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.

came back in the light of day, had to change my brightness back to the usual it keep it at, then turn Dark Reader BACK ON just to browse on here.

@LizzyMumsnet it is TOO BRIGHT.

Can we please have some explanations on this change.. and put it back, its awful, not user friendly, not accessibility friendly, and certain not sensory friendly.

I mentioned the deleted / withdrawn posts yesterday afternoon on this thread but so far no one from MNHQ has replied about why this has been done.

It is a concern that you don’t know if it is you who has been deleted or who else. And it then also removes context.

@LizzyMumsnet This may have already been asked and answered, I'm not going to subject myself to reading the whole thread, but why, exactly, have MNHQ done this?

I dislike the colour changes intensely. The blue is far too bright and garish, I have to turn my phone brightness down just to browse the site, then turn it up when I leave, it's crazy. The OP's colour and my posts colour are too pale to see clearly.

So what are your thoughts on all these negative posts?

If it’s not changed back I don’t think I’ll bother with MN anymore, I’m not willing to give myself eye-ache over it. 😕

@JustineMumsnet can you give some sense of your / MN’s response to the concerns raised about these changes?

The colour is one, but the Original Poster and My Post in such bright colour is more worrisome as well as removing the posters users name from deleted posts.

Some explanation of the thought processes if not some dialogue at the very least would be appreciated.

It actually makes me feel a bit sick after a while. It is the brightness of the blue, I think.

I took part in a survey a while back.
I think it just asked whether we knew we could use colours to highlight OP and our own posts, whether we used them and did we like the colours.

There were definitely no questions relating to new colours or any examples.

Also, 2 responses on this whole thread is absolutely unacceptable.
@LizzyMumsnet

It’s horrendous. You need to provide free sunglasses to anyone signed up. Were people wearing sunnies when the new look was tested, as how could this not be noticed before it was pushed out?

And @LizzyMumsnet that swipe to next page feature is far too sensitive again. It is back to being too sensitive so that you cannot highlight a part of a post to quote rather than only using the quote function.

Please can we remove this swipe feature altogether. Or only have it in the area of the original post if that is how people use it. Currently, it is making replying to posts difficult.

Same. I hate this. It wasn’t broken, why “fix” it?

I agree. It's dire. Why make a change for the worse. It makes no sense.

It's awful and an accessibility nightmare.

But ableism is rampant on here, so I'm not surprised Mumsnet don't care.

As dark mode doesn't work, I've added a dark reader extension to my browser to tone down the brightness of MN light mode.

It looks tacky.

This is an excellent point - the banners are too prominent and a total giveaway that you've posted on a thread if someone happens to be looking over your shoulder.

A ‘refresh’ apparently. I’m thinking of when Royal Mail momentarily became Consignia wasting several million in the process or when Coca-Cola changed the formula of Coke. The salutary lesson of the latter example is beautifully summed up by:

The Coca-Cola Company spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out where it had made a mistake, ultimately concluding that it had underestimated the public reaction of the portion of the customer base that would be alienated by the switch.

MN take note that Coke sales went up considerably after the company realised its error and switched back to the original formula.

I balk at the phrase 'lessons will be learned' but I've got my fingers crossed in this instance.

It’s all horrible and pointless. If they don’t change it back or improve it I’m not going to come on here anymore as sore eyes aren’t worth it. (Not just for the sore eyes but for distain of the users).

Wonder how long they're going to leave us without a comment. pushing 2hours since start of business

Do you know what? This might be the change that helps me to kick my Mumsnet habit. I've started on the active list a couple of times in the last 24 hours and stopped half way down as I cant be bothered with scrolling back down to where I was and the colours make me peer too much. I'm treating this as a positive change to get some of my life back.

I'm having similar thoughts @Yamyamabroad .

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Me too. I’ve been spending far too long on MN recently. Time to regain a life!

Edited to add, I’m wondering if more international voices have begun to post as the reason for the slew of interesting conspiracies recently being raised in threads. It’s an open forum, they’re allowed, but the reason I loved MN was the quintessentially British nature of the well informed expert women’s voices. Ah well.