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CariGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 03-Jun-15 17:23:03

As so many people now access the site on a phone or tablet, and to keep up with the modern world grin we're making Gransnet all lovely and mobile friendly. It will mean a few tweaks, as you can imagine, but we hope to bring you a test version very soon so that you can tell us what you like, what you like a bit less, and what you love (of course) - and this will all help us make the end version as fantastic as possible.

Now as part of this we're looking to streamline our forum topics a little - mainly to avoid people having to scroll for several days to find what they want grin

We are NOT getting rid of anything (and we are not getting rid of any threads!) but we are looking at merging a few topics and amalgamating a few that get less traffic into other areas. All to make it easier for use of course - but if you have strong feelings about anything now's the time to let us know.

Here's the new list as it stands.

AIBU
Arts & crafts
Ask a gran
Blogs
Books/book club
Care & carers
Charities
Chat
Competitions
Culture/Arts
Dieting & exercise
Discount codes/offers
Education
Everyday ageism
Food
Gardening
Genealogy/memories
Grandads' shed
Grandparenting
Health
House & home
Legal & money
Local chat
Media/research requests
Meet ups/where are you
News & politics
Other subjects
Pedants' corner
Pets
Pictures
Product tests/surveys
Relationships
Religion/spirituality
Science/nature/environment
Site stuff
Sport
Sponsored discussions
Style & beauty
Technology
Travel
TV, radio, film
Webchats
Work/volunteering
Writers' room

Now over to you!

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Lona Fri 12-Jun-15 13:18:17

Nope! Nothing Nada! Nowt under my three circles! #it'salwaysme! confused

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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 12-Jun-15 12:46:03

glassortwo We're all getting used to it too so not dense in the slightest! Actually really grateful for the questions because it's forcing us to look at it more closely. Thanks Newist - we're getting there but grateful for your patience while we get it all sorted.
Lona - if you look directly under those three bigger circles, there should be a littler one (under the line)?

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glassortwo Fri 12-Jun-15 12:39:58

lona the small rectangle ( or at least thats what it looks like without my glasses) under the three things (very technical, I know grin ) click on that and its bottom right.

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Lona Fri 12-Jun-15 12:21:32

Well, I can't find any little pink arrows or anywhere to customise my threads! Across from 'active' there are three pink circles, the middle one has a figure. The right has a drop down menu but no 'customise'. Is it me or my Hudl?

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glassortwo Fri 12-Jun-15 12:13:03

Thanks lara got it, Im not usually that dense wink

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newist Fri 12-Jun-15 11:14:43

Thanks Lara for taking the time to get back flowers

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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 12-Jun-15 10:32:47

Thanks Newist
We're looking into that now and we'll get it working as soon as we can. This is a beta site so really useful to have this immediate feedback so we can iron out the niggles. If you're desperate for the 'I'm on' etc for now, you can always switch back to the Desktop site for now?

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newist Fri 12-Jun-15 10:27:46

Sorry to nag but....when I press on, you're on it, still says, I haven't posted anything ,yet sad

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newist Fri 12-Jun-15 10:19:43

I have just taken that photo, on a different setting. It would seem that all the photos I have in my gallery won't send, only new ones I take from here on in

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newist Fri 12-Jun-15 10:16:24
User post image

Try again

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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 12-Jun-15 10:01:50

Hmm...that sounds like a bug we can sort out. What phone/device are you on?

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jinglbellsfrocks Fri 12-Jun-15 09:53:10

It looks like a mobile phone. smile

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jinglbellsfrocks Fri 12-Jun-15 09:50:44

Oh yes. To be pedantic, it's actually a little rectangle and it says E605 on it in tiny letters. (got my magnifying glass out)

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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 12-Jun-15 09:39:47

Hi glassortwo
If you go to Forums Active and then click on the little pink arrow on the right hand side of the screen (across from Forums>Active) it should bring up a dropdown menu. Click on Customise and it will give you the option to view your newest messages at top or bottom.

Newist and others, re the photos, can only assume they're too large - but will raise this with tech too just in case its something else. And by too large, this is the resolution so even if the actual photo is cut down (e.g. only showing your cat's ear!) the file size still might be too big.

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jinglbellsfrocks Fri 12-Jun-15 09:24:11

That's odd Glass. My mobile site shows newest posts first, just like I have the desktop set for. confused

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glassortwo Fri 12-Jun-15 08:45:57

I usually have Gn set to show new posts first, the new seems to be old to new, can you change this or not, i hate having to scroll through if I haven't remembered to bookmark ... sorry if its been posted earlier.

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newist Thu 11-Jun-15 23:20:57

My phone tells me I am trying to post a file that Gransnet will not accept. Its just a photo in my phone, so what kind of file will be accepted?

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newist Thu 11-Jun-15 23:09:58

I have made my photo so small, it only has my cats ear on it, and it still wont load sad

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jinglbellsfrocks Thu 11-Jun-15 22:48:20

Ana - it's more fun than politics. grin

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jinglbellsfrocks Thu 11-Jun-15 22:46:38

Do you mean it buffers for that length of time? I think that means you still need to make it smaller. I think if it hasn't gone through in about 3 minutes it's not going to.

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newist Thu 11-Jun-15 22:16:49

Mines an android, any suggestions?

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Maggiemaybe Thu 11-Jun-15 22:15:05

By okay, I mean I uploaded a photo in seconds.

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Maggiemaybe Thu 11-Jun-15 22:14:11

Does it depend on which iPad or phone thingy you use? Seems to upload okay from my Kindle Fire.

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newist Thu 11-Jun-15 21:53:13

I have given up after 1hr and 52 min sad

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Ana Thu 11-Jun-15 21:37:32

Is it worth it if it's taking people hours and hours to upload a photo...? hmm

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