..to make you look at this?

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This is how, when you come into an established or long thread, you can read any updates or extra information that the OP might have added, before you say your piece. Just tap on 'see all' which I've circled on the photo.

Thanks for looking. I hope it helps avoid a) you saying something irrelevant or b) other posters give you a hard time because of a)

Agree. I haven’t looked back since installing mine.

This is what I see using the mobile site, on an iPhone with an ad blocker. Seems pretty clean to me.

Is that on a laptop? Because it's nothing like I see using chrome on my phone.I see the same as @HaveringWavering in the post above.

I've seen a thread where someone posted about their cat being ill and it eventually died. People were STILL replying to the opening post telling the OP that everything was going to be fine. Thread was eventually closed as it was causing the OP distress.

I seem to remember and OP posting about a pregnancy and she eventually miscarried, people were still posting congratulations.

But how else do you refer to a poster by name? Since MN introduced the drop downs they always automatically append the @. I’m not going back to the days of laboriously copy-typing and bolding each name.

Oh jeeze, yes. I remember a few threads like that. And ones with seriously ill spouses who then died, yet people were posting encouraging messages because they only read the OP.

So it's not just about being irritated. It's about sparing the OP unnecessary hurt, and the responding poster embarrassment and feelings of guilt.

There's also the ones where OP will post something like "I never thought of it from that point of view, I have apologised to DH as I can see why I was wrong."

And then will still receive scores of messages telling them that they are wrong and should apologise to their DH and calling them every name under the sun.

Must be v irritating for you hun

Thanks for illustrating my point.

Swiping left results only in a smudged screen for me.

My app screen doesn't look like Nellienolan's

You can click on the little sign , top right , next to the arrows

There's only one arrow, pointing left, at the top of my screen on the app. There is no little sign or anything else on the top right apart from a three dot menu with choices Watch and Hide.

I didn't know this thank you!

There was also a thread where a terminally ill poster started to talk about her bucket list of things she wanted to do before she died and people were still wittering on about her doing X, Y or Z after a relative had posted that she had sadly passed away and MN had changed the title and added a post to tell people to READ THE FUCKING UPDATE.

But I don't understand why people use the app, it sounds useless. I just use chrome on my (old and quite basic) phone.

This is the iOS app on iPhone:

What's not to like?

Clean, can scroll upwards or downwards, no pages, unobtrusive adds, filter the OP facility, bookmark etc. Lovely.

If you're taking about the 'show all' function for OP's posts, it's a pretty recent addition to MN after years of requests.

Thanks to everyone who has posted screenshots of the app, I get the clean look aspect now

@mathanxiety this lets you filter to OPs posts on my app. iPhone

Different colours for own posts, OP's posts and MNHQ posts have been around for ages, but the filter is relatively recent.

But why do you feel its your job to protect the feelings of other posters? Surely it's a public forum and sometimes there are miscommunications? It's a wee bit bossy to tell strangers what to do, unless of course you work for mumsnet and these are rules?

I'm not telling anyone what to do. I'm providing information that they can use if they want to. And as has been shown in this thread, quite a few people didn't know about it, and appreciate the function being pointed out.

For the record, yes I do find it irritating when people don't rtft, but I also feel bad when I snap at someone who hasn't. So creating an OP that highlights the function and shows how to use it seemed to be a fairer response than moaning at them.

Ha ha, also bossy to tell strangers what NOT to do, surely?