I thought I'd post this for the benefit of everyone who uses the New Posts link at the top of the forums. There are quite a few features in VBulletin (which Head-fi runs on) that are obscure and not readily accessible by default. One of them, which I've used since I found out about it, is the ability to have New Posts not include forums of your choice.
To understand how to use exclude forums with this feature, we have to look closely New Posts url:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew
Note that it uses search.php (which is where you go for Advanced searches) but with ?do=getnew tacked onto the end, thus: search.php?do=getnew.
The second thing we need to know is the forum number(s) of the forum(s) we wish not to see when we do a New Posts search. To find these, go to the main forum page and move your mouse over the link to the forum you wish to exclude. For example, the url for the Feedback forum is:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f12/
Note the last part: f12 which tells us the forum number of the feedback forum is 12. With this, we will tell the search function to exclude that forum from the New posts by editing the url we looked at above, by adding &exclude=12:
search.php?do=getnew&exclude=12
To add more forums, just separate them with commas, eg, the Vender Feedback forum is f92, thus, to exclude both feedback forums:
search.php?do=getnew&exclude=12,92
Now, to save this, the easiest way is to bookmark the New Posts link by right-clicking on it and selecting Bookmark this link or similar, then edit the bookmark to add &exclude=12,92. Then you have your own custom New Posts url, but without the forums you aren't interested in.
Unfortunately there's no inverse, that is, ability to include individual forums. For that, you need to exclude all the others, which is quite tedious. If you want, say, to peruse all the latest gear for sale, then you need this url:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/search...2,24,45,6,9,11
Note that I haven't updated this url in a while, and may not exclude the very latest sponsor forums.
Anyway, I hope that for some people it makes Head-fi more useful.
To understand how to use exclude forums with this feature, we have to look closely New Posts url:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew
Note that it uses search.php (which is where you go for Advanced searches) but with ?do=getnew tacked onto the end, thus: search.php?do=getnew.
The second thing we need to know is the forum number(s) of the forum(s) we wish not to see when we do a New Posts search. To find these, go to the main forum page and move your mouse over the link to the forum you wish to exclude. For example, the url for the Feedback forum is:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f12/
Note the last part: f12 which tells us the forum number of the feedback forum is 12. With this, we will tell the search function to exclude that forum from the New posts by editing the url we looked at above, by adding &exclude=12:
search.php?do=getnew&exclude=12
To add more forums, just separate them with commas, eg, the Vender Feedback forum is f92, thus, to exclude both feedback forums:
search.php?do=getnew&exclude=12,92
Now, to save this, the easiest way is to bookmark the New Posts link by right-clicking on it and selecting Bookmark this link or similar, then edit the bookmark to add &exclude=12,92. Then you have your own custom New Posts url, but without the forums you aren't interested in.
Unfortunately there's no inverse, that is, ability to include individual forums. For that, you need to exclude all the others, which is quite tedious. If you want, say, to peruse all the latest gear for sale, then you need this url:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/search...2,24,45,6,9,11
Note that I haven't updated this url in a while, and may not exclude the very latest sponsor forums.
Anyway, I hope that for some people it makes Head-fi more useful.
