Hello, FourFortyFour.

Just to add to AdamTech's post, Topics hasn't gone: you can click through to them by clicking on the big 'Mumsnet Talk' in black.

And you can still make links with the . It's just that now, if a poster forgets (or doesn't know how) to make links, it can be done automatically for them if they tick the 'Convert links automatically' box underneath the Add Message box.

Indeed there are! We haven't forgotten any of them. :) The convert links checkbox was done along-side a few other changes to make things run a bit more smoothly, specifically related to long URLs which haven't been made links .