Mumsnet local posts in Active

Sorry to nitpick, but...

a) other stickied threads do not reappear when the page is refreshed

b) I have no 'Edit Sites' option on the local page.

Confession... DH called the javascript via the console and my favourite sites are now gone. Something is not working with the on click handler.

Amy - Edit my sites doesn't work (as mentioned in my 8/6 post). When I select it, the window opens but even though I select the x on my two favourite sites, nothing happens.

I like that I can see what is going on, on the local board. It is usually completely dead (still is somewhat)...but I'm sure this will increase activity.

It is still happening, and no matter how much I try to hide them, the same two threads just keep on reappearing.

I am not a member of a local site, and I want to delete the connection to the one that I looked at some time ago, which seems to have favourited itself, and for which there are no current instructions on how to remove.

I am predominantly getting threads from my home site (Bromley) now. However, tonight I have twice had a thread from Kent (one of my favourites) appear. A screenshot is hopefully attached.

I've just spent several minutes trying to dissociate myself from my local site and found I can't. Every thread that has been green pinned so far has been totally irrelevant to me, asking for very specific information about places at least 20 miles away.

How do you remove yourself from a local site?

I am utterly sick of hiding the same damned thread over and over again.

I thought I was OK with it, because you'd be fixing it so that when we hid a thread it stayed hidden, and got the green pinned thread when a new one was pinned.

But maybe that was never the plan.

So I just want to leave MN local. I've never joined a board, just shown an interest in one. And I can't work out how to disengage.

Yes Amy , I was seeing threads from 'favourites' as well as my 'home site'. It seems to have been fixed since I posted before, but if any more appear I'll try and get a screenshot. (Threads I hide from Active conversations are still appearing, but I'm assuming you're aware of that?)

I've hidden loads of irrelevant-to-me threads and I'm sure they keep popping back up! it is a bit annoying.
I hide all the Local ones, I'm not interested in conversing in real life.

Is there any update on this please? I've tried to remove myself from the other local sites but that doesn't work either. On another Well Known Parenting Site, I regularly add myself to different local areas if we are going on holiday there. There is no way I would risk that on Mumsnet at the moment!

Actually, further to my last comment, that's probably because I have hidden them. But it's really annoying that they still appear in Most Active witb the green pin. Get rid of the pin please!

I think it's a great idea but does still need tweaking!

My local board is not very active and often when I do go on someone's asked a question that no one has replied to in several weeks.

I think they do need differentiating somehow from general active threads (I.e. With the green pin thingy)

Agree a time limit though- probably 3-5 days

I like it, although the green pin thingie seems disproportionately big.

I like it as I forget to go to my local site.

They aren't working properly. I haven't had any for a few days now, but when I did have a couple of them last week I went over to the local board for a peek and neither of the pinned threads were there at all. Still aren't, I just checked.

Agree that if it's genuinely an active conversation, which for local is within a few days, it's ok. But not if it's really old.

Can Tech have (yet another) look at this?

Because threads I hid repeatedly yesterday are appearing and reappearing again today (no new posts on them).

I thought I didn't mind seeing MN Local threads, but frankly if this is how it's going to be, does anyone know how to remove oneself from all Local boards?

From the 'other side' of this, it's been fantastic so far - but clearly needs refining a bit.

Most Mumsnet users don't look at their local sites often and I imagine some don't know they're there. As a result it's sometimes difficult and slow for local posters to get answers, especially to very area-specific questions. I can work to attract new users within my locality, via Facebook, Twitter etc but can't do much to strengthen links with MN main board users. Integrating local talk better with the main board is the obvious thing to do, as there are just so many more users, from any locality, there.

Since this started, there have been a couple of very area-specific questions on my board, which have gained a number of useful answers, quickly. Hurrah!

I can see there needs to be some time-limit on local threads being shown. So perhaps only threads that have been posted on in the last three days or something - rather than the threads with the most recent comments, even if that was two weeks ago. That is a little circular of course, as without the wider audience, threads take longer to gain responses. There must be a happy-ish medium.

I'm still having problems with local posts appearing despite the topic being hidden. Plus it's not even my local 'home' site, posts from another neighbouring area are appearing instead.

I like having it there, and I've actually visited the Local board a few times since they started popping up and even posted a few times.

If they are genuinely Most Active it makes sense. Older or less active posts in local shouldn't be prioritized over active ones, IMHO.

I think it's a good idea, but agree then staying hidden would be better!