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Where has my Classic gone?

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MuttsNutts · 29/08/2015 10:03

It changed itself yesterday and there isn't an option to change it back in 'Customise'.

i know you're busy but please help.

Can't cope with the new fangled format at all [sad old gimmer]

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Simurgh · 29/08/2015 10:42

I once (if I recall) imagined that Classic would have until the New Year. I thought I was jesting at the time - and it looks as if I was wildly out.

I'm sorry MuttsNutts. An explanation from MNHQ would be useful I think.

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MuttsNutts · 29/08/2015 14:19

I know they have a lot on their plate just now but I'd really like to know that it's just a glitch that will sort itself out again.

I've been here a lot of years and just can't get to grips with the look of the new format at all. I do have dodgy eyesight so don't know if that's anything to do with it but I have real trouble with the new fonts and contrast.

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andsoimback · 29/08/2015 14:28

I de registered and then registered with different email. I've emailed headquarters a couple of times to ask to have classic but no response. Please Mumsnet. I can't get to grips with new format either. I've been a member for nearly 12 years. I can't do change.

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MuttsNutts · 29/08/2015 17:06

I can't even unstick the stickies at the top of Active Convos so whenever I refresh the page I have to scroll down every single time to get past them.

I know it's all minor stuff and very much a FWP but I had it set up just right and how I like it and now my equilibrium is out of kilter Sad

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Mummylinisreborn · 29/08/2015 23:07

I have had to Re register as well and I also was on classic. And my de reg was actually a mistake on MN,s part amongst all the mayhem. Now I am also on new , with a different name, no pm,s and of course hardly any history with this name, I hate change and for 9 yrs have been happily on classics. Please let us have the option back MN

Mummylinisreborn · 29/08/2015 23:09

And I don't like the horrible green, I prefer to choose my own colours for high lighting. >

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MuttsNutts · 01/09/2015 17:33

Still no word then? Hmm

Just a "Bear with us and you'll get it back eventually" or "It's gone forever so like it or lump it" is all I need.

These fecking stickies are doing my nut in...amongst other things.

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Simurgh · 01/09/2015 18:23

Not a peep out of MNHQ on this topic so far - which contrasts sharply with the subject of Jeffrey where appropriate transparency seems to have been the order of the day.

Simurgh · 02/09/2015 08:14

I have this vision of the (oral) instructions to the community HQ staffers who come on the boards.

'Whatever you say, just remember to avoid any discussion of Classic or Customise. They should forget about them with any luck.'

Grin
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MuttsNutts · 02/09/2015 16:37

I think it's very odd. Whenever I have queries usually, MNHQ are very good at getting back to me quickly but on this subject it just isn't happening.

Think I might report my post to see if that helps spur them into action.

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MuttsNutts · 02/09/2015 16:38

And believe me, I won't just forget!

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Simurgh · 03/09/2015 12:52

Any word from MNHQ, MuttsNutts ?

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MuttsNutts · 03/09/2015 16:46

Not a peep Sad

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RebeccaMumsnet · 03/09/2015 17:01

Hi all,

Mutts, as you haven't deregged and reregged, you should still have classic if that's what you had set before the password reset. Has it appeared as yet?

To others who did dereg and then rereg accounts, sadly we changed a few things recently including the option to view in classic to those with existing accounts. Any new users will be limited to "new" Mumsnet. Apologies for this, it's actually pretty good once you get used to it.

Any questions, please ask and massive apologies for being so slow to get back to you.

HumphreyCobblers · 03/09/2015 17:04

Arghh, I had to re-register as I accidentally logged out and forgot my password. The email account I registered with no longer exists.

I LOVED classic Sad Can't be doing with this page stuff.

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MuttsNutts · 03/09/2015 17:22

No, it's still the same Rebecca. It was working fine until the day before I started this thread then all of a sudden it had changed. Obviously as it had been working ok until then I had no reason to look at my settings but certainly when I go into 'Customise' now there are hardly any options at all and certainly not one to select Classic or colours or unstick those feckin stickies.

Here's all I can select now:

Newest messages at: Read down page/most recent at top
Messages per Page: 10-1000
Automatically watch: threads I start threads I post on
Notify me when others post on threads I'm watching: by email
Ignore Topics in Active Conversations

I used to have loads of options Sad

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Simurgh · 03/09/2015 17:31

So the colour selection options and the Display Bookmarks are gone as well, Mutt?

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MuttsNutts · 03/09/2015 17:31

Yes, all gone.

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Simurgh · 03/09/2015 17:33

It sounds as if someone has designed a new screen who doesn't actually use the boards and has hammered it through without consultation. (Shurely not - Ed.)

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MuttsNutts · 03/09/2015 18:44

I can't imagine why it has changed. All I know is that I no longer find MN user friendly. Nowadays, I click on Active Convos, the logo alongside the banner ad take up a third of the page between them along the top, Discussions of the Day/Trending (which I never, ever use and another ad take up another third down the right, and the remainder of the page I see is taken up with those bloody stickies (currently five of them, often six) that I used to have the option to unstick.

So before I can even start reading the Active Convos (which is the only thing of interest to me on that page, I have to scroll down. No hardship some may think but every single time I want to refresh the page.

Not to mention the crap fonts which I find hard to read Hmm

It's so annoying when it just never used to be like this.

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Simurgh · 03/09/2015 19:05

Oh I can imagine - and I'm deeply disappointed at the situation.

(And I'm speaking as someone who actually likes MN New and still has the full Customise facilities. For how long, I have no idea of course.)

tldr · 03/09/2015 22:16

Same here, de-regged, re-regged, can't believe I can't see who started threads.

Was barely worth clicking the Customise button. And I'm alright with change, really I am, but not this.

Simurgh · 03/09/2015 23:37

I seem to recall Justine talking, during Jeffreygate, of the desirability of transparency - and Mumsnet actually being lauded for that in the media.

This situation is not transparent.

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RebeccaMumsnet · 04/09/2015 16:43

@tldr

Same here, de-regged, re-regged, can't believe I can't see who started threads.

Was barely worth clicking the Customise button. And I'm alright with change, really I am, but not this.

Hi tldr, Can you clarify what you mean when you say can't believe I can't see who started threads please?

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