Zap2it

Is this site the project of a high school programming class? There is so much wrong with it I don't know where to start. It never comes back to how you set it, time is always off unless you go in and tell it what time it is, missing half the local channels.

All I want is to be able to select the channels I want to see, and see them at the right time, and retain some basic preferences - like "starred" (which it won't go back to after refreshing the page - and it dumps your starred list regularly anyway).

It used to be considerably better - the only reason I use it is because TV guide has even less of my local channels listed. You almost have to work at making a web site this bad.

In the past, I praised Zap2It. Then when the new (and hated) version came out, I slammed them, and rightly so. It featured an awful, glitchy 3-hour grid and most of it didn't work most of the time. Well, credit must be given where credit is due. I came across Zap2It again recently, and what a surprise. All the things I (and so many others) despised about it seem to have been done away with. The 6-hour grid I liked is back, ALL of my cable company's channels are back, and they're correct and up to date. No fancy, cutesy features that make no sense, but replaced by settings that work. Dare I hope that Zap2It will stay this way? Don't know. Stay tuned.

Tried out zap2it this morning. Still a fustercluck of useless 2-hour grids. Nothing you click on gives you what zap2it used to give. You'll miss everything on TV trying to find out what's on TV. Speaking of which, there's a site called onTVtonight, it's kind of the good Zap2it with many primitive flaws -- for example, it gives 6-hour grids with descriptions, you can set it to only show your favorite channels, but there doesn't seem to be any way to find out what's on tomorrow. Hence the name, i guess. Too many words, sorry, but I promised to check back on 4/1 and I did and zap2it is still dead. RIP. Good luck, Gunther.

Completely unnecessary changes. The old sight was friendly to all devices and most ages (of technological knowledge). The new sight is self-limiting and requires a new sign in every single time it is visited. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Come on - a simple "stay logged on" or "remember me" or something... jaysus H... WHY do the techies have to keep messing with GOOD things. HOW many CONSUMER complaints did you actually get that "inspired" these changes?

Every once in awhile zap2it seems to ramp up its efforts to alienate all of their users. I've stuck it out through the many problems, including my entire account seemingly disappearing a few times, forcing me to start a new account using the same email I always have. And it has happened again: Another new site change and overhaul and redesign which means both accounts that I had are now gone. So congratulations zap2it. You've wanted me gone for a long time and you've now finally done it. Why don't you just shut down instead of making it so frustrating for users that they choose to give up? It would be more effective if you just packed it in.

Why change what worked.
- You have to keep changing back to Favourite (star) channels
- Can't highlight my favourite shows on the grid
- On the old grid I could arrange channels in a preferred order
- liked seeing 5 hours at a glance

I have been using Zap2it for years. Loved it. Do not find this new grid very user friendly and very slow. Please let us go back to the old grid. I will be looking for something else
Also there is no where to change my email address. The one in my login has not been in existence for some time.

Zap2it.com was changed a while back and became unusable. I found the Yahoo version which was how Zap2it used to be. The only problem that I encountered was that the HD channel numbers would revert to SD when I saved my preferences. I bit the bullet and penciled in the HD channel numbers on my printout that I would do for a week. That worked for over a year. Enter a week ago. When I called 'print' the software seemed to cycle but then went back to the grid. I tried this several times, even went back the next day, some result. Now for the big joke on me. I went to 'help' and was advise to '*******@zap2it.com, wow what results. I received a canned reply saying how important I was blah blah. The problem is still there and I have not gotten anything back from Zap2it.