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Farjo

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Recent Posts / Ignore Boards
« on March 25th, 2012, 09:30 PM »
Slow I know but I've just noticed the new Ignore Boards section. This is utterly wicked, and I'll tell you why. The board I admin is for a particular motorcycle, which falls into 4 distinct models. Those with one model are not interested in the other 3. So the club has separate forums for these 4 models, but there's a bunch of common forums too.

So with Wedge each member can select the boards he/she is interested in, and all these threads will be displayed in one place without the need to dip in and out of each of the forums (because who really does that?).

Of course I'm wondering what's under the bonnet - can Recent Posts be tweaked to show more posts than the 5 shown on Wedge's home page, without the need to click the +? Or can it be shown as a (for want of a better expression) 'virtual board' with pages of 20 threads each?

When I go back to my club or other SMF boards this is probably the feature I miss most :)

Nao

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Re: Recent Posts / Ignore Boards
« Reply #1, on March 25th, 2012, 09:50 PM »
Ignore boards is a SMF feature afaik.
I enabled it a couple of days ago. It was disabled before that.
The feature doesn't apply everywhere. I do t think it's applied in the homepage for instance. Recent Posts simply uses the ssi_recentTopics function which is also in SMF so nothing new except for topic privacy support (but no ui for these for now.)

Arantor

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Re: Recent Posts / Ignore Boards
« Reply #2, on March 25th, 2012, 10:04 PM »
I find it amazing how many features are actually SMF features that no-one really know they were there. This is one such case.

There is a big question over some places as to whether it should apply or not. The homepage, yes, should apply it, but other places do not have to, like SSI generally.

Places that do use query_wanna_see_board, places that don't merely use query_see_board.
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Nao

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Arantor

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Re: Recent Posts / Ignore Boards
« Reply #4, on March 25th, 2012, 10:21 PM »
You can pretty much ask the should-it-respect-ignore for almost every query that touches boards.

One thing I will note is that some people would actually prefer ignored boards to be hidden entirely.

Also, that does tell me that some of the work thus far on cleaning up UI has also been working out (though the profile is not one area we've done much with yet)

Farjo

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Re: Recent Posts / Ignore Boards
« Reply #5, on March 26th, 2012, 09:16 AM »
Quote from Nao on March 25th, 2012, 09:50 PM
Ignore boards is a SMF feature afaik.
I enabled it a couple of days ago. It was disabled before that.
The feature doesn't apply everywhere. I do t think it's applied in the homepage for instance. Recent Posts simply uses the ssi_recentTopics function which is also in SMF so nothing new except for topic privacy support (but no ui for these for now.)
Oh! :blush: I will see what I can find in SMF :)
Quote from Arantor on March 25th, 2012, 10:04 PM
I find it amazing how many features are actually SMF features that no-one really know they were there.
So am I! I spent the years waiting for gold going through all the options to see what they did :lol
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