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..to be driven mental by the purple promo boxes that pop up on MN.

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Celeriacacaca · 16/03/2015 20:53

Eg the box tonight that's promoting the Nick Clegg chat or something similar.

It drives me insane and when they repeatedly pop up on my phone as it means I can't see half the screen. I'm forever trying, usually unsuccessfully, to click the tiny little cross to get rid of them and then lo, a few min's later, another one pops up. I end up leaving the site as can't be bothered. It's also happening on the laptop, although doesn't obscure as much of the screen.

Please get them under control MN - if I cross it once I really don't want to see it again!! I thank you...

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RebeccaMumsnet · 17/03/2015 10:27

Morning!

Thanks all for your feedback, we have spoken to Tech and they have asked us if you could tell us what device and browser you are using please?

This will help us to fix the issues - apologies all and thanks in advance.

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JustineMumsnet · 17/03/2015 11:41

Hello everyone. Sorry for your woes.

It is fairly standard to have a notifications bar like this and we aren't using it for ads but to let people know about events and useful content. We've had lots of feedback from folks that miss things because they forget that webchats are on/happening and would like reminders, and we're just trying to make sure everyone is across the interesting stuff we are doing.

That said, clearly there are some issues with size, look and functionality particularly with regard to removing sliders and making sure they don't keep showing.

So I think as a first step we need to get all those things sorted - hence request for browsers etc as these problems don't seem to be common to all - before we start talking about ditch the whole thing.

We'll also experiment with some different colours/formats etc to see if we can make it less of a problem for those having them.

Thanks very much for the feedback.

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JustineMumsnet · 17/03/2015 11:44

@zirca

They are way too large for the text in them and the X is too small to close them. If that helps?

Yes I agree - certainly on mobile it looks that way to me too. We're on it!

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JustineMumsnet · 17/03/2015 11:49

@CactusAnnie

I am using a Sony Xperia phone, Chrome browser.

but MNHQ - there are hundreds of posters on this thread all agreeing that they are really annoying.

Lots of us are not using the site because of it .

I don't think that knowing everyone's exact combination of browser and phone will change that.

92 to be precise. But absolutely take your point we are looking at them. Let's see if we can make them less annoying as a first step?

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JustineMumsnet · 17/03/2015 11:56

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

Seriously, JustineMumsnet - does anyone actually like them? What's the use of having something that keeps us updated on interesting things on the site, if it irritates the fuck out of the vast majority of us?

Well loads of people use them - ie click on link rather than closing straight away, so in that sense they appear to be useful/popular, yes.

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JustineMumsnet · 07/04/2015 14:03

Hello all,
We've updated the design a bit - lost the purple, narrowed the width, made the cross button to close bigger. We are also instituting a twitter-style character limit so it will never stretch beyond 3 lines (on a standard iphone 5 width phone). I've attached an image. Hopefully it's functioning properly as well now, so will be much less irritating. Let us know what you think.

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