To ask for a few changes to MN?

[NameChangerAmI]

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! .

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!

Marsha, site visits without bounce rates, simply means someone has clicked on a MN thread once.
Google almost any issue and a MNtgread will come up as a fairly high top suggestion. I have done it when looking for advice. I have also clicked on the MN link, realised it is not relevant to my situation, and left MN quickly. That is a bounce. It iswhen someone clicks on a google suggestion that is not relevant,they glance at it and realise this, and leave quickly again.
I suspect if the number of site visits are accurate, many are bounces.

Here's a link to where they state 4k were logged in.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/a3501854-Mumsnet-data-breach-please-read#84784009

Better than every shop turning into Hollister, dark, loud and I can't find anything I like.

Also site visits, isthatu ique users? Or does it include people like me checking in again to see if anyone has posted on the thread I started?

Perhaps you should contact MNHQ and offer your services amandacarnet

Terry, except if there is no investment to make the experience on android phones better, then there will be less people using the site.
Sure there will always be a small number of posters who will stick with it no matter what. But MN is a big business, not a small niche site. It needs enough users to attract the advertisers.

It is so low, I’m surprised

True there were only 46 affected reading again

I love sooty, why the hostile sarcasm?

I am not surprised it's so low. I have been here when it is much more active. The active threads moved very quickly. It has got slower and slower.
But MN business model seems to be to limit investment as much as possible. And extract as much profit as you can.

Thanks Auld, interesting

For me, it's become a bit too PC, so you can't post like you used to be able to. You used to be able to say whatever you liked and it would stand. Now you can't say Boo or your post is deleted.

And this new trend which I've only noticed this past year of deleting threads because 'they're not in the spirit of the site'.

It can be interesting biting discussion, but no, deleted........
If they continue over modding like they're doing, I give them 3 years.
The appeal of it was that no topic is off limits.
Now, we are curtailed to discussing fridges and banana cake and strollers.

I like this place because it's full of intelligent women making the time to talk to each other

🌟 - 🌟 - 🌟

Like.

There.

There also appears to be a small cohort intent on making everything racist. Can't remember the thread, but it was a few days ago, and one poster came on to tell us that we were all racists (race had never been mentioned). People quite understandably stopped posting for fear of saying I've a black cat and he's a bastard being interpreted as racism.

If you stifle freedom of speech, it has lost its appeal for me anyway.

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.

I hate olives but don't get your analogy.

Gth1234
Quoting a post - It would be easier to have a "quote" button at the bottom

This^

I wouldn't like a like button or a thumbs up this is a forum not social media and everywhere that Iv seen that option (newspaper comments etc it turns into a popularity contest and in the past there has been enough of that on mn!

From a Ux perspective MN is a simple easy to use site. It needs to cater to the needs of millions of people globally, which is a big ask. Its popularity over many years proves that people can post, receive PMs, and find their way around easily.

The most important aspect is the support it gives to women, forget the gizmos and the like buttons it's about the people. I'm in IT and the worst kind of user is the one who wants everything over-engineered and complex. Features for the sake of features. Drives me nutz!

I hate olives but don't get your analogy.
I can't help you then.

I think the 'like' button has been done to death, and there was even a users' poll - roundly rejected every time.

I wouldn't like to see one - I positively like it that you need to actually contribute the the thread, not just hit a button. There are lots of other places where you can reduce your interaction by using that type of function, o I really don't see a need to bring one to one of the few sites that don't, and which is much liked because of that.

Similar for not wanting a quote function - much better for the flow of conversation when you C&P the parts you want and place them within your own contribution, rather than using a function to grab a whole previous post

I'm not "unnecessarily against the idea" I just think that having to type out your thoughts forces you to contribute to and expand the discussion

That's rubbish. It just forces people to write "this^"

Mn will always be full of conversation because it's a chat forum for people who most of the time seem to be after a bunfight (if AIBU is anything to go by). People aren't going to forgo the chance to twll people why they are wrong because they have a like button.

It will just eliminate about 100 pointless posts off a 1000 post thread.

I'd add a YABU and a Yanbu button too. It could be used as a poll.

That's ok AuldJosey.

I positively like it that you need to actually contribute the the thread,

Is typing "this" a contribution?

I don't understand why MN doesn't just add them and then people who want them can use them and people who don't won't. No one will be obliged to use it.

I feel like I only said this yesterday but .....

It’s not the lack of likes or dislikes that bother me, it’s not really being able to have an actual conversation. Threads are like lots of people at a party all talking very loudly, and only the few loudest being listened to and all the others being ignored. On certain other forums you can reply to a particular comment much more easily thus starting of a discourse. I find that I actually interact much more frequently with people on other forums. Here I tend to feel like i’m not heard. So why do I come here? Well I like to listen to what is said, and this forum probably represents me better than others I frequent, so much of what I read is familiar/relevant even if I don’t feel like I really get the opportunity to input much of value.

Wasn't the 4000 the number of log ins (as the problem was specifically a logging in related problem). I think most regulars stay logged in don't they (?) so it's no better a measure of activity than visits.