Format change

The site is incredibly slow. Buttons are pressed and the delay is so long that I think the press hasn't been registered, then suddenly there's action. Posting takes an age. Again, I've taken to copying my response so that I don't have to type it out again if it fails to post. It's abysmal.

Also, lots of people seem to have problems when posting as there are many, many duplicate posts. This was rare previously.

I was writing a long post the other day, did the preview and tried to edit it and got an 'Oops' message. So I had to post it with the error and post again correcting it underneath. This never happened in the past.

How could anyone think it's an improvement?

I was allowing time for teething problems to dissipate but OK it's been a while now and I'm sorry to say that the update has made things worse!

Pages take longer to load, lots of white space. I am sure pps must have mentioned. How much did Mumsnet spend on this 'upgrade' I wonder??

The only positive thing I've noticed is the ability to 'unbookmark'.

Another problem I've noticed (sorry if somebody has already mentioned it) is that deleted threads are still listed so it is an annoying waste of time when you click on them. I can see the point of still listing them for future reference, but could they be marked as deleted on the list so that people know not to click?

Just did it by highlighting the pasted text and clicking on the Bold button.

Thank you!

I was clicking the Bold button & then just pasting in the text🙄😊😂

If you copy & paste a part of someone's post-how do you bold it?

Just did it by highlighting the pasted text and clicking on the Bold button.

Re my earlier post, I see that there are bullets for bullet points, but they are very light grey. I can see them on posts on a white background, but they are barely visible on the background I've chosen for my own posts. Not a sensible choice of colour for the bullets.

If you copy & paste a part of someone's post-how do you bold it?

Can't seem to get it to work for that!

And the empty carriage returns are still there!

I commented that if posters add extra carriage returns, they show up in the post as dead space, last week.

Now I'm often finding that the carriage return still happens but the cursor doesn't move, so you don't get to type on the line below unless you tap on it. But it's not consistent. It happens in Low-carb boot camp but not here.

This is very basic stuff!

Whilst some things have been fixed, the search facility is next to useless. If I search for words I know I have used in previous posts, it mostly doesn't find them. It claims I have only ever made two posts with the word "admissions" and two with the word "appeal", which is ludicrous.

Things I am still unhappy with:

• posts are narrower and offset to the left. This looks ok at the top of a thread where there are adverts, etc. on the right balancing the layout, but scrolling down just leaves a vast expanse of grey on the right and the narrowness of posts plus the font used means there is more scrolling to get to the bottom of the page
• looking at a forum, there are five blank lines before we get to any of the threads
• I can no longer easily switch between a paged view of a thread and viewing the whole thread
• No bullet symbols on bullet points. I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed as it is a simple stylesheet change. If Mumsnet think bullet points look better without bullets, I disagree
• Notifications seem to be somewhat random - sometimes I receive a notification when there are new posts on a thread I'm watching, sometimes I don't
• When I do receive a notification, clicking it takes me to the top of the thread rather than the new post(s)

I finally got around to watching something called "The Mire".

Thought I'd have a look & see what others thought of it.

No option to search in "Telly Addicts" & all I got was stuff for Mirena!

Not even close!!

Another user frustrated with the clunky search function! I am trying to search a certain user using their username, but it only comes up for posts until the 24th April.

And none of the posts that come up appear to be in any sort of order.

I’ve had to limit reading MN to short bursts, used to spend my lunch hour catching up but have had two migraines straight afterwards, presumably due to white space/formatting.

I can’t post at all when on my laptop. It doesn’t allow me to type into the message field.

Agree about the excessive white space and glare. I'm also finding the quoted posts terrible, with the double line spacing causing yet more scrolling and the meaningless jumble of vertical lines at the side making it impossible to see who's said what once you get into multiple nested comments. I don't even bother trying to read any quoted posts now, just scroll on by. But the whole experience now just seems to be endless scrolling to the point my finger's never off the button. It's physically tiring after a surprisingly short time, and just generally depressing. 😞

Oh good! Just what we needed, more white 😉

Another thing the new platform isn't doing, is cutting out unnecessary carriage returns at the end of the post. I'm deliberately going to add 10 carriage returns after this text to illustrate.

For me some threads are displaing closer to the old format and some in the horrible new format? The whole thing is just all over the place and annoying right now.

Still got a constant red dot on notifications.

yep Lou that is how I currently search. OFC it is dangerous, in a business way, to drive your client base away from your online platform to perform a function that your website could offer, but there you go...

The search is terrible. A tip:

Go to Google. Type the phrase into Google, leave a space then type 'site:www.mumsnet.com/Talk'

Google will search Mumsnet talk boards specifically for the phrase.

If you also type before:YYYY-MM-DD or after: YYYY-MM-DD (or both) it will search within a date range you specify.

yes me, every time

I can't figure the search at all.

Just get the words I've put in coming up in totally unconnected text.

Wanting to search in Telly Addicts & it doesn't seem to come up as an option!

The search is rubbish. I just did a search for a phrase in quotation marks, with a very specific spelling - it was “ninja Kidz” (a YouTube channel name; my son loves it and I wondered what other parents thought).
It’s returned a load of threads about blenders (nutri ninja) and a million with just the word “kids” in it- even though I searched “kidZ” not “kidS”. It has ignored that it’s a complete phrase.

Why would it do that? No search engines work that way!

Anyone else getting booted out of the app when they scroll down this thread?