Banner advert in the app

In fact in that unintentionally apt example that I just posted, there are only three - THREE!!! lines of text visible! Come on Mumsnet, is this really the experience you want to give users?

I stupidly upgraded the app a few days after I read this post and made a note never to upgrade again 

With the ad at the top and the ads midway through, in landscape mode more than half the screen is ads.

I agree the one at the top is especially annoying because it acts like a barrier to the rest of the page. I have arm ache from trying to get the post content at eye level on my iPad. Most people read what's at the top of the page and scroll to bring what's lower down the page nearer the top. @BeckyAMumsnet do you not want users to read any content at all? Kind of eliminates the point of a chat site, no?

Seems they don't reply to emails now either

Clearly MN don't care at all though! Their response on this thread has been truly awful.

I’ve tried deleting the app and just using the web version on my phone (which is where I mainly use mumsnet). But that isn’t much better (in fact the ads are even more prominent). It’s definitely affecting how long I am on Mumsnet - no bad thing I suppose but not really what Mumsnet want I suspect.

Ugh it's giving me motion sickness trying to read with that thing constantly moving. I am going to send you a screen recording by email @BeckyAMumsnet seeing as we can't post them here (or do anything much)

Yes, MN please...every time I reopen the app, it crashes....
The banner ad is horrid. Can just about cope with the mid thread ads but these are awful. Please get rid of them.

Any updates on this?

@BeckyAMumsnet

Look at this.

Another example of the ridiculous amount of actual text / posts that remains, with banner & inserted ads. Just stupid.

@prettybird

Agreed! Today I just checked on the desktop version (till now!) which is probably a lot better for me, but as you say, presumably not good news for MN, that so many of us will no longer engage as much.

Very good points. Thjs is it exactly.

Ditto.

I'll not be scrolling MN on my phone from now on. My phone got incredibly hot and battery ran right down.

For those having battery draining issues. It's been something that's been going on for months. Mine is ok right now but it seems to be an on and off thing for many people.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4901915-battery-draining

They need to go. Its putting us all off. Standard or not. It is physically painful for my eyes and head.

My phone overheated earlier and wouldn't charge. Checking the apps I had open, Mumsnet was draining 27% of my battery. The nearest to it was WhatsApp with 7%.

Once I force closed the app, my battery charged normally. Just a tip for anyone who's running the app in the background.

Same here. It's been a week now and they haven't even properly understood the issues. I will get a lot of time back in my life!

@EarringsandLipstick - that’s true. Although now that I no longer have the app, I now have to make a special point of going on to MN via a browser and have therefore drastically reduced the time I spend on MN (effectively now just checking in on threads that I was already following).

No more random browsing of active threads for me

Probably a good thing for me but a bad thing for Mumsnet

The fact the ad space is fixed at the top. It's taking up space, as above, but is also right in the key eyeline permanently.

Worse than being right at the top, it's between the top bar and the posts. I've accidentally clicked an ad (once a gambling Install button) when going for flip screen, filter or back arrow.

As phones get more and more advanced, and people are expected to download and use apps for pretty much everything, MN will be losing users left, right and centre. Many of us aren't sitting at laptops or computers all day and find the app easy and simple to log on to and read. I hate using Mumsnet on a browser, the page is so busy I can't find what I'm actually supposed to be reading. Headache inducing quite frankly.

The only thing I can suggest at this stage is write an e mail to the CEO Justine Roberts, perhaps if enough people contact her about this then maybe something will be done because clearly whoever is in charge of the day to day running of this site couldn't give a shiney one about any of our opinions.

The thought had crossed my mind

Given that @mnhq don't update the app, and it doesn't have the same functionality as the desktop version, do you think that this is possibly what they want? Users to stop using the app?

Another joining in to say I'll be deleting the app and will no longer be able to use Mumsnet. There is just no way I can read with an animated ad on my screen. At the moment it's some slot machine going crazy. Very unfortunate.

Here's another point @BeckyAMumsnet

The banner ads are basically illegible. (That's because they are not meant to be used on apps!).

So what's the point of them? Is the one I've attached advertising a jewellers? I don't know, as all I can make out is 2 rings 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just to repeat what lots of other posters have said, these ads are not standard across other sites I use and the gambling ads are particularly inappropriate.
@BeckyAMumsnet
@MNHQ

Please take these ads down!