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A few notes on the new look and functions

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YetMoreTech · 30/01/2009 09:25

There are still a few problems with using the various "Mumsnet Classic" options. However, for a lot of people matters are significantly improved if they press Refresh in their browse. If you're using Firefox, try pressing Shift+Refresh. At about 4:30am this morning after many hours of work, that made the classic option work well. Only a couple of minor layout issues remained.

Text is not meant to be squished, you're not supposed to have to scroll down through acres of whitespace. We'll definitely fix these issues.

I've no idea why people are finding text too tiny; the font size hasn't changed intentionally, so if it is tiny for you it's either a need to press refresh (to reload the style sheet, in tech speak) or a problem that will be fixed.

Threads I'm On and Threads I'm Watching should behave in the way they always did - they do for me. Let us know the specifics of problems you have with them and we'll address them.

We know about the problem of seeing "hide hide hide" across the top of the page. If you go in to customise (which my huge ENGLISH dictionary lists as being able to be spelled either customise OR customize) you can turn off showing of the Hide option which is a workaround for this problem. We'll fix it properly soon.

The ads have neither changed size nor increased in number.

Remember: Press REFRESH (and try SHIFT+REFRESH) a couple of times. It might help a lot.

For those having problems we do apologise and will sort it all as soon as we can. For those that hate it, perhaps you'll get used to it after a while and we'll improve the classic options (though I am using them now and they're working fine).

Oh and for the 2 of you that said thanks for all the hard work: thanks! It has taken over a dozen people a lot of hard work. We had to release it in a hurry and it's not perfect, but we'll get there.

OP posts:
SuperBunny · 31/01/2009 22:42

Will our 'Threads I'm on' be restored? Where have they all gone?

RiaParkinson · 31/01/2009 22:41
Zaftig · 31/01/2009 22:41

Please, PLEASE centre the text. Please.

I have my screen tilted now but it still hurts my eyes having the text over on the left.

AND it look stupid. Huge white margin on the right makes it look like the site isn't finished.

Even just a little margin on the left?? A little one? This ........ big?

DaDaDa · 31/01/2009 22:37

Ooooh. Swanky.

RustyBear · 31/01/2009 22:35

It's fine on the iPhone version of Safari, Ria

RiaParkinson · 31/01/2009 22:28

active convos does not work at all on SAFARI

RubberDuck · 31/01/2009 22:11

flub: I think you need to change the colours back to mumsnet classic too and then remember to press "save".

flubdub · 31/01/2009 22:10

Iv clicked "Use mumsnet classic options" and nothing has changed. WHY????????

RubberDuck · 31/01/2009 21:58

As I say, I like the design and the fixed width isn't a deal breaker for me (I have 1900px screen size, after all!) but I do feel sorry for those having to constantly scroll to read every line of a post - white space is slightly irritating but easily fixed by resizing your browser window... whereas constantly scrolling is getting you into RSI territory...

RubberDuck · 31/01/2009 21:55

...and I didn't get to see the coloured background Though would suggest combining that with a centred layout with fixed left buffer margin and the very pale blue that's used to highlight the search talk area.

dilbertina · 31/01/2009 21:54

that said "like this" incidentally!

dilbertina · 31/01/2009 21:53

Has anyone mentioned the smiley issue? If someone puts a smiley in it goes on top of the next word.

like this

at least it is on classic...

RubberDuck · 31/01/2009 21:53

Tech, my point about the BBC site was that yes, it is centred, but it also has a slightly off-colour background to bring the eye to the actual text. It also has a hard left margin so that the text CANNOT merge into the line at the side of the browser - it has a minimum (5px?) white space.

Also, the thing you've missed about nearly every other fixed width site out there is that they are COLUMN-based sites. Look at any fixed width blog or the BBC site, or Flickr. Even if you have an 800x600 display, you can just scroll ONCE to have that particular column in view and read the entire post/article/thread without moving the scroll bar again. The stuff that's "hidden" is links off to the left or right and not the main text.

Here, you have to have 1024px wide screen to read the main text. That part is actually quite rare on the net.

UniS · 31/01/2009 21:49

The fixed width is a pain when using a net book with a small screen.
Also when you need a big font to read.

Pixel · 31/01/2009 21:37

I hadn't even noticed the search box up there. Well what do you know? Scroll along and there's the moon too!

ShinyPinkShoes · 31/01/2009 21:37

Am I the only one who just can't get on with this?

I think I will try again another day, it's doing my head in tonight!

hewlettsdaughter · 31/01/2009 21:29

I can see mine, SPS. I can't see all of the word 'Search' at the top of the page though - 'arch' is obscured by the box (mumsnet/mumsnet talk/google).

Ponders · 31/01/2009 21:28

yes

ShinyPinkShoes · 31/01/2009 21:23

Has everybody else lost their watched threads list?

Tiggiwinkle · 31/01/2009 21:22

I still prefer the text to be in the centre as opposed to on the left....

Pixel · 31/01/2009 21:14

can't we reset everything to how it was a week ago and pretend all this never happened?

hewlettsdaughter · 31/01/2009 21:11

Hi - I have a wide screen and mn looks strange over on the left as it is at the moment. Think it was better in the middle (for me, anyway).

TheInvisibleManDidIt · 31/01/2009 21:04

Oh tech, we're giving you a really hard time aren't we.

MaureenMLove speaks alot of sense

Thanks for your hard work.

typogrelf · 31/01/2009 21:04

See I'm a bit late and a tint has already been tried but I missed it!

If I go to a typical newspaper site I can zoom up to 200%+ before I get to the point where I have to scroll across to read the whole of a single line. So I've got all that magnification available to me. And even at 200% for the BBC I can still fit a whole line in the window, I just need to scroll once to get the main story in the middle - a whole line still fits in the window, I've just lost the sidebars (which I don't care about while I'm reading).

With the current Mumsnet fixed width I can only get up to 120% before I'm having to scroll line by line, i.e. the lines I'm reading are too long for the window. I think that may be why a lot of other sites get away with fixed width and you may get more complaints with these particular pages...

Just explaining one point of view here more than complaining - personally I do like a lot of other bits of the design and I do sympathise as I know what it's like to have people quibbling when you've spent so long on something. But I zoom all the time, up and down, according to how close I'm managing to get to the screen (baby on lap, leaning across table, whatever - I'm rarely sitting neatly in front of it as if I was at work). So this is quite a big niggle for me personally, it changes the readability a lot.

ShinyPinkShoes · 31/01/2009 21:03

All the threads I was watching have gone.

I can't get on with this new layout at all

Swipe left for the next trending thread