Has mumsnet changed a great deal?

[dontlikechange]

I just wanted wanted views from people as to wether they think that mumsnet has changed.

I must admit that a while back I was hooked and spent hours daily on the site, I had another child and was unable to post of ages, now I have come back and its feels so cliquey. I started a post within the last week and it got 1 reply, yet the imho the cliquey group threads seem to get a lot more replies and it wasn't as if my thread was not interesting enough.

I started lurking again about a month or so ago and couldn't believe it had changed so much, people flouncing off in huffs etc etc.

I used to feel at home on mumsnet, it just seems to alien, perhaps I am showing my age, times change and my 'face' doesn't fit anymore.

LOL @ hmc thinking she's low profile

As a new person it has come across to me a bit 'don't waste our time posting on this, we've BTDT'.

I can remember being new at another site and not posting for ages because I felt a bit intimidated by the other posters and thats what it feels like coming here. Silly isn't it?

Twiglett - I didn't ignore you!!! I guessed who you were!!

I post on any thread that looks interesting or that I think I can post on, regardless of who posted it. I don't ignore anyone.

There are bound to be areas where people appear cliquey but it's only because some people are on here every day so get to 'know' each other well.

Hello, I have been on mumsnet for about 4 months and a bit I think, so not sure what it was like before. I have started threads where only a few have replied and others where loads have! A lot of it I think has to do with the time you post, sometimes people just aren't around and unless you are aware of a specific thread, you tend to post to active ones only.

Please don't feel that your face does not fit, it just takes a while to get back into the swing of mumsnet. When i first started I only used it once in a while as i felt a little lost and uncomfortable, and now I check it at least once a day!

I started a thread a few weeks back on biting and didn't get many replies - I think it's because it's an issue that is soooo common that it's probably been done before and I probably should have just done a search for similar threads rather than asking a new question. I wasn't offended though.

Time of day def makes a difference.

For me, it also depends on where the thread is posted. I don't use the active conversations bit and tend to stick to breast/bottle feeding, other subjects, education, food and occasionally products.

I never usually go to sections like behaviour, special needs or pregnancy.

The increased size of mumsnet means I've changed my reading habits, so mumsnet seems different to me even if mumsnet hasn't changed really. If someone I 'know' from mumsnet or in real life starts a thread, I often don't get round to looking at it whereas once I would have lurked, even if not posted.
I don't get a rounded picture of people who post on many threads as I only read at most 15 threads a day. I also feel more anonymous, as most people who post now don't know much about me. When fewer people posted, I assumed they read more of my threads, so knew me better.
There are pros and cons in that!

But mumsnet has a definite place in my life, and that hasn't changed.

www, I love it when people do a link to another thread, really helpful. Keep doing it, I'm too lazy!

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Dior ~ No sorry I am not from Scotland, couldn't be much further away actually.

I will keep posting, this has happened before, I used to get loads of posts to my questions, then got bored and changed nickname and the replies dried up, guess I will have to post more.

Thanks for all your advice, and thanks WWW, tigermoth and Twiglett, who I remember fondly from my previous posting days.

hmmm if don'tlikechange is who I think they could be..... I was thinking about them today whilst out for a walk on a disused railway line..... Have I guessed right?????

and twiglett- I was looking out for you in your new guise and couldn't spot you at all!

thats happend to me too, you post something 'really' important to you and no one replies! but no one can tell how 'much' you need a reply(normally)just from the message.
if you think someone in particular may be able to help or youve been chatting to someone regulary, start a thread with thier name on it.hth, will try it myself when in diastraites!

IMO MN has just grown. No longer can you sit down in an evening and read/reply to all the conversations. Many MNetters including myself use the Active Conversations feature which only throws up the top 50 conversations, if you start a thread and don't get a reply sometimes you have to revisit and give it a shameless 'bump'! Even although you may see others posting they may have used up their time on the other threads and mean to come back to yours and then it just doesn't happen (I've got a few in mind that I meant to post on today, saw them this morning when I didn't have any time to post and probably I'm not going to get round to it now).

Apologies for not seeing your thread. I promised myself I was giving up MNetting but haven't yet managed, whenever I manage a couple of days without visiting something happens that makes me turn back to MN for the support, information and adult conversation that everyone has always provided.

Supposed cliques don't bother me, as far as I can see there are a group of MNetters who post about 4,000 times a week and tend to run into each other more than the rest of us!

I haven't been posting much lately due to a change in work circumstances (ie I have to do some rather than sit playing on mn all day!!!)

It does strike me now that whenever I do visit there are so many rows and flounces going on, everyone seems a lot more bad tempered than they used to. I guess that is just because the site has grown so there are inevitably going to be people with very strong opinions one way or another on a subject if there are more posters.

I do find that I don't see posts from a lot of people who I KNOW post quite a lot, just because there are so many threads it is hard to wade through them.

It is an interesting thought, when does something like an online community reach critical mass and implode? There must come a point when there are just too many people for it to be viable. Has the mumsnet tv programme started yet? Will that bring a huge influx of new posters again?

CD - there hasn't been a 'flounce' in AGES! (has there?)

I'm talking over the past couple of months, think there have been a few!

Certainly more punch ups than there used to be

There was an anonymous flounce a couple of weeks back. It's got me into trouble in the past but I've never had much sympathy for flouncers! You either post or you don't.

girls whats a flounce?

a huff!

lol, oh ty. nite.

Sort of I don't like you any more I'm leaving, blows big raspberry then sits back and waits for everyone to check in with their please don't go replies.

Darn why do I always need half a page to say what everyone else manages in two words?

Munnzieb,

I would say its a rather dismissive and belittling term for somebody who has been hurt and offended on Mumsnet and has decided to leave.

oh right ty, (still learning all the terms) so really then it's to see if ppl would be upset if u left but u linger??) humm ok then different. On that note thou i'm off to bed as i'm up early. so nite all.