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Banner advert in the app

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MagicFox · 19/03/2024 09:40

Hi MNHQ,

There's a banner ad appearing in the ap (at the top) that makes the app visually really annoying to navigate. Will it be there permanently? It would be less bad at the bottom! Thanks!

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JPduck · 25/03/2024 07:18

Me too, not very user friendly

EarringsandLipstick · 25/03/2024 07:14

Really hoping MN will have the courtesy to respond to the thread today & address the ad issue.

No-one has objected to ads, per se. But this design is so bad, it's affecting functionality and causing usability issues.

RomanMum · 24/03/2024 23:21

JaneJeffer · 24/03/2024 17:47

Anyone else having the app shut down before it even opens?

Yes, every time.

LegoTherapy · 24/03/2024 21:01

All the ads are back flickering and my app crashing as I try to open it so it flashes. I'm deleting the app now. I've had enough.

RockaLock · 24/03/2024 19:20

I find the iPad app is also freezing now on a regular basis - since the introduction of these banner ads, in fact. I can scroll a thread, but none of the other buttons work.bam constantly having to shut it down and restart it.

That aside, I might not mind the big ads so much if in return we actually got anything approaching the functionality of the website!! But to have an app with such limited, basic functions and then to add huge ads everywhere is just adding insult to injury.

prettybird · 24/03/2024 18:12

Regularly Sad

EarringsandLipstick · 24/03/2024 18:08

JaneJeffer · 24/03/2024 17:47

Anyone else having the app shut down before it even opens?

Yes, me too.

MermaidEyes · 24/03/2024 17:53

JaneJeffer · 24/03/2024 17:47

Anyone else having the app shut down before it even opens?

Yep me. Literally started happening when the banner appeared.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 24/03/2024 17:52

JaneJeffer · 24/03/2024 17:47

Anyone else having the app shut down before it even opens?

Yes, persistently crashing on opening

JaneJeffer · 24/03/2024 17:47

Anyone else having the app shut down before it even opens?

tinytemper66 · 24/03/2024 17:24

Ditto (iPhone and no update recently). Annoying as hell.

WobblyLondoner · 24/03/2024 17:19

This is what I've had for the last few days - really distracting and slows the app down.

Banner advert in the app
SnowFrogJelly · 24/03/2024 11:35

@MNHQ please remove the scrolling banner ads at the top of the page on the app, these are making the app unusable

globalwondering · 24/03/2024 09:55

Adding another voice to this that it is hugely impacting how the app is used. It's quite simply in the wrong place and as someone who has sensitive sight and migraines, flashing or moving images mean that I can't use the app with these ads in place.

Cherryblossom81 · 24/03/2024 09:52

Yes, it is awful. My battery is also draining so fast when I use the Mumsnet app.

EarringsandLipstick · 24/03/2024 09:49

LegoTherapy · 23/03/2024 15:58

I don't know but some are back now, just not the flashing moving ones.

It comes & goes. I've had a blank box, static and moving content.

It's really hard on the eyes & rendering the app unusable.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/03/2024 09:48

TidyDancer · 23/03/2024 17:13

I've still got the flashing and moving ones. Mostly seems to be gambling as well which is even worse. @MNHQ this is really poor form.

Yes - I mostly use my tablet except when I'm out - it's particularly bad on the phone and the browser isn't a good alternative if you're longsighted and can't do small print

Newtonianmechanics · 24/03/2024 09:24

Come on Mumsnet this isn't good for migraines!

Its actually painful. Make it stop.

TidyDancer · 23/03/2024 17:13

I've still got the flashing and moving ones. Mostly seems to be gambling as well which is even worse. @MNHQ this is really poor form.

LegoTherapy · 23/03/2024 15:58

I don't know but some are back now, just not the flashing moving ones.

SnowFrogJelly · 23/03/2024 15:11

LegoTherapy · 23/03/2024 09:40

It's disappeared for me now and is just an empty rectangle.

How did you manage that

lifebeginsaftercoffee · 23/03/2024 10:37

RainbowConnection1 · 23/03/2024 09:14

That response was awful. Next one will be telling us all to take out a subscription to Mumsnet Premium to avoids the ads. Kerching! Not a chance I'll be doing that so it looks like my time on MN is just about done.

The thing is, even MN premium doesn't guarantee no ads, just "fewer ads"!

EarringsandLipstick · 23/03/2024 10:06

I would also consider paying, if the app was functional, ad free, and MN themselves were more professional in their approach.

theluckiestbff · 23/03/2024 09:49

RainbowConnection1 · 23/03/2024 09:14

That response was awful. Next one will be telling us all to take out a subscription to Mumsnet Premium to avoids the ads. Kerching! Not a chance I'll be doing that so it looks like my time on MN is just about done.

Actually I do feel I get a lot of value out of mumsnet, and don't want to give up using so I would consider paying. But I only use mumsnet on my phone, on the app, so as I understand it would not be able to access the other benefits of premium.

Could there be a premium-app rate? I would probably pay £2 per month for the app completely add free. It's only worth the current £4.99 if you are also able to offer all the other missing functionality too.

LegoTherapy · 23/03/2024 09:40

It's disappeared for me now and is just an empty rectangle.

Banner advert in the app