Will you all be paying for Mumsnet Premium?

[WorraLiberty]

I'm not sure yet but I'll probably pay for a month and then see what other features they bring in.

Thread by Justine incase you haven't seen it

YABU = No

YANBU = Yes, I might give it a try

Gut feeling says I would pay this under the circumstances. Only I've just had to close my business and lost my income, so struggling myself.

Regarding drop in advertising, my accountant told me that I need to stop working and trading and that I should stop advertising. He specifically said to stop advertising.

I think they would have to polish up their website if they wanted people to pay.

I can only conclude that they have spectacularly mis managed their vast income.

No, sorry.

Ha and we have got to provide the content too.

I feel uncomfortable with the amount of times I spend on mumsnet (which is actually pretty moderate) so no - I won’t pay, as I’d see it as an “unhealthy” spend of money.
If they end up making it pay only, then I’d probably be rather relieved as no temptation to go on it.

No way can I justify paying that amount!

No.

I have sympathy with lots of people and businesses who are in the shit now. But requests for funds to keep people’s businesses going are rife and are doing my head in.

Childcarers and nursery’s wanting holding deposits so they don’t close down. MN and similar websites creating a paywall for users. Lots of local businesses and fb pages I’m on asking for donations and ‘creatively’ fundraising because they have no income.

I sympathise but it’s not customers’ responsibility to keep businesses afloat in tough times.

And if I find I have a spare few quid at some point I’ll donate it to the poor buggers dealing with CV in a third world country somewhere - not towards keeping ££ in the pockets of those in charge of multi million pound businesses and websites in one of most privileged countries in the world.

@Optimist1

Sorry, haven't read the entire thread, but my immediate reaction is why, in a situation where Justine says advertising revenue has suffered a hit would the solution be to reduce the size of the MN market for those advertisers? And by definition, those who are able to afford to opt out of ads are those who are more able to afford the goods and services offered by the advertisers. Doesn't make business sense to me, but then I'm not a successful entrepreneur!

This is the very point I made over on Justine's thread.

I wonder what their advertisers will make of that. I'd have thought it would put more of them off when they find out there is a Premium Membership that basically blocks off their brand!

It wouldn't exactly give me a warm, fuzzy feeling that MN values me as an advertising customer

Reddit is £6.50 a month for premium membership, which is basically no ads and coins.

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/07/sue-ryder-may-close-hospices-coronavirus-lockdown-budget-shortfall

If the choice is between funding the two, sorry but I know where my money will be going

No. Just as Mumsnet is struggling financially due to CV, so are we.
Plus the ‘extra’ functions seem like things that should exist anyway on a decent site. So no. Good excuse to stop using the site actually.

Definitely not. I'm sure I can find another forum to waste my time on in the middle of the night when I should be asleep.

Definitely not.

No, since brexit ive realised how out of touch and nasty some mn members are to real life which is sad. The nastiness re the pm whilst ill been the last straw recently. Wish no politics rule and just parent support.

Good grief, the wage bill?
People have been crying out for an improvement to the frankly diabolical search function for bloody ages, so presumably the money isn't being paid to tech.
Don't know if I'll pay, the Corona thing has highlighted some ghastly posters which has made people, myself included think about leaving never mind paying.

we were always planning to introduce Premium this year but we've slightly rushed it out with fewer benefits than we wanted to launch with because needs must - hence the appeal for help.

Turns out it was always their plan.

Ah yes, BadMothersClub, that ended well didn't it.

Given the previous issues with personal data being compromised on MN, what does @MNHQ plan to do to assure premium subscribers that their bank details will be secure?

This has been asked again and again on MN's own thread but so far not addressed

The issue ... is that we aleady 'pay' in that we provide the content

Exactly

'Reddit is £6.50 a month for premium membership, which is basically no ads and coins.'

Oh yes @JustineMumsnet add the ability to award posters and the scheme will take off

Nope.

No, absolutely not.

I’ve been here long enough to see the security breaches that have happened previously, therefore I wouldn’t let them have my financial details!

Also, I think it sucks that they can suddenly implement these new features, but could not before.

It feels like they’re taking advantage of people’s good nature at this time of crisis. Many folk are lonely, bored, need company and come on here for that. This feels like an emotional plea to gain money from them.

No.
The yearly wage bill of £4.2 million for staff needs to be looked at.

350K doesn't seem much on salaries to me. It's 12 people at most. If you have a team of 5 software developers, that's 250K gone if you are lucky.

HMM a MONTH tho?