, page through 5 pages of friends until I found her, click on her, page down (luckily it's still on the first page)), but it was alright because at time I was saying "Cannot Sleep". (This time I just relied on Google).

Joe, what might be helpful is since we have been told what we are not (in your view of the site)... Well what are we then?   We're obviously not products as you mention with pageviews.  We're not consumers (unless it's of other consumers writing).

is there a way, or a possibility to have an option to go back individually to an old format or the new format?

like the way igoogle does?

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One last observation and then I'll leave it alone.

I'm not sure how to give honest feedback on here with out being viewed as critical.  I realize it's quite possible that we'll have different opinions until it doesn't matter anymore, but I don't give my "differing" opinion especially on a blog like this because I'm trying to beat someone up.  I for the most part have enjoyed my time here, but it's gotten tough as friends have left.  And I wasn't kidding when I said that if my church were to show up here I would probably have to be the driving force (I hate saying that because it sounds arrogant, but from a technology standpoint I also know who has driven the issues in the past).  The main reason I say it is because I'm sure I'm not the only one. 

But as time has gone by, the bug forum went away, and I've struggled to get answers (probably because I've been viewed as being critical from the beginning.  And the message given here is that our feedback well be taken less into account going forward because we're not the customer.

I realize it's hard because I'm sure everyone wants something different (or they want it the way it always was), but if people's ability to give feedback and ideas go away (or people think it has gone away), a valuable resource is gone.

I'm also thinking that as a Christian, we are still afraid to fail.  I don't know if it's because we think it's a negative reflection on God or what, but I think it's created a culture of paralyzed Christianity.

Anyways, I'm sure that's more than anyone wanted to know. 

add http://www.mychurch.org/mychurchteam as a friend, then post them a private message, I have and have gotten a reply quite quickly. I have contacted many support teams, due to the job I have, and I have to say, mychurch support is very good at what they do.!!