• Has the new header and footer made Mumsnet easier to navigate for you? Not sure I'm not noticing much difference.
• What do you think about the mobile vs. the desktop designs? I don't use the desktop as I'm usually on the phone but had a look for this. No don't like it, looks untidy, too many ads and on phone requires too much scrolling - left to right as well as up n down.
• What could we do to make them better? Tidy & clarify desktop - but then I'm not really a user. Fewer ads and if you must have ads can I say I HATE moving/flashing ones that bugger the loading and make it hard to read what you're actually wanting to read. Do away with the profile nonsense. My text font etc still looks the same on mobile site is that going to change? I have noticed it can be slow to load sometimes more recently plus that thing of getting a blank page, flashing and 'page didn't load correctly so we're reloading it' or whatever it says is happening more, that's annoying.
In work topic, the tab on the right that slides a weird job search option overlaid on the topic thread list is REALLY annoying. Plus to be perfectly honest (and I know it's not really on topic) I was job hunting last year, as was dd, I wouldn't come to mn to job hunt. And a quick search just now shows that there's very few employees using it too - seems a waste of resources. Do many mners even use this?
I'm on the mobile site on iPhone safari.
• Do the navigation links make sense to you?
I've still got the same shortcuts (is that going to change? I hope NOT)
The wee speech bubble icon takes me to talk - active - which I have THREE other ways of directly accessing from the same page - overkill.
The wee person icon to the right of it gives me options
Settings - but doesn't take me to what I recognise as settings but instead to my account - is that supposed to happen? And if so how do I get to actual settings?
Inbox - self explanatory - prefer the larger icon notifying a new message.
Profile - does anyone even use this? I don't. It's not that kinda site most of us like the anonymity and the freedom this gives us to discuss sensitive topics.
Logout - self explanatory.
Re the menu that can be accessed top left.
I only use talk, so the other options are superfluous for me, not sure how other users think on this. Do people read the articles etc?
Top talk topics - does that change according to numbers of posts/new threads?
By footer do you mean the list
Home, talk, conception etc (which by the way seems also superfluous seeing as these are all available via menu button AND shortcuts) With the blue background.
Or the bit in small print that says
Help/contact us etc? I think that's what I had before anyway? Never use it.
"I think it would be useful to have site stuff in the top talk topics." Agree - stickied there?
In a previous job I assisted in setting up a website similar to this. I'm not a tech - which was the point - I was the 'lay person' trying things to see what was user friendly. It was industry specific and I was a 'typical user' and as here tech seem to just LOVE adding buttons/links for the hell of it. Makes no sense, it's additional work for the software which overloads and slows everything down and makes things more likely to go wrong surely?