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JanineMumsnet · 06/02/2019 12:47

Across this year we intend to make some improvements to features on Mumsnet talk with the aim of enhancing your experience of using the site. The first of which is to improve the functionality of the 'threads I'm watching' and bookmark features.

You might have used these features, or you may have no idea they even existed, either way we'd love it if you could complete this quick survey.

www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9DHX79L

Any additional comments you want to add to this thread would also be welcome.

Thanks

MNHQ

OP posts:
Polestar50 · 07/02/2019 05:14

IKillEveryBloodyThreadIPostOn
If you are using the app on a mobile, you can refresh by clicking the 'reverse thread' arrows to the top right of the screen twice. Not sure if this works on a computer or iPad though.

marcopront · 07/02/2019 03:39

*A button on the mobile app that will take you to where you last posted on a thread instead of back to the start.

Or is that already a thing and I haven't seen it??*

Yes the bookmark feature.

marcopront · 07/02/2019 03:38

Is there an easy way to see the original post on the iPhone app when you are at another point in the thread?

AornisHades · 07/02/2019 00:06

You know the quick view thing you do for Web chats where you can view the posts by the OP? I'd like that for ordinary threads but particularly AIBU so people can read the drip feed or OP admitting they're U on page 2 and stop the 'Cancel the cheque' stuff.

BeekyChitch · 07/02/2019 00:03

A button on the mobile app that will take you to where you last posted on a thread instead of back to the start.

Or is that already a thing and I haven't seen it??

halfwitpicker · 06/02/2019 23:59

Get rid of that shit in thread titles where someone's tried to use quotation marks. It does my head in.

^

Yes.

And please don't add a like button : it's fun in principle but I think it'd ruin your business model Grin

gemmaxyz · 06/02/2019 23:57

Option to delete our own posts individually.

People post a lot of personal info on here to help others but a few months or years later it's done its job.

It's unlikely people will want to delete posts on practical things like cleaning and decorating anyway, and those will always remain a useful resource.

But I think that in general people's privacy choices should take precedent over preserving threads, without them having to go through gatekeeping of requesting deletion and seeing if it meets staff standards.

If you make it so that posters can do it one post at a time, but you have to go through staff to have everything nuked, that would be a good compromise.

Sparklingbrook · 06/02/2019 23:47

I don't want a Like Button or an edit function.

Get rid of the @ function. I and many others have it switched off as we don't want endless emails. Bit pointless if not everyone uses it.

JaneJeffer · 06/02/2019 23:41

No like button.
No quote thingy if it's like the DS thing where there's pages of people quoting each other. It's terrible. Copy and paste works fine.
A better search facility that takes you to the post not just the thread would be good.

IKillEveryBloodyThreadIPostOn · 06/02/2019 23:21

A way to automatically refresh active convos on the app. Without having to scroll back to the very top and pull it down to refresh. Unless there already us a way to do this. If not, it would be most helpful!

PortiaCastis · 06/02/2019 23:14

Don't need a like button this isn't that other site, I'd like an edit button as im always inclined to cock a post up Blush

mikado1 · 06/02/2019 23:11

I would love for the 'Threads I'm on' on the app to go to where I last was on the thread, instead of having to scroll and for the op to be highlighted throughout the thread, as I think it is on the mobile site. I would like the 'Threads I'm on' to stick around as long as the 'watching' threads, which I can view for a much longer time.

DramaAlpaca · 06/02/2019 23:06

Done the survey.

A definite No to a like button & quote function from me.

SeriouslyAngryRN · 06/02/2019 19:52

Is 'threads I'm watching' the same as 'threads I'm on'?

It depends on your settings. Under customise, there's the option to "watch" threads you start, threads you post on, both, or none.

TwitterQueen1 · 06/02/2019 18:20

Also a 'compress' function, so you only see the OP's posts and no-one else's..... or maybe that could be extended to any individual's posts on one thread..

hotwing · 06/02/2019 17:59

Quote function!

TwitterQueen1 · 06/02/2019 16:33

Xmas Grin Grin that is obviously the correct way!

Greensleeves · 06/02/2019 16:05

Get rid of that shit in thread titles where someone's tried to use quotation marks. It does my head in.

XmasPostmanBos · 06/02/2019 16:03

I'm not helping, I will wait till you are done then moan tis awful now.

Grace212 · 06/02/2019 16:00

proper categories would be good

e.g. "Other stuff" has a lot of stuff!

then I took a while to find "what we're reading" because I was looking at B for Books....

BiglyBadgers · 06/02/2019 15:54

I'd like it if all the posts by the OP were highlighted on a thread. I read on my phone and can never see if there are updates because they are not highlighted

You can do this in your settings. I have the OP posts one colour and my posts another. Very handy.

BiglyBadgers · 06/02/2019 15:53

I'd like to be able to take threads off the "threads I'm on" list so that if I'm don't with posting but it's just going on and on its not clogging up the top on my list. Or at least be able to put it to the bottom.

Maybe a random thought but do we even need a specific "threads I'm on" list separate from a "threads I'm watching" list? I'm easily confused and I find it tiresome having multiple different lists that are really both just threads I'm watching. I know if I've posted in it or not, I don't need it in a different place.

WineGummyBear · 06/02/2019 15:46

I'd like it if all the posts by the OP were highlighted on a thread. I read on my phone and can never see if there are updates because they are not highlighted

HankNPat · 06/02/2019 15:43

Done

No to a Like button too!

Advanced Search is very basic - some extra search functions on that could be useful

TwitterQueen1 · 06/02/2019 13:44

I'd like a 'Dismiss' button for when I'm done with threads but don't necessarily want to hide them. Currently they clutter up my TIA list even when I'm done with posting. I only Hide posts when I'm being abused, which unfortunately seems to be happening more often.....