Mumsnet forums need updating

I have one!

Why can't I squidge MN up to half a screen (if, say, I need to run a Peppa Pig video on the other half ) and have the text wrap around, instead of having to scroll back and forth to read each line?
If it's just my own incompetence, then please someone let me know, FGS!

Oh, and on another forum I use, there is the facility to start a voting thread, with a yes/no choice in the OP and the thread running as normal under it. Would speed up AIBU no end!

And there are plenty of other forums for people who don't like the MN look and feel, fortunately. Many of us have gravitated here from them precisely because we find it less cumbersome and distracting and would leave again if it started adding bells and whistles. Others like bells and whistles, and that's fine because there are other places they can get them.

Mooos - if you dont like it your choice. we are all free to make choices. You are entirely welcome to chose to go else where if you dont like this. Or you are entirely welcome to stay and live with it. again your choice.

OOOOH! (re potential removal of emoticons on sober workplace.

I will never do any work again. and

True - I hadn't read your post properly, so hadn't registered that you had said it was being considered for Webchats.

Actually Justine - if you look more closely at the thread, you'll see that the majority don't want a quote facility!

It gets in the way of the words (you know how we like to talk! ) as people abuse it with "quotes" within "quotes" and the message gets lost.

Never crossed my mind that Mumsnet might have put anyone up to this

Whilst you are at it, please can you enable the MN Sober Workplace to remove all the emoticons.

Is not good when you are MN at work when you are on a chat thread and there are smileys all over the place. Makes it look obvous that you are skiving.

But LEAVE THE REST ALONE FGS AND DON'T DO TICKERS

Actually, the one thing I would really like is a search box to search "all posts by me". Quite often I'm looking for a post I made or a thread I know I was on but I can't remember what name I was using at the time.

Still don't see where Mooos 40:60 split comes from!

Looking at the thread in Chat, the consumers are unanimous in not wanting change, except, perhaps for some enhanced search facilities.

1. I really don't want to see how many people have read the post

2. I really don't want to see who is currently reading the post

3. I would vaguely like to be able to get to my first unread post, but am not hugely fussed about it. It's more useful on a slower-moving forum, TBH.

4. I like that MN doesn't allow editing

5. Every forum I'm on that has a quote button winds up with posters quoting great swathes of stuff at each other. I like that on MN if you want to quote something you have to look it up and make a conscious decision what you are going to cut and paste.

I absolutely agree with previous posters who have said that the lack of availability of bells and whistles on Mumsnet makes it about the words. That's one of the things that's refreshing about it.

And assuming for the moment that you are genuinely unaware of what posters are on about, housepricecrash has regular "Hey, let's all go and wind up Mumsnet, it's so funny!" threads.

Aren't we the consumers here? If someone's suddenly given me a shareholding interest in Mumsnet, and/or an income stream from it, I wish they'd told me. Apart from anything else I could have put in valuable time working on my snotty attitude to the rest of you plebs consumers .

no fgs

OP has asserted 60/40 so I started the thread to see if this is right

I suspect not

Don't know about that - I am just making an allusion to MmeBlackberry's comment about her dh working in FMCG and complaining about our attitude to "consumers"

Although it would definetly explain the thread from a thread that has been started.

i thought the feeling was being made clear enough here. but obviously not

prettybird were they the ones that got evicted from their own site? I missed their shinagans as their topics were so i hid them.

not sure why the op cant just use this method to reply to specific posts

It is the sort of thing the FMCG guys would do!

Well its that or the standard of poster is slipping and that is really not something i would like to even momentarily consider.

Muckyducky, are you suggesting this is MNHQ doing some subverted market research...?

It's not a question of being tacky or not. Little pictures next to the posts (for example) is extra info that I don't want to know. I just want to know what a poster thinks about a topic. I don't want to know anything else about them (i.e. what type of graphics they like). Call me old fashioned but only want an image accompanying text if it helps explain the meaning. Otherwise it clogs things up.

Muckyducky - that thought did cross my mind

Okay which one of you in HQ put the op up to it?

I hope you arent seriously considering any of this suggested nonsense!

Its simple each forum needs its own style and ways. It is what makes it unique. If all forums looked and functioned in the same way it would 1. be pretty boring and 2. leave a lot of people uncatered for.

MN as it is fills a very important role in the forum world. To change it to make it more like other forums would be signing its death warent. It would be a case for a revival of the m... and tradditionalists to create a breakaway faction. And we all know how Bad that can be. Leave it as it is. Its clear, its concise, and there isnt a hold load of rubbish to wade through when you are trying to get the essential information.

plus where would fast moving threads like the poof of pooh and the adventures of the penguin man be if each post took ages to upload? It just wouldnt work.

leave the forum as it is!

if you dont like it the leave or deal with it.

MN has to stay as it does, as it offers a 'sober workplace' setting

Enabling MN in the workplace...that's what I love

Bet they don't offer that in Tickersville.