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RebeccaMumsnet · 08/09/2015 10:13

We’d like your help testing a new release of the Mumsnet Talk App 3.0 (beta).

This app is for iPhones and iPads on iOS8 only at the moment.

We'd love it if you can give the app a good workout - using it as you normally do - to read and post in Talk. please do bear in mind that the app is still in beta version, so some things may not work perfectly. We have made a few changes since our last test release.

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Talk app users

This app will replace the current Talk app (2.1) on your phone if you have it.

Recent beta Talk app testers (Testflight 1.0)

If you have been involved in recent app testing, you will end up with two app icons (1.0 & 3.0) on your device. You can uninstall the previous beta app (it will stop working this week).
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Simurgh · 09/09/2015 10:34

So there is. Smile And you can even remove topics from it if you want!

Now all they have to do is put a link to the bottom bar (a 'star' perhaps?) and my day would be almost complete. ('Almost' because the refreshing stil isn't working right for me.)

LovelyFriend · 09/09/2015 10:07

There is a MY TOPICS now!

Go to topics and select the star against your fav topics. Starred topics are then listed under My Favourites at the top.

zombiemeow · 09/09/2015 10:05

Just a test post Grin

my favourite thing is choosing a colour

mermaidbutmytailfelloff · 09/09/2015 09:52

I think I like it.....

However the login screen didn't have all the characters on it I needed for my email address so I had to use my login name to log in, lucky it had all the characters for that! It was underscore that was missing.

And a BIG one for me, you can't do the iPad thing and make the text bigger, so I struggle to read it.

Much prefer it to the old ap though which I never could get along with. Like the smiley and the text option buttons too! Smile

AnnoyedByAlfieBear · 09/09/2015 09:38

Ooh, it looks vair different! ^^
^^
I like the way you don't have to type the codes and square brackets for smilies or italics/strike through/bold.

Simurgh · 09/09/2015 08:52

Now that's interesting. I may take back those comments on 'My Topics' because last night I had a screen appear which contained only the topics (topics - not threads) I've visited most frequently which - if it wasn't a figment of my imagination and I could find it again - would likely stand in for My Topics.

Has the new App got some neat .....learning capability....... built in or had I had too much tea?

CuttedUpPear · 09/09/2015 00:10

BUM.

I signed up before realising that it is android-discriminatory.

Sad Angry

crappyday · 09/09/2015 00:09

Liking the pictures! Always didn't bother before with threads including pictures.
I don't like the big speech bubble things with names. But as no one else has mentioned it- maybe that's not new & I just hasn't updated recently!
They take up too much space IMO.

Tisy10 · 08/09/2015 22:54

The colour choices for the background are too bright. Could we have some more subtle options?

RustyBear · 08/09/2015 22:25

let's try that again...

livestream.com/tinykittens/tip

RustyBear · 08/09/2015 22:24

And a link...

livestream.com/tinykittens/tip

RustyBear · 08/09/2015 22:22

Also trying it on my iPad.

Like the 'Show original post' feature - though the first time I tried it, it showed my previous post, not Rebecca's. Worked properly the next time, though.

And here's a random tiny kitten, just because I can

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RustyBear · 08/09/2015 22:09

I agree with GeekaMaxima - I've just had trouble finding this thread again - it had dropped out of Active and I hadn't posted on it or watched it yet. I had to go to Topics and search for Site stuff and look at the list - this thread was at the top because it was an MNHQ thread but that wouldn't be so for an ordinary thread. Normally in those circumstances I'd search for the thread using keywords remembered from the title but I can't seem to do that on the app.

At the moment, the icon on my screen still goes to the previous version and I have to go through Test Flight to get to this one. Will the icon switch to the new version when the old one expires (in 18 hours, apparently)

MagpieCursedTea · 08/09/2015 21:55

Pound signs seem to be coming up as question marks.
(I haven't RTFT so sorry if someone has already mentioned that!)

geekaMaxima · 08/09/2015 21:38

YY to wanting a "my topics" section. It's critical for people who live on a couple of boards rather than flitting round the whole site.

Simurgh · 08/09/2015 21:32

I'm disappointed by the lack of a My Topics. Going for a particular topic has always been the way I've entered MN discussions - either on the desktop site (via browser bookmarks) or on the previous App. I'd be interested to know how many people do that rather than going straight for Active Discussions which has pride of place on the bottom bar. (And which I don't use in practice.)

geekaMaxima · 08/09/2015 21:31

Pretty please can we have an option for "last viewed thread" or summat that lets me view my recently-read threads.

Twice this evening I've been mid-thread on MN when texts and checking something on the interweb pulled me away for a few mins, and when I go back to the MN app I can't find the thread I was reading. I forget which topic it was in and it seems to be gone from Active, so that's that...

Bookmarking my place made no difference. And I don't want to have to watch every thread I read just in case I get called away from the app.

A recent thread(s) link, pleeeeeease??

PetitPiaf · 08/09/2015 21:21

Still no search function Sad

LovelyFriend · 08/09/2015 21:12

Ah thank you for the Favourite Threads!!!!!!! Nice one.

EquinoxEclipse · 08/09/2015 20:47

Cool, I can see photos again!

Bumply · 08/09/2015 20:42

To bookmark/report/share you swipe left anywhere in an individual post.

Bumply · 08/09/2015 20:41

Oh good, I can see photos again and post as well.

AradiaWitch · 08/09/2015 20:17

Hurrah it posted! Are there plans for a 'my topics'? And a search function? And I really miss pics! I just get a box with a line through and 'retry'. Which doesn't work when I do.

AradiaWitch · 08/09/2015 20:15

I found on the last version that pics had stopped working and I couldn't post, just read. Have updated but still can't see pics! Hopefully this will post. Any ideas?

Simurgh · 08/09/2015 20:00

Ah - got you. You slide the arrow to the left. Smile That's quite neat, really.

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