Thanks @Anydreamwilldo12 for thread title
please read the thread is moving so fast atm and it’s pretty hard to keep up! I was just wondering on people’s thoughts on this so did a super quick questionnaire here . I’m not sure we’ll find a perfect answer to suit everyone but would love your feedback on if it’s an issue or not.
Just a reminder you can watch the thread by clicking on ‘watch this thread’ at the top of the first message. It’s much easier for everyone than so many place marking every time which can use up a fair chunk of each thread to scroll through 
Affiliate Advertising policy: Mumsnet carries some affiliate marketing links, which means we earn commission on sales of some products when users click through a link from the site. Our editorial content is NOT influenced by affiliate partnerships. You may not post affiliate links without the prior permission of Mumsnet.
Here’s Barbarara’s instructions from last year on doing clicky links:
Open double square brackets
No space
Paste link
Space
Name of link
No space
Close double square brackets
Like this
[[www.amazingbargains.com bargain ]] but with no space after/before the brackets.
If I do it again without the extra spaces only the word bargain will appear in blue
For more links etc see message 2
If any link doesn’t work or you want to add something please let me know by @ing me
From present ideas to party food, find all your Christmas inspiration here.
Christmas
Thread 9 - the one with the thick willy scarf
Reastie · 29/09/2020 21:16
Oh wow, I’ve had 415 responses but it’ll only let me view the first 40 without paying £25 a month to upgrade, how frustrating! But amazing how many people have responded since last night, that’s amazing!
So from the responses I’ve had and managed to read the majority are happy as they are so we will keep things as they are. I just found it moving so quickly things got lost and it’s difficult to keep up and didn’t want to put people off, but if most of you are happy then I’m super happy too. I just want the threads to work for as many people as possible to help everyone out but I guess this year is a bit of an odd year and lots of people need a bit of festive detraction from the real world and are on an extra budgeted Christmas and are starting earlier than usual because of how things might be nearer Christmas. Usually we’d be on about thread 2 this time of year! Every year I wonder if we will make 25 threads (because 25th December is Christmas Day, 25 threads a year I somewhat of a mental aim I wonder if we’ll make it to), every year we make it to maybe 20 or so but never 25. This year I think will be the thread of 25 
.
So a couple of tweaks going forwards based on the questionnaire -
- I know we’ve encouraged this before and I know it’s on the op but if you could ‘watch’ the thread rather than placemark when you join that saves people scrolling through posts. You’re very kind thanking me at the start of threads to placemark but truly it’s not necessary.
- the thread title will be varying around the usual typos or mentions of the current popular buys we are looking at to help people know what the current thread trends are without always having to scroll through every message or to allow them to search the previous thread for the initial links
- polite ask that if you see people speaking of something you’re interested in, where possible please search the thread (you can do this on safari by writing the word in the webpage box and then scrolling down to one this page’ on the options to find every incidence of that word on the webpage. I don’t know how to do it on the app or windows, sorry) rather than asking straight away for it to be repeated. Obviously if you can’t find it or can’t do it (I’m not sure you can load the whole thread on a phone) that’s different to taking a couple of minutes to search first.
@Bearbehind I could, but then I’d have to add up all the responses for each option manually —and I’m lazy— 😬
@HanPanPeg originally I’d compile all the popular things in the op but it kind of got out of hand and so much work and would change so quickly and links would soon become out of date.
I hope that all sounds ok and people are happy going forward. I’m not looking to change things, I just want to make sure things run as well as they can and as many as possible can access what they need 🧚♀️ 🎄.
For some reason when I try to do bold it has never worked, so please excuse me if I don't.
In case it is helpful, to seach the full thread using google, select view all messages from dropdown menu at the top of the MN page, then do to the three dots at the top right of the browser and use 'find in page.'
Newsletters you might like
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.