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YetMoreTech · 30/01/2009 03:41

So here it is, what you've all been waiting for (or dreading)... The new look Mumsnet; still no tickers, but lots of fabulous new content and a splendid new look (right?).

Don't forget that to get the best of the new look talk you need to click the Customize link at the top of Talk and change colour scheme to "Mumsnet New".

We're well aware of various minor glitches that we will fix over the next day or two. There are a few duff links around and a few pages that still need updating. But all the big stuff works so dive in and feel free to comment on the problems you find.

Right that's it I'm off to bed for a couple of hours, knock yourselves out.

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KashaSarrasin · 30/01/2009 11:32

Just realised the text isn't black, it's dark grey. Not very easy to read. I just tried enlarging the text to a size where I can easily read it and now it won't fit across my (large, hi-res) screen without a scroll bar at the bottom

MinkyBorage · 30/01/2009 11:31

how do you get to the mn homepage?

fryalot · 30/01/2009 11:30

hunker! you get a refund if you miscarry!

"we are sorry to see your baby didn't make it, but here's some cash?"

insensitive twats.

(apart from making you pay in the first place of course!)

MascaraOHara · 30/01/2009 11:30

I have tried to set my setting to old MN.. it doesn't work.

this is god awful and I can't even set it back to the way it was.

maybe it really is time to say good bye.

MinkyBorage · 30/01/2009 11:29

Please will you change the customize to customise?!!
Sure I'm not the only person to have mentioned it, but haven't bothered to read the whole thread.
Cheers

mollyroger · 30/01/2009 11:29

can we combine all the likes/dislikes moans/bouquets etc to one thread?

KashaSarrasin · 30/01/2009 11:28

Ugggghhh - too much white is giving me a headache!!!

And if I only have a small window open the text won't wrap!

(But thanks for all the hard work Tech and everyone. It is appreciated. No, really.)

hunkermunker · 30/01/2009 11:26

Watusi, yep, completely true. If you have a miscarriage, you get a refund. Because that'll be the FIRST thing you think of if you have a miscarriage, right?!

It's so far removed from what MN's about it's untrue - like a different planet.

For all those complaining, MN looks pretty much the same for me as it ever did when I'm reading threads - so if you have big white borders, etc it's your settings.

piratecat · 30/01/2009 11:26

i will wait and see what happens. yet i do echo previous poster's feelings about it being a mess, if someone was employed to do this.

I guess i don't understand why it needed changing either.

clumber · 30/01/2009 11:26

Please could we have the "Last Day" button back for those of us who have spend more
than an hour in RL.

ChopsTheDuck · 30/01/2009 11:25

minor glitches?

Classis isn't rendering proeprly at all what have you done to it?!

macherie · 30/01/2009 11:23

I can't believe you actually paid a designer to create this new layout, it looks disasterous, so hard to read, messy layout.

I hate it, and may well abandon mumsnet because of it, and I LOVE mn

What a shame

Watusi · 30/01/2009 11:22

Blimey Hunker

is that true? Don't give them ideas!!!
That could really eat into the chocolate expenditure for the season.

I'm finding threads i'm on a bit scary too. I usually check on there to see whether anyone has had a go at me/ successfully countered my argument since I was on last. I will actually have to click on the thread now, which is way scarier...

piratecat · 30/01/2009 11:21

thankyou Justine for that info, i can stop crying now!!!!

i'm in a reet old mess with my postings ere!!

fryalot · 30/01/2009 11:20

oh "advanced search" is just our old search thingy.

except with glitches now.

of course I knew that

so we now have a quick search?

Watusi · 30/01/2009 11:19

Oh Squonk it's just up there on the right, underneath search>>>> ^

hunkermunker · 30/01/2009 11:18

Apparently Squonk.

Hey (this'll distract 'em, Justine, watch )... Babyworld are charging £50 to be a member of their online antenatal clubs now.

MN's gloriously freeeeeeeeeeeee!

Watusi · 30/01/2009 11:18

...and the little MN ad boxes at the top are floating over the top two messages...not sure if that's a glitch? I'd be grateful if they weren't there on top of the discussion iyswim!

fryalot · 30/01/2009 11:17

hunker - what is this "rest" that you talk of? you mean there are others?

watusi - adanced search... wassat den?

Watusi · 30/01/2009 11:16

oh God I just tried to use advanced search
It';s impossible

PLEASE please please could we have the 'today/yesterday' options back? We campaigned long and hard for those only last year.

Thanks!

hunkermunker · 30/01/2009 11:14

I really, really like it.

Top site, Justine et al. Head and shoulders above the rest imo.

mileniwmffalcon · 30/01/2009 11:11

ooh that's better what did you do?

loves it now

ExtraFancy · 30/01/2009 11:11

It's full screen - I'm using FireFox but I only have a 15in monitor, would that make a difference?

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JustineMumsnet · 30/01/2009 11:07

By piratecat Fri 30-Jan-09 10:52:18 Add a message | Report post | Contact poster
The sentences of our posts start right up close to the edge of the page.

Piratecat are you using classic/mn muted. They are not functioning properly at the moment (apologies).

Try the customise link and setting it to Mumsnet New for now, while we work on fixing classic etc.

mileniwmffalcon · 30/01/2009 11:07

nothing that hasn't been said so far i'm sure, but to reiterate: posts are too squished together within a thread, thread titles too truncated in active convos, wrapping issue with ads (safari/mac), moon wrong (or have you given us an honorary full moon for all the palpitations being had over the changes? )

i love the new search box though - that alone is worth the niggles