I’ve been on here for a long time and it just feels like it’s not the same place anymore.☹️
It used to be full of useful advice, proper support, funny threads that would keep you reading for hours; the odd bunfight over parking or a real time thread to liven things up, building curiosity and tension. How invested were we!
Now it seems to be:
- endless politics (so much mis-information, which even when challenged isn't backed up with evidence)
- OPs who never come back after their first ‘interesting’ post (so what’s the point?)
- weirdly written stuff that doesn’t sound like a real person/situation at all
- and a lot of repeat topics/commonly applied situations that feel very ‘clickbait’
- no flow - posters jumping in when they haven't read the thread, saying the same thing again and again; endless arguing when posters take exception to something not directed at them; posters unable to accept a bigger picture of a majority rather than their one single view
- derailed threads (immigration, politics)
I miss the days when you could ask a silly question about your laundry habits, or what to cook for fussy toddlers, and get 100 replies that were funny, blunt, supportive or all three. That felt like the whole point of MN, quite light-hearted but sound advice by real people.
I know the site says it’s “for grown-ups” and they don’t want to over-moderate, which I do get.
But honestly — am I the only one who feels like MN is losing its way a bit? Or is this just where all SM/forums are heading?