New site design being tested!

Dismayed at the number of regular, intuitive posters who say they have had enough. Can't blame them at all - we have enough to contend with without being treated as mice in a laboratory ...

I like the larger text, and the font is ok by me.

BUT I'm having great difficulty separating the posts which are all run together - and the blue headings are not different enough from the posts.

ALSO everything is floating around and not nicely confined in boxes, so more difficulty in sorting out and finding what I want to click on!

Not run together in the thread, but run together when I arrive at 'I'm on'......

I have just come on this thread in error. I intended to go onto another on my 'I am on' area. It really is too difficult to sort out.

I've noticed quite a few posts lately, appearing on the wrong thread.
No doubt for those reasons.

Why use a serif font? It is always much more difficult to read. Mumsnet has a much clearer sans serif font though for Gransnet it could be a little larger. I use an iPad, no idea if this makes a difference, but would appreciate it if the OP's contributions could be highlighted, (as seems to be the case on this thread but not with non GNHQ threads) ŵwith any contribution to the discussion that I make highlighted in a different colour. This would make the thread much easier to follow. The logo is dire. Very WW2.

I see that one's own posts are highlighted on the GN mobile site, but not the OP's posts.
Both are highlighted on Mumsnet.

Maybe GNHQ techies are beavering away and sorting out all these things, as we moan.

The blue of links shows up better against the white.

like this

Gracesgran I did that too (or it could have been another thread altogether for all I know!).

Why not highlight the thread headings so that they are different to the posters' names?

I'm giving up for the rest of the day - it is too frustrating to navigate. I wonder which Wonderland we will be in when I return.

Well, I have now completely stopped looking at the "Last Hour" list, because it tells me nothing.

Previously I have always glanced at it for a quick glimpse at what the latest posts were saying. The "Active" and "Last Day" lists were never any use, because they only told me that something was going on on those threads, but not what, so I had to open the threads to find out, whereas the "Last Hour" had the first line or so of recent posts visible. Now they are all the same (useless) format.

So now that I only have the threads I am already on, I won't be joining any interesting new discussions. (There may be a collective sigh of relief at that.)

Can I assume that the search box for the SITE and the FORUMS is being reorganised?

There is still a search box which :-
a) has a lot of advertising items at the top of it and
b) seems to search the entire internet, which is not what you want when you just want to find a GN post that you wish to refer back to.

What is needed is a forum search of Gransnet posts, with a choice of range of dates and of whether you are searching for a poster or for a key word or phrase within a post, the results arranged in chronological order with the search-words in bold and a few words either side of them displayed, and a separate general search of the whole of Gransnet, including articles and recipes and so on.

It would have to be designed to choose to search within the site, not just be a copy-and-paste of a generic internet search engine.

It's like living on a building site, with no idea what the final result will , or when, or if actually this is it.
Getting tired of it now.

oops, still can't edit, a well-loved feature still here from the 'old' GN.

*what the final result will be.

Is there something wrong? Have I been banned? Or need to login? (if so , how?)
I've been staying with family since Sunday and came back to an alien layout. The coverage of the range of discussions is so narrow now.

and I was really looking forward to coming back to my old 'friends'.

First time that I've logged on to 'I'm on' on my computer and I know that the last poster is shown especially because I asked for it but I don't like it so please take it away again! It seems to be very random and quite disconcerting as I go down the list of threads to suddenly see a name way out to the right especially as the definition between each thread is unclear.

After reading the last few pages - is anyone pleased with the changes?
And my question from earlier, why change the old format?
I've given up for the moment. And I had a really good new topic following my recent visit to family.

Very sorry that I can't find my dear old desktop version. There doesn't seem to be much activity on GN at the moment. We don't like the new version! (Is anybody listening to us?)

Probably not rubysong.
They most likely hope we'll get used to it and cry ourselves out of our temper like toddlers stop moaning.

They don't know us very well, then FarNorth!

They think we ll all cave in we re just a load of old biddies who like to moan about everything They d get a shock if we all stopped posting

I think that's called cutting off your nose to spite you face!

I should have added for a day ?

Thanks for your informative post Lara.

Can you explain why some people who were blue appear not to be now? Is that their choice or a blip?