Or are these forums actually set up as a 'den of vipers'?

[applesisapple5]

Mumsnet forums are crap. The format is so old! Even free blogs allow you to;

1. thread replies to get a CONVERSATION going rather than every person responding to the OP. I'm supposed to remember the spelling of a random user I agree with and @ them? Bollocks.
2. edit posts so you can correct inevitable typos and...
3. so the OP can add edits of pertinent info so responders don't have to trawl through for updates
4. RTFT?!?!?! Nowhere else on the internet do we have that bollocks! Upvote, downvote technology should push the most relevant and helpful comments to the top.
5. avatars so you have some chance of remembering who people are. Come on that's absolutely basic.

That's why AIBU is such a pile on [pile just autocorrected to 'polenta'?!?!], why is it so crap?

You're literally describing Reddit, bar the avatars.

Why not just fuck off to Reddit ?

Go and post somewhere else then.
I like the mumsnet format, it’s nice and simple. I get lost on other forums where there’s replies going off in all directions.

go elsewhere for your ego polishing up-voting.

It's awful being forced to post on a forum you hate. I hope you manage to escape soon.

So have I got this right - you hate everything about Mumsnet and because of that, you want to change it do that it’s just the same as a forum you like?

There’s a simple solution, OP.

I love the fact that I've been coming on MN for 12 years and can still navigate it in the same way.

Don't like it then fuck off somewhere else.

Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, squarespace even Wordpress has all these features. And now you won't see my responses because I can tell reply to you or remember your random username.

It's the UK's most popular website for parents, so it must be doing something right.

You know what to to do>>>Flouncers' Corner, if you don't like it.

We’ll see it, it’s green

Ok, I should def fuck off to Reddit, BUT don't you think that when OPs get 'piled on' it's the format that makes it that way intrinsically?
And wouldn't it be good to have AIBU YES/NO polls?

No.

No.

Next.

Nope

Post on site stuff if you want MNHQ to consider any technical changes.

OP, you are a bear of little brain.

Yes/No polls encourage laziness. At least those who "pile in" take the trouble to write something.

Like "likes" on FB. Total lazy fuckery. Write something or bugger off.

Nah. I like it this way.

I love it’s simplicity, crikey even netmums confuses me! maybe we’re all a bit older on here & like a forum without lots of gimmicks.
( although a 2 minute edit function would be good )

Op are you quite young and with it? (yknow, like hip?) I'm old, maybe it's a young/old person thing...?

A like button would be handy as yes I see things that make me chuckle and I'd like to acknowledge that. Can't remember user names etc 😂

I like it. I can't get the hang of reddit. There's no narrative order to it.

The app makes it easy to @people, the OP's posts are a different colour to everyone else's, and I can cope with a few typos.

Was there something else?

If it's so shit here, why are you here???

Of course it's full of vipers, that's why most of them are here!

If the OP got updated mid thread, half the replies wouldn't make sense.