Okay well things are clearly done a lot differently on the new forum than on the old. In an effort to answer some of the most common questions, I'm putting together a little Tips and Tricks list. For the record, I'm posting everything relative to the desktop site. I'm not a big mobile user.
I'll keep updating this as more tips and such come in. Feel free to suggest tips below and I'll add them to the list!
Let's try to keep the complaining and feedback to the appropriate threads and just use this for helpful info. Thanks!
- Subscriptions are now called "Watched Threads". To get to the screen, click the number next to your Alerts in the upper right corner. From that screen, there will be a link to your Watched Threads on the left menu bar.
- "Watched Threads" will show you watched threads only with unread posts. To see all your watched threads, just scroll to the bottom and click the All Watched Threads button.
- To get to the first unread post in a thread, click the little dot icon to the left of the thread title -- the one that indicates there are unread posts.
- If you've posted in a thread, it will show your user icon super-imposed over the thread icon.
- To change your personal settings, preferences, alert setting, etc, click on that Alerts number from Tip #1 above and check out that left bar. There are a lot of interesting settings to dig through that you may want to address, e.g: it shows your birthday and gender by default, it doesn't Watch threads by default, it shows what you're doing on the forum by default, etc.
- To start a PM conversation with someone, click Private Messages in the upper right of the screen, then scroll to the bottom and "Start a New Private Message".
- For threads with multiple pages, you can click the arrows to scroll through the page numbers without reloading the whole page. Slick indeed! (Thanks, @ejong7!)
Missing your Canjam badge(s)? Sit tight, don't send a PM, they're on it!You shouldn't be missing badges anymore. If you are, send a PM to @AxelCloris .- Tweaking the Alerts Settings can make that alert section much more useful. The biggest thing for me was turning off alerts when someone replied to a thread I'm watching. That was just clogging up the alerts and I already know how to get to my watched threads. Right now my alerts mostly just shows when people quoted me, mentioned me or liked my posts. I find this handy.
- To "close" a classified, flag it and request for the mods to close it. To "bump" it, just post in it. Both of these are temporary workarounds until functionality is restored.
- Use the "Reply" button to quote one person. Use the "+Quote" button to multi-quote; be sure to click the "Insert quotes..." button to add the selections to your reply.
- Multiquoting works across threads now!
- A workaround to mark a bunch of threads as read: go to the front page of the Forum section, look just below your avatar on the right and there will be a "New Posts" section. Click on the "New Posts" text and there will be an option to mark all as read.
I'll keep updating this as more tips and such come in. Feel free to suggest tips below and I'll add them to the list!
Let's try to keep the complaining and feedback to the appropriate threads and just use this for helpful info. Thanks!
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