View Profiles?

Hi there mamarclaire, click on a username in any thread to see their profile. Not everyone has created one - you'll only be able to see those that gransnetters have created and made public.
Hope that helps!

lucyjordan, you've got it - blue means they've got a profile you can view, black means they don't.
We don't currently have a way of seeing who's online. We're concentrating on getting everything up and running at the moment, but it's definitely something we'd consider in the future. Anyone else think that'd be useful?

Angelwispa - we don't have a way of doing that at the moment, although again, we'll definitely pass on the request to the powers-that-be. The best solution we can offer at the moment is 'I'm watching' (click watch this thread at the top of the thread and 'I'm on'. Both of those pages will show you when there's a new response.

Wow lots of questions here. I'm so sorry you're having problems with the My Gransnet section of the site. It's most definitely NOT because we presume everyone will be a member of Mumsnet and know how it works - it's probably just because we missed something along the way of creating the site. We really, really want to make Gransnet as easy to use as possible, so any thoughts or suggestions will always be gratefully received - and we'll be looking at everything you've mentioned so far.

So, firstly, heleena's question about smileys - there are instructions to the right of the 'Add your comment here' box that you type your message into (handy in case you forget like me!). You'll also find instructions there on how to make your posts bold or italic and to make your links clickable. If the instructions aren't clear enough, do let us know!

With regards to profiles, we're aware that there's a problem with some people's profiles not being clickable even though they should be. We will be fixing this asap, as we know it's confusing. Please bear with us (I know I seem to say that a lot at the moment!).

lucyjordan, your photos should appear as a dropdown list next to 'Show picture' when you're editing your profile, but 'None' is the automatic choice. Are they not appearing there?

When you say squint (great word!) could you just explain a bit more what the problem is? I'm not sure it's quite 'tech' vocabulary! Could you confirm which page it was on - when you're editing your profile, or when you're viewing it?

As you can see, Tech has lots to be getting on with, but when he's at a loose end, we'll explain some of your other requests and see how feasible they are.

If none of your pictures' names are coming up underneath 'None' in the menu, I think it's a technical glitch - nothing more to be done your end.

I'll ask Tech to take a look now (I am going to be his least favourite person this morning...)

We've got tech working on your page squint - despite the fact that we love the idea - and all your other problems to do with profiles....sorry about this.

Hope you don't need reassuring that it's absolutely nothing to do with whether people have been on Mumsnet before. There are no special categories here. Please bear with us. We hope to have this working with fabulous efficiency very very soon.

Hi, Sorry about this profile problem. We've found the cause of it and we'll put in a fix. It means shutting everything down though, so we'll have to do it overnight. It should be working in the morning. Sorry for the hassle, Tech