Truncated posts with "show more" (NOT quoted sections)

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I've just seen this on posts - having to click "show more" if the post is longer than a handful of lines.

Please please bin this off! I want to scroll and read posts without having to constantly click!

And let's not discourage longer nuanced posts by implying they breach some (very short) length limit...

It's awful.
(NB I'm not talking about quoted sections... literally just text posted in a post)

Please don't go all reddit on us.

Ack. I've just noticed this. It's horrible. I posted a reply and thought I bet people won't read all of my scintillatingly wise words now.

It is going to worsen the problem of people posting without properly reading threads/posts.

Surely a few extra paras don't slow down page loading much - certainly not by comparison with pointless GIFs etc.

It’s good when used on quotes but irritating and unnecessary on normal posts. Please at least give us the option to turn it off.

Its also not working properly either. Still seeing it every so often on posts that are one or two lines long.

(i've attached an image, but its under review)

Please turn it off. It negatively impacts on reading posts. Three paragraphs shouldn't need truncating! I didn't miss it once when it was gone. I have immediately noticed and been irritated by having to "show more" following it's return.

For embedded quotes it is useful and I actually appreciate it. For original posts I cannot see that it has any place. And as others have pointed out it is actively unhelpful for accessibility.

What is it meant to improve for the user? Fine for quote posts but I realise I've just skipped past posts elsewhere with it. So people should post shorter, less thoughtful posts? Is that what is behind it?

Do you think your post is 'particularly long'? Longer than it needed to be? Full of irrelevant information everyone can just skim past?

Personally, I wanted to read it all and thought it was nicely written without waffle. But it's been hit by the new cut off so clearly it's 'too long' for MN.

How do I find the feature? Intrusive and annoying. And it's making my thumb joint hurt.

Posted also on one of the other We Hate The New Feature threads:

So it's back. It's dreadful. Especially on FWR, we have very long posts, and I would hazard a guess that most of us read ALL of it. This is important information for women to be aware of their rights, and the news about efforts to curtail those rights. It now means that posters need to make their entire argument in the first two paragraphs or so. Otherwise, I fear we will miss a lot of information, and posters will miss out a lot of readers. If I were a conspiracist, I might think this was deliberately censoring women's words.
But, I'm not. I understand it's a feature, but, as someone rightly said previously, we aren't scrolling aimlessly because we are bored. We are reading. Please give us the option to disable this feature.

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It's rubbish. Make it stop. If someone has taken the trouble to write a post I want to have the option to read it without any clicky clicky games.

It is disrespectful to posters.

Joining in to say I hate it too. Slightly arthritic fingers means the constant "click here" causes me pain.

Does clicking the see more button count for your click stats for showing advertisers your numbers?

Please get rid of it entirely.

I have no problem reading long threads. I can scan if I don't want to read the whole thing rather than entirely ignoring half of it or having to click on the read more.

Please get rid of it! All the extra clicks are so annoying! I hate it.

It’s awful! Unasked for and user -unfriendly. It’s really clunky to use and makes the page visually clunky and cluttered. Please turn it off.

If you want to make changes to the site maybe the actual users could suggest some.

You know what. I normally try and stick up for MN when changes are made because everyone will get used to it eventually.

But this is pants. I dont want to click another bloody thing. I just want to read.

Are any of the mnhq team actual bona fida mumsnetters? Becausr if you were I'm saying you wouldn't have done this.

Very much feels like the site if being positioned for rage baity arguments and not for discussion or support.
FWR, relationships, Education, style and beauty there are so many great areas of the site with posters giving helpful longer posts.
MN s a great resource because it has great posters.

Surely MNHQ should just want to facilitate and keep those posters. And not engineer self censoring from the current posters and attracting only new users who might be more suited to posting in150 characters?

Jesus I just noticed the new ‘Edit History’ button.
Why?
So a poster makes edits. That’s their call. End of story. What exactly are we trying to catch people out in changing? There’s already a feature to show that they have changed something. I don’t need to be able to compare and contrast what it actually was. As a poster it’s just annoying, the argumentative pedants will love this one. I have no idea who else benefits from it.
Honestly the site is getting more and more user unfriendly and off putting and more facilitative of arguing.

This. All this, all day long. We are not 15 with the attention span of a carrot.

That's always been there?!

Why are MN trying to stop people reading long posts? I can't think of a reason that benefits anyone.

Nope. Dont want it. Its just ruined a thread Im trying to read where the posts are long because theres a lot to say

Bin it!!!!!

Has anyone ever actually asked MumsnetHQ to give us a "see more" button? I hate them wherever I find them - whether on Facebook, X, or now here. I have arthritis in my right hand, so anything which makes me have to click things unnecessarily really isn't welcome. Could this at least be made optional, so that those who don't want it can switch it off?

Agree it’s awful and unnecessary

There's also no consistency. I've just read a thread where an on-point ONE LINE post was greyed out with a 'show more' clicker below, while other posts with PARAGRAPHS of obvious AI crap, all long dashes and bogus makey-up 'history' were let stand in all their inglorious verbiage.

Ah, Im glad you said this because I thought I was going mad because some posts seem quite long and I can read them and others I can hardly see any of it.