Mumsnet Beta site - can you spare a few mins to have a look around?

[JustineMumsnet]

As trailed last May, we’ve been working on a new version of the Mumsnet Platform for a while now and we’re aiming to release it in a few weeks' time. We’ve been testing the site with Mumsnetters since July last year and we’ve been incorporating their feedback along the way. Now we're ready for the next stage of testing and we’d love as many of you as possible to have a play with it and tell us what you think/ uncover any glitches or concerns.

Our main objective in re-platforming is to move onto a new code base that will allow us to develop and improve features much faster. We have kept the functionality largely unchanged for now, aside from small improvements to the user experience and to a few features that don't function at all well at the moment. So, for example, there is a new version of Search. We've also been working on improving Private Messages although they’re not included in the Beta site just yet but should be released next week - we'll post here when they are.

If you’d like to help us test the new platform:

• Please go to beta.mumsnet.com

• When you access the beta website you’ll be asked for a passcode, please enter 246810

• Once you have accessed the Beta, we’d be super grateful if you’d complete this survey www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CDW3SZM and tell us what you think

You can log in with your existing Mumsnet username and password.

For this test - we’ve taken a snapshot of the live site as it was at the end of 31 January - so any new posts, or changes you’ve made since then, won’t be reflected on the Beta site.

Whilst navigating around the Beta site, if you notice any usability issues or bugs, please report them via the “feedback” tab you’ll see on each page (see screenshot above). Any time you can spare to have a play (be it minutes or hours) will be hugely useful and much appreciated.

A few final things to note

1 - For now we're just focusing on the web version of the site, so if you only use the app, then we don't need you to participate just yet - we'll be looking at that in due course.

2 - If you’re a Premium member, this won’t be reflected on the Beta site just yet.

3 - If you’ve registered on Mumsnet with a social account, you may need to reset your password to login

Big thanks!

@Lougle on the live website it's in a different place - we've combined all the settings in one place in the new website.

In live - click on the circle/arrow next to talk and click customise

Ahh I see, thanks!

I had a very quick look and it reminds me of the original app, which was awful

The current site is so neat and clear, the beta site looks frumpy and clunky and is not easy on the eye.

What about showing the date a thread was started/posted by on active threads?

That's the only way of finding zombie threads - unless you have other plans for that?

I've suggested this a few times, @Seeline but always been shouted down by posters and MNHQ - but FWIW I totally agree with you that this would help. Forums such as digital spy show both dates threads are started, and by whom, as well as last post made.

Surely @mnhq can manage that?