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New Community Noticeboard
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Mark category/forum read
How do I make sure only the topics I haven't read are highlighted? I keep clicking on 'Mark category/forum read' but it doesn't seem to make a difference - it was just on 'Freebies - no spend required' but now it's on all of them.
Not loading and cloudflare
Yesterday, I also got a huge number of "page not loading", to the extent I went off and did other things. This morning I've already had 6 delays when I've been diverted to Cloudflare to check I'm human. It's only a short delay, but if that goes on all day........... Can understand one check at the start of the day.
Another plea to allow disabling of notifications for SPECIFIC threads I've participated in.
This issue has been raised many times since the software update years ago, but there is still no solution to what seems to be an obvious issue that surely affects and frustrates many. Below is an example of the issue: I have posted in thousands of threads on MSE over the last 10 or so years. And while most threads…
Competitions Time Discussion Options Menu - Mute/Unmute
The Discussion Options menu icon now appears against every thread (see pic below). It used to only appear against threads that you had started and for these the only option was Edit. Now it gives you a Mute option against every thread, and if you click on Mute you get an Unmute option. On threads you started you get both…
permission problem?
I have a thread in the forum which I entered a few days ago. but now when I go there to see what replies I got to it, it flashes up 'permission problem'. can somebody help with that please?
Verify I am human??
Hi guys, Every time I come to this board, I get a message asking me to verify I am human. It asks this on most pages I click on in this forum. It is getting a bit irritating as it takes up to 20 seconds each time before loading the page. Is it my computer or my Internet? I have just moved to FTTP Broadband? Is this…
Hide the Forum Menu - Feedback
For those of you who would like the ability to disable the white drop-menu, we've added a little option on this page: Hide the Drop Menu Please note that this is very much a small fix that hides the menu where possible and may not be foolproof. We hope that our provider will at some point be able to provide more official…
MSE weekly "moneytips" email now being marked as spam
In the last couple of days (From 23/06/25 on, so far.) several financial emails that I receive on a regular basis have been marked as spam. the msemoneytips is one of them. The reasoning given on the inward generated code is something like this below, true logical, but applied wrongly. 3.0 KAM_REFI Real Estate / Re-Finance…
Just a moment...
I'm getting this when I connect, multiple tabs.
£20 from MSE
I've just got a notification from my bank. Saying I've received £20 from moneysavimgexspert. No idea why. Can anyone enlighten me Thank you
Grouping the "I am mentioned" notifications
Good evening, Just a suggestion regarding notifications. Normally if you go to the bell icon it groups notifications by thread. If multiple new posts have appeared in a thread you've replied in you'll get a dot next to it with the number of new posts and it'll take you to the last unread post in that particular thread. The…
Pages Not Loading
Anyone else ?
Spam
Good stab at post building... https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2753491
I'm not getting alerts sometimes when another poster has quoted me
As the title states. Thanks.
Sign in issues
Hi Is there a reason that anyone can enlighten me on please that I can sign into my MSE forum account on the Chrome browser but the exact same details (email and password) are rejected by the Edge browser every time? A little inconvenient as I use Edge as my browserb of choice for everything else. Many thanks
Update MSE Email Address
I've got a new email address. I've managed to update my MSE Forum address but can't find where to edit it on the actual MSE site.
Body is 10 character too short.
Everytime I reply to someone on here this keeps on coming up. Body is 10 charactertoo short.
Smarty Offer not appearing on their site?
On MSE Smarty come up with a £5/ month offer for a 10GB contract. But clicking through to 'get deal' there is no offer that resembles this.
Forum Running Slow
Anyone else ? Pages taking ages to load. Slow this afternoon then back to normal but really slow again now.
Read this on the MSE App banner
Is there a way to acknowledge this banner, then dismiss it for good please? It's not easier to use (on my tablet) than a browser (Firefox), as it doesn't have dark mode. It's not as easy to navigate around either, as I use bookmarks within the browser. I couldn't even create this thread in the app, as nothing was happening…

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Warm Home Discount expansion confirmed with millions more eligible for the £150 top-up this winter – here's what we know
Around 2.7 million more households, including 900,000 families with children, will become eligible for the £150 Warm Home Discount this winter, as the Government has confirmed it will remove the existing 'hard to heat' eligibility criteria. The extension has only been confirmed for winter 2025/26, with further changes possible for future years.
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