To think mumsnet has become a lot less popular?

[Duckypoohs]

Is it just me who thinks the volume of threads and replies has lessened? It used to be so busy and good, now you can reread a thread and hardly any more replies have been posted.

I'm sad about this, the Internet is becoming more and more condensed. It also seems like the demographic has shrank. Bah, sad times.

It is 4am.

@ftw163532

It is 4am.

It doesn't help having an antiquated user interface that hasn't moved with the times and expectations of a feature-rich modern forum. It's increasingly clunky. I know they're planning to sort that out, hopefully sooner rather than later.

On the plus side it is a lot less cliquey than it used to be, there aren't the queen bees, they've all buzzed off.

The journos wrecked it
And what @daisychain01 said it's become outdated

@daisychain01 oh and it's probably a lot more swanky if you pay for the premium site version
I guess it's how the world of Mumsnet works these days.
Meh

I do remember the cliquey days, I think I'm just a bit sad for the early Internet. I'm not the kind of person who would even get involved. Sadge.

@daisychain01

It doesn't help having an antiquated user interface that hasn't moved with the times and expectations of a feature-rich modern forum. It's increasingly clunky. I know they're planning to sort that out, hopefully sooner rather than later.

On the plus side it is a lot less cliquey than it used to be, there aren't the queen bees, they've all buzzed off.

What was it like with Queen Bees?

Books it is then. Ah well the Internet was fun for a bit.

Icod is on twitter if anyone wants to follow her

I don’t think it’s just the site itself. I wouldn’t want anyone IRL to know I posted here. It feels far removed from real life.

It is incredibly old fashioned in terms of functionality, and has an ‘interesting’ reputation

@Peoniesandpeaches

I don’t think it’s just the site itself. I wouldn’t want anyone IRL to know I posted here. It feels far removed from real life.

Yes exactly. I would find it embarrassing to admit. I’m an expat and I’ve only ever lived in west London, which like anywhere has a lot of a certain type of people who speak and think a certain way. But being on here makes me feel like I’ve met people from all over the UK.

I think people now get their social online interaction needs filled by Facebook groups so forums like these are no longer the only option. There was a huge parenting forum in Australia called Essential Baby - very like mumsnet on a smaller scale. The owners sold it to a newspaper publishing group and within a couple of years it’s membership dropped off and now it’s shut down.

I really like the simplicity of the way it’s laid out and works. Everything else seems to get meow whizz bang and you have to learn more and more stuff. Exhausting! I like that this at least is easy and reassuring and that it’s like an old friend.
Please don’t change!

@Duckypoohs

Books it is then. Ah well the Internet was fun for a bit.

1) seems a bit extreme 2) why not both? Amused at the idea that books are an alternative to being online

Yes, I've noticed on the seasonal TV threads like Strictly and Bake Off, there used to be loads of comments throughout the program but now hardly anything.
You also have to be careful what you say when posting or starting a post especially in AIBU. People seem to be deliberately obtuse, picking at anything slightly mis-worded, then others echo this until the OP, after many reassurances and explanations, leaves the thread and it becomes derailed.
I do wonder where people migrate to.

I think a lot of it is related to covid, but perhaps like the demise of the high street, covid accelerated what would have happened anyway.

I think it's because threads are roughly same old same old. There's nothing new and topics are rehashed with different details and a bit of a twist here and there. That's why you get a lot of people buzzing on troll threads because trolls know how to bring something new that will get more people interested.

Besides troll threads, it's still the sensationalist threads that get the most traffic. Other times, it's just business as usual, drudgery and same old same old.

I do think it doesn't seem as busy.

To be fair I took a step back for about a year. The covid threads were just increasingly ridiculous.

Some of MNs new ways of working make the site really boring. There appears to be a handful of posters who post, have it deleted then post again, have it deleted and post the same again. Sometimes changing small details to make people agree with them. Since MN just let people delete threads because 'op requested deletion'

Posted too soon.

As MN are deleting at ops request, you generally find the same stuff being posted and posted again.

I quite like style and beauty and the property DIY sections. I find stuff.

Oh and the 'we hate wfh' with the same posters saying the same stuff is getting worse.

Best was the poster who does wfh, who also thinks it's morally wrong for people to wfh cause 'won't you think of the coffee shops in Central London!'

I think a lot of people switched off when the covid hysteria hit hard. Real life was nothing like as hostile as Mumsnet. It felt bizarrely unsupportive around homeschooling for example - if you complained that you were suffering because overnight you'd become a teacher, a 7yo's best friend, a mother, full time employee, and your house was looking like a squat you were swiftly shut down as a selfish cow killing grandmothers left right and centre.

Name bunny totally agree.struggle with technology .please keep site simple .we are not all whizzes online you know!

Mothers have the “same old” problems they always had, and they still need advice and help. It would be nice if they no longer needed support to leave abusive partners, deal with postnatal depression, cope with breast feeding, get legal advice for workplace bullying, etc etc, but they do - and MN is the place to find it. It’s also one of the few internet fora that have resolutely provided a platform for gender critical feminists to defend women’s and children’s rights to single sex spaces. Long may it continue.

I think it has gone back to how it was when it first started. There was a while when it seemed hostile as hot very cliquey - you got shot down for asking a breastfeeding question as it “had been done before”….not for me I needed help.

The sun made an article out of one of my posts. It was horrible, it ran for days with hundreds of comments on their Facebook page that were judge and nasty. I rarely post now and would never start a thread.