New Forum layout problems / bugs / How Do I?

stevecurtis

The "Take a Break Puzzle Magazines - REGULARLY UPDATED -" thread seems to be missing the Entered / Skipped options, nor do they indicate if previously entered?

Comping_Rich

I needed to edit the title on this thread, (https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6095805/e-14-02-3pm-every-friday-is-payday-greatest-hits-radio-6-entries), because the end date had changed due to a roll-over. When I clicked save, after changing the date from 07/02 to 14/02, it would not save because there were too many characters in the body of the post, concequently I had to delete a lot of the competition information in the T's & C's before it would save.

Does there really need to be a limit on the number of character in a post? Can the limit be increased or better still removed?

thingamaBob

pate-ci0 said:

sleepyjones said:

marialionza said:

I have clicked entered before entering but then I realized I can't find the survey, now I cannot untagged  the Enter button. It is stuck, anyone has worked it out how or is it another sore we have to suffer and not tell  because they don't think it so bad ?

I don't think that's really a bug though, You clicked "Entered" before you had actually entered.  You can change it to Skipped by clicking the skipped button.

I think the point marialionza is making is that if you tick Entered by mistake there is no way to clear it, only to change to Skipped. If you want to come back later to consider whether to enter or not, or if you had clicked Entered assuming the form was available or the answer was available and find that you cannot actually enter the competition, or anything else that can go wrong before you submit, you will not be able to browse the forum and identify the comp you have not entered since it will now either have an Entered or Skipped icon. There should be a third option, Clear, if you cannot untick as was the case in the old forum. 

They both need to be click On click Off toggle buttons. The same as is required for a Comp-liments button

Jenna_Appleseed

Not a gripe but for anyone else who's lost it, the spam button is hitting under the report button - click report & it gives you  drop down option of spam or report.

2013yearofthehouse

Rachel1640 said:

Is anyone else struggling to search by end date? I'm just getting the same competitions repeated.

If you use advance search there are three blue boxes highlighted labelled "threads" "replies" "polls", so with them all selected by default you get results with the list showing the same competition multiple times because of the replies, but if you toggle off the "replies" option (so that the box turns from blue to white) before searching for the date in the title box then you should only get 1 search result per competition.

fire**fly

i've this one saved on bookmarks (4th post down) & it's still showing last posted/end dates  for me
& working on  new forum layout, 
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/71252760#Comment_71252760

sleepyjones

@fire**fly, think you must have some weird caching going on, I don't think it's physically possible for those links to work because it's just redirecting to the new forum and those pages in the link "forumdisplay.php" no longer exist, so it wouldn't be possible for them to assign the queries to the new forum.

Unless I'm misreading what you're saying, which is highly likely

fire**fly

sleepyjones said:

@fire**fly, think you must have some weird caching going on, I don't think it's physically possible for those links to work because it's just redirecting to the new forum and those pages in the link "forumdisplay.php" no longer exist, so it wouldn't be possible for them to assign the queries to the new forum.

Unless I'm misreading what you're saying, which is highly likely

lol, not sure but if i click on the
Order by Date Ending
Order by newly posted
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/competitions-time
i get the latest post/end dating that was posted on the thread by DD 

fire**fly

fire**fly said:

sleepyjones said:

@fire**fly, think you must have some weird caching going on, I don't think it's physically possible for those links to work because it's just redirecting to the new forum and those pages in the link "forumdisplay.php" no longer exist, so it wouldn't be possible for them to assign the queries to the new forum.

Unless I'm misreading what you're saying, which is highly likely

lol, not sure but if i click on the
Order by Date Ending
Order by newly posted
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/competitions-time
i get the latest post/end dating that was posted on the thread by DD 

& it shows all the entered & skipped comps i've done today 

Didoow

fire**fly said:

lol, not sure but if i click on the
Order by Date Ending
Order by newly posted
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/competitions-time
i get the latest post/end dating that was posted on the thread by DD 

you've posted 3 links there but regardless, for me, all 3 redirect to the same thing - newly posted