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PLEASE please can we have an easy to find "unhide" button?

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Aethelfleda · 29/05/2014 08:53

Help! I keep accidentally hiting the "hide " thread button when on my mobile. My favourite theead then vanishes.
Currently the only way to unhide is convoluted and frustrating esp with a mobile phone access (given up on the app as I coyldn't make it work for me).

Please can you make it SIMPLE for klutzes like me to un-hide conversations, either with a toggle function on the "hide" button so that pressing it again will undo the action, OR by installing a "jump to the lost of stuff I've accidentally hidden" page at the bottom of the "I'm watching page????

Pleeeeease??

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OwlCapone · 06/06/2014 12:07

Why is the list of hidden threads so difficult to find though?

I accidentally hide stuff and I use the desktop site.

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RowanMumsnet · 06/06/2014 11:36

Hello

We do completely understand why you're asking. The new mobile site/apps will hopefully mean far fewer mistakenly hidden threads, and we're fairly close to launching those now, so we're minded to hang on until we do that and then we'll have another look to see whether this is something that should be added to Tech's ginormous to-do list.

haggisaggis · 05/06/2014 09:56

I'd like this too please. Have a new laptop and if I have hidden a few threads by accident as the touch pad is really sensitive. Never use "Last Day"

OwlCapone · 05/06/2014 09:49

Does the bar come up if you hide something from Active Conversations? I can't remember.

As I've just discovered, no it doesn't. Click hide and the thread is gone (channels inner Barry Scott of Cilit Bang fame)

5madthings · 04/06/2014 14:49

Oh yes I keep doing this it's most annoying.

Also I sometimes accidentally click on desktop and it's a pita to get it back to mobile site (don't usr the app) the bit to click on is right at the bottom and tiny!

Original poster

Aethelfleda · 04/06/2014 14:42

Um: quick bump to ask if this might actually happen?
(Do hope so, I accidentally hid our postnatal thread AGAIN the other day!.....)

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KateSMumsnet · 31/05/2014 17:10

Your suggestion ItsAllGoingToBeFine does sound very sensible.

Please do keep your thoughts coming folks.

OwlCapone · 31/05/2014 09:31

A button similar to the hide button would be best or perhaps an undo link on the bar that comes up saying the thread has been hidden.

Does the bar come up if you hide something from Active Conversations? I can't remember.

An way to find list of hidden threads would solve a big part of the problem - the fact that it's unnecessarily complicated to find the list at the moment.

onestepbeyond · 31/05/2014 09:07

Please do this, I am always hiding the best threads by accident - surely a 'did you mean to hide this thread' popup wouldn't be too hard? I also keep hitting report this thread (very fat thumbs!) but that's not as disasterous as you can go back.9

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 31/05/2014 08:53

A button similar to the hide button would be best or perhaps an undo link on the bar that comes up saying the thread has been hidden. As its usually done by accident it would be ideal if you could just unhide the thread you have open without navigating away.

Oh and I don't have I started or last day button ?

EduardoBarcelona · 31/05/2014 07:57

I use ive started. And I'm on

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Aethelfleda · 31/05/2014 00:01

Yep, either losing "last day" or "I started" (as most of us can either remember what we started, or will watch it or use "I'm on", I'm guessing?

Or a toggle hide/unhide button, or an easy linky at the bottom of the "active convos" or "I'm watching" page.
Whatever is easiest to implement, really I know nothing about this coding lark

Thanks!

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 30/05/2014 11:50

Ooh. Yes please! This is the bane of my life. Either that or a box that pops up saying " did you mean to give this thread?"

OwlCapone · 30/05/2014 11:47

[innocent]
[hoot]

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RowanMumsnet · 30/05/2014 10:34

ophiotaurus · 30/05/2014 10:26

Another vote from me too. I do this and it's very annoying.

OwlCapone · 30/05/2014 10:25

And, within a thread, a toggled hide/show button to replace the ordinary hide one.

and a emoticon for the Woolly Huggers

OwlCapone · 30/05/2014 10:24

Just in case we end up replacing one of these buttons

Throwing in an alternative to replacing one of those buttons, how about a new option under the "My Mumsnet" button?

Nocomet · 30/05/2014 10:22

You can make the hide button vanish, but you can't sort out mistakes.

I tried running without hide, but that annoyed me too.

EduardoBarcelona · 30/05/2014 10:16

its almost as hard to find as the Return to mobile button on your phone when you go to the desktop in error

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 30/05/2014 10:14

Nocomet are you using the App or the mobile site? You can access it via the Customise button on the mobile site without having to use the desktop one, don't know about the app.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 30/05/2014 10:12

Oh, yes please!

I've never used any of the Lasts or I started. I had never noticed I started but might use it now I know it exists. I'd happily ditch any of the Lasts for an unhide button.

I hide threads when they are winding me up. Somehow pressing the hide button puts a little breathing space between me and the thread. However I invariably want to check them again later.

Nocomet · 30/05/2014 10:10

Please, I've just hidden something by mistake. It's an utter pita having to read the desk top site on my phone to sort it out.

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RowanMumsnet · 30/05/2014 10:08

Just in case we end up replacing one of these buttons (going off-piste here mind, not promising anything...) which one would you be happy to lose? I'm thinking 'Last day' probably doesn't get a lot of use these days given the volume of new threads started, but I could be wrong (I often am):

DorothyGherkins · 30/05/2014 09:39

Yes my clumsy fingers have accidentally hit hide just as the thread is coming to a climax and I never found out how things finished.

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