Will you all be paying for Mumsnet Premium?

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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

This is great  I hope all those people pompously telling Justine how she is Businessing Wrongly are doing well with their own successful forums with as many users as MN has 

I will subscribe when funds allow and consider it cheap for the amount of time I spend here and the previous years of entertainment, advice, support, laughs, cat photos and cake recipes. I don't think FWR is perfect by any means but I really fucking appreciate it and like the rest of MN apart from fucking AIBU my life would be more boring without it.

I would also love if people could buy gift subscriptions - it would be a great gift for new parents or not even parents, women who like intelligent conversation and also like to swear. I would also happily pay, if I could afford it, to have the benefit of some FWR posters I would miss if they went and Lang

But @JustineMumsnet you can't call it Premium Mumsnet, it has to be called CatMeYouCunt

Awww where did my little faces go?! Are you charging for them already?

I think a lot of posters are going to be disappointed when they realise how little they're actually getting for £5 a month.

No won’t be paying.
I’ve been here since around 2009 and Mumsnet has supported me through two babies as a single parent, and a DV relationship.

You can find fantastic support and advice from genuine professionals and experts in their field especially if you’re a regular and you get to know who’s who over the years . But it’s still a chat forum essentially, despite also having a reputation as one of the nastiest chat forums on the internet ! But I tend to stay away from those boards, they’re too scary.

Fundamentally, I can’t afford it, and as much as I enjoy the site, I also enjoy my hobby forums too, and opening one less webpage tab on my device if I couldn’t afford Mumsnet, well, I don’t think I’d notice to be honest.

’I think a lot of posters are going to be disappointed when they realise how little they're actually getting for £5 a month.’

You’re assuming they’re expecting anything extra. All I want is for MN to continue.

TBH I think this has less to do with advertising revenue and more to do with the fact that they are no longer of interest to the tabloids who regularly lift threads from here and thus contribute to bringing more traffic to the site. Now that Coronavirus has taken over the reporting “my mil has decided to park her caravan outside my house” no longer makes for good tabloid fodder.

Added to which the fact that coronavirus has also taken over MN means that there are no longer lighthearted or even different threads to contribute to to keep people coming back. Many have in fact left over some of the coronavirus threads...

I wouldn't be surprised if the mail et al used to pay to use thread content, and it's that income that has dried up, rather than ad revenue ...

fewer ads? so even if I am paying I will still be a raw material from which the company makes a profit, kinda like a cow who pays to be in the milking shed?
Also in a forum it's the users who do most of the work, who create all the content that we come here to engage with, if I pay to subscribe to a journal then I'm paying for content created by professional writers who know their subject, that's not really the case here.
Obvs they are a business whose business model suddenly no longer stacks up but....

I think a lot of posters are going to be disappointed when they realise how little they're actually getting for £5 a month.

This ^^ So many posters seem to think by paying they wont see ads. This is not true. Although if you want no ads why not use ad blocker it's free.

I'd love to know why it takes 100 people to manage such a poorly managed forum.

It's become almost unusable since Covid - thread after thread of the same. I deal with it all day at work and can't even escape here for a bit of light relief when I get home.

At least this has given us something else to talk about.

No, definitely not, I won’t bother with it if they start charging

Ha, also, fewer ads, that’s a joke

Not a chance

Awww, £1,000 towards their humongous staff bills this month. Every little helps.

You’re assuming they’re expecting anything extra.

I'm not assuming anything. Quite a few posters have already said they're happy to pay so they have no ads, which isn't actually what the premium version is offering. You may not want anything in return for £5 a month, but it's clear many of those paying are expecting things in return.

I wouldn't be surprised if the mail et al used to pay to use thread content, and it's that income that has dried up, rather than ad revenue

The comments are in the public domain, the Mail has no need to pay anything. Once you start posting stuff on an internet site, you have no control over what happens to it.

I'd love to know why it takes 100 people to manage such a poorly managed forum.

Me too. Plus given the 350k a month wage bill they all seem to be making an absolute fortune too which is impressive given so much of the forum is unusable or broken.

I can't justify the extra spend...

Although if you want no ads why not use ad blocker it's free.

I'm wondering if they'll block you from the site if you don't lift the adblocker. Occasionally I've logged in when I'd lifted it for another site and mn is appalling. It's horrific to look at with all of the adverts.

No. If it starts being so that you gave to have premium to get anything interesting out of the Mumsnet experience, I'll switch to Spinster and Reddit.

I wonder how long it will be before the most popular boards are for subscribers only?

Cutting back on all other subscriptions so will just have to love without Mumsnet- tbh not sure it’s done my mental health good over the past few weeks so have been using it less. It’s squeaky bum time for lots. Guess premium will mean it reverts to the north London middle class “mummies” who started it

if there are paying and non paying members how will that work? Will we all be judged by the same standards or will paying members be allowed to bend the rules more, pretty sure I'd cancel pdq if I got any kind of a telling off!

I won’t pay. I think I’ve read it all now so probably needed an incentive to stop, it’s an addictive habit that I don’t really have time for.

I think the whole business model needs a rethink. Technically it's run by amateurs - quite literally I suspect - and the forum design, such as it is, reflects that. I can see it being sold to a media business.

of course not. Who would pay for a chat forum?

ebay is another one where I pay to add content - but I generally get some money back from that.