Is anyone else finding Mumsnet almost unusable now?

i find it difficult and annoying.
i'm sure they've lost a lot of people who used to enjoy it.
i am on chromebook.
the OP's posts, see next, only goes to one next post. previously it would jump to the next OP contribution within the thread, and then you could click again, see next, and so on. i would read a few of the surrounding posts to get an idea of how the discussion was going. it was useful.
now i can only get one subsequent OP post, even if they have made several.
i can press, see all, but then i see nothing of other posters'.
and why have a see next if it only works once ?
and no refresh button now. have to go back to active and then find thread again. clunky.

Slow loading and that infuriatingly infantile and patronising ‘cup of tea’ message when the server has gone tits up again.

Yes I hate it
bookmarks don’t work incredibly frustrating
if you click on a thread in active and then use the back button other threads I wanted to read have gone
Advanced search completely gone
New search facility not fit for purpose
Threads I’m watching I have no idea if new posts have been put up as just get a total now
Threads don’t attract much response anymore it’s like a ghost town on here now.

I'm having problems reading threads on my phone. It keeps saying the MN servers are having issues and they're having a strong cuppa or something like that (I don't remember exactly).

Also, I use MN on my phone and computer and I don't like that I have to choose between seeing All posts on a thread or some. I liked it before when you could change it on the thread as it's easier to read all on my computer, but not my phone.

It's the sporadic nature of the glitches that's puzzling.

For example, about 10 minutes ago, Preview stopped working for me. I closed the MN tab, opened it again, and now it's working fine.

The slowness-of-loading and the Bookmarking issues are also sporadic.

It's really not great on a mobile. Scrolling is clunky and ads take up so much space I end up clicking on them inadvertently when I'm trying to scroll through a thread. Annoying.

@MNHQ it keeps crashing on me when scrolling through a thread it when composing a reply (which it then wipes). It's driving me nuts!!

but thank you for fixing the 'you've been mentioned' link taking you directly to the list you were mentioned on and not just to the thread!

but I'm hanging in the for more fixes soon!!! (Capitals at the beginning on new paragraphs! - I know it's on your list!!)

This is the same problem I have! So it's not just me. It started when I tried to log in to the new site. How do you go in via incognito mode though? I have tried clearing cookies from my phone but that hasn't helped.

Bookmarks are very slow again on my phone.

This is the thing that pisses me off the most!

I can’t even comment on posts on my iPad now sobs! I’ve cleared cookies and history and my iPad doesn’t need updating 🤷🏻‍♀️

MN introducing StupidSearch is just unspeakable

StupidSearch is a great way of describing it. MN search was bad before the update, googling for a thread was often easier and more successful.

When they announced the update I thought at least they can't make the search function any worse... turns out I was wrong. The new StupidSearch makes the old advanced search seem like it was actually fit for purpose. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Im guessing Mums net cannot be bothered to read this thread....

The app is awful, I've deleted it already.

Yup. Been trying to post on a thread and given up. The app is shit and it’s an absolute ballache reading threads and after the last few weeks of the site refusing to post my replies I’ve given up. Why Mumsnet why? Just admit that this was a silly idea and revert back to the previous version that actually worked!

My default browser on my android phone is Chrome. I have no issue with any other website but get a 400 bad request for every single page on Mumsnet. Temp fix by using incognito mode but obvs that means I have to log in every time. Even then it's slow to load threads, there's acres of white space, and if for example I open a thread from Active, in the old days if I pressed the back button I'd get back to the same list, but now it refreshes every time. Oh and I see the same 'trending topics' morning and night, that's surely not accurate? Sometimes they've not been posted on in days!

@SpindleInTheWind Thank you!

A third of the width is adverts then blank as you scroll down 🤬
no capitals starting a new line 🤬
damn site returning to the start of a thread instead of the bookmark 🤬
I can see myself just not bothering with it, it’s not worth the frustration.

YANBU.

Search is now fucked beyond all use.

I used search a lot to get me to conversations, be they from yesterday or 5 years ago, where I can remember that I or a specific poster was on the thread and a few terms that were used.

MN introducing StupidSearch is just unspeakable.

Just for example, yesterday I was trying to find something about Bill Browder. I know it's there, 'cos I fucking posted it. Posted more than once, actually. But no. StupidSearch wants to give me 100s of results about browsers.

Sometimes it refuses point blank to give me any results except thread titles.

MNHQ, let me explain something to you about SEARCH FUNCTIONS.

If I type in a word, then that is the word I am looking for. Not some other word which has a few letters in common. If I have spelled the word wrong, or there are multiple spellings, I am perfectly fucking capable of making a separate searches for the separate variations. I HAVE NO USE FOR 100 FUCKING THREADS ABOUT AN UNRELATED WORD WITH SOME LETTERS IN COMMON.

I've actually resorted to using Google to search MN, and then paging through 40 pages of each thread, to find what I'm after. (I used to use "Show whole thread" and then CMD-F to find the right patch of thread, but you've screwed that up to.)

Even using quote marks doesn't improve StupidSearch.

Seriously. This is fucked up.

And no, I really don't give a shit if you tell me that StupidSearch is designed to help some random non-MN-member who's poking the internet for sleb twaddle, can't spell, and is too dim to try different spellings.

Notifications of new posts on watched threads now just bring me to the first post in a thread.

😡😡😡

What is this about? It's beyond frustrating!!

Having to scroll all the time is giving me RSI. You can barely see more than 2 posts at a time.

It just keeps crashing and I end up with a blank page. So infuriating.

I'm baffled at how it's fine for some people and unusable for others. I assume it must be the gadgets we're using, how old they are etc.
I can't use the website at all as I used to - on my iPad through safari. It crashes instantly every time.
I can just about use the app, which I don't like, and also crashes if I try to scroll through a long thread.
I'm barely looking at MN now, and like the OP I've noticed there seem to be fewer threads than they used to be. I think numbers have definitely dropped.

I have no idea what was done and why, but the fact that so many people are unable to use MN now makes the whole thing a big mistake in my opinion.