Is there just less content being posted now?

Recently Mumsnet seemed to be wall to wall sad, tragic, dire relationship problems mainly in AIBU. No funny, quirk, interesting threads. From this thread I realised I needed to stop staying in active/trending threads and make the effort to visit the boards I am interested in directly. The big win is learning how to hide all the stuff that is repetitive or I am not interested in. All of a sudden even the active feed is more varied and interesting.

This morning looked on politics as expecting response to last few days happenings but nothing - all out of date. So different on Gransnet.

Yes agree @A580Hojas

I absolutely loathe those opening posts that end with, ‘tell me about your similar experiences and make me feel better about my ridiculously fake scenario!’

And people do - and lots of them are fake too.

As a style of attracting content, it’s all a bit tedious and suspicious. And no, I’m still not keen on reporting until there’s more info on how that data leak happened and what the ICO think about it.

I have noticed this too. Lots and lots of chat threads on well-worn topics and the op ending with "tell me your views on this" or "anyone had a similar experience".

Of course there are the usual trolls and the topics list being meaningless because of the over-use of AIBU (which I have been moaning about loudly for years!!) but I don't think I'll really get back into Mumsnet until they fix advanced search.

Yeah. People get pissed off and move on. The recent site rejig has just been a disaster.

Sorry. Panini.

Aye but just one cornetto won’t keep them full.

The Gondolieri are going to have to scull to the shops.

Not sure what for though. Do you get outrage in a bap?

More bridges than Venice.

I wasn’t here when it was all green fields. They’d just started construction when I first came along.

No green fields now.

Plenty of bridges though.

The only thing hairier than some folks’ hands is my chin. All my chinny reckoning is encouraging growth… 🧐

And if you pick a hole - out comes the tsunami. Why bother with a drip feed when you can go all out drook?
Love you Sheldon

S&B hasn't made me buy anything for aaggges
their constant enablement was one of my favourite things about that board.

Update more topics off list due to unfortunates resorting to personal attack

it’ll just be echo chamber threads but hey at least there’s parking or whatever

Probably for the best I’ll just avoid more

I confess to sighing most days.

Mostly a frothy non dilemma, a wail of ‘oh whatever shall I do?’ And two or three supporting posts later, they’ve seen the light, actioned whatever and have gone all sharny on someone’s harris.

And if you pick a hole - out comes the tsunami. Why bother with a drip feed when you can go all out drook?

I find it all quite boring now and struggle to find threads that I want to engage with most days.

I feels like the site was 10 years ago - I'm an oldie

Hi I just wanted to drop in and give a one week update. Last week I hid Aibu, relationships, divorce and every small child related topic,( I have teens, all pet topics ( i have none) though I kept parenting and things like chat.

I can report back that mn is on the whole back to being a wonderful supportive site and I'm loving the higher proportion of style and beauty!

I’d love it if yoga livened up a bit

I go there every so often, shout ‘echooooo’ and leave again

refining the topics sounds like a great idea (just please leave the magnificent Sporner’s Corner)

*wouldn't!

I've been here off and on for 15 years. It becoming an unpleasant place is nothing new. I left in 2015 as it got too much for me. People have been encouraged to be unpleasant and flame. People looking for serious advice go on places like FB groups where you would get such nasty messages (or less likely to). You'd be crazy to share anything personal. It's a trolls paradise.

That's not new but the new platform and people leaving after the latest data breach is making the problems more apparent. My teenage daughter and her friends read here to laugh at the crazy replys. I'm shocked some people think it's worth donating £5 a month to a message board when there's so much out there.

And why three separate topics for work (Work, Back to Work, Employment Issues)? They seem to get used interchangeably. Surely it would make more sense to have a single work topic?

Troll running riot again tonight.

Do we really need an entire topic for Tattoos? Or Yoga? Do we really need seven different boards for weight loss instead of one weight loss topic with seven threads for the common diets? Do we need a whole topic for people who have pet fish?

Yoga's really quiet. It could go under exercise with other quiet exercise related topics. It would give a much busier board.

I quite like having a separate topic for cats (The Litter Tray). I do think the health topics are underused as everyone wants to post in AIBU for traffic about medical matters for some reason.

I think a parking topic would be good because I think that has peaked now. It's like the shopping list threads of old.

I also think the number of topics needs to be cut right down. It becomes a cycle - people get confused trawling through 100 topic names to find the most appropriate one, so they just post in AIBU or Chat. Then AIBU and Chat get all the traffic because they're the only ones with threads, so nobody posts anywhere else because they don't get replies...

Do we really need an entire topic for Tattoos? Or Yoga? Do we really need seven different boards for weight loss instead of one weight loss topic with seven threads for the common diets? Do we need a whole topic for people who have pet fish?