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MNHQ here - which feature would you most like to have on Mumsnet Talk?

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RebeccaSMumsnet · 16/09/2019 15:59

Hi all

We're looking at making some improvements to the Talk over the next couple of months. We've had a look at your threads in Site stuff and created a list of features you've been asking for recently. We'd love it if you could vote using the poll below please, to let us know which feature is most important to you. (You all have one vote each).

  • See OP's posts only
Ability to filter a thread to just see posts by the original poster
  • Improve search
  • Save post
Ability to favourite / save posts from other users that you like / find helpful, so you can find them again later. A bit like Instagram's 'Save' feature.
  • Edit your post
Ability to edit your post after it's gone live so you can amend any typos etc
  • Ability to move your thread to different topic
For example if your thread isn't getting a lot of traffic or if you've posted it to the wrong Talk topic
  • Quote reply
Ability to quote another user's post in your post, when replying to something they've said on a thread.
  • View all posts on one page
Being able to view all posts on a thread on one page, rather than having to click 'next page'

Also if we've left anything out, please let us know by posting below - thank you!

OP posts:
brightonroc · 18/09/2019 06:54

OP posts only

LiveInAHidingPlace · 18/09/2019 06:52

"OP's posts only pleeeease! I've wanted that for so long, would save so much time not having to scroll through the whole thing looking for them!"

  1. Change your settings to highlight OP's posts.
  1. Do 'show all messages' and then do CTRL+F and search OP's username.
Elodie2019 · 18/09/2019 06:47

'Like' button

Magissa · 18/09/2019 06:34

Save posts
OP only posts

Snausage · 18/09/2019 06:25

I'd like to be able to skip to a page on the ap without having to scroll through to the end, past hundreds of posts I've already read, to get to the new posts on a thread!

SillyMoomin · 18/09/2019 06:24

No to editing. It would be filled with people backtracking if they didn’t like initial replies

And you can already see Op’s Posts by just highlighting them a different colour. Same as just bookmarking a post
And I can already see all the posts on one page, don’t know what anyone else is doing!, but I’m on safari on my mobile

Grin
ahhgowan · 18/09/2019 06:22

OP's posts only pleeeease! I've wanted that for so long, would save so much time not having to scroll through the whole thing looking for them!

AliciaQuays · 18/09/2019 06:13

When you do a search on the mobile app and you get a thread with a comment on you want to read, it won’t link to that post. You have to trawl the whole thread

SingingLily · 18/09/2019 06:09

Edit, please. I understand what PP say about retrospectively changing a post so that it makes a nonsense of any posts that follow. That would be confusing. However, a time-limited edit for typos would be a boon.

AreWeAnywhereNear · 18/09/2019 05:48

Definitely 'see OPs posts only'

Not that bothered about anything else.

QueenOfIce · 18/09/2019 03:54

To see ops posts only, to edit and also delete I have no idea why it's left up to mnhq to decide whether or not to delete a thread upon request.

LiveInAHidingPlace · 18/09/2019 03:36

"I'm not keen on the edit facility because on other forums I've been on, people post things then others reply, then the original poster goes back and changes their post and then all the replies make no sense any more."

You can usually see on those kinds of forums that the post has been edited though, they'll have some kind of badge on it. I think it's also good if you can look through the past edits (which I think you can do on facebook), then it's very easy to show the other side of any argument as you mentioned.

isabellerossignol · 18/09/2019 03:27

I'm not keen on the edit facility because on other forums I've been on, people post things then others reply, then the original poster goes back and changes their post and then all the replies make no sense any more.

With mumsnet being the target that it is for trolls, I envisage that you'd get posters posting something inflammatory and getting responses then going back and editing their post to something benign but capturing screen shots of the responses thereby distorting the truth of what was said.

FrancisCrawford · 18/09/2019 02:45

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Poppins2016 · 18/09/2019 02:28

Why can we only choose one option? As PPs have pointed out, other forums have had all the options given for years and it makes the user experience so much better!

mathanxiety · 18/09/2019 02:21

You can already highlight the OP's posts. And you can use Ctrl F to search them out and hop from one to the next.

You can also have an entire thread on one page.

You can use Ctrl F to search for a particular poster or turn of phrase from a post (on PC).

Please - no 'like' button. It has a terrible effect on discussion forums. The YABU/YANBU buttons contribute nothing.

I absolutely agree with the comments on Zombie threads. They should be flagged for all latecomers and shouldn't appear in 'Trending Now' or 'Active'.

I agree with RogersVideo's points.

bombomboobah · 17/09/2019 21:59

What about the ability to edit your username when you do a name change fail?

Graphista · 17/09/2019 21:57

Yea all the profile stuff is a waste of server space the big appeal of mn is the anonymity.

Also do other users use the non "talk" stuff much? I never did

milliefiori · 17/09/2019 21:45

Definitely edit. If you want just OPs replies you can set them to be highlit and set the messages to 100 per page then scroll quickly so we have a version of that already. But there's no edit facility at all. would be great to get one.

MrsBertBibby · 17/09/2019 21:45

Edit! Even if only for a limited time after posting.

CatSmize · 17/09/2019 21:42

I would also like something that defaulted to the username that you are using for a particular thread, to avoid the name change fails

Great idea.

nilcarborundum · 17/09/2019 19:46

See OP's post

SpringLake · 17/09/2019 17:50

See OP posts only... assuming having the facility to see/participate in vote threads is not an available option!

NeverSayFreelance · 17/09/2019 17:22

But definitely the OP posts one.

NeverSayFreelance · 17/09/2019 17:20

Hiding categories on the app.

You know the one...