Top bar advertising

Tell the advertisers I actually look at the ads now rather than click off the page while they load.

Hooray!! Thanks MN. So much better
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That's much better, thanks!

so much better this evening without the big white drop down bits.

(so much better that I have not been kicked off the site and am now up a bit later than intended [oops] )

Not sure this is the same problem but for the last few days I've had a timer circle thingy constantly at the top of the page even when the ad is there.
Also sometimes the ad takes ages to load and so there are two circling timey things.

how can it take months to implement changes
Presume that Mumsnet have signed a contract which means they can't make certain changes for a certain amount of time
Until that time is up they are just fobbing us off

Operators of a social website with a vast readership do not just bung in major changes to its presentation and wait to see how much the users complain, and then take months to sort the resulting problems. That is amateurish beyond belief.

Agreed.

Mumsnet isn't run by some teenager out of his parents garage (if it was it'd probably be better TBH!)

Joking aside, how can it take months to implement changes to the change that Mumsnet made in the first place? This seems to be run by amateurs.

Every time I so much as page-forward the bloody great ad covers half the screen and I seethe while waiting for it to disappear.

Sod this - I'm off to Reddit

The advert bar keeps covering half of my screen

This ad blocks the top of my screen (I'm on a PC) every time I try to look at anything. It is SOOOOO annoying! Yes it shrinks back after a few seconds but it is making me uncharacteristically sweary!

You're welcome Nan!
I wish we didn't have to do this. A reasonable number of adverts that didn't obstruct normal reading would be perfectly acceptable.

Thanks to GladAllOver I've now installed the Dolphin browser on my iPad, and have the adblocker activated, so no more aggravation! Choosing the mobile option also removes that annoying floating bar at the top. Thanks Glad!

Rarely does something annoy me enough to post about it in site stuff but this does.

The mobile site is horrible, slow, difficult to browse through so I use the proper site on the laptop and then you have to deal with the horrible drop down banner thing that takes ages to go away. We get it, you need advertising. But honestly IT IS SO SHIT.

Try the Dolphin browser. Works for me!

It seems even worse today. Taking ages to piss off again.

And for some reason my AdBlocker isn't blocking the bloody Ocado van.

The more I think about the 'months', the more it seems incredible.

Operators of a social website with a vast readership do not just bung in major changes to its presentation and wait to see how much the users complain, and then take months to sort the resulting problems. That is amateurish beyond belief.

If changes are needed they are made on an off-line system, tested using every common operating system and browser, debugged and then further tested with a beta group. That is the only professional way to do things.

MNHQ has the funds to do this properly, and they have failed to do so. They should revert to the system in use before the latest changes were introduced, and recruit some properly competent staff to develop and test their system in the future.

It isn't working on a PC either, unless it's your intention to infuriate me by having that banner flop down over the content every time I change pages.

Months?

I can safely say my inner core of cow will have eaten my outer shell by then.

Yes chromebook that's what I have. Oh pleaeeeese mumsnet make it go away.

This ^^

it does look as though the current format isn't ideal for those on a chromebook or with a smaller screen/lower powered device

I'm using a 15" MacBook Pro with a 3.1Ghz processor, 16Gb memory, 4Gb video memory - its my work machine and about as high spec as laptops get.

I see much the same problems on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Vivaldi. If I fire up Parallels and IE or Edge on Windows 10 it is no better.

DH's desktop, Windows 10, also high spec machine, large screen - similar problems.

I would very respectfully suggest you need a Test Architect and an improved Testing Service.

I suspect you could augment this with volunteers to view a beta presentation of the site and collate feedback.

Testing 4 different formats over the next few MONTHS?

Just put the ads back the way they were!

firefox, pc. all I can see is three lines of text. months is too long.

doing much less mning. not looking at any ads.