New site design being tested!

So, GNHQ what's the timeframe for all this being resolved?

Mobile site on iPhone. No 'last' button on this thread ot the kitchen. Is there a way to get to the end without scrolling page by page? More than tedious. Desktop has 'last' button for both on iPad. There's a major lack of consistency.

I have just gone to the I'm On listing, as usual. It is very difficult to navigate now. The thread headings are blue, so are the names of the contributors, and there are no spaces between any lines. Please put it back the way it was. And then maybe get a different designer to try again.

Why doesn't tech do all the alterations on copies of the files and try everything out offline before swapping in the updated files for the old ones? It isn't necessary to do the experimentation on the files that are in actual use on the site.

If that is impossible, why not take the whole site offline for a day or two and sort everything out in one go?

I don't understand why it's all (whatever it is) taking so long.

Building a website from scratch can take a while but this is just tweaking the old one.

And not in a good way.

To be fair, tweaking can show up a lot of inefficiencies to be altered. My beef is that it CAN all be done behind the scenes so that the site users only meet the new version when it is up and running properly. You don't log into a banking site, or a major comercial site to find it all over the place. Gransnet/Mumsnet is a major professional social networking site, so why is it being tinkered with like a tuppenny-ha'penny amateur blog?

Oh what has happened now? Clicking on 'last hour' shows everything blue. It is not an improvement. I can't be bothered with it any more.

I completely agree, elegran, it is just ridiculous that these changes are being implemented to the active web site.

'last hour' would benefit (as it did previously) from displaying the last few comments, in the same was as 'I'm On' does.

On my 'watched' list there is a box which can be ticked in the left margin part way down, opposite to the details of last post in the right. What is that all about? It doesn't seem to change anything if checked.
Also, what does 'Replieslatest by' mean at the top right?

Forget my second question, I now realize that it refers to the things in the right margin.

I DO NOT LIKE IT

Well said, Galen, but I do wonder whether anyone at GN Central is actually listening...

No access to Last Hour on my desktop now!

Earth calling GNHQ!!

'last hour' not working now fgs!

Back in the desktop site and suddenly cannot access anything via the last hour button. Thoroughly fed up now. PLEASE GNHQ tell us what is happening. Almost out of patience.

+laragransnet* are you still VERY excited....

I don't have to scroll through pages of posts on long threads as I bookmark the last post I read and I also have selected 1000 posts per page.

Can't get to grips with all these changes. Someone pour me a

Threads are harder to define in this format ?

Looking at the list of threads on "I'm On" is really tedious because of the way it's all run together. (Desktop site)
"Active" seems to be okay.

Is 'tedious' really the look you were going for?

Ive also selected 1000 posts per page - not working on the phone. I obviously need to remember to bookmark, but right now there's too much going on in my life for he need to surface. Maybe I'll stick to RL for a bit.