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To ask for a few changes to MN?

244 replies

NameChangerAmI · 27/04/2019 16:42

I bet this has been done to death & I've just missed the party but it not...

AIBU to ask that mn gives us an equivalent of a thumbs up / like button along with a variety of short cuts to convey other emotions?

Let me explain...I've just read a post that I agree with. Instead of just being able to click on a like button, I've had to concentrate of finding out the name of the poster, type it out correctly, do all the faffy asterix things to highlight it, do the arrow thing (^) and say "this".

WTAF! I'm busy, and spend far too much time on mn as it is! Grin.

Can't they just do buttons under the posts that we can actually click on, rather than all of the above, and actually having to type out the word "grin" within bloody square brackets!

You must get shed loads of revenue from surveys, advertisers, promotions etc, please invest some of that in making mn more efficient!

square bracket smiley face square bracket,

Asterix thanks very much, asterix - you get my point!

Grin
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MarshaBradyo · 27/04/2019 18:11

No thanks

Not the way forward at all

Sparklingbrook · 27/04/2019 18:12

Why do people want all sites to be exactly the same?

amandacarnet · 27/04/2019 18:16

The amount of people visiting sites on android phones has soared. Many sites have made changes to keep up to date with this. MN has not. MN does not invest in moving with the times, that includes security as well.
Nothing will change. Mn comments and threads over years will get less. Eventually MN will disappear. I give it ten years

lljkk · 27/04/2019 18:18

10 yrs is a very LONG time in the .com world!

(anyone recall myspace, beebo, or yahoo as the 'best' search engine?)

badlydrawnperson · 27/04/2019 18:18

Asterix - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

Asterisk - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk

I know it will be about a nanosecond before someone says I am a cunt for knowing this and pointing it out, but them's the breaks some days.

Sparklingbrook · 27/04/2019 18:18

What are these 'many sites'? If the 'many sites' are so good then maybe stick with them?

SilverySurfer · 27/04/2019 18:18

amandacarnet
Copy and paste certainly does not take 0.5 seconds on my iPad. It is actually quite laborious.

It does on a laptop, which I'm on - no idea about ipads/ pods/ smartphones as don't have one.

AuldJosey · 27/04/2019 18:23

The thing that bothers me is that you have to scroll forever to find where you were in a thread. They should have a View first unread post option on threads.

The technology of MN is very very very basic.

Sparklingbrook · 27/04/2019 18:24

You use the bookmark function and that takes you to where you left off on a thread.

AuldJosey · 27/04/2019 18:25

They unwittingly admitted how few users are actually logged in on a usual basis after the latest data breach. Apparently 4000 users had logged in over the course of 3 days. It's not the millions people imagine.

AuldJosey · 27/04/2019 18:27

It doesn't work Sparklingbrook. Or else I can't figure out how to get back to the bookmark.

Everything is laborious on MN and I can't help the cynic in me thinking that MN want people to be logged in for a long time to up their stats.

amandacarnet · 27/04/2019 18:30

Silverysurfer, MN is designed best to use on a laptop. That is when I experience best functionality. But less and less people are accessing sites through laptops. It is unsurprising though that I have read many users admitting to accessing mn at work which will for most be through a laptop or desktop.
Ten years is a long time. But MN does not really have any equivalent competitor. If it did, I think it would already be gone.

Sparklingbrook · 27/04/2019 18:31

Bookmark works for me.

It seems to me that using MN when you don't like it very much is like going to a shop where they don't sell what you want when there are others that do. But continuing to go there anyway.

MarshaBradyo · 27/04/2019 18:31

I thought it was that number 4000 actively logging in

I stay logged in all the time, I’m sure many do

MarshaBradyo · 27/04/2019 18:32

I don’t mind if the functionality is improved as long as it doesn’t start to mimic reddit with likes and nested quotes etc

AuldJosey · 27/04/2019 18:33

No Sparklingbrook, it's the exact opposite. It's like going to your local shop as it's convenient, though it's massively overpriced, or going to a shop that is the only place you can buy the particular olives you like but the staff are ignorant as fuck.

amandacarnet · 27/04/2019 18:33

4000 users logged in sounds right to me. When I search for advice on google lots of sites come up including mn. But a site visit will include a quick click on one of these, then a quick bounce off again.
It is why a proper analysis of a site has site visits and bounce rates. And advertisers are increasingly asking for that too.
Just sitevisits islikebusinesses talking about turnover, it is relatively meaningless

AuldJosey · 27/04/2019 18:34

@MarshaBradyo No, it was the number who were logged in.

amandacarnet · 27/04/2019 18:34

Marsha, for security everyone was logged out. So you had to log back in.

amandacarnet · 27/04/2019 18:35

X post, sounds like I was wrong

DramaAlpaca · 27/04/2019 18:36

I like MN as it is. I don't want it dumbed down with a like button, quote feature or God forbid a thumbs up. It's not Reddit, Netmums or the Daily Mail, and that's what I like about it.

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/04/2019 18:37

Laughing at the PPs who seem so unnecessarily against the idea, like its some awful thing. Maybe its just not "middle class" enough for MN?

I think likes are fucking awful and my dislike is entirely necessary. I like this place because it's full of intelligent women making the time to talk to each other. Not just mindlessly posting thumbs up. It turns an interesting debate into a popularity contest.

MarshaBradyo · 27/04/2019 18:37

4000? With 26 million site visits

Would like to see that post explaining it, no idea where it is

amandacarnet · 27/04/2019 18:38

I think it is like going to a shop that is the only one that sells what you like, but the shop has not been refurbished for 20 years and looks incredibly tacky. And the cashier still has not managed to master the computer system that includes customers details for home delivery, and so these are every so often displayed on the screen to any customer passing by.

RubberTreePlant · 27/04/2019 18:39

This was done to death on site stuff last week.

Big to mention dozens of time previously.

NO we don't want a blummin' like button!