Hi there Spoonyforker - I don't think you are over thinking it at all. We would not directly accept ads of this nature from any of our advertisers; however we do run advertising from third-party ad network partners and annoyingly we do tend to get a small minority of unwanted ads appearing across our site.

I have blocked this particular advertiser and also activated an additional filter, so hopefully this will stop these insensitive ads from appearing across our site.

Thanks for reporting and sorry for any distress caused.

Hello, we haven't been fiddling with the font today promise! We made some changes the week before last to darken the font and make it heavier to reduce feelings of glare and we're adding the adverts inline to test out that approach.

If possible, could you screenshot what you're seeing?

Thank you

Hi Romeyroo, sorry you're struggling. Have you got an ad blocker of some kind?

[quote TeenyfTroon]? 'And it's getting better...' ?

Biscuit related problems we're on it now, we just wanted to wait until the webchat was over before fiddling...

Hello, thank you all for pointing out changing colour for read threads, we'll take a gander at that one.

Thanks *TheRealMrsSmith, we shall investigate...

Interesting feedback thank you ItsAllGoingToBeFine, shall pop it as a thought alongside other design discussions occurring

Hello Poltergoose please go to 'customise' and turn on 'Show thread options'.

Hello all,

Tech have just released some updates to the mobile site so you may have noticed a momentary impact, including a bookmark wobble. Tech have sorted that now.

A note on some of the things we've introduced:

A link to unanswered threads under the chevron menu as requested.

Within the customise options, an option to hide social media and to 'show thread options'.

If you choose to show thread options you'll be able to watch and hide a thread directly at the topic/Active level via an ellipsis menu.

We'll be updating the Beginner's guide to reflect the new additions asap.

Germgirl and ItsNotEasyBeingGreen, thank you for the update we still haven't tracked down the strange icons mystery but have found reference to it sometimes happening when some iPhone users have downloaded certain emoji apps or keyboards. ItsNotEasyBeingGreen if you don't have any keyboards installed do you have any emoji apps at all?

Oh how very odd Lumineer thank you for screengrabbing that one, we'll take a look.

Hi crabb, thank you that's very useful to know. We've been turning phones this way and that during testing but we'll keep trying

Note about colours, we'll have a think about how to make highlighting less subtle and perhaps with a bit more colour.

We agree Mumsnet is a special site! and send HUGE thank yous to all mumsnetters who have been so responsive and willing to help us get mobile talk right.

How very strange... Thank you for the update we'll keep an eye out for future oddities.

Just to reiterate to others who have mentioned it, we are working to remove the adverts outside our control from sensitive topics asap. We're very keen not to cause upset and are working as fast as possible.

If you do have any other thoughts on the adverts fixed at the top or inline, please do let us know on the Mobile site adverts thread

Hello, hmm nothing we've released today should have impacted the chevron menu but we'll take another look tomorrow to try to work out what's happening. Thank you for letting us know

@GiveMeCheesecake

I have it set to hide the shortcut bar, but it keeps coming up everytime I log in and I have to click to hide it again. I haven't changed any settings on my phone so not sure why it's suddenly forgetting to hide it. First time I've had this problem since the new mobile site and I've had it set to hide pretty much since then!

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Hi there GiveMeCheesecake thank you for letting us know we'll see if we can get that to happen for us and find a fix

Another poster encountered that previously but we're not quite sure what caused that and are finding it hard to replicate. Do you have any custom keyboards added to your iPhone? Thanks

Hello smilingthroughgrittedteeth We saw your post earlier and have been working since to remove the ads we can't control from sensitive topics asap. That should be released tomorrow. We're sorry you've been upset by an advert tonight.

Hello nickelbabe, That shouldn't happen quite like that, can you let us know if you were using your back button or the navigation links?

Thanks.

You're welcome of course, we'll be testing this approach for the next little while so if you do have other feedback please mosey on over here and let us know.

Unfortunately we can't blanket prevent moving adverts so we're hoping be able to scroll past them will at least limit their impact.

Hello Lweji, we're trying to get hold of a similar device to test your issue on. Thank you for your update

We've also put together answers to your mobile related FAQs over here and we'll be added to that as new things get introduced.

Hello all,

We're testing a new approach to adverts, please pop over to this thread to give your thoughts.

(This is copied from RebeccaMumsnet's opening post on that thread)

There’s been a bit of negative feedback about the fixed ad at the top of the site so we’d like to test a new approach this week - no fixed at at the top but a returning in-text ad (every 6 posts) as you scroll down the page (something we’ve seen on other sites like the Guardian)

Hopefully this will also be a preferable solution for those who’ve felt the pages are too uniform or too white. As ever, please let us know what you think.

Mobile site adverts thread

It's not jsut you JenniMoo we're working on introducing some of those options, we're just trying to take it carefully to ensure it doesn't interfere with other changes.