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poppellerant
poppellerant Posts: 1,963 Forumite
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edited 18 February 2020 at 4:24PM in Site feedback and Forum Help
  1. Please give us the ability to change posts per page from 10 to a higher number, such as 40 like the old forum software.
  2. Reduce the amount of screen wasted without the need for uBlock Origin rules.  On a desktop computer, I find that there is ~50% of my screen width being used to display the forums.
  3. Make it easier for users to link to posts.
  4. Make the fonts sizes a little more consistent - there is too much big and small text when looking at thread titles, ie: thread date and author.
  5. When making or editing posts, the text box has double line spacing.  This can make posting very confusing sometimes.
  6. I'm not sure we need a massive green box at the top showing us thread titles, notifications, inbox, etc.  Again, wasted space.
  7. When editing my message (before posting), navigation with the keys doesn't work as expected - for example, Ctrl + Left/Right Arrow now takes you to the beginning or end of a line, where the normal behaviour to to take the beginning or end of the next or previous word.
  8. Please can we have a marker next to thread titles, to indicate which threads we had posted in? The old forums.had an envelope (?) with a black dot in to let you know you had posted in that thread.
I do hope the forum team see this as constructive feedback which will improve the forums.
If anybody else wishes to put their suggestions forward, remember to report your own post and send a PM to @Former_MSE_Andrea for a quicker response.
As suggested by Wig (thank you!) here's the best way to contact the Forum Team.

We regularly check the Site Feedback board and do our best to reply where we can (we have a team rota) but sometimes staff are off sick, we have an urgent issue come up e.g., a defamation complaint, all of which unfortunately can take our time up on something else.

If that happens and you feel we haven't seen something urgent here's how you can get in touch with us:

Report an issue to us the usual way by clicking on the report button in the post.

Feel free to post the issue on the Site Feedback board then click the report button on your post to let us know. Your query will then go into our Zendesk queue and be picked up quickly. Many forum users already do this to let us know about an issue. Make sure you explain why you're reporting your own post :)

You can also PM me with the links to threads too.

If you've done the above we will be aware. If you still don't think we are, though, you can private message me.

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  • One-Eye
    One-Eye Posts: 70,044 Forumite
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    poppellerant said:
    If anybody else wishes to put their suggestions forward, remember to report your own post and send a PM to @Former_MSE_Andrea for a quicker response.

     Andrea left MSE some months ago - hence the "Former". You won't get a response to any PMs you send.
  • One-Eye said:
    poppellerant said:
    If anybody else wishes to put their suggestions forward, remember to report your own post and send a PM to @Former_MSE_Andrea for a quicker response.

     Andrea left MSE some months ago - hence the "Former". You won't get a response to any PMs you send.
    I had wondered at the time of posting, but I thought I would use the current information.  Who would be the most appropriate contact now, and I will update the post with the name.
  • MSE_Stephen
    MSE_Stephen Posts: 776 Community Admin
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    Hi 

    Please check out the last post of the snagging thread for the list of our current priorities.

    If the above hasn't been reported in the snag thread, please post it up when we post the new thread in the next week or so with a list of everything reported to us.

    If you need to contact the Forum Team, please always use forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. 
    Many other inboxes are turned off or not monitored.

    Thanks

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