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

I'm all for a paid for subscription. Finally I could stop wasting time on MN

I don’t think £4.99 a month is terrible as I know roughly how much they’d make per 1,000 page views and god knows most of us do at least a thousand page views a month on AIBU alone!

It is when the wage bill is what it is, they can't even get decent devs in for that price, there are better off the shelf bulletin board systems more secure with more features.

For those who are wondering why MN is in such a black hole at the moment, my business also depends on ad revenue and around 73% of businesses have now paused or massively reduced their ad spend.

But this is MNs the land where you have 6 months savings & put away money for when times are lean! 😜

Has MN considered doing the neighbours ironing?

"But what's this about a staff member giving out people's data?!? Tell me more!"

I'm also interested in that!

I think £4.99 is unrealistic for what you get. Feels like the decision making around how much to charge consisted of "well who can't afford a fiver a month eh?!" and that's about it. I'd probably pay it, grudgingly, if I had to.

Has MN considered doing the neighbours ironing?

I don’t think £4.99 a month is terrible as I know roughly how much they’d make per 1,000 page views and god knows most of us do at least a thousand page views a month on AIBU alone!

Mumsnet is making alot more than your bog standard site just with google ads.

Even with the rate falls the fixed costs to host they'll still be making many many multiples more for views.

the 350k wage bill a month is a real mystery. I think they needed to look at that before talking about needing money to keep the lights on.

And funnily enough on the day they announce this it seems the adverts on the right side are even more intrusive. Now taking up nearly 50% width of the iPad and moving, intrusive adverts.

And of course no incentive now to make the user experience better because they will say well just pay £5 a month. I imagine the plan is to make the adverts more and more intrusive on purpose.

Will be the nail in the coffin for MN. I say that as someone who’s been here for 19 years and remember the old days are having to subscribe to be able to CAT another poster.

Thats a lot of money considering would probably still get banned for accidentally calling people cunts

It’s probably to fund their gin bill.Tbh I scrolled down to the cost. The bits I skimmed just seemed like a lot of irrelevant waffle. Oh they might be paid by every letter typed.

Has MN considered doing the neighbours ironing?

They’re taking it in once they’ve finished their shift at their new job: Tesco.

Sponging? I'm pretty sure that sites where the user provides the content make a lot of money from selling off data, like stories to the Mail. AdBlock is perfectly legal, and if they wanted to make good use of that 350m wage bill, they could program their site so it doesn't work with AdBlock (like Daily Mail have done). Of course I'll use AdBlock while I have the option to. They should have thought about getting some cash reserves to weather a crisis - the actual MN posters have been banging on about Coronavirus and the shutdown it will cause since January, so they can't say they never saw it coming.

If they have that kind of level of expenditure - then they should regard this as a good opportunity to streamline costs!

I also suspect those who pay would have that taken into consideration when/if their posts are reported and/or they're behaving like arseholes.

I don't care about an edit button and I think it would mean some threads won't make sense depending on how long people have to edit for.
And I run it on my phone which already blocks all the ads for me (can't remember how I sorted that out but it does.)

Nope. Loads always post about being on 60k + a year so I will leave that for them lol

Hmmmm it’s been taken off as a pinned thread

Is is really £350k a month????

Perhaps we need to ask -
What are the roles and how many?

They need to furlough a few staff maybe.

It has been two /three weeks and they have no stash fund? Where is all the money going?

Software and IT must be the big cost
Advertising and Sales
PR
Moderators
Admin
Accountant
??

I think people might be referring to this

www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/19/mumsnet-reports-itself-data-regulator-transgender-rights-row-ip-addresses-posted-twitter

i won't
broke here. so will leave it to the rich.

Definitely not. Way too much money and MN is not an important part of my life. Plus we've had cuts to our salaries and are tightening our belts.

Plus I would like clarification on why they're on their uppers - as others have said, it's a WEBSITE. I get why other businesses are struggling but surely ad revenue here should be up? Or at the very least not down.

Or am I missing something?

Either way I'd rather give it up than pay.

OP do you work for MN?

Anyone feeling misled that mumsnet said that there was a blip with search function and that would be up soon

But clear now only if pay

They must think they’ve attracted enough marks for now. All giddy about getting something other site members won’t have.
Like, ummmm, partially blocked ads.....whoopee shit....

At a time when social media communication is so important to so many people, Mumsnet has to be the site that cynically takes advantage of that