What is this ‘You might also like’ clutter?

Is that you Justine??

Also saying please stop recommending zombie threads - it's making the site unusable.

MN has turned into such a dumpster fire. Sick of reading zombies and troll posts.

Ha ha! I noticed that too!

... and impossible to avoid the zombie threads as the date posts were started has been removed from the list in Active Conversations

I like it. Keep it.
I have clicked on a few already.

It's positively encouraging bumping of zombie threads

Yes they didn't think to disable the feature from sensitive topics / boards, but someone has deliberately made the decision to exclude site stuff...

That's really shitty of them.

Oh, and if it is such a useful feature, why isn’t it available on Site Stuff?

Is MNHQ going to respond to all this negative feedback?

in summary

it’s a feature that users hate
it links to irrelevant and/or old threads
it is given too much prominence
the algorhythm is far too simplistic
MNHQ stated the purpose is to assist with searching - so why not restrict the use of ittothose actually searching?

... and I know you won't do that anyway, as it will cut down on the clicks

If you won't remove the feature, @LilyMumsnet @YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet could you, at the very least, create a new section for YMALT, so that the threads being suggested are routed there and not into Active Conversations?

But please remove it altogether!

We've removed the feature on fertility and bereavement based on the feedback on this thread

It's really pretty grim that this feature wasn't throught through and properly tested, or it would have been bloody obvious that it was wildly inappropriate to tell bereaved posters about 'other threads you might like' on (basically) death. Posters know which board they're on. They know how to click on other threads if and when they're ready for that.

There are many other boards here hosting sensitive topics and this ghastly feature is going to make the board a very ugly place for a lot of posters who need help the most. How about Relationships? 'Here's some other threads you might like about women being punched in the head by their partners'. Is that how it's going to go? Absolutely ghoulish.

It's pretty unanimous, I don't think there's been a single positive comment about the new feature. At this rate i'm willing to bet there's more support for an edit function or even a like button, as at least they serve a purpose even if not everyone would like them.

WE ALL HATE IT MNHQ.

But will you listen? No, probably not because anything to keep the traffic going, eh?

Sorry, the thread last night was called Russia bombing Poland, nor missile landing in Poland. Same shit.

Agreed, how on earth is this going to encourage good mental health? It's had enough when people feel compelled to look this stuff up, but now you are literally shoving it in front of people.

I clicked on the missile landing in Poland thread last night and bloody hell the suggestion if what I might like!
“is putin going to nuke us? “
“has ww3 started? “

and similar.

I happen to have my wits about is, but a more anxious poster would have been terrified.

And, to add to the madness, the thread had a trigger warning. Because the words missile and landing in Poland were unclear.

It's giving me Netflix vibes. So weird and inappropriate for this site.

Ah good, I've found you all.

Whose stupid fecking idea was this, then? Awful, awful, awful. Please get rid of it asap or give us an opt-out button.

@LilyMumsnet @YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet Just adding my big fat protest NO this feature. * *

Ah, that’s why old threads are being rehashed. Because they get suggested at the bottom of the current thread. great… not!

And the annoying thing is you won't know this until you click on them, because MNHQ decided to remove the date created / last posted feature that used to show on the active page.

I think the reasoning for this was to make the site less cluttered and easier to read...

I mean in active!

The last 5 threads ive clicked on this morning have been months old. They have really broken it this time I think.