Forum Round-up 28 March 2014

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good week. For other self-confessed geeks like Martin, here's what's been popular on the Forum this week.

Most Popular Boards

Competitions Time

The next few most popular boards (excluding expired boards) are:

Marriage, Relationships & Families
Grabbit
Pensions
Employment
Mortgages
Debt-free Wannabe
Old Style


Popular Threads This Week

• 7/10 of the top 10 threads this week are on MoneySaving topics

• Top 10 MoneySaving threads include Tesco £1 clothes, Viking Direct Hamper, So Happy but need your help (this week’s discussion of the week in the weekly email) and this week's Old Style Weekly Flylady thread (a regular weekly thread where forum users motivate each other to clean and declutter their homes)
• Non MoneySaving threads in the top 10 are Neighbour problems (on our Discussion Time board, which is invisible if you’re not a logged-in member of the Forum - join the Forum to read it), Should ‘Friends with Benefits’ be Exclusive? and WWYD - school (WWYD stands for What Would You Do?)
  

New this week

• Our @MSE_Forum today has 3,127 followers, up by 1.4% on last week. The @MoneySavingExp account has 142k, up around 1,000 (0.8%) (we like a bit of friendly competition!)

• In the last week the Forum had 2293 new members (up by 5 ½% on the previous week) and 66,871 new posts (down by 1% on the previous week).
  
• Our Board Guides have told us they think fewer people are posting on the Forum at the moment. We've taken a look over the boards over the last few weeks and we have seen a slight downward trend in posts but that matches this time last year where, again, forum posting peaked in January then gradually reduced to usual levels

Thanks again to all our Forum testers who are still helping us with great feedback on our new forum design so far.

Don't forget to change your clocks and remember it's Mother's Day on Sunday. If you haven't grabbed your mum something yet you'll find lots of deals on our Mother's Day page

And finally, if you use our Forum regularly you’ll know subjects often go off-topic, mostly in a good way. Silent Night Pillow Error at Argos is no exception!

Have a fabulous weekend