MNHQ want to know what you think

I am one of those ancient subscribers who used to pitch in and contribute to “unanswered threads” back in the day when dinosaurs roamed Mumsnet.

I must admit I see it crop up very rarely on ‘Active threads’ nowadays and usually ignore it when it does. Mainly because the site is so much busier now and I assume that it will be responded to eventually.

I do answer threads which haven’t received replies and have been bumped in active though, particularly when op seems upset or very anxious, as it must be demoralising not to receive a reply in those circumstances.

I am also quite surprised, as a fairly prolific poster, to see ‘last day’ and ‘last hour’ as I didn’t realise they existed!

(I assume they mean that someone has posted on them in last day or last half hour.)

I mainly view Mumsnet from my phone or handheld tablets nowadays but I do miss the old “last 15 minutes” “last 30 minutes” categories as they were so useful to keep track of, or return to a thread, after you have been interrupted.

I don’t visit any of them really, I look at active

i would rather MNHQ focus on the things their users bring up as issues rather than asking about things like this. Zombie threads for example, a lot of people have asked about this and suggested ways to deal only to be ignored - well told you are looking into it, then nothing. There’s other things regularly brought up - same thing

Glad to see I'm not the only dinosaur touch typer!

but do people really use a desktop? I would assume most people use an app?

Why ?
Why, just because you choose to do something one way, would you assume ^everyone then does it that way ?

I use lap top over desk top, but use it because:
I like to have a reasonable sized screen to look at
I touch type
My phone doesn't have the capacity for the trillions of apps everyone is constantly trying to make us use
I have enough notifications coming into my phone without adding MN notifications to it

(I use a laptop because I like a big screen and I touch type. Trying to use a tiny keyboard on a phone is frustrating)

Me too! Even using an iPad I can't type quickly or accurately enough

I don't use any of them. I can't see unanswered threads at all. I've been using MN since 2005 and have never used them. I just got into the habit of using active, I'm on and I'm watching and never changed!

(I use a laptop because I like a big screen and I touch type. Trying to use a tiny keyboard on a phone is frustrating)

Like @LindorDoubleChoc and @Rogue1001MNer I'd like to know why @MNHQ don't seem to be listening to posters about matters that clearly bother your users. Rather than fiddling about with the lesser points of thread navigation.

I used to go on unanswered threads but haven’t been able to find it easily recently and it’s ever in active conversations so I don’t bother now.

I mn on my phone when I have a minute or two spare. I’m not going hunting for stuff. It has to be easy for me!

Based on the names of the lists, what would you expect to see in each of them?
threads started in the last day/hour/self explanatory

Which of these lists do you visit?
none - didn’t know they existed. Use on iPhone through safari. Just found the unanswered questions- do I have access to the others?

If you do visit them, how frequently do you visit them? na

If you do visit them, what do you use them for? Na
If you don’t visit them, can you tell us why?
didn’t know they existed- not sure I have access to last day or hour.

Based on the names of the lists, what would you expect to see in each of them

I presume they do what it says in the title ?

Which of these lists do you visit? Unanswered Threads

If you do visit them, how frequently do you visit them? Every night.

If you do visit them, what do you use them for? To see if I can answer any of them (or at the very least, boost them). It must be horrible to pluck up the courage to start a thread which then no-one answers

If you don’t visit them, can you tell us why? The 'Last Hour' and 'Last Day' wouldn't really add anything for me. I use 'Threads I'm on' to see what else people have written / added to the discussion. I use 'Active' to see what is happening afresh that day. There isn't enough time in the day to start looking at every thread that has been written.

@AmeliaPMumsnet Why not put a rotating selection of unanswered threads in a side bar like 'Trending' - you could call it 'Can you help?'.

I used to look at last day and last hour years ago. I think I've only come across unanswered once. I now use my phone for Mumsnet and don't see any of them last day=threads active in last 24 hours and similar for last hour. Unanswered is only the OPs message

Yes, I use desktop. Hate apps and never have enough memory on my phone for them

I know this isn’t what you asked, but it always amuses me when ‘The Unexplained’ gets used for things like ‘My dh is behaving like an arse, and I don’t know why!’

Yes, always - hate fiddling around with apps.

Based on the names of the lists, what would you expect to see in each of them?

Threads created in last day/last hour and threads to which no one has replied.

Which of these lists do you visit?

Unanswered threads

If you do visit them, how frequently do you visit them?

Randomly, when it occurs to me. - maybe a few times a week

If you do visit them, what do you use them for?

It's rubbish if you start a thread and no one replies, so I like to bump them for the OP. Some of them are interesting thread subjects but they've just been missed. It's satisfying if you bump one and it then picks up

If you don’t visit them, can you tell us why?

I don't use created in last day/hour because I prefer to use 'active' to find new threads.

I prefer the desktop. Better for posture!

Sorry because I'm not answering your specific question ... but do people really use a desktop? I would assume most people use an app? Anyway that's my contribution 🙈

The desktop version of MN is awful. It's so clunky and somehow old fashioned. I dislike it and rarely use it

The app is great (when it works, but it often freezes and closes itself) but we can't do everything on the app, that we can do on the desktop version

I'm a bit bewildered as to why MN cant be slick and up to date like the other forums I post on

I don't get them, they are not available to me. On my i-phone app I can't get any of them. I only get active, I'm on, topics. So I only search using those options.

Never knew these threads existed. Where?

I only really log on from my mobile because the ads are too big & intrusive on desktop. If there was an obvious way to see unanswered threads / last day / last hour from there I’d look sometimes.

On the few occasions I use a laptop, I look at Last Hour to see if there are threads without hundreds of answers which could benefit from my infinite wisdom
Threads where people are still piling on 10 pages in having only read the OP make me a bit ragey.

Didn't know there was an unanswered threads section.

I use the app and could really do with it having some more functionality to bring it in line with the desktop.

You see the 'big name' posters again and again on so many threads , I can only assume they are ones using the desktop site.

When I've compared 'Active' on the app, it's not moving anywhere near as fast as the 'last hour' or 'trending' topics on the desktop.

Thank you that makes more sense! So they would appear in active but they are likely to stay for longer because less will have been created than responded too. I have no idea about wide awake topic but clearly also struggle with sleep 😂

@Dontsparethehorses my guess would be that last hour are for thread created in the last hour, whereas Active might be an old thread with an update or a week old ongoing thread that has traffic on it.
What I can't find on the other hand is the "The wide awake club " category. I can find the topic, but not the wider umbrella under which it is. Sleeps evades me since its creation!

For what concerns, sex, sex toys or whatever sex related argument , who cares? MN is a forum, it doesn't promote an ideology, A topic annoys you, ignore it. It interests you, post to your heart's content.