Site continually crashing and reloading

[Traceysgoingtobelivid]

I am so utterly sick of this, it’s been going on for months but now it’s even worse, in the space of 15 minutes the site has crashed and reloaded 3 times, each time I have lost my post I was typing, it’s infuriating, I am on an iPad using safari. This has been highlighted by numerous posters time and time again and nothing changes.

It’s bloody diabolical again this evening freezing reloading landing back on the page you’ve previously read trying to get on another thread is like watching paint dry eating my battery & iPad becoming very hot only on MN doesn’t do it on any other site🤬

^100% yes to all this. Bookmarks not working either. It’s a real chore using this site, and one I’m less and less inclined to do. Particularly in view of the scant involvement from mn staff.

Well, I'm finding that the site now works on Apple devices for me, when it really didn't for a few years.

However, on all types of devices there's now an issue with pages "freezing" occasionally, sometimes for several minutes - I think this is due to slow-loading adverts. Surely these ads could be compressed so that the site still works?

I’m late to this thread. I’m on iPad on safari. I thought this was a problem with my iPad but it only happens on mumsnet website. I’d resigned myself to going away and doing other things while waiting for the adverts to load. It seemed to be that the pop up ads at the bottom of the screen were really slow to load and the page just freezes with loads of blank sections whilst they load. However, today is even worse. I’ve just had advert pop ups covering one side of the thread as well as the pop up in the bottom right corner. These are in addition to the usual ads in amongst the thread.
Seems to have gone again for now but it was ridiculous. It’s starting to look like one of those scammy nothing but adverts sites you sometimes wander onto by mistake.

I note MN have STILL not given any idea when this will be fixed.

Today's fresh hell now involves my Mac, which previously wasn't so much of an issue. Now, when I type a message, half way through, suddenly my screen is taken over by a full screen video ad. Wtf!

Why?

Why? Why? Why?

How is any of this meant to enhance our user experience?

Much more of this and they won't have a user base to sell anymore.

I mean, why don't they test things properly before unleashing them on the live site?

Jumping around the site. I'm on thread returns me to the day before rather than the three posts I haven't read.

I'm on here much less just a few favourite threads I'll persevere with.

Constant refreshing happening STILL. It’s been months now. It makes reading threads virtually impossible 🤬

Yes, it hasn't improved at all. I mostly read on my iPhone, which I turn landscape, as it's easier to read the text. As soon as I do that - reload.

If I try to enlarge the text - reload.

Scroll down a few messages - reload.

Come across one of the numerous video ads that are now stuffed everywhere on the page - top, sides, bottom, between posts - reload.

Try to leave a comment - reload (with the message you typed lost).

I mean, come on, this is not a good user experience! Why don't they care??

I'm reading and posting a lot less these days, which is MN's loss and my gain, but it would be nice to have the choice to use the site as intended when I want to.

Use DuckDuckGo and you can browse MN easily, without any ad or reloading.

Well the funny thing is, I've resisted doing this, as I know MN want the ad revenue, and I don't begrudge them that and am happy to see adverts as the quid pro quo of me using the site. I don't want to pay for yet another subscription, so it seems a good trade off, provided the ads don't interfere with reasonable use of the site.

But they really, really don't seem to want me or other users to be able to see the adverts while using the site, do they! They've had months to sort it but haven't bothered to do so.

Shooting themselves in the foot, as I'm now seriously considering giving DuckDuckGo a go, after months of patience that is now running out.

It is the sheer number of trackers and companies doing ad bidding. I just took a screenshot. All these are following every word you write, any comment you make, then leaving cookies and other pieces to follow you even after you leave MN.

Image under review. In case, it won’t be visible, you have 11 companies currently on this thread.

Gosh, that is quite sobering. Have MN satisfied themselves that all these nosey parkers will use our data ethically?

It’s gotten worse these past few days.