Constantly crashing and freezing.

Same problem. It’s so bad that I have to clear my safari history every now and again as it’s slowing everything up. I believe it’s the ads taking up so much bandwidth.

I’m still getting this issue. I use Safari on an ipad but have trie Chrome and my macbook. All ios are uptodate.

so annoying.

The constant reloading is very annoying.

Yes I have and it’s still an issue

I also had an issue a few days ago where my battery drained really quickly which caused issues when I was out of the house. Thought it was a phone issue but wondering after reading comments on here if it’s to do with MN

Have now closed all MN tabs that I had open and only have one which is in private mode (which isn’t great either but marginally better than regular mode)

I don’t get the freezing but I do get the constant reloading and refreshing of the page - is this part of the same thing? I have to constantly bookmark as I’m reading si that when it refreshes I get back to somewhere near where I was.

I think it's a particular advert, but I can't work out which advert.

I've tried clearing cache and all the usual stuff.

Happens on both laptop (windows 10, chrome browser) and mobile (android, chrome browser). I don't use ad blockers.

I did manage to get into task manager on laptop last time it happened. Chrome had been put into efficiency mode and was unresponsive, even though I have efficiency mode turned off.

Loads of people have already confirmed this in both threads on the subject!

Yes
not a jot of difference
still having to use via email

Yes and it doesn’t make any difference

This is happening to me too on my iPhone. The site constantly freezes and/or crashes and I’ve also noticed it’s making my phone run very hot.

I thought I had an issue with my phone (which was quite old) so bought a new one. Should have checked here first 🙈 It’s so annoying, I can’t “just quickly” use the platform anymore.

I found the same.

And a day after stopping using Mumsnet on my iPad, the battery drainage is noticeably less.

MN really need to get this sorted.

I remember the dialing tone on AOL 😂
Used to sit there for ages staring at the pc screen😶...(probably to connect to Friends Reunited 😬...)

Me too.
Laptop, Chrome and it's still happening.
Everything's been cleaned and no adblockers etc.

It’s only mumsnet, doesn’t happen with anything else. I’m not faffing changing things when it’s just one site.

Use Google Chrome - fixed it for me.

It’s been just awful, unusable, locking up and freezing. I think I noticed it when that ad first arrived, the one where the mum keeps kissing the baby. I’m on iPhone 11, safari.

It’s definitely something to do with adverts - I haven’t got any ad blockers on but when I access Mumsnet on my iPad the page just freezes - you can’t scroll down or click on other pages but you can see a blank space where adverts are loading.

It is really not acceptable as it affects opening of other web pages too. As soon as you close any Mumsnet pages it’s fine so it is definitely their website causing these problems.

Been happening for me for the past few weeks as well. Using Chrome browser on a Win 11 PC. Sometimes a thread will freeze and lock the browser. It may come back and restore control after a little while, or it may not, forcing me to kill the process through task manager. At a guess, I'd say there's a bug or endless loop in some Javascript on the site - either on Mumsnet itself, or in one of the adverts.

Ok glad I checked. I’m on my phone. Just switched to Google Chrome search and it’s fixed it! Whoop!

Yes me too! Last few weeks just taking ages to load and then freezing. Thought it wa my wife but no other sites affected. Honestly beginning to lose patience and feel like I’ve been transported back to dial up WiFi of the 90s!!

Desktop website on Firefox is virtually unusable for me - and has been for the past few days. Really really slow, nothing loading, major lagging in the comment box... very bad!

I was the same, thought it was my iPad. Nothing would open and my battery was draining insanely quickly. I can still get on using my phone. It’s so weird. Clearly some issue with the adverts loading and not affecting traffic enough for @MNHQ to bother expending any resources on it.