Genetic Distance not much use now

[coad FTDNA Customer Find all posts View Profile Close coad]

Since the changes to the Genetic Distance algorithm, the GAP Genetic Distance no longer works,. The limits for GD display are supposed to be

Y-DNA12: 3
Y-DNA25: 10
Y-DNA37: 20
Y-DNA67: 40
Y-DNA111: 80

Instead they seem to have reduced substantially to something like

Y-DNA12: 3
Y-DNA25: 5
Y-DNA37: 7
Y-DNA67: 9
Y-DNA111: 12

Which makes it fairly useless at the top end.

Can you please change the limits back to what is advertised, as I use this feature frequently.

Joe Flood, CORNWALL Geographical Project

[lgmayka FTDNA Customer Find all posts View Profile Close lgmayka]

I second the motion. The larger distance limits (available to project administrators and applicable only to their own project's members) were extremely useful in classifying new members. Now, I am forced to use the obsolete Ysearch database for this purpose, which isn't nearly as useful (partly because the creation of new Ysearch entries is now reportedly impossible).

[jova99 FTDNA Customer Find all posts View Profile Close jova99]

GD

Would be nice to show more matches out to GD of 20 for the Y-DNA111 results
currently I have no Y-DNA111 matches, but might if they went out to a distance of 20

[coad FTDNA Customer Find all posts View Profile Close coad]

Deliberate?

You think they have done this deliberately? As far as I know it is a bug that was introduced when they proudly announced they were using a better algorithm for GD a month or so ago. I'm not getting an intelligible reply from FTDNA so it's hard to say, but I hope it is a temporary bug.

I do have an Excel macro set up which does the job and a lot more, but it is always a nuisance to load everything into Excel

I second the motion. The larger distance limits (available to project administrators and applicable only to their own project's members) were extremely useful in classifying new members. Now, I am forced to use the obsolete Ysearch database for this purpose, which isn't nearly as useful (partly because the creation of new Ysearch entries is now reportedly impossible).