This is how traffic to the feminism board has increased

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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)

Would love to see some updated stats.
I love this board and MN for allowing the discussions.

Don't assume your visitors are here to agree with you

Oh gosh, we don't. We're well aware some are here to goad, poke, derail and generally stir shit. They are pretty obvious though.

Has anyone bought one of those gay cruises those nice looking boys keep advertising?

I keep getting these pop up! I was beginning to wonder what my sons have been viewing on Google for these ads to be prioritised. Glad it's not just me lol.

I don’t get adverts for gay cruises .

Don't assume your visitors are here to agree with you

And good - I learn more from the disagreements than you'd find helpful

Gotta say that I check the fem threads more and more. Wtaf is the matter with the world, still?

Grrrrrrrrr.

I too get the cruise ads, on the mobile version.

I am here for THIS!

It's my first day on mumsnet and tbh I dunno why it took me so long.

I am genderfree and have been long before this debate started to rage.

My twitter acct was Meghan Murphied for saying a lesbian could only be a homosexually attracted adult human female.

And my second one- suspended WITH NO REASON GIVEN. So I can't appeal coz I don't know what I'm appealing.

Was feeling very bereft and helpless when a lovely radfem suggested this forum.

So glad. This entire community gives me hope. And even better I got info on what's happening in my country- Ireland. And help on other things too. ✊🏻💗

Waves at ReSistingPink. I go by a different name on Twitter, but we follow each other. Good to see you here

Me too, also have crossed your path ResistingPink

Gave up on twitter along time ago, but glad to see you here, ReSisting.

I think this is a better forum for more indepth discussions anyway.

@ReSistingPink

Welcome from a US interloper.

ReSistingPink - hooray! You made it! Welcome!

I can’t stop laughing at “don’t assume your visitors are here to agree with you”

If I were part of the Witch Monitoring Service here, I would be furious that my clicks on Mumsnet are contributing so heftily to the Coffers Of Transphobia. You come here to watch, you generate the ad revenue, you keep MNHQ in gin, and you keep the whole site trucking to carry on spreading our “hatefulness”. It’s quite beautiful really

Don't assume your visitors are here to agree with you

The more people that come here to disagree, whilst simultaneously having no actual argument, is the best thing about it.

Thanks for keeping on keeping on. And when you are ready, you are free to explain why you think people can change sex, how this happens and at what point the 'change' happens and is complete.

A bit like a kids caterpillar to butterfly diagram. That's what we need. Thanks in advance.

A friend told me back in October that this is the place to find GC women, after I was piled on in another forum. I came, I found, I stayed and never left!
I think that the stats post-June 2018 are going to be even more astounding. There has been so much GC media interest in the last few months and Mumsnet is often mentioned. It's really the go-to place for beginners.
The only thing is, I could sit here all day just updating threads and reading, and not doing anything else! Thank goodness, I'm retired.

Don't assume your visitors are here to agree with you.

Agree or disagree, they’re still boosting the stats!

Also people like S.H must have had an impact in terms of advertising and driving people to the site.

Welcome ReSistingPink.

Excellent!

@ResistingPink Hi! We follow each other on Twitter too, where I have a different alias :-)

For many years the handful of times I visited Mumsnet was as a result of following a link when researching some household issue or other, just a brief stop to read the linked thread and then I was off again.

When I got wise to the woman-erasing trans issues I kept seeing mentions of discussions on Mumsnet and I didn't bother following up at first as I had no idea that there was a dedicated "Women's Rights" are. It took me a while to realise this was "Feminism Chat" not "Feminist Activism" so it was a bit later that I finally cottoned on where to find all the good stuff!

When I was lurking, something would crop up and I'd think I'd join because I had something to add but an existing member would say it anyway so I just carried on lurking. I learned such a lot and was and am so impressed with the standard of discussion, the wealth of knowledge shared and the invaluable coordination, "cross-linking" of Mumsnet topics and adding external links by the likes of @R0wantrees that make FemChat such an invaluable resource.

I joined when I felt I had something to add but also to be able to take part in discussion without the constant barrage of bile, nonsense and derailment by TRAs on Twitter and Facebook - and the ever-present fear of being reported for nothing in particular. I've been suspended twice on Twitter for literally NOTHING that contravened TOS. It is also very depressing to go back to Twitter and realise how much valuable information is lost every time a key GC person has their (usually 'her') account deleted.

Of course not everyone agrees with each other and it is important that reasoned, respectful discussion of different opinions is a feature of FemChat and that it is not just an echo chamber.

I'm not a mum (or any sort of parent), which is maybe why it took me so long to realise that Mumsnet was more than a "practical parenting" and "household tips" forum! Thank heavens it is!

I’d love to see updated stats too. I’ve recently had to dereg and re register (for security reasons) but have been here for years and notice there is so much more traffic here than previously.

Hi, another US interloper here. I suspect there are a lot of us. This is a great resource. Reading these posts is like being able to breathe fresh air after a long stint in a closed up room. I imagine it as a bit like removing a corset must have felt.

Don't assume your visitors are here to agree with you.

Why would anyone assume that? This is a discussion forum. And we're all familiar with the assorted tiresome TRAs/MRAs who appear - often very briefly - to tell us we're feministing or womaning wrong.

I am sure that Mumsnet's talk guidelines, however galling posters sometimes find them, have prevented this forum from going the way of so many feminist spaces, corrupted by special interest groups or ideological moderating.

If posters are constrained within the bounds of courteous debate it is impossible to silence, bully or threaten.

I imagine it as a bit like removing a corset must have felt.

What a great metaphor. Welcome welcome!