Hi Mrs.MM!
Thanks for starting this!
Re: permissions issues, I cannot see any categories on the main page of the forum. It was working, but stopped about a half hour ago.
Hello Mrs.MM!!
I think a meetup section or regional category, as well as a minimoneymustache category would be awesome.
Hi Mrs.MM!
Thanks for starting this!
Re: permissions issues, I cannot see any categories on the main page of the forum. It was working, but stopped about a half hour ago.
Hmmm... I had that happen to me when I was testing the site as the "minimize" button was accidentally clicked.
Go to the bar where it says "The Only Category" and on the right is says "Unread Posts" and there's a little plus sign there (which toggles +/-). Click that and you should be good (if I'm understanding your problem correctly). Let me know if it works...
I feel so embarrassed. That was it. Thanks!
Thanks MEJG (what does that stand for anyway?). :)
I agree with the meetup section. What would the "minimoneymustache category" contain? You mean a place for beginner Mustachians?
I was thinking a section for discussions centered about children :-) the "should one of us stay home and one us of work 5+ more years, or both work for the next 4 and retire" and the "my child has his/her first job, pro/cons of helping them with a Roth?"
Both MMM and I are new to this whole forum thing (I've participated in a PHPBB forum for years, but never administered one before), so please send us any advice you might have.
A section for book, magazine, website reviews would be nice to see.
I'd love to see a different CAPTCHA used during registration. I couldn't make out half the letters and had to have it read them to me! That's never happened to me before... so I'm thinking it might be dialed in a bit too tight (or is just poorly implemented).
Just tossing it out there!
I would suggest adding a sub-forum for Journals. On the ERE forum they are among the most popular posts.Agree with this idea. I had started a dedicated thread for myself in some other section and decided to delete and wait for a better section to post instead.
I have a suggestion for a blog/forum tie in. Allow folks to keep posting comments on blog posts, but maybe allow/direct more discussion on articles into the forum. A few of the other sites I follow like Simple Dollar and Nerd Fitness do this.
I agree. It'd be easy for discussion to become fragmented between the blog and forum.
My idea, though I think it'll be controversial and will take people a bit to get used to: it'd be cool if every time a blog was posted, a corresponding thread was made on the forums with the first post pasting in the content and/or linking back to the post. At the bottom of each post would be a link to that forum thread, for discussion.
That would have a dual purpose of keeping all discussion in that one place, plus encourage people to sign up for the forum for further discussion on MMM's awesome blog posts, which would further grow the community.
I'd like to be able to use the forum with tapatalk on my phone. Not sure exactly how that works, but I'll look it up later on my computer. Just wanted to get the idea out there. Comes in super handy for following threads on the go.
Edit: looks like tapatalk does support the simple machines forum engine. Beyond that and they claim a free laying service, I'm not sure what else it would take. It's just an idea. :)
All grammar and typing errors I attribute to my phone. Cheers!
The Search appears not to be working.
Luckily, everyone is helping each other and so the whole system is on autopilot. But it means that unlike the main blog comments, I probably won't ever see most of what is written.
If there happens to be a conversation that anyone thinks I should join into, just send me a private message through this forum. Then I can catch up and say hi.
Love the blog and I'm sure I'll love the forum too. Thanks!
My topic: Ideas/suggestions on leading a spouse or significant other toward musthachian concepts. Need some "sales" tools.
A section for book, magazine, website reviews would be nice to see.
Both MMM and I are new to this whole forum thing (I've participated in a PHPBB forum for years, but never administered one before), so please send us any advice you might have.
I've run and moderated several vbulletin forums over the years. The hardest part is just watching out for spammers/scammers who create a user and then post garbage. That's why a team is the most important aspect. You've already got a thread for moderators, so identifying and having a good core team of community users will help the community grow.
I have a suggestion for a blog/forum tie in. Allow folks to keep posting comments on blog posts, but maybe allow/direct more discussion on articles into the forum. A few of the other sites I follow like Simple Dollar and Nerd Fitness do this.
Basically having one forum section dedicated to followup's or ongoing discussion of an article and it's topic.
This may be something small. But maybe under everyone's username we can add the city/state they are located in. I think its important to know where people are geographically as employment/community and real estate activity is different all around the country and the world. Getting an idea of where the poster is from is really important IMO when analyzing their investment strategies. Real estate in the Bay Area, Ca (where I live) is so much higher in price to most parts of the country but for the immediate area the somewhat inflated looking prices may be typical. To others around the country the prices may look absurd. Just as example and my 2 cents.
I would suggest adding a sub-forum for Journals. On the ERE forum they are among the most popular posts.
Nice, a forum! MMM is one of my favorite personal finance blogs, and I'm glad you guys set up this forum so we Mustachians can all learn from each other.
Can we have mobile versions for the blog and forum, though? I usually browse MMM on my phone, and while the layout looks great on a laptop, it's pretty hard to read on smartphones/tablets. I'm having trouble typing this post on my phone right now.
Thanks!
It would be nice to have a place to introduce yourself to the community. Maybe a stand alone category would work for this?
I have no idea if this is possible, but it would be really nice if there would be a way to "favorite" a thread (or post). This would allow each of us to individually track whatever nuggets of knowledge we'd like to remember. Furthermore, it could allow others to search for the "most favorited" threads/posts over the past month, year, all-time, etc.
With the popularity of the blog itself, I can see this forum getting quite busy, and this would allow a way for us to filter, track, and build a Mustachian library of sorts. It would also help MMM target his efforts in the forum.
It would be nice to have a place to introduce yourself to the community. Maybe a stand alone category would work for this?
I think the Welcome to the Forum place is perfect for that. Since that area is less active, it will probably become a General Discussions / Welcome area. I could make a sticky for introductions - does that work?
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Ahhh.. I just made another change around here that I hope you all like as much as I do.
I increased the number of posts displayed per topic page from 15 (requiring you to page back and forth to read a conversation), up to a more reasonable 999. Now you can simply scroll up and down to read through the conversation, the way your web browser was designed to work!
Web sites that split things unnecessarily into pages are a serious pet peeve of mine!
Ahhh.. I just made another change around here that I hope you all like as much as I do.
I increased the number of posts displayed per topic page from 15 (requiring you to page back and forth to read a conversation), up to a more reasonable 999. Now you can simply scroll up and down to read through the conversation, the way your web browser was designed to work!
Web sites that split things unnecessarily into pages are a serious pet peeve of mine!
Ahhh.. I just made another change around here that I hope you all like as much as I do.
I increased the number of posts displayed per topic page from 15 (requiring you to page back and forth to read a conversation), up to a more reasonable 999. Now you can simply scroll up and down to read through the conversation, the way your web browser was designed to work!
Web sites that split things unnecessarily into pages are a serious pet peeve of mine!
Viewers with slower internet connections might also appreciate an option to dial that back.
Permission Question: Should some of these boards be closed to guests? I'm wondering specifically about the new "Journals" board. Let me know what you guys think.
Permission Question: Should some of these boards be closed to guests? I'm wondering specifically about the new "Journals" board. Let me know what you guys think.
Tough call, maybe do that as an experiment. I agree the journals section would be a good place to start.
Oh putz Mrs. MM I just tried to start a new discussiom on foraging. How do I move that over to saving money on food? I would really like some responses as I'm trying to learn more . . .
It would be nice to have a place to introduce yourself to the community. Maybe a stand alone category would work for this?
I think the Welcome to the Forum place is perfect for that. Since that area is less active, it will probably become a General Discussions / Welcome area. I could make a sticky for introductions - does that work?
What do people think about the possibility of some sort of job board or something? MMM's post about stickers and hiring an underworked mustachian sparked the idea. I'd much rather work with/for another mustachian than some idiot who's going to be undedicated and putz away his newfound fortunes.
It might be good to put up things if anyone has them...
What do people think about the possibility of some sort of job board or something? MMM's post about stickers and hiring an underworked mustachian sparked the idea. I'd much rather work with/for another mustachian than some idiot who's going to be undedicated and putz away his newfound fortunes.
It might be good to put up things if anyone has them...
I'd like to see Mustachian job postings as well!
That's got potential.
What do people think about the possibility of some sort of job board or something? MMM's post about stickers and hiring an underworked mustachian sparked the idea. I'd much rather work with/for another mustachian than some idiot who's going to be undedicated and putz away his newfound fortunes.
It might be good to put up things if anyone has them...
I'd like to see Mustachian job postings as well!
That's got potential.
Can that go in the Ask a Mustachian section? I feel with all of us so spread out (some in the same state, but very few in the same cities), it will hardly have any posts, and the more areas, the more e board clutters. It would be okay for online work, I suppose, but with the prices of virtual assistants and such, I'd feel bad paying a fellow reader a low wage, nor would it be Mustachian of me - or them - to do so.
Or maybe that idea could be combined into the buy/sell/trade section... Make it a classifieds section, which could include bst and job postings...
Oh putz Mrs. MM I just tried to start a new discussiom on foraging. How do I move that over to saving money on food? I would really like some responses as I'm trying to learn more . . .
I moved it to the Ask A Mustachian forum for you.
What about a referrals page?
I know many of us use online services, including brokerages, etc.
We may as well help each other out if we can, right?
Occasionally a moderator on some forums I've been on is not really a fan of this sort of thing, so I just wanted to put it out there.
It would be nice to have a place to introduce yourself to the community. Maybe a stand alone category would work for this?
I think the Welcome to the Forum place is perfect for that. Since that area is less active, it will probably become a General Discussions / Welcome area. I could make a sticky for introductions - does that work?
Thank you! It is nice to see suggestions being acted on.
If at all possible, will you consider securing at the very least the Journals section of the forum from Google and other web crawlers?
I think many people here won't want that to be too easily found depending on how much detail/identifying information is given. Personally, I don't like having to worry about how much information I am giving out that could be used maliciously, although you can never be too careful in this day and age.
Smilies please! I like smilies :-)
Smilies please! I like smilies :-)
Hmmmm... anyone else? Both MMM & I are anti-smilies which is why we removed them. :)
I'm torn. Some can be okay, but the ones that are too "cartoonish" annoy me. It's hard to find a good set that doesn't look ridiculous, so I'm tend towards not having them.
First of all, thanks for the forum! I think it's a great addition to the MMM blog.
Is site bandwidth a big problem? The 192kb max attachment and 128kb max individual attachment seem a little low these days.
I didn't read through this whole post, but a ctrl+f did not show any use of the word "favicon", so my suggestion is to update the favicon.ico for the forum to match the MrMoneyMustache.com one. Or at least something besides the default.
Looking forward to participating in the forum!
I agree with Zinnie, a multi-quote function would be so useful. It's a right pain copying and pasting quotes, multi-quote would go down a treat. :)
I agree with Zinnie, a multi-quote function would be so useful. It's a right pain copying and pasting quotes, multi-quote would go down a treat. :)
When you click reply (or click quote to start a reply), under the box for your message is the whole thread. You can click "insert quote" next to each post to pop in a quote from the different replies.
That should do exactly what you two are looking for, unless I'm misunderstanding/mistaken.
If any thread you've visited recently has a reply you can go directly to the part you haven't read yet by clicking on the "New" orange button. It's not the solution you're looking for but it's as close as it gets:)
Ahhh.. I just made another change around here that I hope you all like as much as I do.
I increased the number of posts displayed per topic page from 15 (requiring you to page back and forth to read a conversation), up to a more reasonable 999. Now you can simply scroll up and down to read through the conversation, the way your web browser was designed to work!
Web sites that split things unnecessarily into pages are a serious pet peeve of mine!
Thanks!! Glad you guys figured it out so I didn't have to do anything. :) I wouldn't have known where to start anyway.No worries. I'm more or less at ease with this forum because I moderated a forum with features very similar to this one.
Also, I can't seem to find the setting to specify my time zone, keep having to add 3 hours to everything!I'm not sure if the link will work: https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=theme;u=17
I've been reading MMM since the first articles and have shared nearly every article with friends and family. Looking for help/advice :)
Here's an idea I've seen on other forums: A "Hall of Fame" section for the best posts.
Is it possible to change the system so that after posting a reply to a thread, I am returned to the thread? Getting bumped out to the forum home page is a bit jolting.
Nice, a forum! MMM is one of my favorite personal finance blogs, and I'm glad you guys set up this forum so we Mustachians can all learn from each other.
Can we have mobile versions for the blog and forum, though? I usually browse MMM on my phone, and while the layout looks great on a laptop, it's pretty hard to read on smartphones/tablets. I'm having trouble typing this post on my phone right now.
Thanks!
This is on my list, but it's a bit further down... I will look into this "Tapatalk" thing that I've never heard of before too.
Nice, a forum! MMM is one of my favorite personal finance blogs, and I'm glad you guys set up this forum so we Mustachians can all learn from each other.
Can we have mobile versions for the blog and forum, though? I usually browse MMM on my phone, and while the layout looks great on a laptop, it's pretty hard to read on smartphones/tablets. I'm having trouble typing this post on my phone right now.
Thanks!
This is on my list, but it's a bit further down... I will look into this "Tapatalk" thing that I've never heard of before too.
Bump for this suggestion.
Any way we can get tapatalk support (works on android and iOS)? It has a simple plugin that works with this forum's software (SMF), should be a very quick install.
Really any mobile solution would be great (forum runner, or even just have it reformat on mobile screens), tapatalk is just a common one that's easy to implement.
Sorry guys... somehow I've been missing all these! I will read through everything. Please continue to discuss and figure out how this community can best function. Summer is busy, but I will be working exclusively on the blog this Fall! (no more part-time job - yay!)
I would love to see a thread devoted to food & groceries, with recipes etc.. This is a big area for me to improve upon, and I would love a place to see great, delicious and frugal recipes and tips.... Or maybe you could have a stickie that other's could add to (if this exists, sorry but I'm new around here... love your blog! you and Mr MM are an amazing team :-)
. I love delicious fresh and organic food, and I love hearing how others are able to provide for their families on a mustachian budget.
Any luck finding a new host yet. At least here (Eastern Time), the website is just about impossible to use between 12-4pm.
Any luck finding a new host yet. At least here (Eastern Time), the website is just about impossible to use between 12-4pm.
+1. I had quite a bit more trouble today than normal.
As MMM's popularity explodes, it'll be harder and harder to cover the amount of traffic. I know MMM was looking for a better host... Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks everyone! I am serious about this web hosting switcheroo now.
In late June, the blog jumped to a new level of traffic and started bogging to death. I talked to Bluehost and they promised that we'd see better results if I upgraded to the "Pro" plan where the blog would be hosted on a less-busy server. But there was still no guarantee of CPU time availability, which is what had been the bottleneck before.
This upgrade improved the average page loading speed for a while, but didn't eliminate the fact that the blog tends to shut down when it gets more than a couple hundred users on at once.
I don't think it's the forum that is doing most of the loading, since the main blog has many times more readers. But I could be wrong on that - let me at least tune that posts-per-page setting downwards a bit and see what happens.
I'm also working on finding a new host with all the free time I can gather, but it's tough: you either have no-promises shared webhosting like bluehost and hostgator ($100/year), or you have untested/unknown ones that vary widely in price ($1200/year to $5,000/year+). There are strong but conflicting opinions on each one. According to the guidelines of some web hosts, the MMM blog's traffic level falls into some sort of "Ultra Ridiculous Enterprise" level where prices are so high they don't even list them (example: http://wpengine.com/pricing/). After shutting off most of the blog's income recently, it would be painful to pay a bill like that!
I was thinking of just following the lead of a known-big blog like smartpassiveincome.com, who uses ServInt. Those guys start at $600/year, although with no promises or traffic guidelines (From one of Pat's earlier articles, I think MMM has a much higher number of monthly page views than smartpassiveincome.com).
Thanks everyone! I am serious about this web hosting switcheroo now.These sound like really good problems to have...
In late June, the blog jumped to a new level of traffic and started bogging to death. I talked to Bluehost and they promised that we'd see better results if I upgraded to the "Pro" plan where the blog would be hosted on a less-busy server. But there was still no guarantee of CPU time availability, which is what had been the bottleneck before.
This upgrade improved the average page loading speed for a while, but didn't eliminate the fact that the blog tends to shut down when it gets more than a couple hundred users on at once.
I don't think it's the forum that is doing most of the loading, since the main blog has many times more readers. But I could be wrong on that - let me at least tune that posts-per-page setting downwards a bit and see what happens.
I'm also working on finding a new host with all the free time I can gather, but it's tough: you either have no-promises shared webhosting like bluehost and hostgator ($100/year), or you have untested/unknown ones that vary widely in price ($1200/year to $5,000/year+). There are strong but conflicting opinions on each one. According to the guidelines of some web hosts, the MMM blog's traffic level falls into some sort of "Ultra Ridiculous Enterprise" level where prices are so high they don't even list them (example: http://wpengine.com/pricing/). After shutting off most of the blog's income recently, it would be painful to pay a bill like that!
I was thinking of just following the lead of a known-big blog like smartpassiveincome.com, who uses ServInt. Those guys start at $600/year, although with no promises or traffic guidelines (From one of Pat's earlier articles, I think MMM has a much higher number of monthly page views than smartpassiveincome.com).
These sound like really good problems to have...
Another option might be contacting Andy R at Early-Retirement.org. He's lumped together a bunch of discussion boards under the Social Knowledge brand and has some fairly high traffic numbers. He might be able to share what works for him.
They also pay $600/yr. for apps for the e-r.org forum for iOS and android.Yikes. I hope that includes 24/7 tech support for the users who complain about the formatting and "new threads" display!
They also pay $600/yr. for apps for the e-r.org forum for iOS and android.Yikes. I hope that includes 24/7 tech support for the users who complain about the formatting and "new threads" display!
In Andy's defense, I wonder if that $600/year includes all the Social Knowledge forums-- not just E-R.org.
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I.P.'s points regarding database access are well-taken - except for the fact that the forum is so much less trafficked than the main blog*. After dropping the SimpleMachines posts-per-page number down, I still saw a couple of full-website drops in the following days, even while Google Analytics indicated that virtually nobody was using the forum at the moment. But these are just initial speculations - I'm still having fun learning about it.
Update on web host situation: I signed up for a new hosting account at a to-be-named host after a great introductory chat with them, but the order became effed up due to the fact that I was making the order from a Canadian IP address with my US address/credit card information. So I'm still working on that issue - this will be after this weekend then another few days at the cottage where there is a blissful lack of internet access.
I.P.'s points regarding database access are well-taken - except for the fact that the forum is so much less trafficked than the main blog*. After dropping the SimpleMachines posts-per-page number down, I still saw a couple of full-website drops in the following days, even while Google Analytics indicated that virtually nobody was using the forum at the moment. But these are just initial speculations - I'm still having fun learning about it.
Does anybody know the shell or cPanel method to check the CPU time that has been tied up by the database access for each of these separate parts of the site? I'm guessing there are two different measurements - CPU time used on my actual host by wordpress and simple machines script processes, plus database server time (on another machine somewhere) from the queries my main server is making. (Unless it all runs in one space, partitioned off for me?)
Anyway, the big news is that I turned off the main blog's "all posts since the beginning of time" feature and turned it into a static page instead. That was an obvious resource hog, since it is a very popular page and it does a gigantic loop through the database for every person who reads it. You may laugh at the fact that I allowed that script in the first place, but I guess I was assuming that computers were fast enough these days to not bog down doing a few hundred loops of a "for" statement, a few tens of thousands of times per day. I know, I know, it's all in the number of CPU instructions that REALLY happen for each database query (probably millions), but still.. this blog is TINY compared to a page like the Wall Street Journal or even Lifehacker.com, so I'm surprised that it is slowing down with only 60 pageviews per minute. I mean, even a large-print paperback book could deliver almost as many pageviews per minute to a group of 60 people!
Anyway, it's all learning for me, which makes it all good..
*There's also a nice "uncorrelated assets" thing going on with the forum where usage ramps up in the evening hours and on weekends, while the main blog traffic is driven purely by people slacking off at work: mostly in the US, mostly during the 9-5 period in the country's four primary time zones.
I've still noticed a couple full-fledged outages since, but when the site is responding the forums do too, now, instead of timing out and throwing Wordpress 404 errors. So, we're down to 503's only now (at least from my observation). Definitely a step in the right direction!For what it's worth, which may be nothing, I get formatted MMM 404 errors and unformatted Wordpress 404 errors about equally often (and seemingly interchangeably, even within the span of a few minutes). I guess that those could indicate different degrees of overloading, depending on how far into the stack the requests get, but I don't know for sure.
I keep hearing this over and over on the forum and in blog post comments. I think we need a category for single Mustachians. It would be a great way to exchange dating tips and, if two Mustachians should happen to realize they live in the same area and choose to meet.....
Anyone know how we could get singles category (not just a thread)?
I'd love a permanent off-topic thread to chat about day-to-day random life, sports, weather, or whatever.
In fact, if there's no objections, I might create one.
If there's an undeniable need for a category that you all agree on, and if you're a moderator and can add a category, then please go ahead! I'm having trouble keeping up with everything, although I do have this on my to-do list.
Update: I added two more skill-testing questions. They may be a little TOO hard, since they require a cursory knowledge of the blog itself (what state does Mr. Money Mustache live in, for example).
We can see if this eliminates the spam, and if it ends up eliminating all new users, which would probably mean I've made them too hard. Unless the 1400 existing registered users would prefer to keep it as an exclusive club :-)
I'd rather repeat the answers a few times or link to old threads a few times and get the camaraderie of chatting with other Mustachians than give up the latter to not have to do the former.
IMO.
This would be great for certain types of questions...A Dilbert perspective on this software would be that it must have already created the best forums with the answers. Can you point us to a forum or two that might actually already have the best answers to these types of questions? I'd rather see it in action before trying it here.
Better on Stack Exchange:
- What is the best checking account?
- What is the best index fund?
- What bike lights should I get?
- Is it better for me to pay off my student loan faster vs. investing?
A Dilbert perspective on this software would be that it must have already created the best forums with the answers. Can you point us to a forum or two that might actually already have the best answers to these types of questions? I'd rather see it in action before trying it here.
This would be great for certain types of questions...A Dilbert perspective on this software would be that it must have already created the best forums with the answers. Can you point us to a forum or two that might actually already have the best answers to these types of questions? I'd rather see it in action before trying it here.
Here are some good examples:Thanks.
I'm sure many would love the correct answer to the pay off the mortgage versus invest question. ;)Yeah, I bet it gets a little gnarly with 100-post topics. But it'd be a big help in a thread like "Funny Joke Thursday"!
Update: I added two more skill-testing questions. They may be a little TOO hard, since they require a cursory knowledge of the blog itself (what state does Mr. Money Mustache live in, for example).
We can see if this eliminates the spam, and if it ends up eliminating all new users, which would probably mean I've made them too hard. Unless the 1400 existing registered users would prefer to keep it as an exclusive club :-)
On another forum i'm on, there is a button on the top bar for named 'new posts' for looking at all new topics and posts that were update recently no matter the category. I think that'd be a good idea for frequent users
We've got a lot of sticky-quality material on this site. I've collected some on my signature, but I think IP Daley's thread and the monthly biking threads are both definitely sticky quality, and I'd argue some of the others are as well.
We've got a lot of sticky-quality material on this site. I've collected some on my signature, but I think IP Daley's thread and the monthly biking threads are both definitely sticky quality, and I'd argue some of the others are as well.I spent a lot of time doing both on Early-Retirement.org: http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f47/
If new members ever read them, they never said anything.
I read at least half of them, maybe a bit more. I remember opening like 60+ tabs at once from links from those threads and reading through a bunch of old ones.Hey, good to hear. Thanks.
Thanks for your work on creating them.
We've got a lot of sticky-quality material on this site. I've collected some on my signature, but I think IP Daley's thread and the monthly biking threads are both definitely sticky quality, and I'd argue some of the others are as well.I spent a lot of time doing both on Early-Retirement.org: http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f47/
I found them quite useful for myself ("Now where's that post about Bill Bernstein's Retirement Calculator from Hell? Ah, there it is.") and for a few other of the more long-term members who'd also link to them.
If new members ever read them, they never said anything. Objective evidence was that they hardly ever read them, although lurkers may have been doing so. But usually you'd get a post like "Hey, guys, I'm going to ask about a bunch of topics that you discuss nearly every day. Gee, you know what? You ought to have some way of archiving the answers to frequently asked questions!!"
That sounds like a good argument for having a "like" button. Sometimes I don't want to clutter a thread with yet another "thanks!" message, but I still want to show appreciation for the post.vBulletin forum software has a "Thanks" button, but unlike the "Like" button it doesn't show up on the thread. "Thanks" lets the reader send a short message to the writer, and it shows up in the writer's private notification area. Other readers can't even tell that a "Thanks" has been sent.
Here are my 10 cents
[url=http://www.tld.url/webpage.html]link text[/url]
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Was the site down for a couple of hours last night?
Here are my 10 cents
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- Under Profile settings, select "Buddies/Ignore List" under "Modify Profile" on the left side.
- Try the Mustachian Marketplace (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/mustachian-marketplace/)
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- Not sure if I follow. *Basically a real-time MMM forum deals that we are aware of and we post/share with others. Think fatwallet, nerdwallet and other real-time sites that collect deals but with a stronger focus on MMM values instead of simply spending.*
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- Already possible with bbcode. Highlight text you want to turn into a link, press the little globe with paper icon button, you'll get url bbcode tags. Edit thusly:Code: [Select][url=http://www.tld.url/webpage.html]link text[/url]
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Is there anyone on this thread who is?
@ I.P. Daley: Thanks for sharing. Are you a mod or someone who can implement actual site improvements?
Is there anyone on this thread who is?
Mods don't have the ability to change the forum options, only add/delete categories, and modify/move/remove posts.
Only a forum administrator (which would be Mr. or Mrs. MM), not moderator, could make those type of changes.
I couldn't find this anywhere, but is there a list of the possible "ranks" that people can attain by posting more?Imagine if all the posts we've made over the years on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, blogs, discussion boards, bulletin boards, chat rooms... could all be totaled up in a single place. Maybe Google could track it and give out extra free storage for e-mail, or maybe Amazon could offer free shipping for everyone over 100,000 posts.
Maybe I'm missing some? Or are there secret levels that have yet to be unlocked? I work on a web game for a living so this stuff is important to me!
I couldn't find this anywhere, but is there a list of the possible "ranks" that people can attain by posting more?Imagine if all the posts we've made over the years on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, blogs, discussion boards, bulletin boards, chat rooms... could all be totaled up in a single place. Maybe Google could track it and give out extra free storage for e-mail, or maybe Amazon could offer free shipping for everyone over 100,000 posts.
Maybe I'm missing some? Or are there secret levels that have yet to be unlocked? I work on a web game for a living so this stuff is important to me!
Oh, but wait, then people would start favoring quantity over quality.
Can't find an answer anywhere...
What happened to the "Recent unread posts" and "New replies to your posts" that were at the top of the page two weeks ago?
Did something change? Is there another way now?
Thanks!
A like button
On the technical side, the only thing I'm missing is a mobile format so that I can read on my phone without excessive side scrolling.
I don't think "likes", "reputation" or similar stuff is a good idea at all.
The forum ignore list is global (applies to all threads on the site) and only hides posts from your eyes, not prevents them from appearing for all readers.I didn't even realize this software had an ignore list. Thanks, that solves a problem. For me, anyway!
On the technical side, the only thing I'm missing is a mobile format so that I can read on my phone without excessive side scrolling.
I don't think "likes", "reputation" or similar stuff is a good idea at all.
Down at the bottom of the page, in the footer section, click the WAP2 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/index.php?wap2) link.
The forum ignore list is global (applies to all threads on the site) and only hides posts from your eyes, not prevents them from appearing for all readers. So no, there isn't a way to do that currently.
Add them to your ignore list. You won't see them, but everyone else still will.
So I had a 1MB .png I wanted to upload and I was getting an "attachment too large" error, but it's supposed to accept up to 10MB files. Any idea what's behind that?
Is there a "View New Posts" function somewhere?
If not, I would like to suggest this :)
There is. At the top, where it says hello and your name, and has your avatar picture.
If you don't see it cick the grey down arrow all the way on the right under the header banner picture.
I would really like to see a sticky that would give you some definitions of some of the common abbreviations.
I keep seeing FIRE and DH used and a few other without knowing what they mean.
I've figured out FIRE stands for Financial Independent Retired Early, but for the life of me DH escapes my best guesses. I under stand it means spouse but I'd still like to know what the acronym stands for.
I think having this would help people new to this forum and new to FIRE in general.
I would really like to see a sticky that would give you some definitions of some of the common abbreviations.
I keep seeing FIRE and DH used and a few other without knowing what they mean.
I've figured out FIRE stands for Financial Independent Retired Early, but for the life of me DH escapes my best guesses. I under stand it means spouse but I'd still like to know what the acronym stands for.
I think having this would help people new to this forum and new to FIRE in general.
I believe DH is short for Dear Husband.
You may find acronymfinder.com useful although it seems to return a lot of results.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/DH.html (http://www.acronymfinder.com/DH.html)
I'd like to use this "Forum Ideas" topic for everyone to send me their ideas on anything related to the forum.
I'd like to use this "Forum Ideas" topic for everyone to send me their ideas on anything related to the forum.
Hi there! I'm new to the forum, but I'm very surprised that there isn't a section dedicated to sharing inexpensive but tasty recipes -- anyone else agree that this would be a useful area? I'm certainly willing to contribute a couple of my favorite cheap paleo meals!
-steve
13 threads in the history of the forum do not make a category IMO, but you might get a sticky if you ask for it.
...oh and I would love to hear/read about life after ER/FIRE. I am not there yet but it would be a big motivation!The best implementation of that concept that I've seen is the Early-Retirement.org thread "What did you do today?"
And, since it's 600+ pages long, over 12,000 replies, just reading it could answer the question what do you do all day? ;)Well, sure, but here you'd get to learn what financially independent badass mustachians are relentlessly optimizing all day...
And, since it's 600+ pages long, over 12,000 replies, just reading it could answer the question what do you do all day? ;)Well, sure, but here you'd get to learn what financially independent badass mustachians are relentlessly optimizing all day...
For Early-Retirement.org, I'd just start with the FAQ archives: http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f47/ But that's not my forum; the site was started by Dory36 and is now owned by Andy R.And, since it's 600+ pages long, over 12,000 replies, just reading it could answer the question what do you do all day? ;)Well, sure, but here you'd get to learn what financially independent badass mustachians are relentlessly optimizing all day...
Nords, everytime I read a post about the useful information that people received out of your manual, I have meant to dig through your forum. This has been going on for months, but frankly it intimidates me in size and scope. Am I being a wussypants or is their a table of contents or a way not read 16 pages of 773 posts? Thanks for putting this together, I will tackle this topic!
I like the "new" icon next to topics, but wish there were a "new" icon next to individual posts so I could tell which posts in a given thread I haven't read yet.
I like the "new" icon next to topics, but wish there were a "new" icon next to individual posts so I could tell which posts in a given thread I haven't read yet.
Click that new icon, and it will take you to the first post you haven't read. All the ones below that are new.
Is there any way to "forget" tracking a topic I've replied to so that it no longer shows up under "Show new replies to your posts?"
I wish.Moderators & admins, does this version of SMF include an "Ignore thread" feature? It already has "Ignore poster" so maybe they implemented the thread version as well.
I think a lot of us would like to share ideas on how to start a small side business or retirement "fun" work.
QuoteI think a lot of us would like to share ideas on how to start a small side business or retirement "fun" work.
I second this one - I feel really out of my depth on this topic, and it's of great interest to me since I need to boost my income to have any hope of getting rid of debt in a timely manner.
3) Once you've posed, don't kick back to the forum, go back to the topic.(https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/forum-information-faqs/forum-ideas/?action=dlattach;attach=2141;image)
Hi. I just joined and had a bit of an issue registering.
Looking quickly, I didn't see any 'issues' thread or anything, but the forum registration form asks the user to "Complete the phrase: Financial freedom through...", then you're left to enter the mysterious field. It took me a google search to complete by finding the OLD 'NEW' BANNER THREAD! Please substitute a different question. I'm sure that other not so savvy internets users would like to join and are having the same difficulty.
Just a pain point that I'd like to point out.
I would love a glossary for us newbies. There are seemingly enough obscure acronyms to confuse even military mustachians.
Copied from the discussion on how to meet single mustachians ....
Maybe the "Personals" forum could be changed to something like "Single and Mustachian" where single people could talk about topics pertaining to mustache-building on your own. I would like to discuss things like that, and people could interact and identify fellow singles in a less "seeking" kind of way. The current Personals area seems really CraigsListy to me.
It'd be as easy as just changing the name. :)
Maybe the "Personals" forum could be changed to something like "Single and Mustachian" where single people could talk about topics pertaining to mustache-building on your own.
I second this idea.
Is there a way to save posts , not whole threads and favorite them for future reference? Thank you.
Proposal: Identify professional entities that are using the forum.
The forum is gaining some attention from investment firms, banks, wealth managers, whoever else as seen in recent threads, articles, and lawsuits. The mods are trying to encourage civilized discussion with these entities.
One method I have seen other forums use is to Identify those users with tag, Like "Professional Entity" in place of magnum, handlebar etc. Some forums have these firms pay for this right to be active on otherwise free forums. Whether or not this would work or be accepted, I suppose thats up to the mods and the community.
I'd guess this has already been discussed among the mods, but in the chance that it has not I thought I would throw it out there.
Proposal: Identify professional entities that are using the forum.
The forum is gaining some attention from investment firms, banks, wealth managers, whoever else as seen in recent threads, articles, and lawsuits. The mods are trying to encourage civilized discussion with these entities.
One method I have seen other forums use is to Identify those users with tag, Like "Professional Entity" in place of magnum, handlebar etc. Some forums have these firms pay for this right to be active on otherwise free forums. Whether or not this would work or be accepted, I suppose thats up to the mods and the community.
I'd guess this has already been discussed among the mods, but in the chance that it has not I thought I would throw it out there.
Username | Position | Date Registered |
MrCash | Handlebar | 3/6/2014 |
soccerluvof4 | Senior Mustachian | 1/18/2014 |
frugalnacho | Bristles | 3/19/2014 |
arebelspy | Global Moderator | 2/14/2012 |
Thegoblinchief | Senior Mustachian | 12/19/2013 |
warfreak2 | Magnum | 2/2/2014 |
oldtoyota | Senior Mustachian | 5/5/2013 |
Jamesqf | Senior Mustachian | 5/22/2012 |
phred | Handlebar | 2/7/2014 |
Spork | Senior Mustachian | 1/31/2013 |
FWIW, here are the current Top 10 in posts/day since registering:
Username Position Date Registered MrCash Handlebar 3/6/2014 soccerluvof4 Senior Mustachian 1/18/2014 frugalnacho Bristles 3/19/2014 arebelspy Global Moderator 2/14/2012 Thegoblinchief Senior Mustachian 12/19/2013 warfreak2 Magnum 2/2/2014 oldtoyota Senior Mustachian 5/5/2013 Jamesqf Senior Mustachian 5/22/2012 phred Handlebar 2/7/2014 Spork Senior Mustachian 1/31/2013
Perhaps apropos of nothing, but there it is.
Where does one find such interesting stats? I poked around a bit but couldn't replicate this. Please enlighten me MDM, or MODS.Under Members, View the Memberlist.
Does that really need a whole forum rather than an individual thread if somebody has excel questions?
I was thinking it would be nice if the Excel gurus shared their spreadsheets so people (like me)could save them and plug in their own specific numbers. I've started collecting spreadsheets and models.Does that really need a whole forum rather than an individual thread if somebody has excel questions?
I did start a thread somewhere....ahh here it isOk, added one to that thread.
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/spreadsheet-collection/msg67067/#msg67067
We should get a favicon. It's weird having a blank one.I thought that was the favicon. Very Zen. And these days, almost unique.
Here's a feature request: is it possible to make it so that search terms are included in the search url, such that I can search "abcde" and then paste some link to my search in a thread and let people look through the same articles I am?
There are a number of ways to really cut the cost of higher ed. I posted an extensive thread on the subject here. http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/share-your-badassity/college-education-the-$6000-bachelors-degree/msg115000/
To the OP......great job! I'm sure your parents must be proud of you, well done!
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around the link. Or highlight the link and press the URL button.Has the idea of limiting picture sizes been discussed? I did a brief search but could not find anything. The way SMF handles large pictures in a thread is fairly clumsy. I find it pretty annoying when people post 4288 X 2295 sized pictures that only half showup in the screen. Yes they be viewed by scrolling, but when viewing something its nice to view the whole picture.
I've seen some forums that automatically resize to a size that fits the screen, but allows you to click on it again to view the full size. Or other forums that just won't let you upload a picture if it is to large a size.
Just something I've thought about. If this bothers no one else I will just have to deal.
Thanks for reading.
So say a person disappeared from the memberlist but all (or many) of their posts stuck around. Is that a temporary banhammer or a weird bug in the forum software?
I know. But I thought that you couldn't click the username to go to that person's profile.
Hey, I'm hitting the character limit on the blogroll. Would it be possible to insert a new post in the #2 position or otherwise circumvent that limit? I've got the archived blogs at the end of the thread where they can be buried now, unfortunately.
just take out all the vowels
Thr w g, fxd t fr y.jst tk t ll th vwlst's prvn tht yr mnd flls thm n nws.
Thr w g, fxd t fr y.jst tk t ll th vwlst's prvn tht yr mnd flls thm n nws.
What is the proper way to insert a link, in other words, hide it behind text.
This blog software seems to use a funny method, googled it and nothing showed up.
Thanks
As the website has grown in popluarity, there areof course lot's no new comers to the forum. We should welcome those with questions, and assign value to the posts of others with opinions.Thinking about this further, I suppose I shouldn't complain. I am, mostly, a consumer of this forum rather than a contributor. And I think the only answer to the question I posed above is to drown out the nonsense with solid posts of my own, which I already know I'm not going to spend the time and effort to do...
That said, I also have to say the quality of imformation in the forum has declined sharply. For every awesome contributor like Sol or arebelspy, we now have a bunch of nonsense purveyors like Cathy and skyhigh. And these folks are dissemenating not only information that is contrary to the spirit of MMM (to me at least), but is often downright incorrect. And they're profilific.
I understand that the point of all this is to communicate ideas to as many as possible, but is there no way to keep things from getting watered down?
Just musing, I guess.
I know the mods are already busy, but could we get some Bogleheads Forum-style moderation on topic titles? Very vague titles don't tell forum readers what to expect. Looking at the Recent Unread Posts we have...Some of us appreciate this forum for its free-wheeling, anarchic, chaotic, and lightly moderated style. I think that few things inhibit posters more than a long list of format requirements. After years of being a moderator, I'm also convinced that the less moderating done by moderators leads to a better forum for everyone. I'd hate to be assigned as the "Moderator In Charge Of Explaining Cryptic Titles", and I'd certainly object to moderators helpfully clarifying my carefully-crafted ledes.
- Am i worrying too much w/o reason?
- Advise me please
- Are you making a mistake
- Newbie Needs Help
These could be made more useful by adding text in brackets, like so:
- Am i worrying too much w/o reason? [Differing values with spouse]
- Advise me please [Investment Allocation]
- Are you making a mistake [Home Mortgage Payoff]
- Newbie Needs Help [Choosing Funds]
Thoughts?
I know the mods are already busy, but could we get some Bogleheads Forum-style moderation on topic titles? Very vague titles don't tell forum readers what to expect. Looking at the Recent Unread Posts we have...Some of us appreciate this forum for its free-wheeling, anarchic, chaotic, and lightly moderated style. I think that few things inhibit posters more than a long list of format requirements. After years of being a moderator, I'm also convinced that the less moderating done by moderators leads to a better forum for everyone. I'd hate to be assigned as the "Moderator In Charge Of Explaining Cryptic Titles", and I'd certainly object to moderators helpfully clarifying my carefully-crafted ledes.
- Am i worrying too much w/o reason?
- Advise me please
- Are you making a mistake
- Newbie Needs Help
These could be made more useful by adding text in brackets, like so:
- Am i worrying too much w/o reason? [Differing values with spouse]
- Advise me please [Investment Allocation]
- Are you making a mistake [Home Mortgage Payoff]
- Newbie Needs Help [Choosing Funds]
Thoughts?
If I wanted more Bogleheads Forum-style moderation on topic titles then I'd do all my reading at the Bogleheads forum.
Once again, this type of suggestion is like going over to your buddy's house to watch the game, sitting on their couch imbibing their frosty beverages and hors d'oeuvre, looking around the room, and saying "Y'know, this place would be a lot nicer if you straightened it up and labeled everything so that I could figure out what it means."
But that's just my opinion.
I know the mods are already busy, but could we get some Bogleheads Forum-style moderation on topic titles? Very vague titles don't tell forum readers what to expect. Looking at the Recent Unread Posts we have...
- Am i worrying too much w/o reason?
- Advise me please
- Are you making a mistake
- Newbie Needs Help
These could be made more useful by adding text in brackets, like so:
- Am i worrying too much w/o reason? [Differing values with spouse]
- Advise me please [Investment Allocation]
- Are you making a mistake [Home Mortgage Payoff]
- Newbie Needs Help [Choosing Funds]
Thoughts?
Moderator, Can you *please* consider adding a subforum category for people who are already FIRE. I posted this idea on the general forum and received several positive responses about doing this. People who are FIRE often have new unexpected issues arise, and it's hard to dig through all the regular comments to locate FIRE people. I compare it to going on a diet: Everyone is there to support you until you reach your goal, but then everyone assumes you don't need help anymore.
Here are just a few supportive comments I received:
• "I think it would be motivational to the waiting-to-FIRE population to see the already-FIREd community grow, rather than just see them disappear."
• "I have also struggled to fit in to the forum after I hit FI. There is so much tactical talk about 'what you did to save money', but not strategic talk like what are the pros and cons of RE (especially if you have young kids, your spouse works, etc.)."
•" I get no sympathy when trying to bring up challenges in FI. "
• "I find the FI has left me in a state without direction and a bit confused."
•" I know sometimes I feel like I should be on another forum since I'm already FIRE'd."
•"If the FIREd community isn't large enough to support its own sub-forum, maybe that community will presumably grow with time."
• "As I become more solidly FI and move towards RE, I find myself less interested in "tactics" level topics (make your own soap) and am mostly interested in "strategy" level posts (best place to retire, how to transition, etc.) "
• "If I was newly-FIREd, I'm pretty sure I'd start spending more time on that sub-forum. "
• "Having an FI category is certainly a better option than "oh, you're FIREd? Sorry you don't fit in so much here anymore, you might want to move over to early-retirement.org"
To read the whole string of comments see: http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/is-there-a-group-on-this-forum-for-people-that-achieved-fi/new/?topicseen#new
I'm already FIRE, and I'd be happy to be able to just check the threads in a forum about "the good problems to have when you're FIRE".Moderator, Can you *please* consider adding a subforum category for people who are already FIRE. I posted this idea on the general forum and received several positive responses about doing this. People who are FIRE often have new unexpected issues arise, and it's hard to dig through all the regular comments to locate FIRE people. I compare it to going on a diet: Everyone is there to support you until you reach your goal, but then everyone assumes you don't need help anymore.
Here are just a few supportive comments I received:
• "I think it would be motivational to the waiting-to-FIRE population to see the already-FIREd community grow, rather than just see them disappear."
• "I have also struggled to fit in to the forum after I hit FI. There is so much tactical talk about 'what you did to save money', but not strategic talk like what are the pros and cons of RE (especially if you have young kids, your spouse works, etc.)."
•" I get no sympathy when trying to bring up challenges in FI. "
• "I find the FI has left me in a state without direction and a bit confused."
•" I know sometimes I feel like I should be on another forum since I'm already FIRE'd."
•"If the FIREd community isn't large enough to support its own sub-forum, maybe that community will presumably grow with time."
• "As I become more solidly FI and move towards RE, I find myself less interested in "tactics" level topics (make your own soap) and am mostly interested in "strategy" level posts (best place to retire, how to transition, etc.) "
• "If I was newly-FIREd, I'm pretty sure I'd start spending more time on that sub-forum. "
• "Having an FI category is certainly a better option than "oh, you're FIREd? Sorry you don't fit in so much here anymore, you might want to move over to early-retirement.org"
To read the whole string of comments see: http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/is-there-a-group-on-this-forum-for-people-that-achieved-fi/new/?topicseen#new
see other responses to requests for subforums. If there is not enough volume to support it, it's not happening. Perhaps when we have more retirees here.
Nifty. Just made the second post to the new post-fire forum. Arebelspy, did you pull the plug and retire officially? Or you're the FI part of FIRE?
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/post-fire/Thanks.
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/post-fire/Thanks.
Now we can put up or go back to the previous arrangements...
The latter. The former is imminent.
I would really like to see a sticky that would give you some definitions of some of the common abbreviations.
I keep seeing FIRE and DH used and a few other without knowing what they mean.
I've figured out FIRE stands for Financial Independent Retired Early, but for the life of me DH escapes my best guesses. I under stand it means spouse but I'd still like to know what the acronym stands for.
I think having this would help people new to this forum and new to FIRE in general.
I agree. It took me forever to figure out SAHM (stay at home mom) and I have no clue what OMY is.
Sorry if this has been suggested before, but is there any way to have an "ignore all posts by this user" function?
See attached.
(http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=11.0;attach=1237;image) (http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/forum-information-faqs/forum-ideas/?action=dlattach;attach=1236;image)
Oh, thank you. That's a lot more hidden than I'm used to.
Thanks so much to all of you for this great community and for keeping it running!! I haven't checked in in ages
One change you could implement is to allow members to edit titles.Do you mean thread titles or user categories? Members can already edit the titles of threads they created.
What about a Mustachian siting section?Is http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/meetups-and-social-events/mustache-map!/ close enough?
Any chances of something like that here?
Thanks arebelspy, I will. I am always hesitant to start a thread as it seems that almost everything I think to ask has been answered somewhere else already. Often the trouble is finding it, as the search always gives me an error (I think it's just my computer, but it happens every time).
Bleeping out theawesome words.Spoiler: show
I know the mods are already busy, but could we get some Bogleheads Forum-style moderation on topic titles? Very vague titles don't tell forum readers what to expect. Looking at the Recent Unread Posts we have...
2 small steps which I think would make a HUGE difference
1. More sub forums - Investing Canada for example
2. Allow members to edit titles for clarity
3. Make inserting links easier
4. Ask people not to quote excessive - to me re quoting a 6 answer thread to add one line is way to excessive!!!!!
On number notice how I EDITED the quote, much clean
Second thing would be
Are there statistics available that (quantitatively) address the issues noted in http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/forum-information-faqs/forum-is-very-erratic-lately/?
If so it "would be interesting" to have them available - easy to say when someone else would have to do it, but still true.
A few folks over the past couple of years have offered the idea of favoriting posts, and it has generated interest from at least one moderator. I think favoriting alone could take the forum to the next level.how about an agree button as well? :)
Favoriting would allow us to create a personal list of great posts tailored to our own interests and situations, as well as an aggregate list of everybody's favorite posts. As a user, I have found that it is hard for me to keep track of topics and posts I'm interested in, and it's also hard for me to find the gems of posts that are buried in the past 3 years of awesome content. I know there is value in hard work, but making this curated content easier to save and access has the potential improve the lives of many readers.
For example, www.metafilter.com (http://www.metafilter.com) does a good job of allowing members to favorite posts. They catalog favorites into personal favorites, most favorited of the past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and all time.
A few folks over the past couple of years have offered the idea of favoriting posts, and it has generated interest from at least one moderator. I think favoriting alone could take the forum to the next level.
Favoriting would allow us to create a personal list of great posts tailored to our own interests and situations, as well as an aggregate list of everybody's favorite posts. As a user, I have found that it is hard for me to keep track of topics and posts I'm interested in, and it's also hard for me to find the gems of posts that are buried in the past 3 years of awesome content. I know there is value in hard work, but making this curated content easier to save and access has the potential improve the lives of many readers.
For example, www.metafilter.com (http://www.metafilter.com) does a good job of allowing members to favorite posts. They catalog favorites into personal favorites, most favorited of the past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and all time.
I just signed up and posted a "Say Hi" post, only to find it on page 47. No one is ever going to read it there!
It looks at first glance like the oldest posts are listed first, at least on some threads. Maybe it would be a good idea to switch the order in which they are posted so we can read the most current one?
The forum configurations should be modified to restrict the ability of a user to delete an entire thread if another user has also posted in that thread.
I already started a stand-alone thread about this issue (http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/forum-information-faqs/deleting-threads/), but, as discussed in that thread, I'm having trouble getting this suggestion taken under consideration by whoever is the appropriate person or group of people to take it under consideration, so now I'm posting it here to give that a try.
I'm not sure if this has already been suggested (my attempts at searches in the forum keep timing out or not working), but would it be possible to make the forum threads more mobile-friendly? Larger text, optimized for smaller screens? I'm often reading on my phone and everything shows up super tiny -- and no "reader view" is available (it is for the blog, which makes it much more mobile-reader-friendly). I'm not a tech person so have no idea how hard this is, but wanted to throw it out there! Thanks for maintaining the forum, it's an incredible resource and community!!
Bottom of the page where it says WAP2.
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/index.php?wap2 (http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/index.php?wap2)
I'd love to see a different CAPTCHA used during registration. I couldn't make out half the letters and had to have it read them to me! That's never happened to me before... so I'm thinking it might be dialed in a bit too tight (or is just poorly implemented).
Just tossing it out there!
I've an idea: Automobile Forum.I came over to this post to suggest almost exactly the same thing, but with a twist. Would it be possible to divide the DIY section into sub-topics? Automotive, home improvement, landscaping/gardening, etc.?
It seems there is a new automobile thread every day and it might benefit people looking for the perfect car to have all the car threads in one place to compare. Also it might be a great place for people to discuss repairs, mods, or hacks relating to automobiles. I think a specific section would flourish and encourage discussion and growth that might easily be lost in some of the bigger forum sections (General, Ask A Mustachian, etc.)
A few folks over the past couple of years have offered the idea of favoriting posts, and it has generated interest from at least one moderator. I think favoriting alone could take the forum to the next level.
Favoriting would allow us to create a personal list of great posts tailored to our own interests and situations, as well as an aggregate list of everybody's favorite posts. As a user, I have found that it is hard for me to keep track of topics and posts I'm interested in, and it's also hard for me to find the gems of posts that are buried in the past 3 years of awesome content. I know there is value in hard work, but making this curated content easier to save and access has the potential improve the lives of many readers.
For example, www.metafilter.com (http://www.metafilter.com) does a good job of allowing members to favorite posts. They catalog favorites into personal favorites, most favorited of the past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and all time.
A few folks over the past couple of years have offered the idea of favoriting posts, and it has generated interest from at least one moderator. I think favoriting alone could take the forum to the next level.
Favoriting would allow us to create a personal list of great posts tailored to our own interests and situations, as well as an aggregate list of everybody's favorite posts. As a user, I have found that it is hard for me to keep track of topics and posts I'm interested in, and it's also hard for me to find the gems of posts that are buried in the past 3 years of awesome content. I know there is value in hard work, but making this curated content easier to save and access has the potential improve the lives of many readers.
For example, www.metafilter.com (http://www.metafilter.com) does a good job of allowing members to favorite posts. They catalog favorites into personal favorites, most favorited of the past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and all time.
I'm still scratching my head as to why this hasn't been done. It doesn't even have to be so elaborate - just implement a "Like" button". It's so useful as it prevents other people from quoting and posting basically the same message over and over when they agree with it.
Is there any way to add a thread to a personal watch list or something? I've been posting just to follow a thread like I see some people doing, but if there's a way to follow without cluttering up the thread I'd like to do that.
If that doesn't exist, how hard would it be to add as a feature?
Is there any way to add a thread to a personal watch list or something? I've been posting just to follow a thread like I see some people doing, but if there's a way to follow without cluttering up the thread I'd like to do that.
If that doesn't exist, how hard would it be to add as a feature?
You see that "Notify" button near the top and bottom right of the page next to "Reply"? There you go.
Settings in your profile for this feature are here (http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=notification).
Is there any way to add a thread to a personal watch list or something? I've been posting just to follow a thread like I see some people doing, but if there's a way to follow without cluttering up the thread I'd like to do that.
If that doesn't exist, how hard would it be to add as a feature?
You see that "Notify" button near the top and bottom right of the page next to "Reply"? There you go.
Settings in your profile for this feature are here (http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=notification).
Is there any way to add a thread to a personal watch list or something? I've been posting just to follow a thread like I see some people doing, but if there's a way to follow without cluttering up the thread I'd like to do that.
If that doesn't exist, how hard would it be to add as a feature?
You see that "Notify" button near the top and bottom right of the page next to "Reply"? There you go.
Settings in your profile for this feature are here (http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=notification).
I've been using this idea, but it doesn't seem that great to be honest. For one thing I'd like to be able to turn emails off. Also, you have to drill down so far to get to it. Are there any other options?
Not sure if this has been suggested already, but it'd be great if there were a way to look at recent posts and filter out the "Journals" ones. I follow the journals I'm interested in and prefer to be able to look at a list of active threads of specific topics being discussed.
Thoughts on a stickied post for best checking/savings/money market/CDs?There is the link to "...consider one of these online banks: http://www.magnifymoney.com/blog/earning-interest/best-online-savings-accounts275921001" in the Investment Order (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/investment-order/msg1333153/#msg1333153) sticky. That may not fulfill everything desired, but perhaps addresses some of it.
Thanks MDM. That's a good site and along with Nerdwallet, rounds the bases pretty well. Since that link is itself on a sticky, that is an indirect way to keep on top of it.Thoughts on a stickied post for best checking/savings/money market/CDs?There is the link to "...consider one of these online banks: http://www.magnifymoney.com/blog/earning-interest/best-online-savings-accounts275921001" in the Investment Order (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/investment-order/msg1333153/#msg1333153) sticky. That may not fulfill everything desired, but perhaps addresses some of it.
Any thought put towards upgrading this forum to Xenforo?
Yes it's not free but it's much better on mobile and I'm on my phone most of the time now. :) This site is really hard to use in my phone.
To be fair to everyone involved, asking to change and migrate an entire forum with the size and history this has to an entirely different system is kind of a really big ask.
Wow - that wap2 actually I really like - thanks for that Daley!
Oh Sunrise is much better. Thank u!