Swipe for the next trending thread - mobile update from MNHQ

still happening for me on iPhone.

Have you done something to try and fix it? I've just realised I haven't had the problem for a day or 2.

Anyway I'm using Chrome on a Samsung A52.

Chrome on both Windows 11, and on Android on a Nokia XR20, but it's not device specific, it's just bad design.

It'll be 'clear your cache' next! 🙄

Nah. I’d rather not thank you. I’d be going through half a dozen ‘women who have babies are idiots’ ‘women who don’t have babies can’t keep budgies alive’ ‘here’s my opinion of the day and I have nothing more to say on the matter’ bollocks and then losing the will to live. I’ll stick to picking for myself.

I can't see how this makes any difference at all. I've said I hate it when it happens on news websites and makes me close down the site, I've told you how it happens due to the movement of my thumb scrolling bottom right to middle left. Multiple posters here have said it's made the site unusable.

I've stopped using mumsnet as my go to time killing website now and found somewhere else to go so problem solved for me. I'm just really disappointed that you say you are keen to listen to feedback but when feedback is a resounding no thanks, you don't want to hear it.

iPhone 15 pro max on Safari

Why?? It's the feature we don't like, it's working exactly as you intended it to, we just hate it

iPhone 11 on Safari.

Can I ask how this information will help? The device and browser surely doesn't matter as the swiping is working as intended?

Gah, and it's no better on desktop either if you've got quite a narrow browser window. Just tried editing some text on a reply before hitting post, and because I clicked on the text to highlight it, the site decided I must obviously want to go to the next thread. Three times it did it before I gave up and just held down backspace for ages instead.

Just chiming in again to say please can we get an option to turn this off. I've basically given up on using Mumsnet on my mobile, it's so irritating.

This is probably it, and the fact that @BeckyAMumsnet @HebeMumsnet @LilyMumsnet aren't responding to the many posts on this thread with genuine explanations why this is rendering the site unusable speaks volumes.

Increases page hits - even if they're unintentional and unwanted.

More hits = sell more ads = more revenue. Who cares if the numbers aren't real.

Is this why I keep getting thrown off a new thread and then I can't find it again?

Every single poster on here has said they don't like it. Why won't it be changed. I don't understand that.

This is the first time I've come to Site Stuff to query a problem, only to find out it's actually a 'feature' smh.

I am on android using Samsung Internet, and the site thinks I am swiping to the next thread because I am comfortably scrolling with my left thumb from the bottom right of the screen towards the top left. I use a popsocket to hold my phone so this movement is easy and comfortable. When I hit back, it doesn't take me back to the thread I was reading, but to the menu of whichever section of the forum I was in.

This is increasingly a feature of news sites etc and it is so frustrating that I will immediately close them off, the same with mumsnet. I'm not going to spend my time trying to engage with a thread only to lose my place and be unable to find the thread again, let alone my place in it.

This feature is making the site unusable.

I don't understand why you haven't scrapped this MNHQ? Everyone hates it and some posters have said it's making the site unusable for them so I don't understand why you haven't ditched the idea? Why keep something that's universally hated?

I hate this feature! Every time I try to copy some text to quote someone it swipes to another thread. Arghhh.

I don't even get the swipe left thing

Thank you. That's definitely better on the thread gallery.

I'm using Chrome on an Android device too, and there's no point in sending a screen recording because it's doing exactly what you want it to do, which is load another thread, so you know what it will look like. We're telling you we don't want it to do that, especially when we haven't actually swiped left.

I'm no longer using Mumsnet unless I'm sat bolt upright, if I'm lounging around or in bed I've got no hope of scrolling at the correct angle for this stupid feature and it swipes me to another unwanted thread instead. Annoying to the point of giving up.

Yeah. God knows why MNHQ were 'excited' to announce something so useless! 🤷‍♀️

just seen this to find out what this is. Annoying feature that I have no need for.