Join our beta and test our new search function

[KatieCMumsnet]

Hi all,

We’ve been improving our search function to make it a bit more usable and to improve the results, and we’d love to get your feedback.

To give early access to features, we’ve created a beta version of Mumsnet for users to opt-in to. By joining the beta and providing feedback, you’ll help us decide what works and what needs to be improved before we make the feature available to everyone.

To join the beta, click this link: Join beta

When you click the link you’ll see some changes:

• On desktop, there's a new search bar in the header that links to the new search function
• On mobile, we’ve moved the header around slightly and there’s a new search icon top right

All feedback is helpful and welcome (good or bad). So if you've got a mo, please give it a try and tell us what you think using the feedback icon on the search pages (the smiley face bottom right corner) or in reply to this post.

Thanks!

And if you want to leave the beta for any reason then click this link: Leave beta

Not great - typed the Crown (no inverted commas) and got completely random threads plus one about season 3 further down, even when I sorted by relevance. I then went to Google, typed the Crown mumsnet (again no inverted commas, or +) and got a huge list of recent threads including the current Telly Addicts one.

So probably not moving away from Google any time soon...

It was also pretty slow.

Hi all,

We’ve updated the new search function following your feedback as follows:

• Improved speed - it should be faster now
• Better results - the results should be more recent and relevant
• Clearer sort options - the sort options should be more visible now so you can organise by newest or oldest first if you want to
• Removed dropdown for username suggestions on the search bar - we would like to include username matches as well as popular search terms in an autosuggest dropdown on the search bar but we'll be adding that feature at a later date
• Added a link to advanced search - so you can make more specific searches when needed

Please let us know what you think! As ever your feedback is invaluable.

Thank you,

Katie @ MNHQ