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New features: Acronym translation and content linking

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JanineMumsnet · 18/03/2019 15:38

We often get feedback from new users to say that they are bamboozled by all the weird and wonderful acronyms you use used on the boards. With this in mind we have now enabled a feature whereby a 'translation' will be shown next to an acronym. This will be set to 'on by default' for logged out users of the site, and for new users who sign up from this point forward. For existing logged in users of the site, the feature will be off as a default. You can turn this feature on or off at any time by going to your talk preferences here. At the moment we are only testing this in a few specific areas: conception, pregnancy and antenatal clubs, so you shouldn't see this across the entire site yet.

The second feature will hopefully help users to find useful content on a specific topic as and when they need it. For example, if a user posts about heartburn or SPD the tool will highlight this word and link to useful content about this topic. Again, for now this feature will only appear in the conception, pregnancy and antenatal clubs topics and you can turn this feature off at any time by going to your talk preferences here.

We hope you find these new features useful, but as ever we appreciate your candid feedback, so please let us know in the comments what you think.

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00100001 · 19/03/2019 16:56

PavarotisBitOnTheSide

calm down dear, DD and DS etc is an old old internet acronym, not just a MN exclusive...

00100001 · 19/03/2019 16:54

I've turned it on... DS DS DD12 DS22 PFB1 STBXH

Olissa8 · 19/03/2019 16:03

There's at least one thread in childbirth full of people saying 'oh' and it being followed by 'other half' (when it's just an exclamation, like "oh, I see!") and someone mentioned an op, short for operation, and it helpfully added "original post/poster"...

PavarotisBitOnTheSide · 19/03/2019 15:41

I could go on...so I shall.
What’s wrong with simply typing ‘Son’? Why ‘DS’? To me, it’s more effort to hold down the caps key on the keyboard. And let’s be honest with ourselves; you might think your son/daughter/mother etc is a ‘darling’ ‘dear’ but I can assure you, we feel differently. It makes me quite nauseous actually. I want you to understand that I talk like you do, I don’t want to feel like I’m in a sci-fi film and and working out whether someone is talking about their family or a robot.

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LuckyLou7 · 19/03/2019 14:16

What if the poster types DS but means dear sister not son? Or DF for dear friend not father?

paxillin · 19/03/2019 11:04

So if I switch this on I will see the "translation" in other people's posts or will my posts read like "DH (dear husband) said to DS (dear son) that we need to go ASAP (as soon as possible). AIBU (am I being unreasonable) to say wtf (what the fuck) no way"? If the latter, I would expect uptake to be low.

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JanineMumsnet · 19/03/2019 08:54

Hi @syncope and @beckyboop1

Thanks for raising this. I will get this fixed and let you know when it's done.

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Syncope · 18/03/2019 22:18

@beckyboop1 I'm having the same problem - I'm trying to turn off the content linking but every time I untick it and press save, the page refreshes with it ticked again! Very annoying- any ideas MNHQ?

beckyboop1 · 18/03/2019 21:40

Yay! Such a great idea, however when I try and click 'acronym finder' on my login and click 'save changes', the page refreshes and then the tick box is unticked again? Maybe just me I don't know 🤔