Sliders on Mumsnet

[JessicaMumsnet]

Hello everyone,

For a while we've realised that not everyone is aware of all of the different things happening across Mumsnet including webchats, book clubs and much more.

Over the next few weeks you may see little sliders appearing from the bottom right announcing upcoming events or things we think you might find interesting. We're trying out ways to let everyone know what's going on and this is part of the experiment.

If you close the slider by clicking on the 'X' then you won't be shown it again and they'll only be shown in select parts of the site.

As ever any feedback you have is always welcome so keep an eye out for them and let us know what you think!

[OwlCapone]

I find them immensely irritating but they do seem to have stayed away now I've clicked the cross and am using my Macbook (with Firefox).

I hoped there would be a "switch off sliders" option under Customise as they seemed to be more tenacious on my ipad.

[JessicaMumsnet]

Hello all, we released a fix this morning to solve the closing problem in Firefox.

QuietNinjaTardis can you let us know which browser you were using and if this is still happening for you?

We'll take a look at adding them into customise and report back.

[JessicaMumsnet]

@QuietNinjaTardis

I keep getting the pmq slider. I've clicked the cross and it keeps coming back. It is quite irritating. Why do we need sliders?

Sorry missed your question!

There's so much going on at Mumsnet that sometimes it's easy to miss things that we think (and hope!) you might be interested in.

We want to use sliders like you might get calendar reminders to flag up timely events. Typically it might be a book club starting or a webchat.

We'll revisit the design based on recent feedback so that everyone can be sure they are from us just giving little reminders.

When we tested with users the results were pretty positive and most felt that it was a good way to highlight other stuff happening and that the design was fairly subtle so not too intrusive.

We do realise that isn't everyone's point of view though so we'll also try to add an opt-out option.

Thanks again for all your feedback it's really good to know.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I am accessing MN using Safari on an iPad, and the sliders keep reappearing, even though I have been clicking on the cross in the corner.

These are deeply annoying - please, please give us something in 'Customise' to allow us to turn them off for good.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I should have said - please enable us to turn them off IF you aren't going to get rid of them - but given that they don't seem to be very popular, please consider getting rid of them altogether. I suspect you won't listen to us on this.

[QuietNinjaTardis]

Oh ok. I'm on an iPad using safari if that's helpful.

[JessicaMumsnet]

Thank you both it is very helpful to know that it is Safari on an iPad because then we can fix it.

We realise that several on this thread are less keen on general principle and we're always open to your thoughts. It's very early days and we'll be reviewing how well they are working along the way - but so far they have also helped some people find useful content so we need to consider that too.

We will definitely try to add in an option to customise regardless.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Thank you, JessicaMumsnet.