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[RebeccaMumsnet]

We’d like your help testing a new release of the Mumsnet Talk App 3.0 (beta).

This app is for iPhones and iPads on iOS8 only at the moment.

We'd love it if you can give the app a good workout - using it as you normally do - to read and post in Talk. please do bear in mind that the app is still in beta version, so some things may not work perfectly. We have made a few changes since our last test release.

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Talk app users

This app will replace the current Talk app (2.1) on your phone if you have it.

Recent beta Talk app testers (Testflight 1.0)

If you have been involved in recent app testing, you will end up with two app icons (1.0 & 3.0) on your device. You can uninstall the previous beta app (it will stop working this week).
If you previously signed up for this - but didn't accept & download the app - you will need to sign up again.

Please do give us your feedback on this thread.
Many thanks

I've just downloaded it. Shiny!

How do you flip threads?

And why are some poster names in pretty colours and some in grey?

Otherwise seems better than the old app so far.

I agree with a pp who would like a night mode for all those times you're mnetting in the dark.

I'm in the dark right now beside a small child, and while my dark purple colour scheme is ok for lists of threads, I'm being utterly blinded by the white text boxes of posts.

A low-contrast night mode colour scheme - maybe with light text on a dark background throughout - would be lovely.

Mermaid - the underscore is on the second screen of the keyboard when you're in the username/email box (see screenshot. Oddly, when you're in the password box, you get a different keyboard layout with the underscore on the 3rd keyboard screen

And on the iPad the keyboard is different again!

geekamaxima

Could you maybe play with accessibility options? (eg the Invert colours on an ipad - I don't know whether that's the same on an iphone if that's what you're using?) That seems to work fine so - how much work must have gone into this thing hardly bears thinking about?

Palaeontologist - to flip a thread tap the double arrow on the right hand side of the white bar at the top. It doesn't remember it though, you have to do it each time you return to the thread

I just dim the iphone screen when I'm in a dark place - it's really quick to drag up the Control Centre from the bottom of the screen and lower the brightness slider.

Though I do like the dimmer function on my alarm clock app - it dims if you drag your finger down the screen and if you do it again it asks if you want to go into Night Mode 9which is dimmer and doesn't have the screensaver pictures)

So I don't think it's very user friendly. I am having to guess functions - I can't refresh active and had to guess re: flipping the thread.
I might miss the op's and my posts on longer threads without the highlight box. just found some icons oh I like this better

How do i mark my position in a thread, like the bookmarks on the browser?

It doesn't seem to be massively intuitive but they've actually crammed a heck of a lot into it. I'm guilty of always wanting my cake and eat it whereas there's bound to be a certain amount of compromise on an App. I'm pleasantly surprised by how well they've actually done.

See the arrows next to posts? Swipe one of those from right to left and that will bring up some options, one of which is bookmarking.

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"given that she [Bridget Jones] barely managed to function as an adult"__
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To repeat how do i bold a paste?_

To bold tap on the T just under the message box.Then you can
choose Strikeout, Bold Italic or underline. If you choose bold, the T turns to B to show it's active; when you're done with bold, tap the B & choose T for plain text (or whichever other format you want)

I'm on, it's very slick and I like it but i have a couple of niggles so far:

I find the font gives me a bit of a headache - it's too big and thin, and I'd quite like the option of white text on a dark background.

Also, the parent board of the thread I'm looking at isn't clickable - so if I access a thread in AIBU via active threads, for example, I can't get into AIBU by clicking on the top of the thread.

I also would like my post AND the ops to be more obvious. When the thread is long you can wizz too fast and miss it.

I miss search and PM too.

I'm on and love the look of the new app, nice and clear and unfussy. I agree with others that it would be preferable to see more thread titles at once on screen.

Main request is My Topics. My absolute favourite thing about the previous app and would love to see it in the mobile and web versions too. Please please please?

Ooh I like the emoticons

Oh! I have found My Favourites in Topics! I am happy now. Well done MN

Just discovered favourites as well

An odd thing though: until last night the beta app was working very well. Then today it crashes immediately when I try to open it. It does however work fine when I launch it from within TestFlight (using it now in fact).

Is it possible that the expired beta is still installed and the app icon (for some reason known best to itself ) is now pointing to it?

Where's the local pages? It used to be near the work topics?

It only works on the app?

This is some sort of conspiracy plot, isn't it?

££

I can't see them anywhere, Groovee. (Doesn't mean they're not there somewhere of course.)

I'm struggling with the refresh in active. I'm pulling it down to refresh and the little icon is spinning like it's doing something but it's just not refreshing. I'm having to close down the app and start again.

I'm not keen on 'reply'. (Fussy). I'm not replying when I post. I'm posting. Joining the conversation. Perhaps in aibu it could be 'pile on' like they used to shout at school when there was a fight!

Overall it's good. I'm enjoying using it.

Thank heavens I'm able to test this app! I've hardly used MN over the past couple of weeks as I just can't get on with the mobile site.

The only problem I've found so far is that when you click a link someone has posted then come back to the app, it refreshes the whole thread you're on so you lose the place you were at. Very annoying if it's quite a long thread.

Oh and I don't like how I have to scroll right the way up to the top of active convos to refresh. There should be a button to press or something.

I like how easy it is to flip a thread.