What's this 'show more/show less' nonsense for?!

Repeating my previous comment that this is awful. Genuinely, what is the point?

I have just rad a post with 14 lines (in paragraphs, not a wall of text) before the "read more." It expanded to 16 lines. Surely that wasn't long enough to require truncating?

Please remove this feature or make it optional, it’s awful!

Another one here who doesn't like this feature at all. Very annoying and unnecessary; please, if you insist on keeping it, give us an opt-out option as others have suggested. Thank you!

Yes, is there any way to make it optional at all?

It can only be.

If there is some such rent-a-focus group, maybe MN could give us some advance notice of their upcoming madness and put the plans to a wider vote?

Aargh! What is wrong with you? 😡

Hate it, hate it, hate it.
Please remove it altogether. As others have said, the reason I still continue to MN after all these years is because I enjoy reading the longer, and often more thought provoking responses.
If I wanted short and snappy rather than reasoned and with depth, I would use other sites.

Still hate it. At least give us an opt out option please

Maybe they used the same 'Focus Group' as the ones that approved the Good Law Project 'monster' poster campaign that lasted about a day and a half.

Still hate it

It's awful. I read the conversations here, I don't scan them. It makes me engage less, not more because it puts a barrier between me and what's being said.

MN conversations feel very natural. They flow. If I don't want to read a contribution in full, for whatever reason (and I decide if it's too long, or boring or irrelevant, not MN) , then I'll skim or skip to the next one in the same way I might tune out someone in real life. This feature feels like a third person putting up a hand to stop someone finishing their point and I have to ask that they be allowed to finish.

We're not children.

Bloody hell, it's back. Still don't like it. I can see the point with long quotes but not posts. Could it at least be optional?

Chiming in to add to the chorus of disapproval.

Still not a fan, It was on the opening post of a thread, just why?

Please make it optional.

Was just trying to read a new thread. I'm utterly exasperated. Turn this thing off 😡

So it's back. It's dreadful. Especially on FWR, we have very long posts, and I would hazard a guess that most of us read ALL of it. This is important information for women to be aware of their rights, and the news about efforts to curtail those rights. It now means that posters need to make their entire argument in the first two paragraphs or so. Otherwise, I fear we will miss a lot of information, and posters will miss out a lot of readers. If I were a conspiracist, I might think this was deliberately censoring women's words.

But, I'm not. I understand it's a feature, but, as someone rightly said previously, we aren't scrolling aimlessly because we are bored. We are reading. Please give us the option to disable this feature.

I thought I had a glitch on my phone and looked for a thread to explain it - and then see it's an actual thing that MN have introduced as a result of mysterious feedback. I didn't see an posts asking for such feedback - did anyone else?

It's a horrible feature - breaks up the reading flow and forces posters to write soundbites rather than measured, thought out responses. Please get rid of it MN.

I hate it.

It really interrupts the flow of longer more considered conversations. You are spoiling what sets mumsnet apart from other SM platforms.

Please @AmeliaPMumsnet let us turn this off, it's rubbish, no-one asked for it and just makes me want to go elsewhere.

Your own post detailing the new improved cut off point was cut off, clearly it's too short as you'd only written a few paragraphs.

Mumsnet has always had a low tech, slightly crap UI and that is one of its strong points. People want to read and post not click like demented teens on Insta.

It's slowing the site down.

If the goal was less engagement, it's working.
I'm already not bothering to click to read comments (why should I?) and just give up on the threads.

This, a million times this.

The website is slow enough without additional clicks.

Plus I want people to read the posts, because that is how people have a conversation.

Can it be made optional at all? I hate it.

As PP have said, I dont 'scan', I read.

If others don't read and wish to just blurt their thoughts rather than engaging with debate, most mobiles have the option of a 'jump to end of page' button. Although I wish they wouldn't, because it diminishes the quality of the conversation - I don't understand why you'd want to encourage that.

Repeated clicking is physically harder than scrolling, on both mobile and desktop, and is poor for accessibility. I would imagine it's a nightmare if using a screen reader. Have you tested that?

On most of my regular threads - because I favour long-form discussion and engage most in conversations where that happens - I'm having to click on virtually every post.

Please, at least give us an opt out.