To ask why the MN forums have such little functionality?

[hellohellohihi]

So, other forums let you quote other posts, or put text in different fonts/colours etc, or indicate your 'thanks' for a post. Can't be that difficult / expensive, so why are these added functions not available on MN?

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Because if MN changed we'd all cry. Trufact.

also I have shit internet and some times mumsnet is the only site that works for me, probably because it's the way it is

Because you can't be trusted to use it sensibly.

I do kind of get where the op is coming from, when your slightly late to the party and a thread has developed to pages and pages it is very difficult to join in when you want to reply or disagree with a poster 3/4 pages back.

Sometimes on long, fast moving threads, it can be helpful to quote. I do it like this ...

hellohellohihi: So, other forums let you quote other posts, or put text in different fonts/colours etc, or indicate your 'thanks' for a post. Can't be that difficult / expensive, so why are these added functions not available on MN?

Not having an automatic function makes people think about whether it's really necessary though.

I quite like it like this. Tickers etc seem all very dated anyway. Forums themselves are quite dated now aren't they? There always seems to be a private page/group on facebook for something nowadays.

Because its simple and easy.

I dont want big flashy fucking things under my name. If it changes I'm leaving

But you can read it really quickly like this! It is all clean and minimalist and striking and weeds out those who like tickers and shit

It's hardly difficult to copy and paste a post, if you want to quote someone.

I like it how it is, much simpler. You can put someone's name in bold to address them specifically and/or copy their post in italic but that way you just copy the bit of their post that is relevant rather than having lots of very long posts repeated all over the place which is how it is on some other forums. Especially when you get people repeatedly quoting each other and ending up with a long chain of quoted posts!

Netmums is that way, if you don't like it.

We like it this way and if MN gets big quote boxes to scroll through & glittery tickers, I'm off, too.

OP, you sound like you would like NetHuns and BabyCentre better. Maybe give those a go?

You can quote on MN, too.

Look, it's simple:

Cote said "You can quote on MN, too".

That wasn't hard, was it?

forums let you quote other posts
That's what cut and paste does. Then there's italics and bold so really, what else is needed?

I like the simplicity of MN. It loads more easily than the flashy tickery ones. Especially the mobile site.

I feel like it is throwing your words back in your face. I hate it when it has happened to me on other forums.

i wouldnt mine a large dayglo hairy fanjo under my posts. Or someone doing a wanky wanky gesture.

MNHQ can quote, because they can be trusted to use it responsibly.

Cross post with Cote. (See what I did)

or the revolving purple head of Phil Mitchell glaring at you all.

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I agree

Because other fora are crap for having too much visual clutter. Simple is good; simple loads quickly and is easy to read. MN was custom-written and actually looks smart. All the better for it.

Tell you something I hate is "Join date!" on other fora. Who cares?! Plus info about where they live, their forum status (Newbie! Improver! Longtime Gimmer! etc.) and even what they ate for breakfast. But then I have to hunt hard for the actual date when the posting was made to see if it's actually recent. Argh.

Because this is the way it should be.

I would love a quote feature because I am lazy.

Also an edit button, that allows you to edit a typo up to 1 minute after you post for when you don't catch a typo before you post.

So fora is the plural of forum?

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