Come and spread the Mumsnet love locally!

[KateMumsnet]

Hello everyone,

Have you found your new Local site yet? We've given all 170 of them a lick of paint, and we hope they'll really help to make parents lives easier (our mission, in case you didn't know )

But we need your help! We're asking every MNer to nip over to their Local talk board and help a local parent out. Share your hard-won local knowledge on a thread - or ask your own question about what's going on near you: local schools, clubs, businesses - anything and everything local! The more bustling the Talk boards, the more useful they'll be - prizes to be won (including our exclusive MNHQ mugs usually available only to slebs etc!)

We're also on the lookout for a number of Local editors to keep Mumsnetters up to date about what's on in their area, on an ad revenue-share basis. Sound interesting? Ping us a mail on [email protected] and we can send you more info.

If you're already signed up to a Local site, you can see threads about your area in the 'Local' tab at the top of Active Conversations. If not, find your local Talk board via your Local site.

Cheers all! As ever, it's a work in progress and we're keen to know what you think - let us know in the thread below.

MNHQ

Thanks for all your comments, keep them coming! We're pleased to say that you can now NC for Local boards same as you can on the main boards, just go to My Account and change your NN before posting.

@AnarchyKitty

Hmmmm... I've just popped over to my local and it's dead. I'm up for reviving it if possible, do you think becoming an editor for it would help get it moving?

Hi @AnarchyKitty - certainly! If you mail [email protected] with the area/site you're interested we can send you more info

@NeverTwerkNaked

I just clicked on the "local site" option in active convos and got a message "damn we can't find the page you were looking for"... I like the idea of local sites but have two issues:

• my local areas are split in a bonkers way, I have three choices: Hampshire, Portsmojth and Southampton. But I live exactly in the middle between P and S so it's a weird choice to make! Why not just one Hampshire site
• other negative: nearly all the posts (at present) are about schools/where to live. So it's not very interesting (understatement)

HI @NeverTwerkNaked

Sorry to hear you received an error message! Can you point us in the direction of exactly what you clicked on when this happened? Was it the green Local tab in Active? Or a specific thread itself? Any screenshots you can show us would be really helpful so we can go about rectifying this asap.

We're pleased to say that you can now NC for Local boards same as you can on the main boards, just go to My Account and change your NN before posting.

Oh, well, in that case ...

It also appears to default to logged in name (for me, MrsH) in the username box and can be overwritten.

@MrsHathaway

No, I won't.

I'm stuck with a VERY old name change from when I set one up to post about events I used to run then but don't now. Furthermore I've significantly fallen out with the charity (long story but mismanagement, whistle blowing, etc) so absolutely can't be associated with it.

So no. Until and unless you sort out NC for Local, I'm going nowhere near.

HI @MrsHathaway

We've made it really easy to NC now (see Amy's post above), so we do hope you'll reconsider. Apologies for any inconvenience caused before.

Can we please split Cumbria into 3 sections

South Lakes, Penrith and the Borders and West Cumbria.

There doesn't seem to be much going on on the Cumbria page and the Mumsnet Cumbria twitter account seems to be used almost like someone's personal twitter account and largely centred around the south lakes.

I would be happy to be involved in a specific section (Penrith and Borders) if there was an opportunity

@Somerville

Are there different rules for advertising on Local? From a peek at mine, all the posts are from spammers at this point. I wasn't sure whether to report or not.

We'd love a bit of local chat in among the competition threads. Go on...there may be a mug in it for you...

@MrsHathaway

We're pleased to say that you can now NC for Local boards same as you can on the main boards, just go to My Account and change your NN before posting.

Oh, well, in that case ...

It also appears to default to logged in name (for me, MrsH) in the username box and can be overwritten.

Thanks so much @MrsHathaway!

Timely cross post

I even checked earlier today!

Will have a look - though it seems people are mainly saying not to live in places I like, but rather in the ££££££££££££ footballers' enclaves so I'm clearly required for balance!

@Kit30

I'm in Trafford and would love our local to be more active - but how to achieve it??

Any advice, info or love you could give the Manchester &Trafford talk board would be hugely appreciated by us

However if you feel you have the time, want to improve your skills and put your local know-how to good use - do email [email protected]
and we can ping you more details about becoming a Mumsnet Local Editor.

@PippaFawcett

Mine is semi active but it is always the same handful of people who reply to threads. My city must be full of Mumsnetters so I'm surprised there isn't more activity.

Thanks for helping us out @PippaFawcett

That's exactly what we want to change, so fingers crossed with some help from MNers and HQ we'll get the talk boards a lot busier.

@MrsHathaway

Timely cross post

I even checked earlier today!

Will have a look - though it seems people are mainly saying not to live in places I like, but rather in the ££££££££££££ footballers' enclaves so I'm clearly required for balance!

Haha! We look forward to seeing your posts setting then straight

Hi all! Is there a Bedfordshire area board?

I'm on the Luton/Hertfordshire border

So can we change our local site? I do not live where MN stipulates I do.

My city is stuffed with MNetters, but the local sections are quiet, because it just doesn't work for London, where cross/borough life is the norm.

So there's no way I'm going to pick just one. Though I have noticed you've stickied a 'local' thread in the London topic

That could be a good move (not that I fancy bouldering)

Because I don't want to nominate a local site (let alone join one) is there is any possibility that local threads will be stickied in 'Active'

Can we change our local site, my "local" isn't where I live?

flicks clicks

Ok, I posted on local to clear out some tumble weed thought I was posting under my usual MN name, but 'thread started by' is under a very old name, the post is under my MN name.

Will changing my local name to my MN name solve this? Or will it stay the same in 'threads started by'?

Brain hurts!

@paxillin

Can we change our local site, my "local" isn't where I live?

Hello! Apols for the slightly tardy reply to this one

The ability to change your local site is coming very soon, but isn't live yet. In the meantime, can you send us a quick mail to [email protected] telling us which site you've got set as your local one and which one you'd like to be your local one?

This is no good. I had an automatic NC between usual MN NN and my MN Local NN. So whatever NNs I have on usual MN, when I go onto my Local it automatically 'changes' to my Local NN. I've just gone into my MN Local and it's showing my usual (that one ^^) on my MN Local site.

@BlueAndYou

Hi all! Is there a Bedfordshire area board?

I'm on the Luton/Hertfordshire border

Hey, yes there is a Mumsnet Bedfordshire here - have a gander

@SquirmOfEels

My city is stuffed with MNetters, but the local sections are quiet, because it just doesn't work for London, where cross/borough life is the norm.

So there's no way I'm going to pick just one. Though I have noticed you've stickied a 'local' thread in the London topic

That could be a good move (not that I fancy bouldering)

Because I don't want to nominate a local site (let alone join one) is there is any possibility that local threads will be stickied in 'Active'

Hi @SquirmOfEels,

So at the moment, if you have a local site set, one active talk thread from your local board will appear in main Active (marked in green). We also have a new Local tab at the top of Active that will take you through to your Local talk board.

@FruBayerischOla

This is no good. I had an automatic NC between usual MN NN and my MN Local NN. So whatever NNs I have on usual MN, when I go onto my Local it automatically 'changes' to my Local NN. I've just gone into my MN Local and it's showing my usual (that one ^^) on my MN Local site.

Hi there, thanks for the feedback. Do you remember your Local username? If so you can just overwrite your MN NN with your Local NN when you create a new thread on local (and then same when you switch back to the main boards).

You mind my point.

I don't want one borough as my 'local' as I live in one, very close to the border with another, work in a third and have DC in school in one of those three plus another in a fourth. And then DH works in another, which is also the one in which I go to frequently for a particular activity. If you then add in the DC's activities, you could be looking at even more!

The last thing I want is just one of those boroughs to be stickied. So I'll register an interest in none.

I liked the way it automatically name changed to my local name before