Please can you make it easy to remove bookmarks

[Ginmel]

Why can't we double click on a bookmark to turn it off? It's really annoying. I've accidentally pressed on a couple of marks.

I literally just bookmarked the above post by accident! It's really annoying.

Yes please MNHQ - click on/click off would be great.

Definitely enable click on click off, does my head in!

Yes I’ve only bookmarked by accident and it’s a pain when I check back on a thread. Cheers

Another one here.
Accidental book marking in the browser and I can't remove them.

Thanks all

Can someone please explain why it’s a pain to bookmark? Surely if you go back to a thread, you want to go to the last post you read ?

@pringle because you may have just bookmarked an earlier post accidentally and it's a pain when you are dipping in and out of long threads

Me too. I've accidentally bookmarked threads a few times - I can't remember the specifics but I probably just wanted to read from the beginning (or something). Why can't we remove them easily?

Yes, me please! Very annoying when I accidentally tap bookmark. Intuition says tap it again to remove it but it doesn't work.

@SophieLMumsnet

Definitely not alone

Also those that use the app can apparently turn off bookmarks so the function exists!

@trewser
@ILikeyourHairyHands

Please post here

@megletthesecond
@continuityerror please post here

I was your first poster on here Gimmel!

Sorry @ILikeyourHairyHands and thank you!

Thanks for the replies, all! We can't make promises, but we'll see what the thinking is.

@Ginmel

@pringle because you may have just bookmarked an earlier post accidentally and it's a pain when you are dipping in and out of long threads

This makes no sense.

As I keep saying, if you accidentally bookmark, keep reading and bookmark the last post you read

No worries about unintended bookmarks & you'll have the latest post you read bookmarked.

You can only have one bookmarked spot at a time. So each time you bookmark it's going to take you to that spot, not every bookmark you originally put in (this is the same on app / web on phone / web on pc)

I don’t see the point, you can move the bookmark by bookmarking another post. Surely people just bookmark the last post they’ve read on a thread. Why wouldn’t you want to read from where you left the thread the last time?

I didn't even know what the bookmark was for but I've hit it accidentally loads!

Thanks @SophieLMumsnet. People on the app can turn off bookmarks

Yep, me too.

It's just the rest of us on browsers that can't

I would like this too it’s really annoying

What is it you don’t like about bookmarks? How else do you keep track of where you are in long threads?

I actually don’t even know what the bookmark icon is and can’t find it. So not aware I ever have book marked anything whilst scrolling. Nor what it would do. Nor why it would be annoying not to be able to undo. However - I agree fully !!

HeronLanyon

The bookmark function does what it says!

You use it to bookmark the last post you read; when you click back into a post, it'll take you to that post again, so you can continue reading.

People are getting confused - on any device, app or browser, you bookmark where you want, and if you want to 'remove' that bookmark, you simply bookmark somewhere else. It's not complicated