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fancythat Tue 18-Jul-23 14:08:10

Probably a financial or advertiser reason I suspect.
Though dont really know enough to know for sure.

Dickens Tue 18-Jul-23 13:53:24

Jackiest

Adding an easily accesable hide button to the desktop version can not be a hard thing to do as it is already on the mobile version.

As a desktop user - I agree.

I know it's not difficult to scroll past the Games threads, but it is very irritating and I really don't understand why there cannot be a separate forum for all of them.

I'm sure it's not a hard thing to do, but for some reason GNHQ are reluctant to do it.

joannapiano Tue 18-Jul-23 13:42:34

I fully understand that some people really enjoy the Games. They seem to be popular at night. But… it’s the minority, the same user names occur. Please respond to us GNHQ. I have been a member of GN since the beginning, there were no Games for some years.
Re Competitions, I really enjoyed the books I won! No more, alas.

Theexwife Tue 18-Jul-23 13:18:27

Spinnaker that’s a good idea, has GNHQ ever replied to the request to hide the games thread?

Jackiest Tue 18-Jul-23 13:02:05

Adding an easily accesable hide button to the desktop version can not be a hard thing to do as it is already on the mobile version.

Spinnaker Tue 18-Jul-23 12:03:06

I don't know why GN don't just change the title of the Competitions section to Games. There's never any competitions these days so the space could be filled up with the games threads ? Or is that me being too logical/simplistic ?

ixion Tue 18-Jul-23 11:44:16

spottybook

Please, please Gransnet can we have a separate section for games. So far this morning there are 44 games threads!

I currently have 84 discussions showing in the last 24 hours.
44 'Games'?
Granted, I have hidden a handful permanently as the crop up, but not that many.

fancythat Tue 18-Jul-23 11:23:52

How many years have GNs been asking for this?

spottybook Tue 18-Jul-23 11:21:01

Please, please Gransnet can we have a separate section for games. So far this morning there are 44 games threads!

welbeck Fri 07-Jul-23 13:39:17

sometimes esp at night almost the whole of the active list is taken up with them.
i find it v annoying.
they are a different category, they are not free-ranging discussions like the proper subjects.
many of us are not interested in them.
wouldn't it help to have a separate games only section that did not clog up the active discussions list.
please GN(MN)HQ.
pretty please.

Kandinsky Fri 07-Jul-23 08:16:51

I literally hid 15 games threads yesterday - so annoying.

gangy5 Fri 07-Jul-23 06:51:03

A separate thread wou1d be good. There are plenty of other sites on the web for games so don't understand why they should be on here.

FannyCornforth Fri 07-Jul-23 05:41:55

Yes, I know what you mean

BlueBelle Fri 07-Jul-23 05:33:40

Yes I know you can do that Fanny and have done in the past but it’s time consuming and then they come back I try to ignore but it’s very irritating

FannyCornforth Fri 07-Jul-23 04:41:00

BlueBelle

Definitely doesn’t work on iPad I ve got dozens very annoying I wish they had their own area and didn’t show up in the news feed

I think that if you swap over the the mobile site you can hide them, and then go back to desktop.
I know that others have done that

Floradora9 Thu 06-Jul-23 21:33:29

How I hate them .

Theexwife Thu 06-Jul-23 21:30:43

Hiding only works on mobile site, I use a browser on my Ipad.

ixion Thu 06-Jul-23 21:04:19

You can hide the games on the iPad- I do it all the time, as soon as I see them on Last Day.

BlueBelle Thu 06-Jul-23 20:38:45

Definitely doesn’t work on iPad I ve got dozens very annoying I wish they had their own area and didn’t show up in the news feed

Oldbat1 Thu 06-Jul-23 20:32:50

I hide all the games as soon as a new one is started. (Only works on my iphone not on thr ipad))

Grannybags Thu 06-Jul-23 14:50:24

Wishful thinking I’m afraid. I watch the ‘Active’ threads and there’s 15 on there!

Theexwife Thu 06-Jul-23 12:21:13

There are no games threads on the last hour threads, so much better without not having to scroll past an extra ten threads. I hope they have been put in a separate section but doubt it.