“We’re all short on time” is a stupid name for a pop-up that wastes my time by appearing

[planefullofotters]

If you are browsing MN while logged out you get this stupid pop-up every time you go to a new page of a thread.

It is very annoying, hard to get rid of and very badly named!

Yes!! Agree it's v. Irritating.

Hi there, @planefullofotters. We're assuming this is the prompt to sign in or register pop up? The thinking behind it is that we want users to have the full Mumsnet experience and have the option to use the full range of features such as to watch and save threads, follow topics, bookmark threads, add messages etc.

If you don't want to do that though, you should be able to just close the pop up in the standard way, by clicking anywhere outside of the box.

I don’t want to have to repeatedly close a pop-up while browsing while logged out.

But my main point was that it’s badly named. The issue isnt that we’re all short on time. The issue is that you want me to log in. Say that then!

Basically the least you could do is change the heading to ‘Please sign in or register’. The current one is aggravating and makes no sense.

Thanks for the feedback, OP. We'll have a chat about it.

Basically it’s clearly designed to add friction for people browsing while logged out, not to save us time, and is therefore very frustrating and misleading.

@LilyMumsnet Just been directed to this thread after googling ‘Mumsnet we’re all short on time pop up’. Lo and behold, someone has the same complaint!

I agree with OP - we shouldn’t need to keep closing it and to be perfectly honest, it comes off as very condescending.
Yes we are all short on time, so if the site would stop wasting mine that would be great.