Oh. It all changed in the blink of an eye

How odd! It appears when I'm on active convos but not when I'm on a thread.

I love the purple. But don't like the choices on the menu bar - they are not relevant to meeeeee. (yes I know the world does not revolve around me but still...)

The dangly thingy appeared again. Like an annoying pest. Have managed to hide it for now but am not holding my breath...

My dangle has gone without a problem, I clicked on the cross and it has yet to return.

Have just suggested on the other thread that people who can't get rid of it might like to advise the techy types of which version of MN/IE/hardware they are using so they can see if there is a common link.

BoF - you ain't missing much, be grateful. :)

I'm on ipad and I'm completely missing the penis

Okay, so the dangle cannot be hidden. I've even restarted the computer. It's somewhere a shade beyond annoying.

oh dear Nutty - that's bloody annoying for you! :(

I have thumb, and the bastard is still there when I scroll down.

The only problem I have wiith the drop down box is that I when I am working mn-ing I can hide the fact that I am MN-ing my scrolling down the page so it just looks like a random list on my screen from a distance but now it YELLS Mumsnet everytime I change pages. I can't hide anymore

I don't mind the rest of the changes now I can get rid of the dangly thingy

I like purple but it keeps leaping out at me when I scroll over the menu. I think it just reminds me of teh days when I would be flicking between here and the university website, knowing full well I shouldn't be on here. University website was purple, I keep feeling as though I shouldn't be here!

I like purple.

It is the big blocks of purple that get me. So very purple and dark.

I LOVE it when they change stuff. I find the hundreds of pages of 'wtf tech, stop it this instant' posts strangely reassuring.

I don't like change either. This is fine though, bar the limp, dangly fb/twitter thing which I've managed to hide anyway.

For anyone on (apparently dinosaur) 1024 x 768 screen resolution, if you un-maximise your browser, then move it so it's hanging off the left side of the screen, then click on the edge of the window to stretch it, THEN you can just see about one pixel of the x to close it with

Thanks Bertie.

My laptop is 8 years old.

Usual You're a genius!!!

Thanks Usualsuspect - had to zoom out 4 times to find it - was a tiny dot!

And why on earth would people want the Logout button right in the middle of it - surely most of us are reading from home on our own accounts so never need to log out?

The rest of the site looks exactly the same to me - I must be unobservant or something.

GandTwithLime try zooming out on your screen to find the x ..thats what I did

I am liking the options bit thing which when you hover over talk it gives you the main topics. But yes, drop down thingy bar is doing my nut in.

Nannynick Thanks, I clicked on your link and could see the little grey circle with the cross in it but still can't see it on the silly bar thing. I closed Chrome and reopened it too but still can't see it

MNHQ Can we get rid of it please? Or at least make it so that we can close it if we want to (and we DO want to!) ?

I thought I had escaped the 'dangly' thing with my classic, but it seems not (having just opened a new wondow). Grr

And I've just had to scroll across the purple bar for something and it is annoying as hell when you accidently stray up and catch the bar above which clears off the thing you were trying to scroll too! It's not like if you click on talk (for example) the options in the purple bar get replaced on the main bar for the 'talk' section, so you still have to scroll across the purple bar... tedious as heck
I was only trying to get too the talk guidelines fgs!

@GandTwithLime - The grey cross is an image - try loading just that image into your browser click here then with luck the browser will cache the image and display it when the bar next displays.

Just STOP FIDDLING WITH MUMSNET AND LEAVE US BE!!!!!

IT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLOODY ANNOYING!

If you keep doing this then I will do-a-Pie (yes, been here that long!) and set up my own Mumsnet!! and people will leave here and you will be out of jobs!!!

@DamianTech - Does not seem to when composing the message (displays the full url) but looking at the tweet it produces it has shortened the URL using t.co So guess it's working as it Twitter has designed it.

@thumbbunny - I use Google Chrome and it will usually happily take me from the results page back to the advanced search page with the fields already completed. Exception to that is if using Choose Topics.