Anyone know of a user friendly site similar to Mumsnet?

[CherryogDog]

Finding Mumsnet hard work, too much like Facebook where it's more adverts than content.
Huge adverts covering the screen.
The migraine triggering moving ads at the top.
Changed the colours, too bright.
Some threads auto scrolling.
Going back to the top of the list.
Watch button removed from the top.
Ann Summer's arse has returned.
The only good change is moving the report button because I was constantly pressing it by mistake.

That’s kind of you. I’m interested in what’s on the telly, news & politics and relationships.

But I think what MN offers, that Reddit doesn’t, is nuance about Women’s Rights and an unashamedly low tolerance to nonsense.

It was the lifeboat site when The Guardian closed down its talkboards (one of the biggest and most active UK ones of its time).

I started off there in the early 2000 and was quite shocked when I began to make the move to MN later!

Why is it that so many "social" sites seem to be American-based?

I like Reddit. I’ve never seen any misogyny on there. Lots of the U.K. boards really make me laugh.

Because we (British) don't seem to want to open any ourselves. We'd just rather complain and complain, then do nothing or join the US sites. Twas ever thus.

I quite agree tbh. I know mnhq used to remove some threads and posts like these but they're probably tired of walling off these discussions. Lol I know many forums don't allow them either.

Just get an ad blocker, Firefox plus ublock origin

Even when did see ads they all seemed to think I was a middle aged man who couldn't get it up wtf

The app is fine

@NoCommentingFromNowOn can I ask how you read updates on busy reddit threads? It’s the only thing I find difficult. I read a thread, great, then go back 24 hours and just want to read the new posts (without trawling through everything I’ve already read). Is that possible?

Thank you!

I use a laptop, Firefox browser, ad-blocker. It's all fine. Works for Mumsnet and Youtube.

YouTube on my Android smartphone (where, apparently, adblockers are forbidden) is hopeless.

Yes! I mean, it would be better if one could find the right sub-reddit at all! I haven't run into the comfort problem. But the forums are chaos because it seems that users can create them randomly. Why, for instance, should there be separate forums for Vintage Computers versus Vintage Computing?

And, yes, the greatest virtue of MN, to me, is the excellent mods here.

Hm. Are you saying that Americans are more motivated to create something new?

I’m reading this ad-free, yay, via a browser called DuckDuckGo. Recommended by a poster on this board.

Yes it was rude of me to start this thread, but as MNHQ are ignoring the many posters struggling to use the site I thought it might get their attention.

I've been on mumsnet all of 10 minutes this morning and need to stop because the flickering ads have triggered my vertigo.
Bit of an own goal for a site funded mainly by advertisers.

I don’t like seeming to be rude, either. But I’m done with being asked over and over again for my ‘device and browser’ and for ‘screenshots’. Can’t be arsed with the faux innocence of it any more.

MNHQ has had reams of feedback, repeatedly. It knows the issues, and why they are issues. I think users have been very loyal and patient over the years, even through hacking and data dramas.

But, like you say, we’re now in unusable territory for many.

can anyone recommend a good ad blocker, because I can't carry on using the site with 3-4 different moving ads in the background.

I use the app on iPhone and iPad and I don’t get any of the problems posters are talking about. I scroll past any ads, there’s no flickering and loading all the posts on a thread is instant. The actual website sounds very cumbersome.

I use DuckDuckGo browser on my phone and have never seen an ad on MN.

Reddit is no longer usable IMO because most of the posts are bots/AI content.

I agree. I cannot think of any other user created content site I visit where the ad framework is the cause of so many basic usability and accessibility issues and inappropriate (for the site) content issues.

Each time there is a change it breaks aspects of accessibility, each time these accessibility issues are reported its dismissed with “we tested it” or “we are compliant” (aka the free code checker didn’t pick anything up).

So the ads come not from MN, but from the browser?

Why would it have been rude otherwise start this thread?

Puzzled.

I'm puzzled by what you've written @MsAmerica .
Someone upthread said it was rude of me to post this.
I agreed, and gave an explanation of why I'd posted.

I’ve no idea what the problem is 🤪

Mumsnet has been hacked in the past because its system design and security practices were "my first IT project" levels of amateurism. I believe the response from MNHQ was little more than "Oops. You'll probably want to reset your passwords".