Gransnet in 2024 - have your say!

No name change. Unnecessary IMO and Nananook is really silly.

Separate Games section. Why not Active Games as well as the current Active?

Kandinsky

Basically -,make GN the same as MN.

It’s not rocket science, is it?

Galaxy

I always feel sorry for the games people when this topic comes up

Why? The Games forum would still be there, just not in Active Topics. The Games people could go straight to the Games forum and play from there, dropping into discussions when they want to.

A search function that works and ideally more like mumsnet

An edit button enabling you to make amendments for up to an hour.

When a poster starts a thread, it would be helpful to see all their posts within that thread highlighted, not just their starting post.

Not to lose what you have typed when going back to another page of the thread to check, for example, a posters name or comment that you wish to comment on.

Bring back competitions and monthly book club.

Nananook.com as a name is awful. Stick with gransnet.

LauraNorderr

Nananook!
Pleeease, you’ve got to be kidding.
Sounds patronising, silly and excludes men.
If that’s what AI is going to be like God help us.

I'm confused🤔

Is there a post by someone called Nananook or am I missing something?

Oh, sorry! It's a suggestion for a name.

Awful!!

Games in a separate section
OP's posts highlighted all the way through a thread
A friendly moderator to delete posts if we decide we shouldn't have posted something personal - no-one seems to be there to listen now. The old moderators used to pop in for ☕ and 🎂 🙂

I know doodle I just worry they feel picked on
Oh and I have just remembered, that feminism topic we asked for a hundred years ago, that definitely wont happen though!

Another one here who would like the games removed to a separate section.

M0nica

If you change the name to 'nananook', you wouldn't be able to see me for dust and small stones.

It smacks of catty old ladies with their knitting, Dame Edna glasses, all sitting saying nasty things about the sil/DiL's while boasting about grand children - shudder -

It does prove that AI is a male orinetated, male controlled tool. This suggestion wuld never have come up if women payed a serious part in AI.

Joking apart, I think that that is a very serious issue.

Otherwise I agree with Blebelle

^It smacks of catty old ladies with their knitting, Dame Edna glasses, all sitting saying nasty things about the sil/DiL's while boasting about grand children - shudder^-

Well, on behalf of all those lovely knitters on Gransnet, I must protest at your post, M0nica.

That really is a rather catty remark and there are far worse remarks made on threads other than the craft ones.

Not like you at all!

Jaxjacky

Edit function please, no to like button or name change.
Granny23 and Wales, Northern Ireland, extended to USA, Australia and so on? Unworkable IMO.

I agree.

There have been plenty of threads on Scottish issues, they are very well represented on Gransnet, far more than other countries of the UK or other countries where Gransnetters live.

Anyone can start a thread on anything if they wish.

- Edit button
- Good search facility
- A ‘See All’ button for the OP’s posts like Mumsnet has, as well as the OP’s posts highlighted in a different colour throughout the thread
- The ability to move to a certain number page of the thread, like Mumsnet has

I have mixed feelings about a like button.

I like the present name.

Love it, Call. Catty old ladies I mean. Gave me a laugh and made me cough up a few Covid germs ! I hadn’t heard the description ‘catty’ for yonks. Nasty old molls our equivalent ?

There's nothing wrong with the name Gransnet.
I do think an Edit facility and a Like button and a 'Care' button would be good.

A ‘care’ button wouldn’t be as bad as a ‘like’ one; but how hard is it just to say you care, and take two minutes to say a few words to someone who needs them? The ‘care’ emoji seems really insincere sometimes, and points out that social media is not the same as ’real life’. If a poster is saying she’s lonely, for instance, a bunch of ‘care’ symbols might rub in the fact that nobody really cared enough to make a suggestion or express sympathy in words.

If we got a ‘like’ button for Christmas I can guarantee that by Easter there will have been numerous threads about cliques, people moaning that they don’t get ‘likes’ so feel ignored, and the number of posts will have shrunk even further.

Well the easiest thing to do, seeing as how we don’t agree on much at all, is to do nothing. Which is probably exactly what will happen. Hope I’m wrong. I don’t really like Mumsnet and find it confusing and hard to negotiate so I wouldn’t be in favour of re-creating that format.

Could you change the name by adding a d to make it Grandsnet that might encourage a few more men to join.

I would like to be able to immediately go to the latest comments on a thread as we do on Mumsnet, rather than the site always taking us back to the beginning.

I was going to suggest that too, kittylester. Grandsnet does sound a bit more inclusive if a new name is necessary.
Reading through the suggestions here there is certainly a consensus for several of the changes so GNHQ could get to work on those for starters.

Musicgirl

I would like to be able to immediately go to the latest comments on a thread as we do on Mumsnet, rather than the site always taking us back to the beginning.

I do that by bookmarking the last post I have read. I use that facility loads.

I agree with Chestnut's suggestions.

Parsley these few things have been suggested time and time again and they don’t even give us a NO they just go completely silent

kittylester

Musicgirl

I would like to be able to immediately go to the latest comments on a thread as we do on Mumsnet, rather than the site always taking us back to the beginning.

I do that by bookmarking the last post I have read. I use that facility loads.

So do I now I've discovered how it works. It's very useful.

I know that the fact it's called a 'bookmark' should be self explanatory, but it isn't that obvious. Perhaps a note at the head of each forum explaining its use would be helpful.

BlueBelle

Parsley these few things have been suggested time and time again and they don’t even give us a NO they just go completely silent

I know but hope springs eternal.