FAQ for those who migrated from the vBulletin version of LFGSS

This is pretty mush what I do now. It feels like I'm manually working around a missing "auto-follow new threads in this forum from now on" switch.

This is what "Follow Forum" does.

No. The reason I do this manually rather than using "Follow Forum" is so that I can choose not to follow threads that I don't want to follow, even if they're in forums that are mostly interesting to me.

Then you're doing something very different.

You're not "following a forum", you're "following lots of things within a forum".

I get that, but "follow forum" just follows a forum. It doesn't try and do something else... it follows a forum.

What you want is something else entirely, you want a quick way to bulk follow and unfollow, and to auto suggest things to follow. I get that too.

But... "follow forum" isn't that.

BTW, freaking awesome use of the HTML mark there.

Yes, the way mark is rendered now draws the eye from anywhere in the page. For posts in a converstation IMO it should only really draw the eye from within the post that contains it. Maybe a nice pastel shade would be better.

Thanks dude.

Ok, I think I understand now:
Make sure all wanted threads are followed.
Unfollow parent forum and that will eliminate the unwanted threads.

hoo, math is hard

I'm a bit late to the follow party, but what I expected by "follow a forum" was show you updates to the forum as a whole, ie. new threads, but not every individual update. In this way, I could be delivered new threads, but I can decide on a case by case basis whether I wanted to follow them any further than that. As it is, I barely use following because I'd still have to go to the parent forum to check if any new threads are being created.

Does this make sense?

Also there really needs to be an unfollow all button, or checkboxes on the following page, because going into each individual thread is a fucking chore

Admittedly this would be less of a problem when the ignore function comes into play, because I could ignore new threads I'm not interested in on a case by case basis, but it seems less elegant and there would still have to be an easy way to show ignored threads if I was looking for specific information

Can I ignore people/forums yet?

You can not.

how do i get notidied by email ?
w=hen i get messgaes i can find the appropiate settings

how do i get notidied by email ?

Tick all the things on this screen:
https://www.lfgss.com/updates/settings/

If there are specific older threads you want updates from, go follow them and enable email notification (after ticking all the things on that screen).

cant you just change the name anymore? whenever wanted, that was fun................
:( sadface

You can change your name whenever the urge takes you... it's under "Edit Profile" at the top right.

aw, thanks for reply I saw that but it keeps dropping back to this one

Were you trying to change it to one that is already taken by someone else?

oh, possibly maybe,, how many Leons are there?

Done, have a good rest of eve :)
the rest of you, Let me tell me about my Mother

@Velocio hi there! I think I'm using the same e-mail as before but my old username did not get picked up (it was @goncalop) - can you check that? It didn't ask me to pick a new password so I guess I used the correct email...

Hi @Velocio.

On the old forum, when I wanted to search for the source of an image I would click 'quote' beneath the post the image was in and then copy and paste the url that came up in the reply box. This way I would find the image, the website it was from, and lots of other related content.

Is there a different way I can achieve the same result on the new forum?

Thanks

W x

Right click on the image, and choose "View Image Info" or "Inspect Element" or however your browser spells "tell me more about this thing".

^ this works on every site on the internet too.

On a mac. Have just realised that if I click with two fingers at once I get the menu you were talking about.

Wow. How long have you had the Mac and not known about context menus?

#onebuttongoooooooooood

A few years back I read an interview with the engineer who designed the original one-button mouse for Apple. He regretted it, acknowledged it was a huge mistake (not least because it caused Apple to invent the double-click, a UI abomination) and said it would have been better if they had made a two-button mouse and just labelled them to clarify their purpose.