Can we highlight all OP's posts please?

I think it could be because GN is a business that relies on advertising revenue, the longer you are trawling through a post the more adverts you will see, if the OPs comments were highlighted you may skip the thread and just read those, shortening the time you are on that thread.

I'm fairly sure that, when I first used GN (about 8 years ago?) all the OP's posts were highlighted like that. Then it just stopped without any explanation.

I began to doubt myself and checked other threads to be sure. I see all of the OP’s posts shaded in green. I’m on a 3 year old iPhone.

Grannynannywanny

I began to doubt myself and checked other threads to be sure. I see all of the OP’s posts shaded in green. I’m on a 3 year old iPhone.

It’s got nothing to do with the phone you’re using.
If you’re on the mobile site the OPs are highlighted.

Thank you, that makes sense about the advertising throughout the thread.

I came over from Mumsnet when I became a grandmother and am so used to all the OP's posts being highlighted on there that I think I have just become a bit lazy as they didn't have that function for the first ten years I was on there and I managed just fine!

I've figured out that if not logged in and on the mobile site, all OP's posts are highlighted. I use Gransnet on both Samsung tablet (desktop view) and phone ( mobile view). Yesterday I logged out on phone, so I could easily see all OP's posts on a thread I was interested in. It doesn't work like that on tablet. Normally I stay permanently logged in.

Strangely, the OP’s post are all highlighted when I use gransnet on my mobile phone.
There are still lots of adverts but their appearance doesn’t make the screen jump about, which used to drive me bananas!

They do it on mumsnet.

I used to have all of the original posters, comments, highlighted, and then one day I switched from mobile site to desktop site on my phone. All of a sudden the future no longer worked.

Quite a few posters asked me if I had been using another website or if I was in fact, having too many glasses of wine lol I’m glad to see other posters have now had that exact same experience, or that they are at least having highlights all the way through a thread.

I'm one of the ones who has campaigned for this feature. It is so annoying to read threads where the OP has offered more information or found a solution to her problem but everyone else just ploughs on replying to the first post regardless.

I have never seen a green OP post further down the thread, neither logged on, logged off, mobile or desk top view. Can someone post a screenshot please?

JackyB

I'm one of the ones who has campaigned for this feature. It is so annoying to read threads where the OP has offered more information or found a solution to her problem but everyone else just ploughs on replying to the first post regardless.

I have never seen a green OP post further down the thread, neither logged on, logged off, mobile or desk top view. Can someone post a screenshot please?

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(The OP wasn’t green on Desktop view,but is green on Mobile view)

Please can anyone tell me how one can switch between the mobile site and the desktop site. My iPad sometimes does it when I am not looking but I can't see a way to do it myself??

On an iPad scroll as far down as you can, it says switch to mobile site, or in the address bar on the browser touch the AA at the beginning, it will bring a drop-down with request mobile site listed.

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Thanks Thex, Now I see!

Just how long has GNHQ been promising to look into this? We’ve been asking for this feature for many years. And yet we’ve never even been given an explanation for the fact that Mumsnet has it and we (well, many of us) haven’t.

It’s not the case that it works for everyone on the mobile site, though it obviously does for some. I’m on a 3 year old iPhone and it doesn’t work for me. Perhaps it would if I logged out, as someone suggested, but what a pain it would be to have to log back in every time I wanted to comment.

I spend more time on MN where this has been done for years.
Might be back here a bit more now as it's become very ageist on there.

RedRidingHood

I spend more time on MN where this has been done for years.
Might be back here a bit more now as it's become very ageist on there.

Hasn’t it just? Absolutely vile comments. MNHQ wouldn’t tolerate any other kind of ‘ism’ so it’s about time they got to grips with it.

Does GN ever answer on any of the threads on the Site Stuff Topic?

I dont read all of the threads. But on the ones I have read, I dont think I have seen any response.
I have been here since the beginning of ths year.

Maggiemaybe

Just how long has GNHQ been promising to look into this? We’ve been asking for this feature for many years. And yet we’ve never even been given an explanation for the fact that Mumsnet has it and we (well, many of us) haven’t.

It’s not the case that it works for everyone on the mobile site, though it obviously does for some. I’m on a 3 year old iPhone and it doesn’t work for me. Perhaps it would if I logged out, as someone suggested, but what a pain it would be to have to log back in every time I wanted to comment.

Maggiemaybe
Do you not have the option to scroll to the very bottom of this page where there is view mobile site
Then reverse that to view desktop site no logging in and out.

Thank you Rachel75 I have just changed to the mobile site and it switched easily.

I am not keen on the layout of the mobile site on my iPad but for some threads it will be helpful to switch over.

I haven't logged on since I joined the site and now I wouldn't know how.
I also saw the OP posts highlighted back then but not recently.
I would appreciate having that back

That would make sense, and something quite simple to execute I would imagine. I would also like the facility to ‘like’ a comment or ‘thumbs up’, as I know has been suggested before. How difficult would that be GNHQ?