Swipe for the next trending thread - mobile update from MNHQ

Yep, it's annoying me too, and no I can't do a screen recording mnhq, I have no idea how!

I’m accidentally swiping too, it was only seeing this thread that I even realised I was swiping, I just thought new threads were randomly loading!

It's awful, I hate it. It's adding nothing to my use of the site and making it worse. Please get rid. Nobody likes this feature.

MNhq, will you please take this feature off? I can't even scroll through a thread gallery now.

I think it's pretty ridiculous that despite every post generally saying the same things. We don't like it, it doesn't work, it's a nuisance, and the fact no one asked for it the response isn't ok we hold our hands up this isn't working we will implement an option to turn it off.

What good is a screen recording of the issue. It's been clearly explained? Sometimes it's ok to admit something didn't work the way you hoped and go back to how it was before. .

I wondered why this keeps happening, is it REALLY ANNOYING, and I also can't seem to go back to the thread I was trying to read.

I've tried four times to zoom in on a photo and got taken to another thread each time. I've given up.

It's a ridiculous feature.
Why would we need to be taken to another random thread, FFS?

Bearing in mind they can never replicate any issues we raise, I doubt it!

Do MN techs even vaguely test these features before release???

I don't even have the feature.

Is It supposed to be on in chrome android?

What everyone else has said.

it’s a pain

As everyone else above, I hate it because it doesn't appear to be able to distinguish scrolling from swiping. Please make this option (preferably opt in).
Android (Samsung), Chrome. Unable to record it as it it's inconsistent. I have a glass screen protector so maybe that makes a difference too?

I'm on Android mobile, using chrome. Not sure I can manage a screen recording because it happens so randomly, but it tends to happen two different ways:

It happens when using my left thumb to scroll and I scroll or tap the screen near the side.
It happens when scrolling in the middle of the screen but not up and down straight enough. There's obviously enough slant on my scroll to suggest that I have swiped.

Honestly, every website I use with this function leaves me in despair. It's so frustrating. The only way to improve it for me would be to make it an option.

I agree. I choose which trending thread to read, I don't want to be shown the next one on a list.
There are a lot of trending threads I never open based on the thread title - I actively skip them - so I don't want them put in front of me. As everyone else is saying, I just want to go back to where I was.

Please tell me this isn't coming to the app 🙏

I hate this too - couldn't work out was happening at first, but this makes sense now!
It happens on my phone when I enlarge a picture that's been posted. I try and move around the picture to find an important detail and my screen immediately switches to a thread I have no interest in at all. And then I can't find my place in the thread I was on.

How do I turn it off please?

Android phone, mobile site on Chrome.

A screen recording may be pushing my skills to the limit 🤣but I have an android Moto using Chrome.

This has been driving me mad all night. I use an iPad (rotated) to read Mumsnet and every time I try to enlarge the screen I get a 'Something went wrong' message that I can't remove. I think I had seven at one stage last night! Maybe it's just me being stupid, but its very annoying!

Hate this! Really hate it! Like others I'm finding my phone is misreading a scroll as a swipe and won't take me back to where I was.

Pleeeeeeease let us turn it off.

Please can we have a way to disable this feature. It makes websites virtually unusable on my phone. Halfway through reading a thread and I accidentally activate it and go onto some random thread I'm not interested in.
If I wait for it to fully load the new thread I can then (usually) use the back button to return to the previous thread, but have to relocate where I was, and honestly it just ruins the experience of killing a few minutes on mumsnet.

This could actually be the thing that ends my AIBU addiction.

I hate it. I don’t want some algorithm to decide what I want to read.
The thread keeps changing and it’s hard to get back to where I was. I am having to bookmark very often to be in with a chance of finding my place

Christ on a bike this is driving me mad. You don't even have to swipe, just get a bit close to the right and try to scroll down! 😩

I don't have this feature yet but it's one of the most complained about features on the BBC news app on the store reviews. I hate swipe to change thread/article for the same reason others have said. It's usually way too sensitive and just takes you away from what you want to read!