Easy way to subscribe to Mumsnet newsletters for new users

[JessicaMumsnet]

Hello,

From today if you're not logged in you may see a box on the right hand side of some topics inviting people to subscribe to a Mumsnet newsletter just by entering your email.

We've tried to suggest relevant newsletters to different people based on the talk thread - so for example Talk Round up if you're not logged in and looking at Mumsnet Classics. Or Book club news if you're browsing the books topics. If you have any feedback let us know!

If you're already registered and want to manage the newsletters you're currently subscribed to you can always go to My Mumsnet > my account and take a look at your current settings there.

Just to reiterate, this box will only appear if you are not logged in and can be dismissed.

Thanks all

[FruVikingessOla]

I noticed that this morning when I wasn't logged in. I'm not permanently logged in to MN. I log in as and when I want to post and then log out when I've finished.

But you're saying this : "if you're not logged in you may see a box on the right hand side of some topics inviting people to subscribe to a Mumsnet newsletter just by entering your email. Just to reiterate, this box will only appear if you are not logged in and can be dismissed."

What about the MNers who remain permanently logged in? They'll never see that box.

And why haven't you 'stickied' this thread? It all seems a little insidious to me.

[JessicaMumsnet]

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback, nothing insidious about it at all and we've stickied now.

Users who are logged in have other ways of subscribing to newsletters therefore the box isn't relevant to them so we don't show it.

Hope that helps answer your question

[FruVikingessOla]

Oh, I know. I do subscribe to newsletters anyway (although I'm not sure I've seen any recently since the Heartbleed problem .... but that's a separate issue).

By insidious, I meant that it appears to be yet another way of enticing 'the media' into an 'easy way' of finding some of the, erm, more 'interesting' threads quickly.

[JessicaMumsnet]

Hmm we really hadn't considered that angle.

Talk round up is a fab way of finding good threads though I'm not sure how interesting or otherwise it is to journalists looking to write articles. Media folk are completely free to subscribe currently of course.

This is aimed at potential new users who might be browsing specific topics and find certain newsletters relevant and useful. So people who are browsing Adult fiction might be interested in receiving our Book club newsletter which has book giveaways, latest news and author web chats.

We think all our newsletters are very interesting but we may be biased!

Sorry to hear about your troubles receiving newsletters - do you want us to take a look for you?

[FruVikingessOla]

No - it's fine thanks. I 'unsubscribed' for a while, but I've just 'resubscribed' (having forgotten that I'd 'unsubscribed', IYSWIM?!). But thanks anyway .

Yeah, I know that MN is an open forum so anyone can see anything (on the whole!!) whether they're registered or not.

It just occurred to me that this is a tad coincidental, just after the 'post-wedding-grabby-poem thread' which has hit the national press over the last few days!

[JessicaMumsnet]

Oh jolly good, am glad you're sorted!

Entirely coincidental I assure you, this has been in development for a little while and then tested and now ready to go, sorry it appeared otherwise because of timing though.