We don’t hate banks — busting this and other myths about MoneySavingExpert.com

No one has ever quite said to me, "you run that one man, bank-hating website charity, to help those in debt stop spending". But in combination, that’s some of the assumptions people make about the site. So I thought it time for a bit of myth busting. MoneySavingExpert.com hates banks. Not true. We hate bad bank behaviour,...

“Gambling Introductory Offer Loopholes board” – consultation results

A few weeks ago, I launched a user consultation into the future of the forum’s Gambling Introductory Offer Loopholes board. The board was originally set up to discuss taking advantage of risk-free intro loopholes, but over recent years their growing complexity has made it difficult for the forum team to manage. You can read the full explanation...

Champagne Beats Bank Charges: Biggest Ever Day of the Site Part III

I seem to be writing this all the time recently (see over 1m visits in a day and over 900k visits in a day), but the site’s beaten its record traffic for the third time. So to keep stats nuts happy here’s the latest stats and a shock ‘most popular page’ The Overall Stats: 1.13m visits We...

We’ve hit the big 2,000,000 on the e-mail address… unbelievable!

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was writing a 1,000,000 on the e-mail list blog and now, less than 14 months later, we’ve doubled.