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SN area: possible topic re-jig - please let us know what you think

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RowanMumsnet · 10/04/2014 11:35

Hello

A while back, a few posters on SN suggested that we might consider closing off some of the less well-used SN topics, to make it easier for newbies and make it more likely that people's threads would be answered.

Having looked at the Google Analytics stats that tell us how well certain boards are used, the following four are pretty busy and we'd be reluctant to close them:

SN Chat
SN Children
SN Education
SN Teens and Young Adults

This leaves SN Support Sessions, SN Recommendations and SN Legal. We could close these to new threads so that the existing ones are still there and can be searched via the archive (and indicate to anyone trying to start a new thread there that they should go back to one of the four topics above).

Does this seem like a good idea? Does it answer users' concerns? All thoughts welcome...

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RowanMumsnet · 10/04/2014 15:31

Thanks all - we see you're unanimous so far. We'll let this run until after the weekend to make sure lots of people see it and then we'll come back to you - so please keep posting to let us know what you think.

Just FYI, over the three months we sampled, SN Education got over 10,000 visits, and SN Teens got over 3000. A lot less than Chat and Children, but these aren't small numbers by most sites' standards (although we do take on board that some of these will be people checking to see if there are unanswered threads!)

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RowanMumsnet · 11/04/2014 10:14

Hello again

Over the same period, 'Chat' got 156,000 visits and 'Children' got over half a million - so obvs we totally accept that they're much better used.

That said, the numbers for 'Teens' and 'Education' are still pretty strong in an absolute sense, although as we said we realise that some of that is just people checking in and signposting to other areas.

As has been said, we introduced 'Teens' at the request of some MNSN posters not that long ago, and ideally we don't want to introduce/delete/reintroduce topics, which is why we're double-checking what you all think!

'Parents with Disabilities' was moved to 'Parenting' a couple of months ago, again by popular request.

We had a discussion a few months ago about the naming issue: a lot of this comes down to internet search. 'Special needs' is a very strong search term that leads parents with newly diagnosed children quite quickly to MNSN, which tbh is part of what we want. But if there's a way of incorporating that with language that suits the posters better (while still being reasonably concise) we're happy to take a look.

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RowanMumsnet · 11/04/2014 10:23

AlarmOnSnooze we're always happy to move threads over, so long as the OP is OK with it. Personally I don't think I've ever seen a request to move an MNSN Chat thread though.

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WhoKateAllTheEggsMumsnet · 17/04/2014 17:08

@ouryve

I've just noticed, btw, that SN:chat threads are not archiving. There's threads going all the way back to last September and older threads are also coming up in search.

Oops, thanks for flagging this folks, we'll get the Tech bods to look into it...

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