Gransnet in 2024 - have your say!

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.

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

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

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).

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 agreeing with all the above suggestions that have been suggested

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.

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

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 🙂

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.

Bookmark facility as on Mumsnet

chelseababy

Bookmark facility as on Mumsnet

There is a bookmark facility already as pointed out in earlier posts on this thread.

A large header advising that posters read the whole thread before posting would be useful.

Callistemon21

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.

I think one reason people ask for a Scottish category is that Scotland has a different legal system, school system, house-buying procedures, and so on from that in England and Wales (I don't know about Ireland) Posts about these things often give advice which doesn't apply to Scottish members.

This site is based in the Uk and has a majority of UK members, so those from other countries and continents wouldn't expect advice on legalities etc to be relevant to them.

Like/dislike button.
Not losing message when referring to previous pages.
Namechange that doesn’t sound ageist…🤔

Classics could be better used, but it is for threads that people want to go back to because they have useful information, or because they were particularly entertaining.

I've often wondered what "Classics" was. Obviously not about Latin and Greek, but what then? And if it is intended as described., how do you know when you start the thread that it is going to become a classic?

Here's one that might be easier to implement as it just involves inserting a text: could you put a text at the top when someone goes to "Start a Discussion" reminding them which forum they are in?

Some threads land in the oddest of places, probably because the writer didn't realise that they were in another forum, or are new and weren't aware that there was such a thing as a forum.. If the search function doesn't work, it would certainly help to find things if they are at least under the right heading.

I hadnt noticed there is a Classics topic!

Why on earth would you have a Scottish category? I could, however, understand Irish, being a separate country. I like that it is mainly women, nothing wrong with that and I also like that it is mainly grandparents.

I thought the wholel point of Gransnet was for Grandparents, Just keep the site for Grandparents.

Kandinsky

Basically -,make GN the same as MN.

no, no, no.
i find MN difficult to use now, and so look at it less often.
i like the simpler layout and navigation on GN.
on MN i have to keep going into settings to change the size of the print, in order to turn the page.
most annoying.
the next page number and arrow disappears under adverts.
and then i have to reverse it all to make it big enough to read easily.
and so on.
so i give up with MN.

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.

it doesn't take you back to the beginning if you use the bookmarks.
and you can always pick 'last' from the page options now on GN.
this seems to have disappeared on MN, which i find annoying.

how do you know when you start the thread that it is going to become a classic?

You don't . Much depends on how they develop. I think someone has to ask for a thread to be moved if they want to keep it, and the mods decide if it is suitable, but I'm not sure. Usually they are full of links that people might want to keep, or have a lot of posts from someone no longer with us - that sort of thing.

JudyBloom

I thought the wholel point of Gransnet was for Grandparents, Just keep the site for Grandparents.

on the title page it says, or used to, (i never see it now, going straight to the active list),
aimed at the over 50s.
that seems fair enough and perfectly clear.
many regular posters are not GPs; some are not parents, so will never be GPs.
most are probably over 50, and have much to share, and much in common with people who are the age of being GPs.

someone whom i knew, from east africa, used to refer to older people generally as,
the grandees.
i rather liked that.
could we be the website for
the grandees.