Format change

I hate it too. What with the blue band across the middle all the time? Really upsets my eyes, and I have a visual impairment so not easy to use now at all.

Gorgeous Kitty sends you a head-bop and a purr to say thank you 🐾💕

Obvs am rubbish at doing the quote thingy, sigh.

Ha, thank you! He looks even more gorgeous if the photo is displayed in a larger size like the old format. However, am glad that you’ve been able to post a response - hope you continue to be able to do so on other threads. If not, said cat is quite happy to make his way to HQ to dole out some disapproving stares 🤣

Well that is pretty annoying! grrrrrr

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Gorgeous kitty [heart eyes]

@Furries I'm just sending you my compliments on your cat as a way to check whether I can post because I've tried four times on another thread and it won't let me.

I love it!

Adding my voice to the not enjoying the formatting changes

if you click on the little pointy arrow to the right it will take you to the corresponding post on the thread. It's not very obvious I'll grant you!

When I click on threads I've posted on, it used to take me to the last page I'd read. Now it takes me to page 1 and then I'm meant to read through to find my place. I don't think this is an improvement honestly.

Well, that’s rubbish! Why is the image so tiny when I click on it? Not impressed 😡

Photo test. Hint - if, when I’ve posted this, I can’t easily view a great photo of a cat, then I’m outta here 😂🐱

And, having just posted the above, I can now see what people mean by photos being so small (even when you click on them).

Having a coloured bar for each post header made it much easier visually to make the distinction between separate posts - just having things in bold doesn’t work as well visually.

The white really hurst my my eyes 😎

Not keen either but I do like the emojis. The nested thing is crazy.

The unique visual identity is completely lost, just another forum now. The original was weirdly brilliant in its simplicity.

I think MN is trying to get rid of us dinosaurs.

Why am I having to log in every single time?

Also don’t like that, when looking at a list of threads, you can’t see who the latest post was from.

Think I’m going to take a break and check back early next week to see if there’s any improvement.

My biggest bugbear is still the fact that, when I click on a thread in my notifications, it takes me straight back to the first page - not to the po8nt e where I’d last read up to earlier in the day. This is a HUGE problem for me (and, I imagine, many others). I might “waste” time on MN, but I don’t want to spend the majority of it trying to find the page where I’d last read a post. If this isn’t fixed, I will definitely be steering away from MN.

the “quote a post within a quoted post within a quoted post” display looks like a dog’s dinner and is flipping useless.

I HATE the display/look of it/whatever the techie term is when reading a thread. It’s jarring and doesn’t flow easily. I hate the font, the gaps, the spacing. im so put-off by the layout that I haven’t done too much exploring of threads - am sure I’d have more to moan about if I used the site further today! Maybe MN want to get rid of longer-term users? 🤣

It’s horrible and I have to accept cookies every time I click into something new.

I've just swopped to the app on my iPad, was used to the app on the phone so at least it's more familiar.
Can't stand all the white and space and text boxes bleugh.like all the old Internet forums that migrated to Facebook .

The fact this works for me but not for others is more evidence that the new platform is seriously broken. It should never have been put live in this state.

Interesting. I ticked that box the second time I logged in today and I haven't had to login again since. Fingers crossed I'll still be logged in tomorrow.