Testing Testing - Ok so now here's our new look (but you don't have to have it, do you hear?)

like the latin , talk much much better presented but the ads are even bigger , couldn't they be a little more subtle?

Well I don't like it as it won't let me post.

It took me an AGE to realise there were talk topics as the advert gets in the way. Will people know to scroll down (or is that just thicko me??

From a commercial perspective I like it and am sure it will bring in more members/increased ad revenue.

From a user perspective I am not massively keen, I mean, it's ok but as others have said blue bars too big, looks a bit more NM etc.

I think it will attract a different type of user not just an increase is users which could be interesting, my main worry would be losing the essence of MN i.e. - intelligent women who don't need pretty colors to talk about parenting and gaining a new audience of people who tlk lyk dis. I might just be being an anti-change snob here though!

The gap at the top is the same for me babies. I'm on a laptop too running IE.

i like it! it's better than that dreadful one you inflicted on us! - i never bothered with it! stuck to the traditional.

The only thing I don't like is when you get into the thread itself, it seems rather squashed up. iyswim.

plus i don't like the colour - what is it, aquamarine or turquoise or something? tis pants. have the proper blue. the original blue. the only blue.

but apart from that - i think i could live with that.

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Should add I am on a laptop with a normal screen running IE.

Overall looks nice however I hate the excessive white gap on the right and another large gap between thread title and the start of the posts (nearly a full screen of blankess and just an advert on the right !!!

I like it

But I'd probably stick with classic anyway as I don't do change.

But I'd probably stick with classic anyway as I don't do change.

Definitely easier to navigate, but I couldn't remember what the general chat bit came under and it wasn't in the popular forums so that screwed me.

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It is ok, as has been said it is a bit NM and a bit Bounty which I don't like. I do think newbies will find it easier to use (although there could be an argument to say that a newbie working out how to use MN is part of the initiation - if they manage to find a topic, make a post and survive a flaming then they deserve to be here..)

The advertising overshadows everything, I am not quite sure why the need to have bigger advertising really....

I will stick to my faithful classic version personally, however, I will have a little question at the back of my mind with each newbie "would you actually have made it this far with the old site...?"

I've seen worse!

oh my god it's hideous. The first thing you see when you open it is that huge great advert on the right...

But (a) I possibly don't do change that well, as seen the last time MN changed

and (b) you've promised we can keep MN classic haven't you????

It looks like it's been designed by the same person who designed the Argos site.

don't like it.

Bloody awful

I quite like it.
I can navigate the current site OK cos I'm used to it, but I think the new one is clearer.

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but I would find it really useful if the person who starts a thread could then have every subsequent message highlighted in some way. Sometimes I just skim down a thread looking to see how the OP is, or has responded and I can't always remember who the OP is! This is happening more and more as Mumsnet gets bigger.

Perhaps it's just me and my limited brain/memory capacity!

I like it too

dont like the fixed width, makes all the threads start underneath the huuuuuuuge adverts!

and the blue bars are made double thick because its fixed width, can this be changed?

I suppose that it would help if I followed the link, eh?

I don't really do change well.