Customised Talk - a long overdue sticky to explain what the heck is going on!

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Dear Mumsnetters,

We have made a few enhancements to our humble offering, which will allow you to customise Mumsnet Talk and (God willing) get it just the way you like it by using the Active conversations links at the top of Talk pages. You can choose to read threads in different order, how many posts appear on your page (if you limit the posts per page it can make the page load more quickly), fiddle with the colours, choose how many posts in active conversations, select how many days your threads I'm watching lasts for, plus you can opt to ignore specific posts or topics willy nilly. Oh and there's a moonwatch too.

Our default look is slightly changed from old Mumsnet (or Mumsnet classic as we like to call it) but before anyone starts panicking, there is a Mumsnet Classic button just a click away for all you conservative, dyed in the wool MNetters who like it like it is and can't think why we wanted to mess with it anyway. (ie A "Change it back!" option, which given bitter experience we thought we'd introduce at the same time as change )

So do have a fiddle (ideally for at least ten minutes before you start wailing "Who, what, why, when") and if you have any problems/ishoos/suggestions then please do post them here and we promise to look at them.

Hope you like it - if you do - twas my idea - if you hate it look no further than the shed.

ps plse can you fill in our survey

Have just logged on after a week away - I'm confused! Will have to have a good trawl through this thread I think.

Thanks Dior, Somedays I just need it said plainly and slowly, today is one of those days

my smileys love hats

Now can you guess why these are so

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Quiet tonight thoguh , isn't it

Why doesn't Saddy get a pointy hat, when Smiley, Grinny, Sceppy, Crossy, Blushy, Greenie, Winkie and Shockie all do?

I'm sure you mean

I am loving the changes.

Well done tech

Just though someone better say it

Yes, I wondered about the stickies. What is the criteria for a thread to be awarded a stickie? Obviously I want all of mine to have one.

Oooh that's weird. The stickies always stay at top of the screen! Don't like it - are we able to change that?

I don't like the stickies ,the board never seems to change.

Didn't work for me either MS.

Phew, I'm just back my holidays and thankfully have managed to get my MN to view with a degree of old fashioned normality (thanks MNHQ for the power to put things back to normal for the old codgers that can't cope with too much change ).

I do have a request (don't know if it is one that can be granted) but would it be possible to be able to put a marker in a thread to indicate where we have finished reading? Then when coming back to it later (particularly if it is a contentious thread that runs and runs) we can pick up where we left off easily? Sort of like a book mark.

You can get rid of the stickies by clicking the ignore button, then clicking on active convos, although presumably they then won't make their way through active convos as someone posts on them, they truely will be ignored.

i love ignore stickies
cant imagine anyone wants them

teeee--ch (whines) i dont want to have to click ignore everytime someone sells something
i dont want buy and sell and never will
please help

Can't be bothered to scroll down
Did tech sort out the profiles?

Sounds so simple. But where is the 'ignore' button?

Think dh has one...

it is under the threads

ooooer just seen it...

Glad I can ignore this thread now. Won't be reminded of my stupidity every time I see it

Yes thanks, I've found it now. Feel like such a numptie

I like the book club stickie, will be keeping it.