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Money Tips 30/03/05 Delayed?
Where is this week's Money Tips email? :confused: It's hasn't appeared in the Money Tips section on the main site to date and I've not received the email version. Is Martin suffering from mucked up money mutterings mad moneysavingexpert malady? :money:
Mutterings - 31.3.05 Help Section
Specifically for help on this week's mutterings if you're having problems. ok, people... heads up first I suppose. The MMM mp3s are now going to be 'streamed'. This is done in order that you can start listening to the file w/o having to download it first. What is it with those .m3u files? A .m3u file is simply a popular…
Mutterings Test
HI Can anyone whos around give this link for this weeks mutterings a quick test now, so we can check it works for all you guys and not just us!! here you go http://mutterings.moneysavingexpert.com/mmm310305_lo.m3u http://mutterings.moneysavingexpert.com/mmm310305_hi.m3u Cheers
Martin's Money Mutterings 31 March 2005
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The Administrator has specified......(P.M.'s)!!
I know there was a bit of a moan a while back about getting the following message when posting on the site.... 'The administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 30 seconds' Well... Does anyone else find it equally annoying when sending a p.m. to get..... 'The administrator has specified that users…
Blocking Sections??
does this forum or the forum software vBulletin support blocking of some sections such as topics in the search? for example say i click new posts and dont wish to see the student topics/threads is there a way for it to not appear???
Acronyms
To help an oldie is there a list of aconyms such as TOG LOL ROFL and so on that folk use in their posts.
avatars
The new limit is rubbish for avatars! I lost a load of my "posts", losing my latest status & dont like the way you cant "mark as read" like you could on the old site, & wasnt bothered, but now I have finally got round to adding an avatar, I wish the software had not changed.
how do i know whos thanked me on mse
i see someone has thanked me on mse ....and i dont know what for... how do i find this out? loops
I never noticed that
You learn something new all the time .........if you go into a board and click on the number of replies to any particular thread ..........it tells you who has posted on it and how many times too ................never noticed that before:D
Quick Links
The quick links function doesn't seem to be working ,anyone else got a problem with it just now:confused: so consequently I can't mark as read without going to each board ...........or can I :confused:
MSE A-Z Comment and Suggestion thread
This thread it for making suggestions and comments about the a-z [post=356217]here[/post] and the posts/guides that it links to If you would lilke to make a general comment about moneysavingexpert then please post on this board Anything you think should be on the a-z? Anything not accurate? (the forum is being tweaked all…
Board Guides - here to help
Can everyone please remember that the Board Guides are here because they have volunteered to help keep the forum running smoothly and what they do on the boards is done in their own personal time. Where possible they pm people to explain why they've edited a post but as I'm sure you can imagine many boards are nowadays too…
How can you quote part of a post
I have seen some posts where only part of another post has been quoted rather than all of the post. Very useful if you only one want to comment on a bit of a long quote. How do you do it :confused: I have looked in sra 555's vey useful a-z but couldn't find it there.
Turn Clocks Forward- Not Back ! (merged)
The site is 2 hours out! :rotfl:
New window - Tabbed browsing display
When reading through the forum i often have many tabs open (using fire fox) which displays "MoneySavingExpert.com.." What i was wondering is if the tab could read the post title (if in a specific post) e.g. "[CLOSED] More Dell Misorices ; )" or the part of the forum you have open e.g. "Techie" rather than a whole row of…
Is it just me?
Is it just me, or the left hand side box with the links to savings, chat forum etc, had just disappeared today?
without using the browser back button....
I can't work out what I'm doing wrong, or if the site has changed...when I am in a thread say in This Site: Questions & suggestions, and have read as much as I want to of the specific thread - how do I get back to the list of threads, where I was i.e. on page5 of x number? when I hit the back key on the browser it takes me…
Is there any rule that says.....
I can't show a pm on site?
Panic
Came to the chat forum. New Posts had gone, to be replaced by Todays Posts. Oh pants this isn't good. Came to this forum to post my dispair. Found out I was no longer logged in. Don't know how that happened. Logged in and New Posts is back. Hurrah. The benefit of being a member, not as much trawling. Don't know if I'm :o…

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