hormonesnomore , thanks for your thoughts on this.
You can still use the 'no pages' option - just click 'Show all' at the top of any thread. It'll only come up on threads that are longer than one page. Tech is working on letting you change your preferences this permamently.
As Gransnet is a new community, we thought we'd take out [biscuit] and [bear] since they're so specific to Mumsnet.
At the moment, we've decided not to allow namechanging on Gransnet, because we want people to be able to build up relationships while the community is being established and to avoid confusion.
We'll take everyone's views into account, so if anyone else is really missing [brew], for example, do let us know!