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Mumsnet offline Thursday night

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YetMoreTech · 29/01/2009 08:49

Mumsnet will be offline tonight, Thursday, from just before 11pm or so. We're doing a few small updates and a bit of housekeeping. It will be off for a while unfortunately, so maybe an early night and check in over your cereal in the morning?

I'm not going to offer MSN updates this time - you'd not believe the story from last time I did that, even if I did tell you, which I won't. The good news is that if it goes badly there will be at least a dozen people to blame. If it goes well I'll be around to take all the credit.

Let's just hope we don't hit the headlines this time.

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Buda · 30/01/2009 09:02

VT - Go into customise and scroll down the page - then pick an option and save the change. That seems to work for me.

troutpout · 30/01/2009 09:01

looks ok in classic

VinegarTits · 30/01/2009 09:00

MP i have been into customize, i cant see a button that changes it to 'new'

Just one that says 'MN classic'

Maybe i am already in the new look, but it looks pretty much the same as classic to me

trace2 · 30/01/2009 08:59

you can only see se to search the box covers it at top of page

morningpaper · 30/01/2009 08:58

Vinegar tits there is a CUSTOMIZE link next to TOPICS at the top of this page

VinegarTits · 30/01/2009 08:57

I like it, i looks good, only i think i may still be using MN classic, how do i switch to the new look? so i can look at it then go 'gah' then switch back to classic.

Also the search button at the top, the box half covers the word 'search' so it looks like 'sea'

morningpaper · 30/01/2009 08:55

OK I've switched to Mumsnet new and I can read it

MrsSeanBeanHasGivenUpIroning · 30/01/2009 08:53

I used to work in IT and got so frustrated when people kept moaning about new look sites so will say this: Well done, you've done a great job and I know what a PITA these things are. I'm sure you'll get any glitches ironed out.

I still don't really like it though

[old & resistant to change]

morningpaper · 30/01/2009 08:46

I would ditch the Moon pronto, that is shifting things out

also the ads are a major problem

morningpaper · 30/01/2009 08:45

ermmmm good morning

Tech do you want screen grabs of DISASTERS technical issues?

RubberDuck · 30/01/2009 08:38

Have you set to new mumsnet colours - I think classic and previous incarnations have been broken (mainly due to the ad now being served as a square).

Takver · 30/01/2009 08:36

second what mrsbadger says - all looks very, very peculiar in safari (v3.2.1 on a Mac), setting to classic option does nothing to help

MrsBadger · 30/01/2009 08:33

hey tech

good job

few niggles:
spacing in safari is all screwy - no margins, and no linebreaks after the blue 'title of post' bars (in Classic)
ads and phase of moon indicator are left aligned not rightaligned with text wrapped up to them

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RubberDuck · 30/01/2009 08:17

Oh you have to actively change your settings to the new colour? So you break the old one, but not give any hint that you need to change it to the new to fix it?

Bad form, Tech.

RubberDuck · 30/01/2009 08:15

ARGH.... the ad is floating at the top left - wasn't it nice and embedded on the right in the test one?!!

What did you do?!

fryalot · 30/01/2009 08:03

oh yes, it's different again when you change your settings to the "new" thingy.

Not sure about the link colours though... will wait and see.

Whatever I think in the end, though, it must have been a HUGE amount of work, so bloody well done

troutpout · 30/01/2009 08:01

errrm...can't see any difference...what did they do?

was it 'man housekeeping' by any chance?

...errm there are spaces inbetween the lines perhaps?
Maybe it doesn't show up on mn classic.

Actually ,I'm not the most observant of souls

SoupDragon · 30/01/2009 08:00

Pretty shoddy all round if you ask me. You can't have "new" colours with the old layout for active conversations it would seem and on the new colours the "link you've visited" is virtually the same colour as an unvisited link.

fryalot · 30/01/2009 07:58

ok. It's all right. \If I could just move that advert over there >>> and make the spaces a bit wider (have you any idea how small this all is on a netbook????) and budge that up there a bit ^ and lose that bit.

Yeah, I'll like it then

(how do I switch back to classic? )

psychomum5 · 30/01/2009 07:55
sherby · 30/01/2009 07:26

The text is sooooo small, on active convos I can hardly read the topic names they are tiny

psychomum5 · 30/01/2009 07:24

you broke it, you borke it, you broke it

what you done wiv mumsnet........

and I KNOW you broke it cos the moon is full innit, and it weren;t yesterday.

bellavita · 30/01/2009 07:22

oooer