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)

If she sells to America, the Women’s rights champion has sold women out.

Gransnet is (presumably) part of the overall MN company.

🤣 is your name from that thread about op not being allowed to take her own quiche home?
Brilliant.

🤣

Womens rights are never pretty 🤷‍♀️

And some of the posters are working hard to ensure women still are recognised as a sex class in the UK and that public funding is not used to exclude women from public services

Do you know what really gets me- not so long ago Justine acknowledged how nasty it was getting and said they were on it. How is she going to be on it if it’s sold?

Oh I forgot to say I am not cervine.

Presumably in the sense of ‘plan’? Like plotting a course.

Surprised the site has got away with not having paid night mods.

It's ridiculous that a site that employs 75 people and has a huge wage bill (that Justine herself referred to after Covid when talking about costs) doesn't even have a basic night rota system after the horrific photos that were spammed.

Not to mention the fact the trolls all know to wait until 11pm to really kick off.

Also loads of clickbait fake posts on here recently which now make sense

My concern as well.

I am not a hedgehog. This is disappointing. I did hold out for a few weeks after the pay or consent barrier happened here, but now there's one on Facebook and Instagram as well. Is there anywhere on the internet where you can have sensible discussions without having to agree to targeted ads?

Yes, I think the originals of us will probably have seen that and thought, ‘oh!’

I don't blame Justine. Take the money and get out whilst the going is good and she is still relatively young. Who knows what the impact of AI will be on sites like this. Plus lots of people are turning away from SM.

Can't wait for the tickers, avatars and sparkly shit on everyone's usernames!

Unfortunately, I think AI will feature more strongly whoever buys it.

Just hope it’s not the yanks

Fuck that shit.

Reddit

Cue.

I think it makes sense to try and offload now. I have found i’m using it less & there seems to be a lot of AI posts to generate content.

I think that if we can no longer discuss women's rights with reasonable freedom on Mumsnet, then that will happen. But the new forum will expand to cover a vast number of topics, because contrary to what some believe, women are a large and disparate group with many interests. We won't limit ourselves to talking about vacuum cleaners and potty-training, nor will the GC feminists talk solely about women's changing rooms and women's sports.

As long as everyone states where they’re off to, we’ll just drag the community off somewhere else if they try and change everything.

Can tattle buy us 🤣

I’ve been on a few forums that seemed good then suddenly died. I’ve over ads my blocker is good on here I don’t get any but tiktok well I avoid that now due to add that appear while watching videos.

I guess Reddit will become home as Mumsnet dives after a sale unless a place like tattle buys it. I could never netmum. Shudder

I am not optimistic about this. Because I am not actually a millionaire gunrunner

Yep! There's been a plague of AI generated threads started to which the "OP" never returns