New site design being tested!

I use a tablet and try to keep my Gransnet on the 'desktop' style. Please leave me that option! I think that would be a deal breaker for me. If I don't feel comfortable with the look of it I won't want to visit.

Definitely not though on Desktop.

Italics seem fine on mobile site.
italics

Mumsnet is so much more restful to look at. This is making my eyes ache.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I liked things the way they were.

I'm afraid I'm finding it hard to read. Admittedly I would use a blue type against a white background (Guest posts are much easier) so the letters stay still which is probably not a problem many have. I don't know what has changed type-wise but it is more difficult for me.

Do we still have PMs - I can't see them?

So ^ italics^ not working * is bold* or underline

My fonts the same as before, just normal I don't know what youre all on about and the same size ?????? Obviously I can make it bigger or smaller myself but it s coming up usual size ?
Not sure aboutitalics

Could we have maybe have a logo with a gran swinging on a rope swing over a river or bungee jumping

Whats happened!!!!!!!!!!

... and I hate those miserable small colourless emojis. Just because we are ancient it doesn't mean our emotions are shrunken and colourless.

Don't like it, don't want it, prefer what I knew - apart from the soviet-style logo, which isn't that different. Who is in charge of product development? Have they been given a clear directive to update without alienating current users? If so I think they've failed their remit or been misled. Sorry GN but I'm sure you could have done better.

You see, the word 'italics' in the post above should have been in italics - and it isn't.

I have zipped in and out of the site a number of times today, since the new layout was launched, but despite becoming more familiar with where all the features are, it has in no way changed my opinion of the site. It is no longer user-friendly and I have twice tried to put text in italics like the word I have typed and it doesn't work.

Probably because the print's bigger!

And why have the emoji come up small???????

I'm sure I didn't keep having to go back to the Active button after I'd read a post - everything seems more difficult now...

I'm not young and I don't mind the serifed font. Don't mind not having it either.

Nellie, ? I agree! Find it patronising!

Perhaps our friends in GNHQ are all too young to remember serifed fonts and think they are lovely.
Time to stop ranting . I will shut up and have a drink.

This is Janet.
This is John.
Hello Janet.
Hello John.

I really don't like the serifed fonts at all. They clutter up my vision with too much information . Please give us a plain font back. this is 'orrible.

It seems I am not the only one.
This is awful to look at! We will probably have to put up with it all weekend. Do something better that that pale blue.

Another forum I am on has a 5 minute edit facility.
Get rid of serifs.

I don't like it I'm afraid. The words are much larger [not sure if that's something I can alter?] and the colour is very wishy washy. The again, it always takes a while to get used to something different on the computer.

or about to wave goodbye

at the train railway station!

I think they re looking if the trains coming