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MN purple pop-up box - yes or no? Survey!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/03/2015 13:13

I thought it might be interesting to see how many people like the purple pop-up info boxes.

Survey here

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venusandmars · 20/03/2015 22:36

Well, it seems to have been changed now..... on my phone it appears in a slightly paler colour in the middle of the thread. Any only ONCE. Thank goodness. Thanks MNHQ if you have changed it.

GladysTheGolem · 20/03/2015 21:07

Feck off p(OP)up.

Big no here.
But I hate the new mobile site so just bah mumbug in general.

toothlessoldhag · 20/03/2015 21:01

Ugh. ON YOUR survey.

toothlessoldhag · 20/03/2015 21:01

Another resounding no here and ob our survey.

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/03/2015 22:08

FishWith - that would seem to be the best compromise - allowing us to,opt out of the 'sliders'. Then the silent few people who like them and find them useful, can keep them, and the insignificant 98% can lose them forthwith!

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FishWithABicycle · 17/03/2015 21:34

Having stickies at top of thread lists is something you can opt-out from in settings, surely it must be possible to opt out of these sliders too.

I hate them.

Jjcrackers · 17/03/2015 21:25

Pita. Disruptive. Annoying

CrabbyTheCrabster · 17/03/2015 21:09

No! It's incredibly fucking annoying!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/03/2015 20:29

Olivia - will MNHQ be taking the results of the survey into account?

I know it is a very small sample, but the overwhelming result seems to be that no-one wants them - there was not one single vote to keep them. There were a very small number of people who neither love nor hate them, and 98% of respondents wanted them gone - that's not a number you can ignore completely, surely?

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SpottedTent · 17/03/2015 19:54

Didn't realise there was a cut off. I'm a no too. They cover up my short cut buttons and annoy me massively.

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TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 17/03/2015 19:48

Hiya SDTG,
?
?Huge thanks for taking the time to do this.
?WE do completely get that they can irk, but we also know that they are helpful for folk who have hidden topics etc to find out about impt things that are going on.
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?Am speaking without the authority of ALL the Powers That Be, but not sure that we'll be doing any surveys until after the tinkering about (technical termGrin) that Justine has referred to here
?HTH

??Best
?Olivia
?MNHQ
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venusandmars · 17/03/2015 19:26

Hate, hate, hate it. On pc I can ignore it but on phone it pops up in an obtrusive way every few seconds. No I don't want to put a question to Nick Clegg. NO I REALLY don't want to put a question to Nick Clegg. And on and on until I actually start to hate Nick Clegg just for appearing on the question.

MrsSlocombesPussy · 17/03/2015 18:47

Too late to join the survey, but you can count me as a No. Really annoying, especially on my iPad

whiskeytangofoxtrot · 17/03/2015 18:37

Cant see the fuss myself.

MN purple pop-up box - yes or no? Survey!
Alibabsandthe40Musketeers · 17/03/2015 18:30

MNHQ people were annoyed about missing web chats because they were often not even on a sticky, the thread announcing them would go sliding down Active Convos - plus the stickies are the same colour as other threads. If you made the web chat thread purple, like the banner thing is, and stuck it at the top of Active convos then everyone would see it but it wouldn't get in the way.

The slider doesn't remember when you've clicked the box, or remember across devices - so my laptop/ipad/PC all need me to press each one. Please get rid.

BerylStreep · 17/03/2015 18:24

Have voted no too.

emwithme · 17/03/2015 18:18

I voted no. It pisses me off. Like some others have said, I go through recent threads, open up whichever ones I want to read and then (even though I've closed the purple box on the first screen) I have to close it again on "n" other screens*

*right now I have 42 tabs open of threads I want to look at.

SwedishEdith · 17/03/2015 17:54

Agree about how irritating it is and, no, I never read what it says either. Just look for the x to get rid.

BlackNoSugar · 17/03/2015 17:47

On my tablet they take up half the screen but annoyingly I can't slide the screen far enough to the left to find the [X] to close the box. On my phone I can't even read the text in the box, but I can at least close it.

I don't think I've ever read what's in the box.

RedCrayons · 17/03/2015 17:38

It would t be so bad if it wasn't so bloody big and didn't keep popping up every 2 seconds exaggerate much

It's a no from me.

Thetruthshallmakeyefret · 17/03/2015 17:34

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DishwasherDogs · 17/03/2015 17:33

I voted no.
I don't even look at the box, just click to get rid of it.
I like the idea of different coloured stickies, that would be more eye catching and not as irritating as the slidey box.

Isthiscorrect · 17/03/2015 17:30

I don't mind being I formed but when I close th box, IMHO that should be the end of it. Currently it appears so often it's verging on harassment!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/03/2015 17:28

And interestingly, no-one has come back to this thread to say they voted 'yes' after the cut-off. Hmm

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