The new Talk London

There are too many people living in London.
If more houses are built it will impact emergency services, police. NHS. Cause congestion and pollution and increase the spread of disease.
There must be a way by a points system where people can come to live in London.
In my area Barnet they are building flats everywhere. Money worshipers!
We will soon be like Mexico City and with automation what are we going to do with the 37 million people in 2030 who have no jobs because of automation?
Some automation is fine but if it displaces people and causes problems in communities then serious care should be taken regarding automation and technology.

Why must the intro be shown in full on the 'next' pages? Lots of sites have most of the text hidden and displayable via a read more button. Also there are too few comments per page - again most sites let you choose how many to display. Having to click many many times is off-putting and I tend to give up rather than read other people's comments. I like the pink by the way

I find the website quite complicated, you go for a topic and this goes to another page with other content, with close replies already.
I think this would be better to be much more simple and just make it simple with different spaces:

Voted
To Vote
Request.
In progress
Collaborate

In the voted section, you can see all the things that are being voted, the status of the idea and when this project will start and finish.
To vote is the things that need to be a vote and comment.
Requeest. ideas that individuals want to include and people also can comment and this could go to the status of To vote.
Collaborate section will be an option where people will confirm they want to collaborate as a volunteer, service provider or sponsorship.
In progress. All the request voted and approved and are ready to go and information on how this is going to be done.

It's hard to read the comments. There are only three per page, and then it's necessary to click Next. When the next page is shown, all the introduction is re-displayed, so it's necessary to scroll down to see the next comment.

This is compounded by the fact that when I logged in about 10 or 15 minutes ago, the system was running very, very slowly (it's picked up speed since). I don't know how common this performance problem is.

I love the ease of navigation and clear layout and text.

The password issues below are not a problem for me I like the fact you have a high level of security.

The issue I have is closing down the discussion, what is the point of having a discussion board if the discussions are not active - I understand you have to have a cut-off point due to timelines for policy design and feeding but why not say that any discussion after that date will not be able to pay into the current policy design and would have to be rolled over into the next one unless something shouts out as not being covered before the policy is finalised and printed.

Is it NOT quite obvious that the choice of horrid bright pink is far from an inoffensive, calming, off-putting colour Talk London might have selected. Surely a softer green, blue or different and less in-yer-face earth-red from a spectrum of neutral tones would be more appropriate? The 'hot pink' used by Talk London says to me "Brash, Nasty - and I've got a headache please pass the paracetamols because this Talk London makes me nauseous''.

I agree with the contributor who said that the password is far too complicated for a service like this. If I understand correctly the purpose is to get feedback from citizens, which will normally be published in the public domain. So an ultra secure 12 letter password is way OTT and will discourage contributions.

The new layout is clear, clean and easy to use. Like other users have said, I think it would be good if comments could be sorted by “most upvoted” or “most liked”, notably so that I don’t need to go through the entire thread to find out what ideas I agree with most. This would be useful so I can simply upvote a comment instead of repeating the same ideas.

Furthermore, the number of comments visible per page is too low (I think it’s about 4 at the moment?). It would be great to be able to see 10, 50 or 100 comments at once. Also, maybe the bubbles could be redesigned so that the margins/space around the comment itself is smaller — just to make it more compact and easy to scroll through rapidly.

I really like the new look and I think the timeline is a great idea. Overall the site is much clearer and more accessible. However there are two things I've noticed. As EastLondoner pointed out, there doesn't seem to be any way of sorting comments, they seem to be shown in chronological order. If that is the case, I'm not sure how up-voting will work. The second issue is that the last comment on a page repeats as the first comment on the following page. I don't know if this is deliberate or a glitch. If it is deliberate, I would prefer it removed. It takes up unnecessary space, especially with long comments and makes navigating through them less convenient. It also means that you reread at least the first line or two of those comments that fall at the end of a page and reappear on the next.
I would hope that all members' comments are treated equally, regardless of their age. While I agree that the opinions of young people are important, especially regarding long-term decisions where they should possibly be given higher priority, that shouldn't generally be the case. Such a course of action would present a lot of difficulties. For one thing, there isn't any realistic way of checking a contributer's age and I can foresee situations where people would pretend to be younger than they are if that meant their comment were given greater weight. We are all Londoners, whatever our age, and the issues affecting London affect us all equally (more or less, but I assume people will tend to comment on issues that do affect them and not on those that don't), so our voices should carry equal weight too.

I like the layout. But it would be good to have more sorting options and to make the threads searchable.