New site design being tested!

It has ALWAYS been the case that anything posted on the forums was visible to anyone who was searching for any of the words or phrases that appeared in the posts, and Gransnet has that in the information and guidelines parts of the site. If you wish to try that out, put your username into Google or some other search engine and see what comes up! Or put some other username if you are ultra cautious.

Gransnet also has a Facebook page (and all the local sites have Facebook pages!) What worries some people is that references to posts have been made on the Facebook site. I think they have explained somewhere, but I've not been looking at everything for the last few days.

I don't think people changed thinking that their posts wouldn't show on social media but that the information given on their profile would no longer be open to the public I have removed all the information from my profile so even if someone looks there should be precious little to see !

As far as blue names go. Many posters were horrified when they realised that GNHQ can/does allow any posts or threads to appear on FB, Twitter and the press. They then opted to have no profile (black names) in an attempt to preserve their anonymity. See the thread
'GNHQ please make it clear that these posts are open to public' (or words to that effect).

AAH gransnet

Festina lente.

When will the site be finished/? Christmas.

In that case may I wish you all a well deserved rest with a bonus in the bank.

Mums net aint poor

Oriel Yes! I've also found that, when you click the Show More, it doesn't just continue from where you got to, it has all the threads and you have to hunt to find what had been the last thread before clicking on Show More. IYSWIM

OK Ana if you don't use it obviously you haven't come across the problem before.

To those that do use the 'Last Day' feature to view posts - have you had a similar experience to me and do you find it less than user friendly?

Sorry, no "back to top" on my PC. I have scrolled up and down to no avail.

Right, I understand you now, Oriel but as I never click on 'Last Day' it isn't a probem for me.

Ana Re: hidden posts.

I'll have another try...

What I meant is that I always click on 'Last Day' and this then displays around 50 posts. In order to view all the posts from the last day I have to go down to the bottom of the page and click on 'show more' this then displays around 100 posts, including those shown in the first batch of 50.

I've called them hidden, meaning that they don't come up without accessing the 'show more' level and they disappear again once you click out of the post.

My problem is that if I read a post then click back onto the list it only displays the 50, not the 100 which is what I have been reading from.

Anyone else had this problem?

It's actually 'last hour'. I notice on 'active' there are still blue names, maybe none of those posters feature in 'last hour'?

It used to be the case that some mebers' names were blue, at was a link to their details; has that gone now? I just looked at 'active' (I think!) and there were no blue names...

I have Back to Top on mobile but not desktop. Wonder why?

Nor on my iPad. Fraid it's a case of manual scrolling.

No Back To Top under message box on my desktop!

Charley, 'back to top' is just under the message box.

I am definitely a happy bunny now that the layout is less squashed, the font is larger and italics are working.

I am possibly missing something but would it be possible to have a "back to top" icon?

I don't understand any of that 'hidden posts' stuff!

Ah, it has displayed the bold now.

With regard to the hidden posts... its 50% of them being hidden. Can this be resolved please?

I find that not all the posts are displayed. If you click on 'show more' they do come up but disappear again once you've read a subject and returned to the list of posts. Surely, all the posts should be displayed? How do you choose which to display and which not? It seems to me that those 'hidden' have up to date posts so I can't see why people wouldn't want them displayed with the rest.

Also, when adding bold to my posts it doesn't appear on my pink display so I'm not sure if it works or not.

test.... this is in bold does it display?

None of the posts were shaded before on my pc apart from GNHQ's.

The OP's subsequent posts were never shaded on my PC.

Formerly the OP was shaded plus all their later posts so it was easy to follow how they responded to advice etc.Now only the OP is shaded. Why?

I'm in the pink! Very happy to see my posts highlighted as it makes it much easier to find where I'd got to. Glad to have the italics back too Thanks GN

And the italics function is finally fixed!! Thank you!!
Yipee!