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Official Mumsnet mobile thread numéro deux

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RebeccaMumsnet · 21/08/2014 14:18

Hi all,

As you know we have launched the new mobile site, we know it's a big change and we are still very keen to get it right with your help. This is very much a version that will evolve with your help as part of the testing process.

There have been a few glitches that have/are being ironed out and the HUGE thread has nearly maxed out, so we thought it best to start a shiny new one.

We know change is tricky but, as with most things MN, we are all ears and happy to look at any feedback you have on ways we can improve the new site.

Thanks all Thanks

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LittleBearPad · 22/08/2014 14:09

I'm on an iPhone 5s on wifi and posting is fine. It's a bit flaky when I move from wifi to 3/4g but I can live with that

AppleAndMelon · 22/08/2014 14:03

Poor Shamtech Sad. do you think he/she may have missed the lectures on change management?

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RowanMumsnet · 22/08/2014 14:01

@Glastogirl

It's an iPhone 5 :)

Thanks. Anyone else having trouble posting from an iPhone?

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RowanMumsnet · 22/08/2014 14:00

We'll tell Tech that power use is still an issue.

Glastogirl · 22/08/2014 14:00

It's an iPhone 5 :)

Is there a way to pick our own colours and show a whole thread eater than flick through the pages?

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RowanMumsnet · 22/08/2014 13:59

@Glastogirl

App does this and never lets me post!

Looks like you're on an iPhone GlastoGirl - is that right? Can you tell us which phone (iPhone 3/4/4s/5)?

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RowanMumsnet · 22/08/2014 13:57

To start a new thread:

Go into a topic, and select "Add thread" from the sub-menu (NB you must be logged in to see the sub-menu: it's under the downward-pointing chevron under the three main icons in the top right of the page)

Or go into a topic and select "Add thread" from the shortcuts bar at the bottom

Or you can go into a thread and select "Start new thread" from the sub-menu (NB you must be logged in to see the sub-menu: it's under the downward-pointing chevron under the three main icons in the top right of the page)

Glastogirl · 22/08/2014 13:55

App does this and never lets me post!

Official Mumsnet mobile thread numéro deux
LittleBearPad · 22/08/2014 13:54

Maybe your phone likes the blue background Grin

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 22/08/2014 13:53

1046 rather

Still one of Rowan's though

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 22/08/2014 13:51

LittleBearPad

Have you bookmarked the 1034 post?

No Grin

In fact the posts I'm taken up to are inching downwards - most recently it was 1045

My battery is down to 24% now though from 90% at about 9.30am - it usually lasts all day - I think I might have to go back to desktop again for a while

Glastogirl · 22/08/2014 13:48

I cannot post on the app at all. I type something and just get the round dotted circle until the page times out.

So frustrating!

Plus I can't see an option to start a new thread on the mobile app.

The op posts are highlighted so faintly it's near impossible to see - can we have the purple and green back?

Plus can we have a view the whole thread button? I hate having to click through page after page.

KateBeckett · 22/08/2014 13:47

Bookmark now working really well for me. Hurrah!

Portrait/landscape issue exactly he same for me as for Theonewiththenicestsmile

Coumarin · 22/08/2014 13:46

Bear Scrolling 'up' and reading 'down'. No safari buttons anyway. I know what you mean. Smile

I do like the easy smileys now btw MNHQ. If you add an 'edit post' function then that'd ease my woe even more. Wink

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RowanMumsnet · 22/08/2014 13:44

@Coumarin

LittleBear I'm scrolling 'down' (I think...) no safari buttons. I think it's the ad that's the problem but I see this has already been mentioned 100's of times and may change.

Ha Grin Yes, we will probably test the ad in a few positions.

Coumarin · 22/08/2014 13:42

LittleBear I'm scrolling 'down' (I think...) no safari buttons. I think it's the ad that's the problem but I see this has already been mentioned 100's of times and may change.

KnackeredMuchly · 22/08/2014 13:39

Samsung s4 mini Google Chrome browser

Screen rotation not working for me.

I actually hate the fumction, but checked it out to add to glitch list.

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RowanMumsnet · 22/08/2014 13:38

@Sirzy

I am sure it has been asked already but it's hard enough to navigate without trying to got through the whole thread but when I click on the threads from TIO it takes me to the first post, I want to come to the last post not what I had already read

tech are fixing Threads I'm On right now.

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RowanMumsnet · 22/08/2014 13:37

@PinkSquash

You're coming in on Monday? On a Bank holiday? ShockGin for that

Erk. Sorry. Tuesday!

Sirzy · 22/08/2014 13:34

I am sure it has been asked already but it's hard enough to navigate without trying to got through the whole thread but when I click on the threads from TIO it takes me to the first post, I want to come to the last post not what I had already read

Sherborne · 22/08/2014 13:32

(Of course, Ad's have to be here, but surely there is a balance to be struck?)

Sherborne · 22/08/2014 13:32

The question of ads and battery usage is interesting. Looking at the src, they're delivered by google ad's, which in turn are delivering ad's from RadiumOne. Looking at one of the URLs, it has a Lat and Lng, indicating my position (one of the ad's is for a bus company in my area, so they're obviously location targeted advertising, even if just at a course grained level). This in itself would use greater battery than just presenting a standard ad image. Then making it animate would also increase battery usage.

Looking at the page loading in a mobile browser, there were 206 requests to the server. Each one of those is transmitting data from the browser to the site and back again. Each one of those requests consumes battery. Some of those requests are to MN itself, while a good number are directly to tracking and advertising sites.

One of the tenet's of mobile web design is to reduce as far as possible the number of requests back and forth to the server so as to reduce radio usage, processing and thus battery consumption.

Some of those could easily be solved my MN (ie, combining the individual smiley images into a single image, for example), but there are so many scripts loading from other sites that no wander it's going slow. Eg:

rubiconproject.com
google-analytics.com
adnxs.com
cloudfront.com
facebook.com
googlestndication.com
pintrest.com
gwallet.com
voicefive.com
doubleclick.com
... and more...!

and so on.... each of these loading things from the web. Each of these use more battery.

LittleBearPad · 22/08/2014 13:30

Coumarin do you scroll up or down on your iPhone?

If you scroll up then the safari buttons will show up at the bottom and the top bar will show the address making your reading space smaller than if you read down when these disappear/get smaller. Just a thought.

FiveGetIntoTrouble · 22/08/2014 13:27

WRT the landscape / portrait issue, it only happens towards the bottom of a thread. If you're near the start & turn your phone to the side & to again, you return to the same place.
If you are nearer to the end and do the same, you end up nearer to the top of the thread.

Coumarin · 22/08/2014 13:23

Thank you for now communicating. Flowers Realise you were probably climbing the walls yesterday.

I don't think these are 'technical' issues but I'll post 'em now in case I don't come on again.

iPhone 5s
iOS 7.1.2
Safari

The ad is the most annoying thing. I'm very glad I haven't seen the 'German ivf' ad a pp mentioned. I come on here sometimes to take my mind off infertility and treatments etc. I don't want to be seeing that all the time.

It's still like looking through a letterbox. Even without the task bar at the bottom.

Main thing atm is seeing the list of hidden threads on threads I'm on. I don't want to see them. I've hidden them. Where they were last time was perfect as they were still accessible but had to be looked for so you could hide and forget.