🖌️ Custom Colours – How Important Are They to You?

[Rebeccaatmumsnet]

Hey everyone! 👋

We're curious to hear your thoughts on the ability to customise the background colour of your OP and your own comments on Mumsnet. We want to know how important it is to you to be able to change these colours.

We’d love to open this up as a discussion and get your honest feedback.
Whether you care deeply or barely notice it, your input helps us better understand how people experience and value personalisation features.
Looking forward to hearing your perspectives! 💬

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I wish more posters would use it for the OP’s posts at least, then perhaps there wouldn’t be so many people missing the OP’s updates.

I don’t mind what the colour options are, as long as they’re not garish.

Not happy that it requests email address. Username should be enough.

I always want to see the OPs posts differentiated clearly. I quite like seeing my own posts but don't mind about that really. The colours themselves I am not attached to.

I can't remember the email address I used to sign up and I can't be bothered extracting it, sorry!

The highlights for OP, MumsnetHQ and own posts are excellent.

Apart from blue for MNHQ, the other colours are relatively arbitrary to me.

Survey won't open on my browser (Safari) - don't usually have an issue with them opening.

Colours very important to me, the more customisable the better.

I put a comment in the survey that once the op is old ( perhaps a year old) that the colour should change to a colour that no one else can use so that it's easy to see it's a old thread .
Or have a different coloured boarder on it.

Thanks everyone! Appreciate the feedback and for completing the survey.

I changed it on my desktop, but can’t find how to on the app. Can anyone help please?

Hello @SuperSange

So the app will be getting dark mode in the future, so hopefully this will help you when it's released.

All the OP’s posts should show as one different colour and not just their first post

Don't take away my purple! 💜

I love being able to highlight all the OPs posts in one colour, and mine in another so please don't take that away.
I don't care what colour they are.

It might be useful if OPs posts were automatically a different colour - the number of people that don't read updates is ridiculous.

@JaneJeffer @Seeline I don't know if this works on the app but using a browser if uou go to settings > more settings you can change the op and your colour .
This should highlight all of their and your posts .

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Hey All, Thanks so much for your feedback on this! Really useful and this will help alot with changes that we're working towards currently!