A few updates to Mumsnet 🎨

[LizzyMumsnet]

You might notice things are looking a bit different today. We’ve given Mumsnet a colour refresh, based on feedback from you in our surveys (thank you!).

We’ve also moved a couple of things around to reduce clutter and make things easier to find:

• Watch now sits under the OP post
• Report has moved into the meatball menu (the three dots on posts)

As ever, we’d love to hear what you think, so please share your feedback below.

What DO you get if you go to Premium? Decent colours, or has that changed as well?

That's in the dropdown meatball menu, not the stupid red lozenge.

Ah now, that’s not true. The new colours are distinguishable from white. They look like when your white washing gets a dark t-shirt in by mistake. They’re all various kinds of dirty, grimy grey. Which is actually really hard to distinguish from the colour of a quoted post.

I also find it hard to believe there was any user testing.

That option is still there (but only with the new colours & only in light mode). I was just wondering if OP & 'my posts' were always different to other posts, or if a user could essentially hide their own posts by making them the same colour as all the rest. But now, although you can choose to make your posts white which I guess matches the background, the posts are marked out by the button on every one - so this may be a facility which we've all lost.

The post buttons are so annoying, although having retreated to dark mode since the colour debacle, I can't spot my posts or the OP's except by the buttons.

the dark mode on here is trash any way.

The page is dark, but then you scroll down and get flashbanged by the dumb "how do you feel about the labour government" survey which is still arc flash white.

oh.. and the fucking adverts....

@LizzyMumsnet I'm finding the lack of contrast of OP posts makes it so hard to tell it is actually another post by the OP.

The colours are too pale. For years I’ve had OPs’ and my posts in colour, meaning I can easily scroll through and spot my posts and OP posts. Now they look faint - as someone else said, the “coloured” posts look like a white shirt that’s been washed with a single pink sock! Is there no way of increasing the contrast?

Surely the enormous red "My Posts" badges make this a safety concern for anyone in an abusive relationship who is on MN trying to seek support?

This. A million times this

.It's a really crap update.

NHS blue.
Washed out highlight colours.
Nobody's happy.

It feels like something my employer would do.

Plus my page keeps shooting back up to the top post when I am in the middle of reading something.

The blue looks really clinical and the pink is too bright. The other colours are too pale to be useful.

Don't like them, have changed my colours back.

The only way I can read the site now is by putting my entire iPad into dark mode and turning the brightness right down. I then have to turn it all back again if I go on any other websites.
At one point, the only way I could even activate dark mode was to instead activate classic invert in the iPad accessibility settings. That threw up some wacky colour combinations!
I’m only really coming back on here now to see if they’ve responded to this thread. If it’s going to be too hard to use the site, then clearly I will stop bothering.

And don’t get me started on the permanent video advert in the top right hand corner running constantly with the on purpose tiny skip ad button so when you do try to skip the ad you load it instead, so sneaky. This site is getting more like Tattle every day.

It is way way too bright - don’t care about the colours but looking at the page of the laptop gives me a headache.

Oh I couldn’t find the top watch (now under the op’s post). It was much better when it was at the top (where save is). I thought I watched one yesterday - I assumed save had replaced watch - but now it seems like I haven’t

Nothing. I have premium. It’s the same.

I totally agree. Is there a reason for doing this @LizzyMumsnet

Its no better this morning,it's still hurting my eyes ..I'm having to come of sooner than I would usually as it's just uncomfortable

Ahh yes
hiding the report button and removing the posters name from deleted posts
talk about making this place an even bigger trolls paradise
but hey so long as the clicks keep happening and the cash keeps coming.....

Decided to wait and see if I'd get used to it. I've been here, on and off, for about 12 hours on phone and PC and I really, really don't like the new look! Pleased I could tone down the post backgrounds. Displeased with the in-your-face OP and Mine flashes - partly for privacy with My Posts, as previously mentioned, and partly because they're so bloody bright! And I dislike the royal blue.

Overall, I find the site appearance jarring: colours too bright and too clashing. With all the inevitably lurid advertisement colours as well, it looks like somebody spilled the kids' poster paints. And it's kind of untidy: it doesn't seem to have a coherent colour scheme.

I'm not target audience, though: if users aged 20-30 prefer a visually loud, discordant web design, so be it.

That's what I have ,every now and again it covers the whole page and plays untill I log off ..makes it difficult to use the site

Even in dark mode, on my phones lowest brightness, MN is difficult to read. Why is it so bright? Someone somewhere has messed up because it's so bright compared to anything else I open.

Still haven't fixed the issue of going back to the top of active each time I leave a thread