New site design being tested!

ps Mumsnet have now had to add Last 15 minutes!

I noticed today that since the changes Last Day posts have been restricted to 50 topics. Last hour too probably.
I looked in at Mumsnet and they have the same.
Makes it easier for the moderators to keep an eye on what's being posted. Things don't get out of hand.

So theory trumps customer choice. Despite the fact that the vast majority - not just some - really dislike the font, we're stuck with it anyway.
Surely you must see the levels of dissatisfaction expressed over several threads including the blue to black choices because we see these explanations as impositions.
The single overriding complaint is the font but the answer seems to be - tough if you don't like it that's what's happening !!
Appalling customer/user service!

I agree with Wheniwasyourage Kittylester - I also deliberately changed from blue to black and I will think twice before I discuss anything more than what food I feed my cat because I hate the thought of anything I write ending up on Facebook or Twitter, neither of which I want anything to do with. I think that you will find that GN has changed and will be more bland in future. Whether we have the political discussions again is another matter.

I don't mind the font but I think we do need a better layout and more differentiation on the Active, I'm On and Last Hour pages if possible please.

kittylester, if you have a look at the thread (whose title I've forgotten) about threads being put on to the Facebook page, you will see that several of us, me included, have chosen to make our profiles private now. Apologies if you have been posting on that thread - I blame my senior hours moments

Thanks for your replies, Lara.
I didn't realise that forums had to conform to certain accessibility/ readability rules. Another world of regulations.
BTW the font style doesn't bother me.
Tx

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?

I should have added for a day ?

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

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

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

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

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?)

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.

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.

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'.

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

*what the final result will be.

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.

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.

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.)

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.