Gransnet in 2024 - have your say!

Callistemon21

*Please, please* could you remove the annoying adverts and videos - they are so old and we're bored now!!

The same makeovers, the cakes must be stale by now, we are fed up seeing the swimming picture on the home page. Time for something Christmassy, not a summery photo.

Please update the site.

We are feeling neglected, forgotten, like second-class citizens.

Thank you 🙂

This is how I feel too. I hope this thread will lead to some changes for the better.

Please, please could you remove the annoying adverts and videos - they are so old and we're bored now!!

The same makeovers, the cakes must be stale by now, we are fed up seeing the swimming picture on the home page. Time for something Christmassy, not a summery photo.

Please update the site.

We are feeling neglected, forgotten, like second-class citizens.

Thank you 🙂

Thanks Calendargirl and Casdon, it rather sounds as though amalgamating with Mumsnet would change the dynamics then. Not for the better either.

Joseann

shandi6570

I’m surprised that no one else has said what I’ve been thinking since this thread appeared and that is that this is a forerunner to us being amalgamated into Mumsnet, as their facilities are ‘what we have been requesting’.

Be careful what you wish for.

Setting the superior tools of the Mumsnet website aside, what would be the advantages or drawbacks to us GNetters in terms of being part of the discussions if we joined Mumsnet? I don't use Mumsnet, so I am interested to hear how we would fit in.
Would their name also need a change to something like Mumsnet and have beens?

I find Mumsnet impersonal, it’s okay if you want to see a hundred different opinions about something, but it doesn’t have any cohesion, which means there’s less meaningful debate about topics, and it’s a lot more shouty than Gransnet. It’s also much more difficult to get to know peoples perspectives on issues, and the ability to name change between posts seems very odd.

I’m agreeing with all the above suggestions that have been suggested

Dear God I love MN/GN 's approach to womens spaces online I sometimes think Justine should be made Queen.
I will stop crawling now

I’m also on Mumsnet, but don’t look at it very often as I just don’t like it.

I’m afraid I feel ‘too old’ when I see some of the comments (and language).

I’ve just started using the bookmark tool. Thank you for mentioning this.

shandi6570

I’m surprised that no one else has said what I’ve been thinking since this thread appeared and that is that this is a forerunner to us being amalgamated into Mumsnet, as their facilities are ‘what we have been requesting’.

Be careful what you wish for.

Setting the superior tools of the Mumsnet website aside, what would be the advantages or drawbacks to us GNetters in terms of being part of the discussions if we joined Mumsnet? I don't use Mumsnet, so I am interested to hear how we would fit in.
Would their name also need a change to something like Mumsnet and have beens?

Automatic opening at last post on a thread. Mumsnet do this - it is very useful.

I’m surprised that no one else has said what I’ve been thinking since this thread appeared and that is that this is a forerunner to us being amalgamated into Mumsnet, as their facilities are ‘what we have been requesting’.

Be careful what you wish for.

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.

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.

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 agree with Chestnut's suggestions.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

- 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.