Mumsnet forums need updating

'Nothing changes if nothing changes.'
amen to that

MN is nice and simple and uncluttered
and that's the way I like it

and why would you want your inbox cluttered up with emails telling you someone's replied to your post?
just check 'Threads I'm on' or Threads I started'

oh yes,so you can ...thanks for pointing that out

Who cares how many people are reading a thread? Why does it matter?

tortoise, I agree wholeheartedly.

The attraction of Mumsnet is the range of members it attracts, and the words they write (well, 20% of them). The gizmos in the forum do not make the forum - but it would make it a lot easier if it had a little more functionality.

I don't really understand the support for DOS era output. The enemy called below average, I suppose.

I am impressed with Tech as he seems to be going it alone with this technology, but there are so many off-the-shelf technologies that would be so easy to implement, I think even with the bandwidth of Mumsnet.

thats what threads i'm on thing is for ;)

I don't understand why you would get an email to tell you you had a reply, does your other site not do real-time posting?

[scratches head]

I think a lot of this is about the people not the functionality, though. I belong to a small parenting forum in the States, and it has the functionality for tickers and sparkles and embedded quotes and photographs and whatnot. But nobody has a ticker, only about three people have any sort of sig (and they're the recipients of rolled eyes, frankly), and nobody would dream of writing ROFL unless they were being ironic.

So Mumsnet could change, or stay as it is, and it'd still be Mumsnet, I think.

I loathe discussion sites which have a quote function. You end up scrolling down half a page of quotes about quotes about quotes, only to read that poster's gem of wisdom at the end, which usually turns out to be "ROFL" or something equally fascinating.

To be fair on Mooos, she has been on here for a good few months.

Even if I do think tat her OP could hav ebeen worded a bit more constructively.

No, it is perfect as it is... don't change it please, I don't like change!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

MN the way it is works fine- I prefer the simplicity, the way threads flow like a RL conversation would in a large group discussion.

I would like to be able to bookmark where I had got to on a particular thread, but it's not essential- I have a fairly good memory and can read quickly anyway so can catch up relatively easily.

Moos, perhaps you should try settling in for a bit instead of coming in like a bull in a china-shop and getting peoples backs up? As someone said earlier you wouldn't come into someone's house and insult their choice of decor, would you?

I like it. Keep it simple. Add more visual stuff and it distracts from what people are saying as I have to admit I get very distracted by visual communication, which is a bit of a black art IMO. Words are just words though and less open to interpretation, therefore better for debate.

Would like an edit button though...

I go on other forums (fora?) that have quotes, and signatures and pretty names to reward you for number of posts (and have your joining date so you can feel smug rounding on a nOOb, ) and they're fine - don't move half as fast as MN though, so I think they need all that jubbins.

MN is fine the was it is (was? I use MN Classic too, no pages, first-to-last posts)

Yes I agree that sometimes its difficult to see whats been quoted ..and its a pain to use the italics feature around every word ..

Quotation marks do work, but you do know that you can just put the italics at the beginning and end of a chunk of text now? The same thing applies to bolding.

I do wish we had a standard feature for formatting (highlight text, click 'bold', etc) because otherwise I go to other forums and start typing with the little hats around words, and they look at me lke , but it's no big deal.

Yes, we prefer a more subtle style of trolling really - you need a thread title that makes people think it will be an interesting discussion, or one where they can offer advice. Then slowly drip-drip-drip so people don't realise you are a wacko until at least your 4th post. Jumping in saying MN is rubbish just doesn't cut it.

I like it, but the only thing i would like added (if it's poss) is to go stright to the last bit you read on a post. because if you leave a post, at say page 4... and then come back 2 days later - you forget what you have read already and have to trawl through to see where you're up to.

Oh - and more emoticons! i cna't get enough of those! I'd like a heart!

Moos, you're stirring. It's very obvious, too.

But carry on. Here, here's some rope.

As does yours Mooos.

I think bookmarking your place in a thread would be good

you stumble across a funny thread you get 4 pages in and get distracted by work /kids when you come back you cant remember where you left off

Hey BoF, I think you've <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=manolomen.com/images/Terry%2520Wogans%2520trousers.jpg&imgrefurl=manolomen.com/2007/10/&h=352&w=303&sz=66&tbnid=b754j4tOXFbBKM:&tbnh=242&tbnw=208&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dterry%2Bwogan%2Btrousers&zoom=1&usg=__PHMwuo2wbVSJAkWUhg5Z4RNuq3k=&sa=X&ei=5497TLKWBsiq4AbdtrCHBg&ved=0CBYQ9QEwAA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">forgotten something!

No editing, no quoting, no messing, no telling who has been stalking, FGS no branching of threads.

I would like Active Convos to list the OP as well as the most recent poster.

And I would like to be able to bookmark in some way so I can catch up to where I last read a thread.

But the only changes I want to make are changes to the way I see things, not changes to the way we communicate.