New site design being tested!

Oh I see - the one they asked us about the other week. Obviously our answers weren't good enough...

It doesn't matter what we think.

What strapline?

Yesterday they were asking Mumsnetters for opinions on our strap line, Baggs.
They don't ask our opinions on Mumsnet do they?

Baggs - so you think GNHQ have designed this for those of us who are visually impaired?
If so, I withdraw my complaints. Maybe there are more members than I realised with this problem.

When my mum first started having trouble with Macular Degeneration, she said that 'arty farty' colours for backgrounds and print colours made things harder to read. She said black on white was best for her because of maximum contrast.

Which would seem to suggest that the new Gransnet desktop colours have got it right for people who struggle to see things clearly.

Brightness is easy to change on most machines.

Oh, and I'm glad there's no "strap" line.

The new banner is better than the old one, though I didn't dislike the old one.

Blued stuff shows up better.

Sorry that was a bad example - I see there were several duplicate posts but they were from paddyann not greyduster.
Previous examples showed a series of different posts but with the OP's name against each one.

Has anyone else found this strange layout?

sorry, missing apostrophe - "there's"

Yes, please, please let us have an edit button. Many of us have been asking for this repeatedly over the years. I cannot understand your reasoning - yes, OK, it may be that people will delete/edit their posts and subsequent replies won't make sense. But so what? Other sites have this facility and yes, sometimes, posts get deleted. But it's obvious that theres a missing post, and readers just move on! And, come to that, it happens on here if a post is deleted by GNHQ for whatever reason. I have often been left wondering what comments after a deletion are on about! It doesn't particularly interfere with the readability of the thread though.

Many of us gave asked for an edit button. It is perfectly possible as I use mine on Facebook regularly.

Please listen to us HQ. You have gone worryingly quiet. ?

is this why I have had a headache this week? It is very bright and have tried to tone down the brightness but not succeeded.

So GNHQ - please tell us WHY you've changed it?

I HATE THE NEW DESIGN!!!!
As well as being uneasy on the eye every time I hit "active" I get "acronyms". Oh bums and bits!

Following on from yggdrasil s comment on Monday about the 'Active I'm on Watching Unanswered Last hour Last day FAQs Acronyms Advanced Search' buttons, I also find these very hard to see. They seem to merge into the 'Gransnet forums' heading and become invisible. The separate buttons were much easier to find and use.

I just cannot get used to the glare from the whiteness of the background. Haven't mentioned it on my previous posts as I thought I'd get used to it but I haven't, and am still screwing up my eyes trying to read posts

I can't feel comfortable with the new site. The font is one used for theses and long articles and books, so that the eye can follow the printed word for pages and pages. .

Its not necessary here. I preferred the old site
I bit of colour contrast would relieve the boring white- cum - grey.
GN is not so interesting at the moment anyhow, this site could finish it off for me.

I've tried and tried to like the new font - but I'm afraid I don't! It's just not 'goldengirl' friendly and I can't put my finger on why. Words like 'harsh' 'forked' 'rough' come to mind and it's leading to an uncomfortable 'jagged' read.

Thank you shysal.

I've tried all week with the new font and can only compare it with the writings in "Janet & John" books my children had yrs ago,sorry for that GNHQ.

Have just discovered on mobile site that there's an arrow on the right which gives a dropdown menu listing what was on the horizontal bar - last, previous, I'm on, etc and it includes
unwatch this thread .
New site, New language??

Still no 'last' button on some but not all threads on the iPhone cherrytree when it's on mobile site, but the button is present and correct using an iPad which accesses GN via the desktop site. No idea why.

I experimented a bit and noticed I am finding the site much harder to read on the phone, too grey on desktop and even harder on mobile, need my reading glasses now, didn't before. My eyes haven't changed! It's a bit glary on desktop on the iPad.

Oh well. As alima said, new doesn't mean improved for all.

PS because there's no edit button hint hint
I have a last button even if I change to desktop on my iPad Cherry