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Hands up everyone who wants to try out the BRAND NEW MUMSNET MOBILE SITE

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RowanMumsnet · 20/08/2014 14:42

Hello comrades

As lots of you will know, we've been developing a brand new, souped up version of the Mumsnet mobile site for seven geological eras quite a long time now.

We can now exclusively reveal that the new mobile site is... TOTALLY AND UTTERLY ABOUT TO BE RELEASED, LIKE, ANY TIME NOW.

We've tested it on loads of MNers (Flowers to those who have helped out) but inevitably there will be glitches that only reveal themselves once tens of thousands of you dive in and start using it - so please use this thread to let us know about those (with the usual info about browsers and devices).

And if you like it, please pass along Cake and Wine to ShamTech, BrunoTech, JessicaMumsnet and all the other techs and MHQers who have been working their digits off on this.

The new improved apps are coming, honest... but in the meantime, if the old apps are driving you bonkers, do please take the new mobile site for a test drive.

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nickelbabe · 20/08/2014 20:20

AYC -
"Hang on. I'll play

bike thanks cake

I'm liking that bit. grin

oooh

nifty

like this bit"

now - that is fucking annoying - I actually spent 96p to buy a keyboard for my tablet that meant that I could have all the characters on it, so that I could do and ^ and [ and ] etc by long pressing instead of going into the special symbols keyboard - I did it just* for Mumnset, and you've ruined that - so really, you owe me 96p.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/08/2014 20:20

After every post there is an ellipsis (...) Click that and you have report, PM, reply, bookmark, profile and top.

Scroll to top of the page there is a row of three circles with icons on the right, below that there is a smaller circle with an arrow, click on that and get add post, advanced search, threads I'm on, customise, watch thread, I'm on, I'm watching.

The middle of the three circles with picture of a person, click on that and will turn off bottom bar.

Click customise to choose oldest or newest post at top, number of posts per thread, and highlight op (not currently working)

Below the box you post in there are th ree circles to the left. The first is smilies, the middle is formatting, the right is attach file

JeanSeberg · 20/08/2014 20:20

That went well then MNHQ! Grin

PseudoBadger · 20/08/2014 20:19

I hate it. Sorry.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 20/08/2014 20:18

Sorry, it's awful, please can we have the old fersion back. Hate not being able to read the last few posts in TIO, too much functionality is hidden, the OP and your own posts aren't highlighted, I was perfectly happy with the old version.

nickelbabe · 20/08/2014 20:18

Here: what Ehrlich said:
"It's appalling. The page keeps refreshing interminably for no reason, I can't post from the mobile site at all (just the refresh wheel constantly) but the biggest fail is the lack of clicking straight to the lat posted message from threads I'm on. I hate this. I don't want to have to bookmark every thread nor click add message every time to get to the bottom. Plus I like to see the last couple of messages, often you can see from their tone whether anything interesting had happened or the OP has returned. The way it is now will make me lose interest pdq."

that - i want to see latest posters in threads I'm on, and i also want to be able to click straight onto it.

pinkfizzsparkles · 20/08/2014 20:17

It's dreadful! Keep clicking on ads at the top and how do I flip a thread??!

Romeyroo · 20/08/2014 20:16

On the old mobile site, I could see Threads I am on; that does not seem to be an option here.

nickelbabe · 20/08/2014 20:14

yy - you can't tell which are stickies.

Bannakaffalatta · 20/08/2014 20:14

Oh and can I get rid of the annoying adverts at the top?

SoonToBeSix · 20/08/2014 20:13

Mumsnet please will you respond to this thread . Is it possible to have a choice to switch back to the old format? I am not being fussy the white is painful. Thank you

ErmICantThinkOfAName · 20/08/2014 20:13

No. Nonononono.

PUT IT BACK!!!!!

nickelbabe · 20/08/2014 20:13

I didn't know anything about it - why do you announce things at half past 2 this afternoon and then FORCE it on people????
Hmm

My tablet has frozen, so I can't even carry on complaining - I was trying to tell you that I don't like the weird little "symbols" at the bottom of the screen - a | does not tell me "click here for more options" and a little blue rectangle does not tell me "you can add a file or picture here" - you know what does tell me "you can add a file or picture here"? A frigging picture of a frigging camera, or a picture of a windows folder!!!
something that EVERYONE recognises as "add something here"
god knows why you thought of a | to say "more options" - i went Confused when i saw that bit!

angelopal - i have my own posts highlighted on the new site, but not sure about OPs (they should be but have only been on threads I or MNHQ have started in the 20 minutes since I discovered this travesty)

Bannakaffalatta · 20/08/2014 20:13

Not impressed so far. Can't be bothered to read this thread do this might have been answered but how do I flip a thread? Annoying to have to scroll all the way down on a long one.

Annoying the op not being highlighted as well.

SourSweets · 20/08/2014 20:11

I could get used to it all, apart from when you look on threads "I'm Watching" or "I'm On" you can't see the poster's names and first sentences meaning it's just takes you right back to the beginning, you can't dip back in where you left off.

Munchmallow · 20/08/2014 20:10

I hate it. It won't let me post!

I don't know what the circles are at the top of the page or the coloured blocks at the bottom.

The pages take such a long time to load and if I click on a thread in active convos, it doesn't highlight, so I don't know if I've selected it or not.

Someone said you can customise to highlight the OP's posts, but there isn't a button on my screen, just the empty circles and the blocks...

It just looks as if there's a lot missing ConfusedSad

crispandfruity · 20/08/2014 20:09

Also, it's impossible to report posts. Can't see a report button anywhere (windows phone)

Unless I'm being dim of course ??

Have discovered that if you click on the plain circle down there ?? then you can upload pictures.

Attheendof · 20/08/2014 20:09

I hate this. I don't use the app because I don't like its format. Eyes starting to hurt already from the glare and the flashing advert.
What am I supposed to do now?
Anyone know how to bring up the desktop site?

meglet · 20/08/2014 20:05

I do have form for flouncing off sites that come up with annoying new layouts. I stopped used the met office a couple of months ago.

The old layout was fine. This one takes longer to load and is a total nightmare to read.

avocadoaddict · 20/08/2014 20:05

Any way you can get rid of the stupid blue box at the bottom and irritating ad at the top? There's so little text visible to begin with and this just.makes it worse.

Also, as pp have pointed out, it's incredibly slow and I can't get highlighted op posts even though it's customised to do so.

Aaarrrhhhhh I hate it!!! Sad

SwedishEdith · 20/08/2014 20:04

Why feel sorry for mn? I'm not aware of anyone complaining about the old mobile site.

tobeabat · 20/08/2014 20:04

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

JellyBeansHaveNoAgeLimit · 20/08/2014 20:03

Also didn't appear like my post had worked until i switched to the desktop site!

ClairDeLoon · 20/08/2014 20:03

Hate it. Too white. Too bland. It's reeeaallly slow tooHmm
I like not typing smilies but I hate the rest. Where is flip thread? I don't like how the stickies on threads aren't highlighted. Is there really no way to put it back to normalSad

RedRosie · 20/08/2014 20:01

I'm on a BlackBerry (actually, right now I'm on an iPad because it's unusable on a BlackBerry). Sad

Please change back.