What is this ‘You might also like’ clutter?

Hear hear @ShirleyPhallus ! Appalling way to address anyone.
And I hate the new feature.

@JustineMumsnet We'll will also introduce two new setting in Customise
One to turn off seeing Similar Threads at all and one which ensures you only see threads in Active that have been started within the last 30 days. We're aiming to release both of these changes in the next week or so. Thanks for your input and for your patience.

Is that before or after the Edit Function which you said was under development and on its way last year...?

I find the suggestions quite funny tbh.
Peps things up a bit.

Where do people get off speaking like this. No one owes you any answers. If I was a mod I certainly wouldn’t respond to rude, demanding posts like this fgs.

@HereComeTheGrannies OMG, cringe!

oh and the whole “algorithm” thing taking context into the equation? Yeah, you might need to work on that as there is no way the circled thread should be recommended when viewing a thread about racism …

A flounce? 😂😂 how did you ever get MN as big as it is with this attitude?

Genuine question to any other @mnhq person watching this thread since Justine has spat her dummy out and ran away, why are these new features pushed when they’re CLEARLY not functional? It took fucking ages for the new and shiny website to work properly. Now creating an algorithm that gets it right every time is tricky is certainly true, but it appears that it’s not getting it right at all. Why are you refusing to answer what UX dev/testing has been done? You refused to answer this when you rolled the website out too… is it because the answer is fuck all?

Thanks for moving it below the reply box at least, MMHQ. Less scrolling and fewer accidental clicks is a start.

@ArcaneWireless stop it 🤣

If they have they should be asking for a refund PDQ!

I think I have the solution. I’ve asked how to make this better in Chat and checked what came up in the popular and helpful suggested threads

Take your pick…

Boiling a ham for 3 days in cola.

Inflating a burst tyre with a straw.

Using chuddy to hang a mirror.

A pea - the new MN chicken?

1993 - only 6 more years til I can dance like it is 1999 - can’t wait.

Problem solved. Probably….

Even the crappy implementation will have cost them a good amount to either develop in-house or purchase.

Either way they're not going to chuck it.

I don’t think they have spent a significant amount of money on it… but it’s an easy way to bump up numbers when telling sponsors of what a successful site it is in terms of page views and reach

Never got an answer on what UX has been done. I do find it interesting how many companies don’t do it and then find they’ve introduced something that, um, just doesn’t work for users.

It will be because they've spent a significant amount of money on it. It's not going anywhere.

Ouch. That was pretty brutal. Now I'm grabbing the popcorn.

Ok that wasn't meant to be sarcastic - it was meant to be factual.

It's difficult to conveny tone in posts, but it definitely read as a sarcastic reply to me, and i'm sure others.

So I'm going to leave the thread now as it's clear that I'm not helping. We'll make the improvements as promised and check in after that.

@JustineMumsnet You still haven't answered why you think the feature should stay. There are a lot of unhappy posters (for good reason), and it's clear the majority of users dislike the new feature.

You have the benefit on a ready made focus group giving you their feedback. Why not discuss why you think it's worth keeping the new feature, with significant tweaks and modifications, rather than the obvious solution of just getting rid of it?

Ok that wasn't meant to be sarcastic - it was meant to be factual.

Youre kidding right? If that's not sarcasm then I'd love to see you're sarcastic response!

Ok that wasn't meant to be sarcastic
Neither is this: yeah right

92% want it to go!!!

164 people have voted so far 91% of whom don't want it.

Wow. Lovely bit of customer relations there

I think they're probably just hoping we'll stop moaning and forget about it.

Something tells me it's going to be a heck of a lot less than the 33k users / 78k clicks since it was introduced.

Perhaps @JustineMumsnet will decide it's not worth keeping a feature no one uses when she can't use the dodgy figures to defend it? 🤷🏻‍♀️