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credit to tomfishburne.com

Have trimmed the thread to concentrate on the issues Barney has flagged.

1. Seeing the forum on 1/4 of a desktop screen (in Internet Explorer 11) is a bug which is showing the mobile site by mistake - being investigated.

2. Spell checker not working - resolved and now working. (if still not working, you will need to clear your browsers cache).

3. Requested a Tenders Forum - created

4. Social Media information the wrong way round in the profile (eg facebook information was in the twitter box and the twitter information was in the facebook box) - resolved

5. Add an option to stop pop up notification boxes from showing, eg edit post, thanks etc - resolved

If anyone else is seeing the mobile site while using a desktop/laptop could they let me know as we are struggling to replicate the problem.

If anyone has any other bugs, fire away!

Thanks Barney, now make sense.For some reason you are seeing our mobile site in IE, so definitely a bug. The forum should auto display correctly on mobiles and desktops.

Can you tell me what version of IE you are using, so I can tell our developer.

The BBC is reporting that RBS are closing 44 branches across the UK.

"A spokeswoman for RBS said "there had been a 30% fall in branch transactions over the last four years"

Mixed feelings on this one. You think straight away about people who do still regularly go to the bank, including business owners cashing up daily takings, as well as the elderly or people not comfortable with online banking.

But then I think of the last time I had to go to the bank? I guess it's a hard business decision if you need to resource and pay for an expensive building when foot fall is decreasing year on year.

Maybe there needs to be some kind of collaborative bank, which covers all the brands in a single branch, and is funded by all the banks, for rural communities or small towns?

Did you guys get anywhere with this, or anyone else showed any interest in guest posting?

I know there has been a lot of recent debate around guest posting, and Google in it's infinite wisdom is now penalising sites with perceived poor quality or off topic posts.

Interesting reading from this recent Search Engine Land article:

How A Single Guest Post May Have Gotten An Entire Site Penalized By Google

Has this changed your mind to guest posting, or made you rethink?

no comment... 

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Accounts will be banned and auto subscribed to the Stop Forum Spam database. 

This is a friendly spam free community for small business owners who wish to genuinely contribute.

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If you claim to be Derek from Derby, with an IP address in Karachi, then expect to be removed...

Spell checker was a universal request, me included.

Unfortunately this new version of the editor we are using has problems with it's own spell check. So our developer has enabled it to use your browsers built in spell checker, which covers at least IE, Chrome and Firefox, and I'd imagine everything else.

If it's not working for you now, then you may need to clear your cache. Closing all of your browsers down, then re-opening should do the trick.

Credit to quickmeme.com

Any previous MLF members arriving on the new forum for the first time might be in for a bit of a shock 

The forum has been moved from it's old vBulletin home, onto a new home-grown platform on My Local Services. 

We have reset your password from the old forum, as we are now using encrypted passwords for your security. So when you login for the first time select the reset password link to be emailed a new password, and then you can log in.

Once logged in, you can change your password to something else by visiting your profile. Any problems, contact us, and we'll reset your password for you.

If you have a business listing with us, those details will also be your forum log in details, and you should be able to log in. This means (UK members only at present) you can show your business details in your forum signature.

Forgotten Forum Email?

If you've no idea what your forum email account is, then contact us and tell us what your old forum username was. Your account is here, so we can add a different email, change any details, reset your password, or just tell you your email address.

Can you link my Business Listing and Forum Account?

Yes! The only caveat is that both forum account and business listing must use the same email address and password, so in order to show your listing on your forum signature, we need to manually link your accounts. Just contact us with your forum username/email address and business listing name/email address, or as much as you can remember!

Any other questions, confused or need help..... yep, contact us 

So Tob, as an Indian based SEO marketeer, would you care to elaborate on your point, based on your experience?