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Archives for May 2020

Renewing password
Why does this site keep telling me I have to change my password? I have to 'click here to reset password' which I do, wait for the email and change the password to exactly the same one every time (10 characters, including letters, numbers and punctuation mark) and then it lets me in. I'm getting this 2-3 times every week.
Password reset but no email received (not even in spam folder)
I've had to create a new account to post this message I haven't posted since March 2019 and when I tried to login a few days ago I got the message... You need to reset your password. This is most likely because an administrator recently changed your account information. Click here to reset your password. So I entered my…
A spam blocker on my account - REALLY
I posted twice in separate threads within 2 minutes and then when trying to post again I got a spam blocker imposed on me and had to wait 5 minutes before posting again. Surely I am a regular poster and that kind of stupid action should be reserved for new posters or is MSE wanting to stop people posting on the forum…
How to only show "Favourite" sections - sorted now
I have my normal view set to only show my favourite forum sections. I signed in this morning to get an update, noticed the issue with lots of missing pages, so I clicked "all forums" to get into this part (it's not in my favourites list) and saw that there's already a thread running about missing pages. So now I want to go…
Site unusable this morning due to spam
Just pages of spam; oriental text, so no idea what it was saying.C'mon site admins you can block bots!
Farming Forums ...
As I used to be a farmer, I still frequent some of the farming forums.There used to be British Farming Forum (BFF) the owners/moderators were, shall we say, unwilling to listen to criticism about most things.Then one day, BFF was hacked big-time and then, suspiciously, on that exact day another forum started up called The…
Private Messaging
Does anybody know if we can turn it off now? Used to be a profile setting on the old forum but doesn't give me any options on here now.
Where is the Expired button?
For boards like the Competitions and Food & Grocery there used to be an 'expired' button but now I can't seem to find it and yet on both boards threads seem to get moved to their relative expired sections pretty quickly, sometimes too quickly from what I saw last evening. Where is the expired button?
Showing if comp Entered/Skipped in search results.
Would this be possible please? Currently I mark competitions as Entered/Skipped, which is fine. I can see if I've marked it as either one on the main forum, but if I search for something, in the search results, I cannot see this. (see attached image) and I have to click into each one individually to see if I have entered…
Having to keep signing in
Ever since yesterdays disappearance of the Thanks button (back again now I see) I keep getting logged off quire regularly and having to sign back in again (I have clicked on the keep me signed in check box). Is the forum server undergoing some work at the moment?
Going to first post in a thread instead of first unread post
As title really, started happening this evening when I normally click on a thread title I get taken to the first unread post in the thread but in some (not all) cases I am going to the first post in the thread even though I know that I have read them all and the tag says 1 new.
Thanks Button
my thanks button on all threads/boards has vanished. This includes compliments on the competition boards. Is this new, glitch or specific to me?
Icons have disappeared
On my phone (but not on desktop), the icons for getting to bookmarks etc have disappeared and everything just looks like a little envelope. Anyone else noticed this? Any idea why?
Search Results iffy ??
Just tried searching two searches.1. "i-Web" .... (a share-dealing website) 2. "Site Feedback" ..... i.e. here For "i-Web" the top results were all about "Web Apps" or "Web Cams" . Why ?There is a thread headed "i-Web" , and it gets mentioned in several other threads. And "Site Feedback" seems to lead on Caravan Sites and…
Badge e-mail notification broken
Received an email. "You earned the Part of the Furniture badge." Link takes me to https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/badge/anniversary-old That gives me 404 Not Found I checked my profile and looked at badges - all of therm are broken. Thought I'd report this.
How to use [quote] [/quote] ie selectively quote someone else's post?
I mean if I am replying to one sentence out of a 100-sentence post, I'd like to be able to just have that in my quote box. Thank you
Self Employed Specifically.
I'm quite aware there is the Small Biz & Charities subforum but, would it be an idea to try a more specific one dedicated to sole traders and in a more prominent position ? Essential Money, maybe ? Especially during this crisis period, but certainly not wholly, a dedicated section in there feels right, to discuss the money…
Please help me get my account back
Towards the the of last year and over the new year, for reasons I'd rather not disclose publicly, I was unable to access MSE. It was around this time that MSE migrated to their new forum software and I completely lost access to my account. My previous email provider terminated their service a while back and I've now…
Finding a post?
Is there some way I can view questions I've asked?I posted about making an avatar photo some time ago and got some kind answers about how to do it. Rather than ask again I've been trying to find the original. Investigated my profile then tried to search but gave me no answers Thanks
Competition Board
things that are still missing from the competition board. Was wondering if there was any update? It was said early on you were working in it. Ability to click like or skipped from the board, without having to click through to post each time to check. Skipped/Entered on sub boards, such as text/postal thread. Regular Take…

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