Option to see 25 posts per page has gone.

This endless pageless scrolling is actual madness. I thought it was a glitch, not an actual feature.

Far too much scrolling to get to the reply box.

No actual way to know where you are in a thread or ability to get back to a post you might want to quote. Just endless scrolling.

Very disorientating.

You might want to read up on why Amazon added location, page numbers and timer to end of chapter/book.

Another in agreement it will drastically reduce my use of the site, it's unusable and any post that has more than 50 replies, I probably won't bother with. Also as other said it's particularly irksome on the telly addicts sub topic.

I've never sought out Site Stuff before but did to see if there was a thread about how annoying this change is.

Can I have my pages back too please?

Sure, I can glance at the number of posts to know how long a thread is, but once I start reading in this horrible new format I have no sense of how far through I am and it feels really stressful - I don't know whether to give up or whether I'm nearly at the end. Normally I get to the end of a page and then decide whether to change to just reading OP updates, keep reading, skip forward or bail out - but you've removed these natural pauses. By all means offer this as an option - even make it the default option if you want - but why is removing our choice any sort of positive here? This thread has shown how different people interact differently with your site, and previously you let us do this - now we have a "one size fits some" approach. And it doesn't work for all.

Just to add, FYI, at the moment when I refresh this (horribly long!) page to go to my bookmarked post, it briefly lands on the bookmarked post before instantly bouncing back to the top of the thread. Not useful.

What you're referring to as "pretty common across the Internet" is called 'endless scroll' and there are very valid criticisms of it, including those mentioned in the screen shot I took from Google search. I want to ask MN, in your desire to be more like other sites using this questionable model, have you unwittingly overlooked its negative aspects, or just decided to ignore them? At the very least, I feel strongly that you should allow your users to retain the option of the paged format.

So pleased to have found this thread as I seriously thought there was something wrong with my system.

Sorry but I loved being able to just click on a thread and then just hit the last page number to read the latest posts. Just can't get my head around what the "improvement" is supposed to be but admit to being a not very technical oldie.

The posts are loading really slowly too! ☹️.

Hate it! 😡

i wonder how they work that out though? i can imagine much more irrelevant crap along the "cancel the cheque" and "rtft" lines.

Yay! I've got my number buttons back! Thank you Mumsnet.

One of the ideas behind it is that it'll lead to fewer people posting irrelevant crap

What a lovely way to speak about your users, without whom there would be no MN.

Thank you for restoring my pages 😀

If there's an option to opt out and get my pages back, please include me.

thank you - have my pages back now!

Am jealous of those with their pages back 😭

Not for me I'm afraid. I'm another one who finds page numbers easy to navigate from. They also give you information on how quickly a thread is moving. This test method is just a clueless jumble for me. I'd lose patience in no time.

Yes but apparently it makes it easier to read threads 😂.

Not for everyone, clearly.

This is interesting because it's the opposite for me, I wouldn't have a clue what page they are on but I can always remember a keyword and very easily find it using my browser search IF I have it switched to all posts. Like you I do quite often want to do this. But I keep it to 50 post / page as default so it loads faster when I am on data instead of wifi and have long been frustrated about not boing able to find things because I have no idea what page they are on. I think I am possibly going to prefer the new way because for me it will be a lot easier to find specific posts (I haven't got it yet though).

I also don't think it will be a problem using number of posts to see how long a thread is as opposed to number of pages as that's what I tend to do anyway when looking at most active. But I do like them for knowing how far into a long thread I am when I am reading and I don't see how that would work in the new system, how will you know how far though you are?

The main thing I want to keep is that if you click on a title in TIO it takes you back to the next unread post. I find bookmarks very clunky to use and only use them on threads that I haven't posted on but want to keep reading.

I have pages back too! Thank you!!

Is this test why I can no longer see page number buttons on my android phone? It suddenly happened yesterday. It's awful if you are trying to follow a thread with lots of posts. There is no way to get orientated. It's still working properly on my tablet. If it all goes like my phone it will be ruined for me. It's impossible to keep picking up a long thread from where you left it. Overwhelming on a fast moving thread.
If that has to be the way forward for you, so be it. I should miss you. Thank you for providing such a great site up to now.

Can I be removed from the test group too please? Thank you

Please can you remove me from the test group? If you cannot, I just won’t use the site anymore as for me, it is no longer user friendly.

I hate it! Sorry!!

No.

Here is the screen shot of what I see. I navigate to my pages through "threads I'm on"

One screenshot shows all my threads - and the one I'm running. No clue as to total just how many new posts.

Second thread shows where it goes when I click (to my point in the thread presumably) again no idea of how many posts.

Where do I see how many pits there are and when do I need to start a new thread (I used to post a new thread when it got to the last page!)