Changes to the Competitions Time Section

One-Eye

Scorpioangel said:

Could include a link to the search in the quick links rather than a separate entry above or below. 

I suspect the quick links box is forum-wide, so a comps specific search box can't go there.

carriejj

I am viewing on a PC. Where do I find the post, phone and text comps now please? They used to appear at the top of the page when I logged in. Thank you

MSE_James

Hi @carriejj - the top level of the Competitions part of the forum is now here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/competitions 

BootsMullery

I would prefer the default entry to Standard Competitions to be "New" rather than "Hot" anyone else?

New means that the comp threads are presented in the order of when the thread was posted with the newest THREAD at the top. This would mean that a new reply post would NOT "bump" the thread to the top of the board.

Hot puts them in the order of most recent post with the thread with the newest POST at the top. i.e. you could have a thread posted a week ago but a new reply post "bumps" the thread to the top of the board.

pate-ci0

BootsMullery said:

I would prefer the default entry to Standard Competitions to be "New" rather than "Hot" anyone else?

New means that the comp threads are presented in the order of when the thread was posted with the newest THREAD at the top. This would mean that a new reply post would NOT "bump" the thread to the top of the board.

Hot puts them in the order of most recent post with the thread with the newest POST at the top. i.e. you could have a thread posted a week ago but a new reply post "bumps" the thread to the top of the board.

I kind of agree with this but the downside would be that updates to continuing/daily comps such as the current Protectyourbubble and Impericon would fall further back in the pages and would tend to get lost, as well as answers to 'Help' requests (eg Sainsburys mag). At the moment we see the currently active and 'busy' comps (busy for whatever reason) and personally I think I prefer it that way. It gives me a break when I come across comps I have entered or skipped already when going through the latest 4/5/10 pages of Hot comps. We can choose 'New' in the sort options ......

CloWithTheFlow23

Has anyone else noticed that 'Post, phone & text' comps that have expired are not moving to 'Game Over' but are still on the board?

Also, the 'Report' function is glitching and not sending reports...

sofieellis

I love the search widget and the fact that we have a choice of how to sort the results, as I would sometimes want to search by newest and sometimes by top. The only thing missing for me is that the search results don't show the Entered/Skipped buttons. If you could show these, along with being able to search Game Over, this function would be perfect IMHO. Thank you 

MSE_James

Hi @CloWithTheFlow23 - comps are currently moved to 'Game Over' by the Forum Team manually on working weekdays only, but we'll get caught up after the long weekend. 

Could you give more details of what you mean by "the 'Report' function is glitching and not sending reports" - what do you see when reporting a post that differs from normal?

(We can see you've reported some closed comps over the weekend) 

CloWithTheFlow23

@MSE_James thanks for contact and 😲 "comps are currently moved to 'Game Over' by the Forum Team manually" Wow! That's a labour of love.

After reporting the comps you mention I tried to report a couple of others, only to find that everytime I clicked 'submit' the 'notes' section was just copying the text written there and not submitting the reports.
I tried a few times without success. This was in Chrome on Android.

MSE_Stephen

BootsMullery said:

I would prefer the default entry to Standard Competitions to be "New" rather than "Hot" anyone else?

sofieellis said:

The only thing missing for me is that the search results don't show the Entered/Skipped buttons. 

I'm afraid these aren't features we can currently change. But we're taking note of this kind of feedback for when the Competitions Time plugin is updated later this year. We can't promise any changes, but will make sure our provider is aware that these kind of options would be appreciated.