This is how traffic to the feminism board has increased

[BarrackerBarmer]

You're going to love this.

Number of people entering the MN site via the Feminist Chat topic:
June 2016: 15,000
June 2018: 177,000

That's a TWELVE-FOLD increase.
And that's just people entering the MN site directly into femchat. Lots of people enter Mumsnet via other routes like active talk, and then navigate to the feminism boards next.

Overall site visits in June 2018 compared to June 2016 showed an increase from 17M to 26M, which is a very healthy increase of 53%. But the impressive twelvefold increase in visitors going directly to feminism shows a significant change in behaviour.

Keep talking, brilliant women of feminist chat.
People are taking notice.

Thanks to @MNHQ for responding to my request. And if others find this stuff interesting, join me in asking MNHQ to share more data like this with us.

(I'd like to know overall visits to femchat as a proportion of site traffic, and see if that has changed too)

A year ago I spent my internet time on The Guardian, The Independent, The Pool, the Debrief and Refinery 29. All that has pretty much been given up now; I can't believe I didn't see how biased some of it was and how fluffy and unthinking the rest was. Now I'm here almost exclusively! And following links to articles people post.

Wow! Just wow! xxxx to all the wonderful women on here

And huge thank you to you barrack

I've lurked on Feminism for ages and started my first thread yesterday.
It's great that people are talking and finally waking up.

I won't lie though, it worries me that even though there have been peaceful protests (and they are peaceful and non-confrontational , despite what the biased reporting would have people believe) and some people have been brave enough to stick their heads above the parapet to speak out, it's still won't be enough.
The TA's have serious backing behind them - monetary and socially.
We need the same.

A couple of anonymous billionaire (free thinking) benefactors would do nicely round about now.
Anybody out there?

Also, what's the backup plan for if when these boards cease to exist? I wouldn't be surprised if they're working really hard to grind MN down. I hope they don't, but if they do - where would people go to discuss?

A couple of anonymous billionaire (free thinking) benefactors would do nicely round about now.

I'll have a look down the back of the sofa and see what I can rustle up.

Interesting to see just how many are reading even if some are just hate reading the board!

brilliant.

Oooh, super interesting.

I'm wondering now what the comparison figures are for the other boards of mn, especially AIBU. Would be interesting to see how FWR compares to that one in terms of increase.

Oooh that's interesting.

I love this forum ATM and don't post much on others any more.

This is fantastic. The message is slowly getting out there.

imwideawake - I worry about that too. I think it's really important that we build connections in real life now. I don't think women will ever stop talking about this though. We'll find a way to communicate.

There is also another board now. Those who are interested please PM me.

finally someone is talking out about that awful transgender trend website www.youtu.be/zHdW8MPsfUQ

Wow! I must say it was around 2 years ago (under other names) I started coming here and becoming interested.

During the last year and certainly during pregnancy I was checking in several times a day it became addictive

In the last 6 months there's been a huge change; I can barely keep up with it threads move so fast.

youtu.be/zHdW8MPsfUQ

Really interesting, thanks barracker.

I spend most of my time on FWR but I mainly lurk. Despite being increasingly vocal about this IRL (long convo today with a gay, male, trans-ally colleague/friend about the 'transphobe' lesbians fronting the Pride march...it was an interesting conversation and I love and respect him and I know he thinks about it and tries to see my POV but we've still a longggg way to go), I still don't feel I can contribute much to these threads. I'm smart and coherent (IRL! honest!) but I'm in awe of some of the posters here.

I drift over to S&B daily to shoot the scented breeze with my lovely perfumistas, and avidly follow the Westminsterenders threads too. But FWR is like good 'old-fashioned' consciousness-raising for me - I feel as if I've had a vitamin shot every time I read these threads and I think of you all as sisters (cringe, but I do).

It's an amazing place. It's a necessary place.

Have you posted on the wrong thread confused?
Or did you intend to spam us with a video of someone going 'ooo,no' a lot?

The thread is about visitor stats to this board!

Nothing cringy about sisterhood.

The fact that the words 'woman', 'sister', 'lesbian' etc is felt to be cringy is because of cultural misogyny.

Too many women refer to themselves as 'guys' or 'gays' these days.

You're right Clarice. It's only because I don't really post and only lurk, therefore it seems a bit odd to think of random internet sprites, who don't know me and vice versa, in that way. I have no problem using the word in real life

Well I get a warm fuzzy sisterly feeling about all these top notch women on MN too

Fantastic numbers, may they keep growing.

I came to MN when I was pregnant, but the FWR boards have been the true find. It has been an incredible resource and prompted me to engage critically with the world around me in a totally unexpected way. My deepest thanks to you all for broadening my mind.

That is good news (I think)!
I'm with many others in that I spend 99% of my time on the feminist boards now (I was starting to think I would need to find somewhere else to waste hours of my day but then wandered over here and haven't ever left). That said I still think that we need to take the debate about self-id off the feminist boards whenever we can (i.e. whenever the question/point could be a post in another topic it should go there rather than Feminist Chat) so that other mners hear about the issues.

Awesome

Brilliant!

So all those scaremongering posts about how the new talk guidelines will kill MumsNet are exposed, aren't they?

A TWELVE-FOLD increase! Great news. Thanks for asking the question, Barracker, and good for Mumsnet feminists, though I imagine the news will cause gnashing of teeth in transactivist circles, specifically the ones obsessively monitoring FWR.

Am I allowed to say ?

Honestly, there are a few people around here who are right curmudgeonly gits . I see their names and want to eat vast amounts of chocolate.

Thanks Barracker and @MNHQ!

I want to know what the main sources are now (Twitter & Facebook, of course, but how many people do arrive from news / LGBT sites?) & the ratio of people just looking at FWR to people actually signing up & posting ... any chance of some figures on that, HQ?