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

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But imagine if all the people who now see that link join up?

Isn’t there a breach of some sort here?
There using the same colour/font/branding style as MN. Surely that’s going to be a problem?

@Faffandahalf honestly I wouldn't trust any site. Always use a burner email and a unique password. I've had both taken from data leaks from big companies so only real people get my real email thesedays. the rest its to a burner account

Mama Is it run by tattle (a site I know little about)

But who is running it? And is it safe to use?

You could ask the same questions about MN.

Nope i won't be. Clearly profiteering of mostly poor people. Same as the supermarkets, made out they'd stopped all offers to stop hoarding, now my shop cost atleast £30 more per week as i have a large family to feed and no multibuys and swear prices have gone up. Ceos of big supermarkets making a mint of the back of this and now mumsnet is joining in, no thanks!!!

That site linked will just be a basic forum platform. Colour etc is what you get nothing to do with here.

Yes it is run by Tattle.

Why don't Tattle admin go public on who they are? It is a conundrum.

Only one person has access to private data (myself) and the site uses secure tried and tested software. In over 20 years of operating website's I've not had a breach.

This is what is said on that Mum's chat 'site stuff'. Who is 'myself' and why trust them if they can't even say who they are?

Not very original either. Am I being unreasonable, Chat, Style and Beauty, Site Stuff.

Surely if people want a new forum it shouldn't be a poor copy of Mumsnet run by an anonymous person?

I would have paid previously but data breaches, snarling posters re Brexit & the election (on both sides) have rather put me off. I waste too much time on here and this might be the kick up the backside I need.

But that's the thing MN really needs to make it special because at the moment it's very replaceable

I think people forget that what makes MN is the people who post on it. Take them somewhere else and the chat will be the same, the support will be the same, advice given will be the same and the feel of the place will be the same because the whole experience relies on those who post here.

As you said MN is not irreplaceable and if they drive people away they will no doubt find somewhere else to go. Isn't that exactly what happened with Bad Mums Club.

I just subscribed. Apart from the amount of reading I do here, I am eternally grateful that MN has actually allowed everyone to have the discussion re the trans issue as opposed to just shutting down debate like most other places did.

I'd consider donating to a fundraising drive, but not for a premium membership, especially as the £4.99 price-point is absurdly expensive.

I just subscribed

Genuine question are you not worried about your personal information being linked to your account on here? Given all the skirting around the dats issues Justine did yesterday there is no garuntee that anything has changed since the last breach.

I love MN found shortly after my marriage ended 10 years ago and the emotional support on the Relationship board was phenomenal . I do spend a lot of time on here though and really I think it makes me lazy and far too much screen time.
I too have Noticed a lot of rather unkind threads and there’s a subject that’s come up today on AIBU personal to me where the posts could really upset me and I think what am I doing on here ?
That said it’s so entertaining and informative and I couldn’t care less about edit buttons and like , if I were to divide £5 a month by the hours in a month I’m on here ...
For me the answer is probably no I won’t because actually I would be better off breaking this habit !

37 members. I don't think they're the competition quite yet.

Over 600 guests what does that mean? People reading it I suppose. I’m going cold turkey if this folds so not for me but quite amusing.

I’d pay £20 a year, but not £50

Guests are people reading not logged in.

If you think MN is addictive, tattle is on another level. The reactions and badges seem to spur people onto some crazy behaviour.

The feminism board will be interesting anyway once it gets going

There's an interesting bit on one post I'd like to know if it's true re Justine's dh.

IF and I do mean IF it's true then I'd be very disappointed.

Now advance search is back you can look and see that user1477391263 has been here a while. Id still like to know if the security aspects concern them??

I wouldn't subscribe to a site run by Tattle as I don't agree with their selling point and think it's unkind. Each to their own and all that though.

PleaseStopCrying, I can here from Bad Mums Club

That place literally saved my sanity

My favourite topic was called: “Shit, Fuck, Bollocks!!” If I remember correctly

Gosh that is going back, what, 15 yrs?!

Mumsnet is a bit like the BBC, an anchronism but ok if it is free. I wouldn't pay for it though.

If MNHQ had had their heads screwed on and took their security obligations seriously, they would have paid for professional cyber security advice, to protect the data they control from hackers, including taking action against staff with malicious intent. You can't just 'wing it' and hope for the best!

If they go with a US behemoth like Amazon, they need to be sure the server is hosted in an EU country to be GDPR compliant. That may seem elementary, but it's surprising how the most basic of cyber security and privacy principles trip people up and they forget to ask the right questions, until it's too late! They need all their internal processes to be ISO27001 compliant, and not 'sub-contract' that obligation to a web service provider.

It has taken Covid19 to expose serious chinks in their armour, they should have been better prepared. The greatest harm to a business is loss to reputation, which is often unrecoverable.