Mumsnet to be sold

[Mikehunt2018]

Or at least partially. There's no mention of it on Site Stuff but Sky reported it yesterday.

https://news.sky.com/story/mumsnet-founder-roberts-plots-delivery-of-new-owner-13501362

(oh and Mike isn't my name. It's a play on words)

I think it's the right thing to do, honestly. Why shouldn't she retire

I have mixed feelings about that.

it is quite an horrific board.

How do they know how old everyone is? From the threads I am on the age limit is not 45.

Queue a pile in or on.

Like that was ever going to happen. Hopefully MN aka Justine will make a proper to announcement - directly to the users.

The ads are getting out of control.

An opportunity here surely for some enterprising MNetter to set up an alternative board to which we might all migrate?

Plus ça change....

This will be outing, but I am actually called Wayne Kerr.

Alright mate,

Vinny Ger

I’m not I believe the user info. 8m users per month? How come on the threads that show views it’s very rarely in the hundreds?

Mumsnet's users are predominantly women aged between 25 and 45.

I have made threads about this but I think the users who are the most active are 55 plus.

What text based forums do we have left for UK centred mums? Netmums with their awful UI? Reddit
Locked down Facebook groups I suppose. Or we retire to gransnet!

It is information that is of use to some. Data. Views. A newspaper I used to subscribe to became overtaken by what appeared to be paid users who were all Maga fans. It was relentless in the comments section. Any view that was alternative was shot down, not once but many times.
I left.

I can't blame her, it's one of those things. She's given us a good run and deserves to collect and retire.
Hopefully someone will be along to start a replacement.
My name is not Olive. I am not an olive (yuck). I am not olive. I am alive.

Are you one of the Go-Go's?
(reference for the oldies there)

Data

Twitter was bought because the prior tech was designing to silo public opinion.

If you were profile ACB your feed was filled with ACB.

they also deveolped the ability to hide your posts without telling you what they had done.

So if your world view was something senior manager did not agreed with you vanished.

That would allow the platform to shape the political landscape or even supress realtime reporting of events

And don't forget in the school holidays when the average age of users drops to 15 year old males.

We could call it...Moldies...

As long as there's an Emmerdale thread. I'm in.

Brilliant song

wtf have they used the word ‘plot’ in that title?

while I do hope that ‘international’ doesn’t mean ‘yet another American dominated SM site’, it’d be quite nice to have a few more from other countries (particularly I suppose other parts of the ‘Anglosphere’ such as Canada, Oz and NZ.

I suppose Justine can’t be in control of mn forever - shes about 60 now - but I hope she doesn’t relinquish overall direction for a while yet.

Precisely.

Back in the day we could look on something called Boardreader or similar and see who was the most prolific poster that week. Golden years, they were.

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Good hopefully the next lot won't be such woke communists!

I don’t think they’re unaware of it being a known joke…