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Customised Talk - a long overdue sticky to explain what the heck is going on!

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JustscreamMumsnet · 26/10/2007 12:16

Dear Mumsnetters,

We have made a few enhancements to our humble offering, which will allow you to customise Mumsnet Talk and (God willing) get it just the way you like it by using the Active conversations links at the top of Talk pages. You can choose to read threads in different order, how many posts appear on your page (if you limit the posts per page it can make the page load more quickly), fiddle with the colours, choose how many posts in active conversations, select how many days your threads I'm watching lasts for, plus you can opt to ignore specific posts or topics willy nilly. Oh and there's a moonwatch too.

Our default look is slightly changed from old Mumsnet (or Mumsnet classic as we like to call it) but before anyone starts panicking, there is a Mumsnet Classic button just a click away for all you conservative, dyed in the wool MNetters who like it like it is and can't think why we wanted to mess with it anyway. (ie A "Change it back!" option, which given bitter experience we thought we'd introduce at the same time as change )

So do have a fiddle (ideally for at least ten minutes before you start wailing "Who, what, why, when") and if you have any problems/ishoos/suggestions then please do post them here and we promise to look at them.

Hope you like it - if you do - twas my idea - if you hate it look no further than the shed.

ps plse can you fill in our survey

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PelvicfloorLotsofGore · 27/10/2007 23:11

Can't be bothered to scroll down
Did tech sort out the profiles?

RoyKinnear · 27/10/2007 23:08

i love ignore stickies
cant imagine anyone wants them

teeee--ch (whines) i dont want to have to click ignore everytime someone sells something
i dont want buy and sell and never will
please help

MrsSpoon · 27/10/2007 23:06

You can get rid of the stickies by clicking the ignore button, then clicking on active convos, although presumably they then won't make their way through active convos as someone posts on them, they truely will be ignored.

MrsSpoon · 27/10/2007 23:00

Phew, I'm just back my holidays and thankfully have managed to get my MN to view with a degree of old fashioned normality (thanks MNHQ for the power to put things back to normal for the old codgers that can't cope with too much change ).

I do have a request (don't know if it is one that can be granted) but would it be possible to be able to put a marker in a thread to indicate where we have finished reading? Then when coming back to it later (particularly if it is a contentious thread that runs and runs) we can pick up where we left off easily? Sort of like a book mark.

gibberish · 27/10/2007 22:48

Didn't work for me either MS.

MaryBleedinShelley · 27/10/2007 22:44

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PelvicfloorLotsofGore · 27/10/2007 22:41

I don't like the stickies ,the board never seems to change.

gibberish · 27/10/2007 22:35

Oooh that's weird. The stickies always stay at top of the screen! Don't like it - are we able to change that?

gibberish · 27/10/2007 22:32

Yes, I wondered about the stickies. What is the criteria for a thread to be awarded a stickie? Obviously I want all of mine to have one.

ArmadilloDaMan · 27/10/2007 22:19

I am loving the changes.

Well done tech

Just though someone better say it

MrsWeasley · 27/10/2007 22:16

I'm sure you mean

MaryBleedinShelley · 27/10/2007 22:15

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UnquietDad · 27/10/2007 21:50

Why doesn't Saddy get a pointy hat, when Smiley, Grinny, Sceppy, Crossy, Blushy, Greenie, Winkie and Shockie all do?

LIZS · 27/10/2007 19:59

Quiet tonight thoguh , isn't it

MrsWeasley · 27/10/2007 19:10

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Dior · 27/10/2007 19:06

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MrsWeasley · 27/10/2007 19:04

Thanks Dior, Somedays I just need it said plainly and slowly, today is one of those days

my smileys love hats

Now can you guess why these are so

Mercy · 27/10/2007 17:57

Have just logged on after a week away - I'm confused! Will have to have a good trawl through this thread I think.

NBheebieGeebies · 27/10/2007 16:18

What a shock I got this morning!

Anyway I've re arranged it back to ye olde mn stylee
Cant be doing wiht reading top to bottom and new colours.
Doesnt do well for my already addled brain.

No problems with it though. Quite self explanitory.

Can I just ask though, what are these pin things/sticky subject bits all about?
Are they not a bit dare I say, netmums ish?

Dior · 27/10/2007 15:31

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MrsWeasley · 27/10/2007 12:39

I should add it logged on yesterday saw the changes and ran away

MrsWeasley · 27/10/2007 12:33

the moon is worrying me an awful lot. Why do we need it? Whats wrong with sticking our heads near a window?

Not saying i dont like it, I have a feeling it will grow on me and soon I wont be able to live without it just a bit worried about why we need it

Miaou · 27/10/2007 09:26

Ooooh I so like this new look. I lurve reading from the top down. And I like the new colours too. The only thing I don't like about the muted thing is that the links are just underlined and not a different colour, so unless you mouse over an underlined word you wouldn't know if it was actually a link or just underlined. So I went back to Classic for about ten minutes, but then decided I would put up with it as I prefer muted!

Are you planning any alteration to the Active Convo's page? Eg more space between thread titles (tis a bit hard to read sometimes, especially when titles go over more than one line)? I was wondering if it could have more of a "table" appearance (but without the lines!) so that all the times appear in one column, the last poster in another, etc etc ... Just a thought. But I like it anyway

cazboldy · 27/10/2007 06:52

I agree with showofhands.....East Anglia!

Sobernow · 27/10/2007 00:19

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