Mumsnet forums need updating

ANother MN classic user here - and a refugee from another site (many many moons ago ) where the disucssions were threaded and it was a pain to try follow who was saying what to whom and to get the full view point.

Mumsnet is like a true conversation - everyone's contributions have equal weight. Threads meander like conversations do. If you are in a group chatting, you have to be clear if you are responding to one specific person - but you don't go off and have a private conversation, which is what trying to following different bits of a threaded conversation can feel like.

I like Mumsnet's "cleanness" and simplicity.

'ok' I don't quote often anyway Its too much of a faff [lazy]

Oh yes, MN classic and first to last posts on one page here too, the way it's always been.

MN is not allowed to change ever. Whenever the Tech Shed gets inventive, we all spontaneously combust and active convos is full of "wtf has happened" and "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" type threads and nothing else is dicussed for days.

We Do Not Like Change.

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

You don't have to italicise quotes, just use quotation marks. It's what they're for,,,

yy to MN classic and reading first to last on one page

OP you have got folks backs up by wading in with your face and critiscism

This thread prolly won't end well

I have classic MN and all the thread is on one page. It's bootiful

Cannot be bothered with other sites that shan't be named where discussions each have their own section, it's just unwieldy and time-consuming to navigate.

The simplicity and ease of use is why MN is so popular and, imo, so influential.

And God save us from tickers and swirly shit.

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

Actually, it is not "just as easy". It's not hard, and it's certainly not pretty. But a single click and a little bit of deleting the PP's post is much easier (and prettier).

Even if we had an ability to indent text before C&Ping so that it is clear that the quote is separate would be helpful.

but what if its just a certain line that you want to quote. its just as easy to C&P.

i like the fact that we arent spoonfed. and agree with ethelina, the way you posted the thread was aggressive

I like it.

ANother mn classic user here

But then how would the pedants pass the time? :o

Mooos if you really would like to suggest a change why didn't you start your thread with a question asking what if we did x or y instead and asking for constructive critiscism? Coming in all aggressive about what you don't like is guaranteed to piss people off.

There are a few things that would be helpful. I would like to be able to quote another person's post. I know I can do it by hand, but much better to have it as a single click with the timestamp.

Of modern bulletin boards, the administrators do not have to give the full range of mods to everyone, so tickers are not inevitable.

no, no, no, no. the lay out is incredibly easy to read and follow. i like the "last post first" style. i just don't see how its "user-unfriendly" at all. Ive tried a few other sites and all the fannying around with tickers, picture, pm boxes put me off. they are unnecessary and ridiculous.the majority of users like mn the way it is, those who don't... well noone's forcing you to use it.

The reason it has stayed as it is for so long is that every time they have tried to update it, there has been a massive adverse reaction. Personally I like the fact that MNHQ are willing to listen to their members and not just impose change upon them.

Threaded message boards do make it easier to reply to a particular point, particularly if some time has passed since it was made, but they also make it less easy to follow the thread as a whole, rather than having to follow a subthread to its conclusion & then try to pick up the main theme where you left off. One of the attractions of MN for me is how threads often take on a life of their own with digressions being introduced into the main thread as people react to particular points in a previous post, rather than being shunted off into a separate subthread.

I also suspect that threaded discussions would give rise to even more cries of 'clique' if people replied to a particular post by a friend, rather than to the OP.

Thanks MrsD and HI Done it and will go and see if it works.....

You can have time limit edits ..they seem to work fine on other forums

Yes, like MrsDinky says. It is much better when it's all on one page.

I like the simplicity of it actually.

I like it the way it is. in fact I am so averse to change I am still in "MN Classic".

No need to have a way to specifically answer to 1 poster, what is bolding for otherwise! [granny emoticon]

It doesn't need an edit feature, you'd have people going back and changing what they said so nothing would make sense.

The only thing that I think we need is the op's name highlighted in a thread. It's a pain in the arse on a phone to have to scroll back up to see who the op was.

It is lovely and soothing, I belong to several other forums (not parenting ones, specialist things) and the smaltzy, tickery, glityery, quotey crap makes my teeth itch.

Agree though, that an edit wouldn't go amiss and would stop mw looking like such a twat somethimes with my appalling typos.

Hello PA - Click on Customise under the Mumsnet Talk header, scroll down a bit to other options, change messages per page to Unlimited. Makes it a lot easier to keep up with long threads.