Banner advert in the app

Same here. So much easier and more convenient.

The mobile site doesn’t seem to understand capitalisation which is a pain!

Yes @MermaidEyes i only use my phone so it’s really annoying

Yes, agree. I’ve deleted the app because of this and the amount of time I spend on MN has plummeted. I still mainly use my phone but the non-app functionality is really poor so all I do is check in on a few threads I really care about.

That would be the most stupid decision and like going back 10 years. As more and more people are using smartphones and iPhone/android technology improves tenfold, apps are the way forward. For a lot of people, computers and laptops are becoming redundant. Everyone wants an app on their phone that's simple and easy to navigate.
I suspect you're probably right though.

That's exactly what's happened to me. I've never really used Instagram before. Who knew there was such a world of avian pets, plus I'm not even a cat person but seem to be a sucker for kittens 🤦‍♀️.
And don't even get me started on pet octopi videos...

I think you've nailed it.

On the plus side my MN scrolling time is massively down (tho I may have gone down an Insta rabbit hole instead 🧐)

I think they want everyone to stop using the app so they don’t have to do any of the updates they’ve been promising us for years

I'm on my iPad just now, it's not great, but I use landscape and the bigger screen size makes the ads just about tolerable.

Haven't been back to mn on my phone. I won't.

Piss poor performance from @mnhq @LilyMumsnet @BeckyAMumsnet @JoMumsnet.

And if they had to read it... my five year old could have read it all by now.

I think we are at THREE WEEKS now.

God the mobile site is terrible isn’t it. So hard to use.

It’s obvious Mumsnet aren’t going to do anything about this so I’ve deleted the app

@MNHQ - these flashing scrolling animated ads at the top of any Mumsnet page in the app are intolerable! I am having to read threads with my hand hovering over the moving images, it's like having a fruit machine in front of your eyes and provokes eye strain, headache and I wouldn't be surprised if caused seizures in those who are prone to them.

SURELY after all the comments on this thread you can't still think this is a good idea? I can't understand how it's going to benefit you to alienate and piss off the very people who are providing your site with content!!! Also, your responses on this thread and the reported lack of response to people's emails.... surely this can't be good for your image or for business? I have used MN for probably 20 years () and have never ever complained or had cause to... but this issue IS MAKING MUMSNET VERY USER UN-FRIENDLY!

Just coming on to scream AAAAARRRRGGGG.
It's so fucking annoying!!

I sent them a screen recording by email last week so they could see what we're dealing with.

But none of these still images show how bad it is for the moving and flashing things for people with health issues around that. A screenshot is not the same as a flashing screen.

And another if it works.

As others have said I just get taken to the App Store. This is what I see and what it takes me to.

Off we go on the merry go round again 🤢

This was my view earlier today.

A lot of the adverts are in dollars too, not at all relevant.

Of course they will!

Not meaning any one individual but MN is ridiculously amateurish.

@BeckyAMumsnet
@JoMumsnet
@LilyMumsnet

My current “view” on the mobile site which would appear to be as compromised as the app Both moving.

Note the amount of space left to actually see the discussion

And no, I’m not going to click through to get the web addresses for you: I’m not going to a) give them the traffic and b) more importantly encourage the algorithms that would generate even more gambling ads on all my web browsing

As many of us have repeated ad nauseum , we understand the need for advertising and do not object to it per se. It is the sheer quantity and space that it is now taking up - which is not, repeat NOT in line with other similar sites (at least, none that we can identify: like X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger, Reddit, Nextdoor ) as well as the content of the ads (in particular gambling) that we object to.

Surely if all of us are seeing gambling ads then if MNHQ use the app they will also see them? It isn't a case of the odd rogue one slipping through the net it seems, multiple users are getting them and them only.

@LilyMumsnet

With all due respect, you can't expect posters to do the work for you.

You can yourself log into MN app & see these! We're not seeing anything that you are not.

I am afraid I cannot really believe that you are unaware of these ads, and I can't also believe they are just accidental & sneaking through!

There must be a mechanism whereby you facilitate these ads?

And apart from the content, there's the design, totally non-user friendly, which you've ignored. 🫤

You could resolve it by just removing the ad banner space and putting the app back to how it was!

I don't understand why MN can't click it themselves and find the source if they don't know where it came from! Why is it up to app users to do it?