Whistles advent?

monsieur_epargnant

What happened to the Whistles advent? I can't find it.

BlueBella

OMG What is it with the disappearing Advents this year!??? If the Halloween comps had been mysteriously disappearing then we would have thought 'ghostly goings on!' but why the Advents? I wonder if we have been invaded by cheeky little elves!?

monsieur_epargnant

I believe whomever posted it used the url that shows after immediately posting. They expire after some time.

Those ones end with a hash i.e.. #post{some 8 digit number}.

I've noticed if you instead take the link from the main board, the url is entirely different. After these disappearing acts, I can only surmise that the one ending in the hash is a temporary one, and the one from the main board (currently beginning with a 5) are permalinks (or permanent links).

You may have seen this behaviour before when the first page is one number, then when you hit page 2 this number changes and yet is supposedly page 2.

For example, whilst I'm commenting here the url in the browser is shown to me as
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/69686488#Comment_69686488

yet clicking the link from the discussion board the link is
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5200313

Worth us keeping an eye out for this?

BlueBella

monsieur_epargnant wrote: »

I believe whomever posted it used the url that shows after immediately posting. They expire after some time.

Those ones end with a hash i.e.. #post{some 8 digit number}.

I've noticed if you instead take the link from the main board, the url is entirely different. After these disappearing acts, I can only surmise that the one ending in the hash is a temporary one, and the one from the main board (currently beginning with a 5) are permalinks (or permanent links).

You may have seen this behaviour before when the first page is one number, then when you hit page 2 this number changes and yet is supposedly page 2.

For example, whilst I'm commenting here the url in the browser is shown to me as
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/69686488#Comment_69686488

yet clicking the link from the discussion board the link is
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5200313

Worth us keeping an eye out for this?

Well done for spotting this! I will know for future postings

monsieur_epargnant

Anyway I'm going to look it up again as they had great prizes

BlueBella

Thanks for reposting the Advent

Lesgo

Someone said it was closed yesterday so its 'game over' - but it's still running , day 22 ! How does one get it re-instated please ?

Ta !

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Cancel that - it's back now !!

sleepyjones

You can still get to it via the advents thread