Please turn off “Trending in Christmas” or at least make the red less BRIGHT!

[MAOU]

It’s November, not December!

The red is jarring!!

I’m not interested in what’s trending on the Christmas board.

It’s annoying.

It’s badly placed.

Please let us turn it off.

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It really should be out of the way, below the comment box if it has to exist at all

Sorry about that dot. Was testing something.

It would be great if we could click ‘close’ on it and it disappears like ads.

What a surprise
The response from Justine I mean
It's all about those clicks
Sod the user experience

You can’t seriously be telling us there is “a demand” for a big red box directing people to the Christmas board @JustineMumsnet? If people wanted to go to the Christmas board, they would just go to the Christmas board.

@JustineMumsnet, on the topic of bereavement, one of the trending topics in the box at the moment is Gift ideas for terminally ill Mum. Which is a totally reasonable thread obviously - but one that I don’t think should be bouncing up in a cheery-looking Christmas box.

The answer is that nobody asked for this then.

Not giving people an option to hide content they find upsetting is pretty shit of you really

Agree with everyone. This is really tone deaf.

[quote EmpressaurusWitchDoesntBurn]@JustineMumsnet, on the topic of bereavement, one of the trending topics in the box at the moment is Gift ideas for terminally ill Mum. Which is a totally reasonable thread obviously - but one that I don’t think should be bouncing up in a cheery-looking Christmas box.[/quote]
Oh, that’s really bad 😔

Thanks for these comments and feedback, which we're looking into.

Quite a lot of folks cannot afford stuff for Christmas so if you're going to flash a red thingybobwotsit at us all about what people have bought or are buying how about flashing a counter one to help those in need who won't have a Christmas at all let alone buy something for Fido

I’m a big Christmas fan and love all the Christmas threads and follow them most of the year BUT that is my choice please do not thrust the frankly intrusive Christmas Trending box everywhere on Mumsnet. Posters know where the Christmas topic is if they want it. I quite agree with PP’s to have a thread in a bright red box asking about gift ideas for terminally ill relative is just appalling. That particular thread belongs in a respectful place on the Christmas board where posters can respond in a sensitive manner. MNHQ you have got this wrong please rectify it.

As well as switching this off could you look into moving Christmas theads into the proper topic. I have it hidden as I'm sure many others do but what's the point if you allow threads to be posted anywhere

I clicked it a few times to try and hide the damn thing.
Please let us hide it if we aren't interested.
I really don't want Christmas shoved down my throat for various reasons this year.

It is better now it’s below the comment box.

Still annoying, but less intrusive.

The ‘10k clicks’ argument was a little … discombobulating. But I guess we don’t all see things from the same point of view.

Justine, why are you guys doing this? I don’t really understand the objective. Will there be a different trending folder at the bottom of the screen all the time now? If Christmas is already so popular, why is it being promoted like this?

Count me down as some accidental clicks too.

Definitely much better under the comment box

@Helpstopthepain

Definitely much better under the comment box

I agree although I still fail to see it's purpose given that a huge amount of topics showing in trending are from the Christmas topic. It sort of seems daft to have 2 boxes on the site basically promoting the same threads.

This is a tone deaf response.

I don't get this at all. By November there are always Christmas threads in Active and often in Trending Now. Aren't those the obvious ways people find threads of interest?

My trending now box is all threads from the Christmas topic apart from the first page. Is that because of the box or have you replaced the Christmas box by filling up the normal trending section?

The cynic in me expects lots of Christmas gift threads with affiliated links 🤷‍♀️

Surely not 🙄

@FlamingGoat

The cynic in me expects lots of Christmas gift threads with affiliated links 🤷‍♀️

Surely not 🙄

Ah yes, undoubtedly the source of the alleged demand for extra links to that board.

We’ve got Christmas thrusted into our faces but the emojis (is that the word?) are still Halloween ones