Getting the most out of the forums

thanks Mr. Frog...i love the new !forums

WOW that looks great I love it

A little behind Mrs. Starkers . . but it's good that the article is still useful.

By Frogboy Posted July 26, 2006 10:42:06

Sweet! New forums! I like the changes a lot. Good job team!

He is not Mr. Frog he is Mr. Frogboy

Um, you do know this is two years old... 

Actually I do, however I wish I had seen this earlier because it would have saved me some effort. Not a whole bunch, but I did not know of the existence of the pulldown menus at each of the arrow separators in the forum path listed at the top of the page which is a great feature.

I've just finished walking the entirety of every forum on all of Stardocks site's. I visited in excess of 700 forums. Of course I visited many more than once as they are accessible on multiple sites. I haven't yet put all the links into excel and sorted them but at this point I'm guessing that there are somewhere around 300 or so unique forums that an ordinary forum citizen can access.

I've also found that a significant number of "hidden" forums exist. These can be found and accessed in a couple of ways but their existence on any one site is not totally obvious. The result is that even though "hidden", posts in these forums will appear in the top level recent posts list and their source can be confusing.

Also one of the primary points of the referenced external article is that the recent posts list of any forum includes recent posts from all subforums as well. This would be great if it was true but unfortunately it's not. It is true that posts from all forums on the site (even hidden forums) show up in the top level recent posts list, but it is *not * true that the recent post list of any forum contains all posts from it's sub (or sub sub) forums.

A prime example of this are the GalCiv II forum and all of it's 17 subforums as shown in the following list.

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/162   GalCiv II

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/350   GalCiv II > AARs

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/421   GalCiv II > Beta Reports

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/274   GalCiv II > Bug Reports

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/357   GalCiv II > Dark Avatar

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/346   GalCiv II > Game Talk

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/247   GalCiv II > Ideas

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/253   GalCiv II > Ideas > Colonies

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/252   GalCiv II > Ideas > Diplomacy

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/248   GalCiv II > Ideas > Economics

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/250   GalCiv II > Ideas > Research

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/249   GalCiv II > Ideas > Trade

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/251   GalCiv II > Ideas > Warfare

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/345   GalCiv II > Metaverse

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/348   GalCiv II > Modding

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/349   GalCiv II > Off-topic

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/347   GalCiv II > Strategies

https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/483   GalCiv II > Twilight of the Arnor

If you want to view the recent posts from all of these forums you have to go into each forum one at a time and view all 18 recent posts lists.

Clearly posts from all of these forums *do* appear in the sites top recent posts list but so do many other "off site" forums. So much so in fact that the "off site" posts have outnumbered the GalCiv2 specific posts consistently on a daily basis for months now.

If the above described functionality worked as stated then if someone wished to ignore the "off-site" topics it would be simple to view only one forum's recent posts list (i.e. the GalCiv II forum) as that would contain all relevant threads. However without this function, to do the same thing requires monitoring potentially 18 separate recent posts lists.

Anyway, is there any possibility that the behavior as described will either be implemented, or if it has been implemented but is simply broken, be fixed, at some time in the future?

Just curious, why it says everyone is offline in their profile, when they aren't, including myself

/me was never here. So I always show offline..

lol

Seriously though, I'm trying to use that WC activity widget HG, and it won't work, that's why I wanted to know

the feature to see whos online has been fubared for a bit.. im hoping it gets fixed in the next Rework..

Sweet, because it's such a cool widget, thanks HG!

 I miss my WCUAStats,I used it often.

Necrothread alert!

When's the next rework?

 

Yeah Wiz, it looks really cool, it's just blank is all

I was told not long ago that the entire website is to be restructured and running sometime in March.

Yeah Ed, I read that yesterday, dang dang and dang again

Awesome thanks

Necrothread

When I first starting posting my abstract wslld, thry were rejected, but I got the hang of it, and now, so far, all have been approved.  What does approved mean since I have not seen them in the main gallery... does it take time to get them there.. thanks Patsy38, I love color so if you don't you might not like mine...

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