Testing Testing - Ok so now here's our new look (but you don't have to have it, do you hear?)

[JustinExcelsisMumsnet]

This is a sneak preview of our redesign - it's planned across the whole site but we thought we'd give you a preview of Talk so you could give us your thoughts. ETA is early in the new year (God willing).

Two things we should make clear:

First Customise talk and Mn Classic WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE so don't panic if you really hate it!

Second it's not finished yet so not everything works perfectly - it's a test site.

You might wonder why we are bothering with a redesign by the way. We have had quite a lot of feedback that newcomers find the site a little hard to find their way round at first so we are trying to simplify it. We haven't changed much overall in nine years but we've added quite a few bits and bobs on, and to newbies it can be quite daunting we think.

And one more thing - we've found in the past (and we know ourselves) that change can be disorienting but do give it a go for a wee while before you trash it completely, please? .

There's no link to it yet - YetMoreTech will post it in a minute - he wants to add more caveats before he posts it up!

Hope you like it (or at least don't loathe it) - let us know your thoughts.

(Please address all complaints to [email protected])

Oh and can we get rid of the arrows. I can't see what purpose they have?

arrows?

am i truly stupid - where can i see what it looks like - ??? where is it? omg now i am really worried about my brain

the test site is here OverTheMill

MamaG, chat is here
(they're hidden it in a cunning ploy to make us venture out into the real world

Fine by me

Hmm not overly keen on it. As others have said, it just looks like every other forum now.

Like it very much.

MN classic for me.

Don't like the new fandangled layout.

I have the many hides too.

I am an MN muted myself, but with the threads unflipped As They Should Be, and none of this sticky nonsense

I like it.. don't suppose there is any chance of having a little button to choose a prefernce of background colour and text colour.. as it makes it loads easier for me and other dyslexics to read

Love it.

BellsCarolsNSleighs, as one step short of a button to allow you to choose your own colours, what background and text colour would you choose if you did have the choice?

cream backgrounds and darker blue texts work great for me... purples work well too for others.. I think that the BDA site has something like this..
it basically stops the text jumping about so much

Attention blue bar haters...

Could you have a quick look now? Go to a thread - the blue bar introducing each post has gone, having been replaced by just a subtle grey background. Any good?

Yes! Much better!

ive got a massive space between the heading and the posts, anyone else?

Are you on Internet explorer lissie? If so, it's being fixed on Monday.

YMT - I hope you're getting a good lot of time off over Christmas after all this weekend duty.

Have you had a chance to do your Christmas shopping yet?

oooh its very neat

but can you remember the HooHar over the last change MN did??!!

but i LIKE it

Just to clarify...will hide topics/threads still be an option and can i still read threads from bottom to top all in one page?

is it diff on firefox then?

Yes, Firefox & Google Chrome have no gap.
(But they also don't have the 'last post' bit on the right until they are past the ads, so it's not entirely bug-free)

RustyBear, time off? haha

"will hide topics/threads still be an option and can i still read threads from bottom to top all in one page?"

Yes.

Subtle grey background much much better IMO!

thumbs up for the subtle backround here too.

New bar background much better.

Tech has anyone report the 'By' bit in the post bars is in a line of it's own making the bar artifically tall.