What is this ‘You might also like’ clutter?

I’ve worked in industries where I didn’t use or enjoy the product we were producing before, or I didn’t understand how it worked. I guess that’s fairly common. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, though it is limiting the contribution you can make.

You would have thought that they would have at least run it past the Moderators, a lot of whom do (or used to) post in the site as regular customers so to speak.

I hate it.

Also under the 3 dots there's also options for top and bottom which I don't remember being there before.

I really don't understand why MNHQ don't announce changes or updates to the site. They have a site stuff section, surely it makes sense to post about these updates so users are aware of new / altered features?

"Back to top" button has appeared!

I do think it would be interesting to know how it got past the ‘this is an idea’ stage without someone pointing out all the downsides. 🤔

I'm still waiting for MNHQ to explain the purpose of the feature, and how it actually benefits the site or the users. It seems like such a strange addition to a forum that is based on real time updates and communication, and also relies on people starting new threads to help keep the site active and enagaging.

Oh and if they could explain why site stuff was excluded from the start, when other sensitive boards were left in then that would also be appreciated.

I understand they don't owe me (or any user) an explanation, but it would be interesting to hear why they thought the feature was a good addition to the site.

The new feature certainly explains why they have never made any effort to lock old threads.

So Mumsnet was the Zombie Troll all along 🙄

Yep, I still see it there too but not on loads of other threads.

The inconsistency of when it is appearing is almost as annoying as it existing in the first place.

😂😂

I can still see it in AIBU, on the thread called ‘To tell her she needs to cancel’.

The new ‘feature’ adds nothing but a load of links to brain stultifyingly old discussions on the same vague tedious topic.

Surely what is attractive about MN is the sheer huge variety of threads. This new feature is like reading a problem page in a magazine where everyone has the same problem, every week.

Please add my vote to those who really hate this new feature. Old threads pop up all the time in active, with no input from the OP, and often advice that makes no sense. I'm on my laptop and I can't see ahead of time when the last time that the thread was posted on (not until I click on the thread), meaning that about 30% of the time I start reading, realize that it was old/the OP isn't coming back, then clicking out. If it stays, I'm using Mumsnet even less.

It seems to have gone from new Chat and AIBU threads I click on, but hanging about stubbornly at the base of any thread I have previously posted on...

😂

Agree entirely. This has been badly thought through. Minority Mumsnetters have fought long and hard to not be shown in current / trending / active threads. And now this gets thrown into the mix.

Also, as has been said before - what purpose does this new feature serve? It's bringing up Zombie threads and making folk scroll longer to the end of any thread in order to comment.

😂😂😂

I left they when they changed everything. Still wouldn't go back if you paid me. 😃

Ah if only there was a like button.

Was that a suggestion under "you might also like"?

As I posted earlier, this has all the hallmarks of being developer/consultant driven and not the fault of the MNHQers who are sent out to interact with us.

No one who knows MN and its users would have recommended this, particularly when we are already being spammed almost nightly by a vindictive troll intent on making the site unusable by bumping zombie threads.

I wonder if @JustineMumsnet is aware of just how counterintuitive this latest 'improvement' appears to be?

Apart from here & the red place which is too confusing for me I know of no other sites. So I hope this stays.

I did once long ago.

I prefer it here.