Adding more subforums - UPDATE - NOT CHANGING

[edgarbc1]

3d wrote:
Just rename the forum to: Tips, Deals, Etc.

:agree:

i like my tips and deals mixed in with posts about old food and whether or not to eat it......

[Mike Johnson]

hal wrote: You're clicking the wrong link:


click on "Show msgs from this user"

I don't have that option. It's not an option in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or on iOS.


and if I hover over the "user ignored - click to show hide" the link shows up as

j‌avascript:%20togglemsg('ig1551999');

which doesn't do anything. As I recall, it's supposed to toggle the message on/off while leaving the user ignored.

I either have to log out, or hit "quote" to read the message. I have no way to unignore the dude, and it's been bugging me for years.

[DRR]

The relative disorganization is one of the main appeals of the forum to me.

Someone post a car question? Maybe I can answer. I have a question about what kind of screws to use in a cabinet install? Most likely, a MRF poster has experience and can help. And I have a good assurance that with a single main forum, my subject line will at least get out in front of a number of people.

However, you start splitting the forums, and you exponentially decrease the traffic to each one. I'm happy to browse a big forum with a number of off-topic posts. I'm not going to browse a tips and deals forum, and then go back out to the forum list, and then select off topic/cars, and then go back again to browse off topic/carpentry.

[DRR]

As an example, mrbigstuff's post about Pepsi guys at Costco:

So, I see four guys in the food court with two new Pepsi machines right at closing time.

this place keeps me apprised of all I need to know in life.

[Zoidberg]

decay wrote:

can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

can we rename it to THE KITCHEN?

I second that emotion.

DRR wrote:
The relative disorganization is one of the main appeals of the forum to me.

Someone post a car question? Maybe I can answer. I have a question about what kind of screws to use in a cabinet install? Most likely, a MRF poster has experience and can help. And I have a good assurance that with a single main forum, my subject line will at least get out in front of a number of people.

However, you start splitting the forums, and you exponentially decrease the traffic to each one. I'm happy to browse a big forum with a number of off-topic posts. I'm not going to browse a tips and deals forum, and then go back out to the forum list, and then select off topic/cars, and then go back again to browse off topic/carpentry.

What DRR says above.

[Mike Johnson]

Actually, I figured it out, thanks to you! I noticed your graphic had the post headers as

Subject Line
Posted by User
Date

whereas mine is:

User
Subject Line
Date

It turns out to be a problem with the "multiple messages per page, threaded" display option in the control center. I switched it to Default, unignored the poor bastard, and switched it back to my beloved multiple messages threaded view. In that view, you can't ignore a user, or unignore them.

Thank you, hal!!!!!!

[OWC Jamie]

[Speedy]

Glad you figured it out before we move to lots of sub-forums where your plea may have gone unnoticed.

Mike Johnson wrote:
Actually, I figured it out, thanks to you! I noticed your graphic had the post headers as

Subject Line
Posted by User
Date

whereas mine is:

User
Subject Line
Date

It turns out to be a problem with the "multiple messages per page, threaded" display option in the control center. I switched it to Default, unignored the poor bastard, and switched it back to my beloved multiple messages threaded view. In that view, you can't ignore a user, or unignore them.

Thank you, hal!!!!!!

[OWC Larry]

#1 - it's not monetary... That being said, we're supporting the 'main forum' as a sponsor, but the politcal side drains resources from our support that could go to the main forum.

PeterB wrote:
I'm starting to get the sense that the rationale for this might be monetary...? OWC Larry, can you confirm/deny?

#2 - I like the Tips n' deals and etc as it is. Really no desire to split that all up and - as clearly seen in feedback, the couple that were suggesting it are far in the minority. But you never can tell till ya ask - which is what they did.

[mrlynn]

DRR wrote:
The relative disorganization is one of the main appeals of the forum to me.

Someone post a car question? Maybe I can answer. I have a question about what kind of screws to use in a cabinet install? Most likely, a MRF poster has experience and can help. And I have a good assurance that with a single main forum, my subject line will at least get out in front of a number of people.

However, you start splitting the forums, and you exponentially decrease the traffic to each one. I'm happy to browse a big forum with a number of off-topic posts. I'm not going to browse a tips and deals forum, and then go back out to the forum list, and then select off topic/cars, and then go back again to browse off topic/carpentry.

:agree::agree::agree:

Exactly right.

/Mr Lynn