We'd like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum... Read More » This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are - or become - political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.

We're aware that some users are experiencing technical issues which the team are working to resolve. See the Community Noticeboard for more info. Thank you for your patience.

📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

Forum technical issues

Former_MSE_Ian · 2010-04-23 12:11:15

Hi everyine, The forums have changed! Although not much. You may notice forum internet addresses now say .php where they used to say .html. That should be the only difference you'll notice. Everything else should work as before. If you do notice any technical glitches relating to today's change we'd be grateful if you'd…

Options

Comments

Leopard Posts: 1,786 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 1:44AM edited 28 April 2010 at 10:29AM

savingwannabe wrote: »

However, when i thank someone for their post, a button comes up giving me the option of removing my thanks.

MSE_Ian wrote: »

I hope you enjoy the new feature .

MSE Ian,

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2431679

Have you gone completely out of your tree?

You spent time and Martin Lewis's money installing a button for indecisive people who thank someone and then subsequently change their mind and go trawling back through threads to the original posting in order to un-thank them?

Do you get mail in April from people who write that they sent you a letter last January to thank you for the Christmas present that you sent them but have now decided that they didn't want to thank you after all?

I'm surprised that you didn't go the whole hog and add another little bar that reads, "The following user(s) did say thank you to xxxxxxxx for this useful posting but then changed their mind and decided they wanted to un-thank xxxxxxxx."

At least that would have helped us identify those in need of counselling.

Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:

As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.

0
Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,680 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 7:19AM

Not worth losing any sleep over

0
fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 7:19AM

As I posted on the other thread........

The thanks system is a mod/hack for vBulletin that has always had this as an option that can be enabled/disabled by board admins.

Until now, it has been disabled.

Hardly a big deal really.

Can't see why it was ever disabled to be honest.....

It's very handy.

Free/impartial debt advice: National Debtline | StepChange Debt Charity | Find your local CAB

IVA & fee charging DMP companies: Profits from misery, motivated ONLY by greed
0
Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 9:49AM

Can anyone tell me how to clear my cache on my Asus netbook, running on Linux with Firefox browser? Under Tools there is no "Internet options" like I am used to with Windows/IE, only "clear private data". Before I try selecting this, is it the right thing to do? I appreciate it will clear all my remembered passwords etc. from other sites, but if it sorts this one out it's worth re-inputting them all.

I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe

0
Leopard Posts: 1,786 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 10:37AM

fermi wrote: »

As I posted on the other thread........

The thanks system is a mod/hack for vBulletin that has always had this as an option that can be enabled/disabled by board admins.

Until now, it has been disabled.

Hardly a big deal really.

Can't see why it was ever disabled to be honest.....

It's very handy.

For whom, and why?

Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:

As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.

0
fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 11:49AM

Leopard wrote: »

For whom, and why?

For me and others here. To remove thanks that were accidental, or in hindsight I would have not have given.

Free/impartial debt advice: National Debtline | StepChange Debt Charity | Find your local CAB

IVA & fee charging DMP companies: Profits from misery, motivated ONLY by greed
0
DarkConvict Posts: 6,346 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 12:21PM

The Thanked Counter has now disappeared from under the avatar photo, i assume this removal was deliberate.

Although no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies

0
Leopard Posts: 1,786 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 12:36PM

fermi wrote: »

For me and others here. To remove thanks that were accidental, or in hindsight I would have not have given.

Thank you for your explanation and please give my kind regards to all your fellow inmates, there. :wave:

I thought of pressing the gratitude button on your posting but became overwhelmed with anxt that I might then lie awake at night, wrestling with the terrible dilemma of whether or not to come back here and un-thank you for it in three months time. :think:

So, I didn't.

Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:

As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.

0
fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 12:42PM

Good. .....

Free/impartial debt advice: National Debtline | StepChange Debt Charity | Find your local CAB

IVA & fee charging DMP companies: Profits from misery, motivated ONLY by greed
0
Artyfarty_2 Posts: 5 Forumite

28 April 2010 at 2:44PM

Hi, I'm posting for a friend of mine on here because since the 'server update' her account appears to be disabled.
She can't post, PM (receive or send) or load an avatar. She can't even post on a thread she started!
She has sent emails to the various email addresses on the site and recieved only one reply (a FAQs page that didn't answer her problem).
She then emailed the suggested email address in the FAQs and has received nothing more.
We are friends in real life so that's how about this and have posted this in the hopes that this problem can be fixed! She has done nothing to deserve having her account disabled so is at a loss as to why she can't post etc.

Please could you give me some kind of assistance - even just pointing her in the right direction? Please note that she has contacted all the relevant email addresses on the site so I would be really appreciative if you could provide me with some other info. I will pass on any info you can give me to her asap.
Thanks for you help... she's really upset that this has happened as she's on MSE everyday (normally).

Saving for holiday in Las Vegas in August!!:j
0