Mumsnet Talk re-platforming - Known issues update

@JustineMumsnet @KatyMumsnet interesting posts above regarding scrolling. I have continually raised the concern that the increased amount of scrolling makes the new format inaccessible to all and therefore not inclusive. MN state there should be no more scrolling. I am still waiting for response as to whether this is just affecting some of us and how quickly it will corrected. Please could someone at MN please confirm as it is very disappointing that the disabled are badly affected by the new format.

@BotCrossHuns I've used the wayback machine to check and @KatyMumsnet is correct. Posts are the same width as they were previously. I think the reason they appear narrower is that posts are in a larger font (16px as opposed to 14px), hence there is more scrolling to read them all. But Mumsnet has always had a huge amount of space either side of posts. It would be an improvement if the website made better use of space on wide screens.

Thoguh I guess you can't really see the tiny font in that with no context. But it's much smaller than the normal font used in posts and on other websites.

example of overlap and tiny font in threads I'm on:

Th image screen shots are also good examples of about how much white space there is surrounding posts, and how irritating it is to be constantly scrolling through a long narrow column than if it actually used a decent amount of screen space.

The tiny font everywhere but the actual posts is also hard to read - and the overlapping writing in threads I'm on is still there.

(firefox on a mac).

And on the iphone app, no way to tell properly whether there are new posts or not, as everything in I"m on or I'm watching goes back to white after a short period. On the desktop, there's no way to tell anyway, any time.

@KatyMumsnet There are still problems with images.

I will use the image that Polgara2 posted above as an example.

The image is small but is contained within a large, white pop-up.

Zooming in, to increase size of text for easier reading, results in smaller images contained within a larger popup.

Zooming out, so text is smaller, increases the size of the image.

Right-clicking and then opening the image in another tab/window helps as a larger image is displayed in the new tab/window.

Images attached:

1. Screenshot of image at 100% zoom
2. Screenshot of image at 150% zoom
3. Saved image that had been opened in a new tab/widow

I am getting very tired of the pages refreshing all the time in the last day or so

Two things:

1. sick of typing long responses only for the page to refresh and lose it all
2. sick of threads I’m on being deleted (presumably) but disappearing from my threads I’m on list so I don’t know for certain and also don’t get to the deletion message

Hi,
The thread list updating is occurring for me in, for example, Chat. I click on a thread, then click 'back', and it's in a new order. I am using Firefox on a desktop Mac mini.

The font size is tiny for all the naviation elements - e.g., 'add image' 'active', etc, as well as the lists of threads in trending, or in I"m on/I"m watching, as well as the page numbers, the 'watch thread' buttons, the forum names, etc etc - basically everything except the actual posts. Particularly in the threads I"m on/watching, you can't really read it properly at all. This is again on Firefox on a mac mini.

Also the blank spaces on the sides - this is much greater than before, and results in much more scrolling, which is bad for accessibility. The column with the posts in is approx 1/3 of the width of the entire screen, which is worse than before. It looks like it is designed for a mobile device and does not translate to a desktop monitor or something. Seriously something about it is worse than it was before, or we wouldn't all keep mentioning it.

There are also blank lines at the top of the thread lists. The combination of that and the very narrow strip of posts means constant scrolling to try to read things.

.......it only happens when typing a reply (frustratingly!) I don't have problems just reading threads.

Regularly getting this message windows chrome when typing a reply and lose reply. Only aware of it happening this week.

Thanks @KatyMumsnet. Just as well, as I've no idea how to do a video like that

@KatyMumsnet
I'm still having a problem with the end of a post being cut off when the PP has quoted a previous post first.
Hopefully I've attached a screen shot to illustrate!
Most annoying

Just to say I bloody love that you can copy previous usernames, makes it much easier when swapping.

Plus love that the username now accepts the space after the name when it auto fills. Thanks

Thank you for finally making photos accessible to all but still disappointing that it has been a month or so of inaccessibility. The new format should have considered accessibility as a fundamental part of the review.

@JustineMumsnet Is it possible to reply to my concerns re accessibility for all including amount of scrolling. Thank you

Just checked and the inbox is only cut off short in maximised screen, if I put the browser off to the side to share the screen with another app the bottom of the inbox stretches way below the last message and I can scroll all the way to the bottom with the side bar.

@KatyMumsnet

I can now send PMs.

I have received some PMs that I have been able to read.

However I still have notifications for 2 unread PMs (my initial problem) that don't actually appear in my inbox. I still think they are real PMs rather than a ghost notification because it was around the time I was communicating with a few people.

The bottom of the inbox is still slightly cut off by my laptop taskbar for some reason.

Is there anything you can't ask me here that requires an email conversation?

Why has communication on all of these issues been so lacking? Mods come and go with days between and everyone is left hanging, shouting into the void. Can we have more regular updates please?

The first 5 slots of each board are blank (Windows 10 desktop, Opera web browser)

The "bookmarks being fixed" has now created a new problem for me - if I bookmark a post then click "see all" to see all of the OP's posts, it just takes me back to the thread with the bookmark post. I can't use "see all" because all it wants to do is go to the bookmark.

The updated threads is happening for example when I am in chat, click on a thread, then click 'back'. The thread titles are now in a new order.

Will the miniature font and the huge swathes of blank space be fixed at some point? From accessibility point of view, these are quite big issues.

KatyMumsnet · Today 15:49
Images are now bigger - when you click in to view an image it should appear larger now

Thank you for this.