I CAN NOT GET MN CLASSIC BACK AND I WANT IT

I set it onto a darker middle blue

I don't know why they need that pale blue, it's makes it soooo bright - hurts my eyes, think I might start wearing my sunglasses

well....the posting part I was able to make look reasonably normal again...tis just a bit brighter than it used to be...

however the topic list is so bad...much harder to find what you want...

OMG what have they done to Mumsnet

I don't like it, I want the old one back

Much better now!

The margin one one side is a temporary thing by Tech to see if it helps people who are currently having to scroll across to read the end of posts & whether people prefer it to having margins both sides

Zoom is a good idea if it works for you. It won't on my IE6 on MN. It did before and on most other websites.

If the text is too small then use zoom in your browser.

I don't like the "new classic" either. I know that I'm really old, but the writing is tiny. Please can I have the website that I can actually read back please?

That's what it reminds me of - there's an optical illusion where you look at the spaces between shapes & they seem to spin

Stretch - its hurting my eyes I think because the text is so pale - I think its the contrast between colour & background. I've set to classic & now have a large margin at one side??
I hoped when I logged on today it would be back how iit was & yesterday was all a horrible dream....

why can't it just stay as it was?

Having said I was coming round to it I have just gone onto Isketch for a bit then come back and the difference is startling! I can feel my eyes straining and a headache starting...

On the plus side I suppose I will get more housework done

Come on Tech, you promised us we could have the classic version if we didn't like the new one - where is a proper classic version please? (or at least when will we be getting one?)

I have come back to see what it's like, and think I will be leaving until/if it gets changed back, or we at least get a proper "classic" option.

It's just not worth the headache, I've been on here 5 minutes tops and my eyes are hurting.

Now having checked the 'Site stuff' topic, I see there are thousands of posts and dozens of threads. Don't feel inclined to spend hours trolling through trying to figure out how to 'fix' this, or if indeed it can be 'fixed'.

Feel very grumpy about this. With all of the recent upsets on the site, this does seem a badly timed test of loyalty.

Agree. It's like reading a whiteboard in a snowstorm.

Don't like this at all. Have tried logging out and logging in again, but cannot get Classic back, and that is what I want.

TBH, I don't know why the message board needs to be changed. It works and people like it. Everytime HQ tries a 'new look' people howl, and they revert back to the original format.

This does not seem like an improvement.

I can't believe how much worse this new site is. Its practicaly unreadable. What was wrong with the old one?

stretch, it probably is the whiteness of the background....very bright, and if you turn it down you can't see other websites...

I can't turn to classic, what do I do?

Why is it hurting your eyes Whizzz? I have the colour scheme as 'classic' now, it's purple and not so bright.

i've been on mumsnet for at least 9 years- and I am afraid that this format is so ghastly I shall only pop in from time to time-flouncing off to facebook now.It really has messed with my head and given me a nasty headache as I cannot change anything and cannot read it very easily. I am very very sad.

Hurrah!!

After logging into 'my mumsnet' as somebody suggested here or one of the othe angst-filled threads I've been looking at I've got it to change to some classic like things which make things much better. Huuuuuuge sigh of relief - I was within seconds of defecting to moldies Bounty!

I've tried changing to classic & at least it let me into my registration now but its still hurting my eyes to read

Afraid it might be nail in the coffin time for me after all these years