What does the new Premium Mumsnet plan to include?

[Thepigeonsarecoming]

Will there be a private area, to talk about things that may be identifying? If so I’d join. I know this isn’t entirely doable as anyone who pays would be able to see, but it’s a start (unlikely trolls would pay)

The only stuff I’ve seen is about no ads, which doesn’t bother me (other than the Disney ones I kept accidentally clicking on). That was more annoyance than any urge to pay though

It's not as many ads, rather than no ads.

@badlad thank you, I understood it as no ads, I stand corrected though (and a bit more disappointed)

@BadLad do you know any positives then?

I joined for a month and then cancelled.
No extras as far as I could see.

I'd love to know how many people have signed up for it.
MNHQ say if you pay for a year's subscription upfront but want to cancel at any point, you can't get a refund

Why would there be a special private area?

I saw Justine said the other day there are plans for everyone to be able to filter an OPs posts on a thread but that for premium, there'd be a function to do that for any poster on the thread.

@ElizabethMainwaring So no positives then? Thank you

I don't think anything else has been confirmed. There was talk of an edit function with a short window (about 15 seconds) after posting, to be added some time in the future and "looking at" adding more features in future.

@BeingonFBdoesntmakeittrue I didn’t say there should be, I asked if there would be. I was asking as that would be something which would appeal to me only, I have no interest in ads or filtering OPs posts on a thread. I like to read or at least skim read a whole thread

I’m not looking for arguements, just to see if this is something for me

There doesn't seem alot of benefit to premium to me. From the posts i've seen of people who signed up, most considered it more of a donation to help MN out than anything else.

I've seen some posts where it looks like people are quoting other posts (a bit like a screen shot) and presumed that was premium. Easier than trying to remember to bold and failing

I've not paid premium (and won't) and I get the quite function coming up when I click the three dots next to a post.

@FanSaBhaile

I've seen some posts where it looks like people are quoting other posts (a bit like a screen shot) and presumed that was premium. Easier than trying to remember to bold and failing

Its not premium

I joined for a month but have just cancelled.

I use the app on my phone 99% of the time. I literally could see no difference. I also wanted to subscribe to a newspaper so wanted to balance the books.

No problem cancelling though. They replied within an hour.

Everyone has the quote feature.

There’s no difference. Seen a few posts from people complaining that they’d to sign up but it was exactly the same. Mumsnet always responds that they’ll be working on it in the future. They’re literally selling and charging people money for a product that doesn’t exist

I don’t know how to quote either :)

Thanks Scarlet & BeingonFB - you learn something new every day. Now to figure out how!

@Azaziel

I don’t know how to quote either :)

If you are on a mobile click on the three dots next to bookmark (where report post is), and theres a new quote function. I'm guessing there is similar on desktop...

I quite like your idea of a private members area, OP. I haven't heard that before but you could suggest it to MNHQ?

I paid. Haven't noticed any difference on my phone app, but I am happy to have paid if it means mumsnet keeps going. It has been so incredibly informative to me on a huge range of issues over the years.

They’re literally selling and charging people money for a product that doesn’t exist

This is the crux of it. Other than less ads the 'product' is nothing but promises which may or may not be kept. In theory you could pay for a whole year and they could spend it promising to add new features.

I use the app on my phone 99% of the time. I literally could see no difference.

The quote function or the vote function doesn't work on the app so I certainly wouldn't pay for it.

From what I've heard, you get to wear a crown and have a special wand with which you are able to zap any non-premium poster who annoys you.