#NaNoWriMo is shutting down due to several years of deteriorating finances and inability to focus on fundraising because of child safety issues with the Young Writers space that had to take priority. Full notes from the Executive Director on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6NnjgeIIY @bookstodon

#NaNoWriMo is shutting down due to several years of deteriorating finances and inability to focus on fundraising because of child safety issues with the Young Writers space that they had to take priority. Full notes from the Executive Director on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6NnjgeIIY @bookstodon

NaNoWriMo Goes Bankrupt After Embracing AI
https://futurism.com/nanowrimo-closing-embracing-ai

US nonprofit National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), recently embroiled in AI and content moderation scandals, shuts down after 25 years, citing financial issues

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/

(01 Apr) Longtime Writing Community NaNoWriMo Shuts Down After AI Drama

National Novel Writing Month is no more ❲at least formally❳.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/wlyge
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/Eg5BE ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/mfnaf

#artificial-intelligence #content-moderation #internet #nanowrimo

#NaNoWriMo no no no https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/

The whole point is to write as the act and process of writing is the purpose, not having some AI generate an end product. Such a waste.

Goodbye #nanowrimo. It didn't have to be like this, but Kilby chose every wrong thing to do and say she possibly could have and then got mad at the community for calling her out. #writingcommunity

https://www.krholton.com/post/the-official-end-of-nanowrimo

https://www.theverge.com/news/642258/nanowrimo-organization-shutting-down

NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit organization behind the annual writing challenge to finish a novel in November, is shutting down due to financial struggles.

This comes after participation and fundraising decreased in recent years, and controversies over the use of AI tools and child grooming allegations.

The NaNoWriMo site will remain online, but the challenges will no longer be formally hosted.

Go Fash, (as in embrace GenAI and Child abuse) lose Cash

"In 2023, many writers abandoned NaNoWriMo after it refused to take a stand against the use of AI tools in writing. Around the same time, one of its moderators faced child grooming accusations, leading to more criticism from the community."

And that's how you destroy something after 20 years.

https://www.theverge.com/news/642258/nanowrimo-organization-shutting-down

NaNoWriMo has gone bankrupt, after an ill-considered choice involving AI. (I don't know the details.) I was an ML for Years 4-5.

I'm in south-central Connecticut, Greater New Haven area. If anyone is interested in a go-it-alone or, let's say, federated but locally-oriented effort come November, I'm game. Contact me here or privately.

I'm a bit rushed right now, but I'll add details later in comments below this post. Questions and comments welcome.

I think something that really isn't discussed clearly enough is highlighted here: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-1lupih3cz/-/a-u207kQCtTpO4CFsx3nlHdg%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

Do you know that #writers were the ones donating to #NaNoWriMo ? And that generally speaking it is creatively inclined people who typically want to pay for the goods made by other creatively inclined people. That writers are typically readers who share book recommendations with other writers and have various #Books communities they're involved in.

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Oh wow, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) annual challenge for writers that started as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999 is shutting down.

"NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a stand in favor of the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing. [...] Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/

The #NaNoWriMo org is dead and GOOD RIDDANCE.

The dead org is trying to spin this as "the community is just too selfish to support us"

but

uh

NO.

The community deserted you because you betrayed them over and over and OVER AGAIN. Not just once ("let's accept scammers as sponsors!") Not just twice ("Oh, a mod was accused of child grooming? let's protect the mod and ban the kids!") but repeatedly.

Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1ae3038/writing_discords_forums_and_a_decades_worth_of/

Oh well, they fucked around and found out.

> NaNoWriMo Goes Bankrupt After Embracing AI https://futurism.com/nanowrimo-closing-embracing-ai

2 hour deep dive into why Nanowrimo. Just why. And how. "Alledgedly" (is that how you spell it?)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--bS5h_-ZAk

Well, then.

#NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo is shutting down.
https://lithub.com/nanowrimo-is-shutting-down/

Not surprised to hear about Nanowrimo shutting down. I was a longtime writer and ML for a few years.

The shift to the new website and the culture shift around that really alienated a lot of the "faithful" users.

When I was told by members of HQ that they were too busy doing their donation day events than to deal with the fact that racial slurs had snuck thru into usernames on the new website I stepped down immediately and felt soured on the whole thing ever since.

Man, I am all riled up over today's announcement of the closure of #Nanowrimo, and the quiet reveal that the real reason they ran out of money was because 70 percent of their budget, almost a million bucks a year, was going towards executive salaries. The fucking gall of shutting it down rather than accept a pay cut floors me.

I really, really want to start a Nanowrimo clone now, for no money and just in my spare time, to prove that it can be done and to rub their little fucking noses in it.