To ask your opinion on this very important site issue?

[BertieBotts]

So mumsnet have recently changed the option to highlight both OP's and your own posts in a specific colour. They claim that only 8% of posters use this feature and hence it's unneeded.

I and some others disagree So please if you would, can you answer the following questions for me? Either to protest the change or to support MNHQ, I don't mind, just interested in this 8%. Copy and paste your answer.

No discussion of the issue (if possible) - there are already two threads in Site Stuff about it. If you want to discuss it, here's one: Link

So firstly:
Do you use the highlight posts feature?

If yes
Yes, I tried it, but I didn't like it.
Yes, I use it on the desktop and mobile site but not the app.
Yes and I would like to keep it.

If no
No, I didn't know that you could do this.
Not interested in a highlighting option.
Only use the app and it's not an option on there.

Ta very much :)

Well that was a huge mistake, I went into 'customise' to get rid of the emails and now there are huge blotches of an unpleasant shade of green all over the place.

Me too, Bookaholic It's awful. I went in to Customise to get rid of the "I'm Watching" on every thread I posted on. Because life's too short to have to untick the box on every bloody thread I post on.

Improvements my arse.

MHNQ can you put one of your big annoying blue banner s (yes, they're really annoying) everywhere on the site saying DO NOT CUSTOMISE or you'll get bright green posts and no choice.

The opt in for SN has been there for years because it was requested by the SN board

Hedgehogs - the majority of the users of the SN board asked for it to be taken to an "opt in" status, because of the randomers who used to post on the threads who really didn't understand or know enough about the situations being explained, and the threads quite often got quite upsetting.
So it's a deliberate "hide" that was requested by the users. :)

I can understand why they'd want it. I just don't agree with it. People dealing with disabilities should not have to hide themselves away to avoid being abused.

Yes and I like to keep it.

Oh goodness, the highlights are the only thing that make long threads readable. Please give it back MN.

Yes, I use it

Yes i use it and would like to keep it.

(wish it was available in the app)

Yes I use it and I would like to keep it.

YES, keep it. I didn't know it existed, otherwise I would have used it all the time.

yes when on desktop and would like to keep it

unfortunately tho i mainly use the app and it wont work on there

Yes and I would like to keep it

Yay, the colours are back!

MY COLOURS HAVE JUST CHANGED.

NO LIKEEEE

WHAT HAPPENED???

Whoops

Back to normal now.

Stop it will you.

Yes and I would like to keep it (and see it added to the app)

I would have liked a choice of colour but I'm not complaining HQ, pink and bright green are alright by me.

Cheers Tech

What, it's changed again , what's going on?

Bloody hell, I'm getting dizzy with all this change?

My colors just changed too from my choices to a green for the OP and purple-ish for me. Both harder to read through than the ones I had chosen. I really hate this, if you are paying attention, MNHQ.