I *only* access the forum on my W10 PC via Firefox
I use the green forum


I've never, to my knowledge, had any of my posts mangled but several that I see do contain the nonsense.


IIRC, I once quoted a message which wasn't mangled when I read it, but was after quoting!

Hello Andrea,

Here is an exmple, freshly posted by one of your colleagues.

If it's happening for you within MSE towers surely you accept this is an issue you need to sort out:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5846122

It's ?33! Been bad the last few days, every post I've written has been affected

Hi folks

I'm sorry I've taken a while to come back to this.

I definitely want the issue rectified and have been chasing it behind the scenes but it's not necessarily a quick fix, if we can.

It started after a change we made resulted in this problem occurring on certain Apple devices.

Many of you have sorted it using the guidance in that article (see our original thread) but that doesn't appear to be working for all of you.

Unfortunately our tech team has a large workload covering all of MSE, not just the Forum, and in terms of priorities it's not the highest for them.

I'm doing my best to find out whether there's any more we can do in the meantime but please bear with us.

Thank you!

Andrea

Thanks for the update and keep on it please Andrea.

Did you get a chance to talk to MSE Karl - I doubt he posted the above link from an iphone but stand to be corrected?

Will do Rob

Here's the latest mess
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=74337289&postcount=11


All I did was copy the text from an email to here, and failed four times.


Even copied it into notepad and then from there to here, but no differet

This is not a guide to 'sort' the issue. You are asking people to disengage a useful piece of software on their phones to suit one forum.

It's not just that either. Even those of us who don't even use apple devices are subjected to it when trying to read posts by those that do, and for every person who visits the site feedback section to find the solution there are dozens more who just shrug and keep posting gibberish.

Or even worse, historic posts made before the forum change that contain helpful information that have been rendered unintelligible. It's not reasonable to expect affected users to go back and retrospectively correct their posting history over this.

This forum's value is in the collective wisdom of its userbase. This issue directly affects that and (IMHO) should be a priority.

Personally I do not edit mine as I thought it would spur on MSE to sort the issue. The solution is currently 'there is no solution, unless you want to change your phone settings' I dont want to change my phone settings. Why should I, when it works perfectly fine for 99.99% of the internet/messages etc

Editting out the issue means they are more likely to simply ignore it and leave it as is.

To be honest I think they are going to ignore it whether we continue to show the issue or not.

I'm personally hopefully that Andrea is going to tweak Martin's conscience - or failing that the hairs on his forearm - until MSE make their forum compatible and readable, rather than foisting a half-baked workaround that would involve tens/hundreds of thousands of forumites making changes to their devices that in large numbers they either don't want to or can't.

Vote for Martin Lewis in the TV choice awards?...please don't unless there is a commitment to sort this out.

I never bother with any of these phone votes, all the award things feel rigged to me with whichever channel's top boss buys the most cakes for the judging panel that make the final decisions.

Hi folks

I promise you we're not ignoring the issue, we haven't forgotten, we're very much aware of it.

Please see my last post, above.

We really appreciate your patience.

Thank you!

I generally post from a desktop computer and it happens to my posts as well.


I'm sick of it


I use IE v11 and am still on the old green skin

I just don't bother reading posts with loads of apostrophes and numbers in - it just makes things so difficult to understand.

But its not priority you also said earlier

So this sort of thing (below) you are happy to accept ?


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This is exactly my point. It's uncomfortable to read therefore I just skip over it. So people are being unfairly discriminated against on this forum as their postings will be ignored by lots of people due to a problem not of their making.

OK so I used the D word but hopefully a crack team of forum developers are at this moment up to their ears in not-very-smart punctuation.

Hopefully indeed!!

It's all quiet so far, and the problem is still here and getting worse.....