What happening to the "Your Tips Forum

Legacy_user · 22 July 2004 at 7:10PM

What is happening to this forum. We are down to only a few tips a day. I presume its because the site has developed a new topic sections have been created.
Its just i miss reading the many new moneysaving ideas.

trafalgar_2 · 23 July 2004 at 12:31AM

Your tips....is disappearing in the board shake up Martin is planning and everything that can be put somewhere else is being moved in the tidy-up beforehand

HTH ;D

debeast · 4 August 2004 at 3:03PM

Does anyone else think the board is now too big!!

I hate to think of all the important info i miss just 'cos its in a different section

Glad · 4 August 2004 at 3:26PM

do you mean the 'your tips' board ???

it has got very big and will probably disappear in the reshuffle so I have been moving tips onto more relevant boards

debeast · 4 August 2004 at 6:49PM

i mean the whole forum

i can understand the need for different catagorises (i remember just 8 boards)but it has grown too big for me :-(

imho the boards need a rethink to reduce the number
or
an app needs to be implemented that remembers what you normally like and displays relevant topics of interest! forward this suggestion to martin if you like i don't mind writing an app to do that but it'll have to be in asp.

Glad · 4 August 2004 at 7:13PM

best if you write out your ideas here

Woby_Tide · 4 August 2004 at 7:17PM

I much prefer it like this, most of the topics are defined enouigh for people to know where they should post/look, theres a search for anything that maybe you aren't sure of.

As for remembering what you like etc., I'd imagine that is horrendously unworkable. I also like the fact that whilst browsing I can come across something that I may be interested in but wouldn't have thought about at the time, especially on short lived bargains etc.

I like it as it is, as long as people put stuff in the right category where possible with a meningful header, the worlds a happy place.

jo_b_2 · 6 August 2004 at 1:04AM

I agree with Debeast. I think there are now too many different boards. I also feel that I miss out on things because I tend to look at certain boards and miss others.

Hopefully the whole forum reorganisation may get rid of some 'superfluous' boards.

scattycat_3 · 10 August 2004 at 4:55AM

Glad,
Its getting difficult to find things you Know were posted, because search doesnt find, presumably because HMV had them removed and as a result a lot of repetition is becoming evident in new threads,by people unaware that topics have been discussed previously at great length, and the same old arguments are becoming boring.

I cite "Dont use 0845 0870 numbers", which after around 35k visits, vanished.,as an example

Scat

Glad · 10 August 2004 at 12:22PM

Hi Scat

as this board may be disappearing altogether we are trying to move things into more relevant boards, nothing is ever deleted
I did a search for the thread you mentioned and found it here

when you do a search you need to alter the values in the 'max age +box' and also in the 'how many results box' (I usually put 1000 in each) or it will only search for items that have had replies in the last week

any more probs, please ask and I'll try to help ;D

scattycat_3 · 10 August 2004 at 4:08PM

thanks WW( Welsh or Wrexham, Wizardess ) Doh,

Went to most popular threads, being third most viewed, and Mods link gives error which says no longer exists "on this( the linked) board2. Plus from early June it is not listed as popular thread, if I remeber correctly it was at the top of tips topics.

As there were some 3600+ posts on subject it needs linking correctly or locking at top of Tel. bills etc board to prevent duplication. I will try to put a link on recently started thread.
Scat

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