Ah Ha! I checked "Preferences" and found no joy. Now it is clearer. If the eyeball has said "Watched Forum" instead of just "Watched" it would have been obvious even to me.
Forum questions, comments, and complaints
- Thread starter Phil Herring
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It can also indicate a watched thread, either selected to be watched or based on participation. So it's doing double duty.
I just activated a new posts list on the main forum menu page; it's very simple but may help track new posts and activity.
This morning in my inbox I got what appears to be an email notification from sailboaowners.com regarding a thread post I had subscribed to. It was obvious that it was in fact it was spam. It was similar to what I get when a friends email has been hacked. Has anyone else received one of these ?
Bob
I pasted it below:
{ Edit by admin: I have removed the links and text to the offending post... having that stuff in our forum is the result they want. }
Bob 04 H260, posted a new thread to a forum you are watching at SailboatOwners.com Forums.
This message was sent to you because you opted to watch the forum "Site Talk (Forum Help)" at SailboatOwners.com Forums with email notification of new threads or messages. You will not receive any further emails about this thread until you have read the new messages.
If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may disable emails from this forum or disable all emails.
Bob
I pasted it below:
{ Edit by admin: I have removed the links and text to the offending post... having that stuff in our forum is the result they want. }
Bob 04 H260, posted a new thread to a forum you are watching at SailboatOwners.com Forums.
This message was sent to you because you opted to watch the forum "Site Talk (Forum Help)" at SailboatOwners.com Forums with email notification of new threads or messages. You will not receive any further emails about this thread until you have read the new messages.
If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may disable emails from this forum or disable all emails.
It was just a standard system notification of a post (spam post) in a forum you're following.
We have added some additional measures to block human spammers.
We have added some additional measures to block human spammers.
Phil, I personally HATE the latest change. Having the most recent posts at the top might make a majority of the posters happy but I am not one of them. I somehow managed to mark all posts as read even though I only wanted to mark one forum read. I don't think it was a problem of too much rum. Although I will admit that might have played a role in the fiasco. But having to go to each of the forums afterwards and deciphering which posts needed to be read was kinda frustrating.
Thanks for letting me vent about this.
Thanks for letting me vent about this.
Sorry Wayne, I really don't mean to cause any frustration.
I think I'm missing the connection between the new posts at the top of the screen and marking all posts as "read." The Recent Posts list shouldn't have any bearing on that, unless I'm missing something... which is certainly possible.
The idea is to have dynamic content on the main screen. When you think about it, there's not much logic in having the forum home page be static when what everyone is trying to get to, one way or another, is the new content. If you're trying to get to a particular forum you can use the Quick Nav (upper right). It is quick. That said, let me know if I am missing the point. That seems to happen a little more every year...
I think I'm missing the connection between the new posts at the top of the screen and marking all posts as "read." The Recent Posts list shouldn't have any bearing on that, unless I'm missing something... which is certainly possible.
The idea is to have dynamic content on the main screen. When you think about it, there's not much logic in having the forum home page be static when what everyone is trying to get to, one way or another, is the new content. If you're trying to get to a particular forum you can use the Quick Nav (upper right). It is quick. That said, let me know if I am missing the point. That seems to happen a little more every year...
I "do" a lot of different forums on a daily basis.
For some reason, like humanity, everyone approaches dealing with a forum website differently.
Wow, who woulda thunk?
But for goodness sake, this forum has so many OPTIONS for viewing, it is really good, great even.
To keep it simple, when the format was IMPROVED, I figured out how to see "All Forums, All Discussions" and use the legacy click.
I miss nothing.
I don't miss a thing.
What's so hard?
For some reason, like humanity, everyone approaches dealing with a forum website differently.
Wow, who woulda thunk?
But for goodness sake, this forum has so many OPTIONS for viewing, it is really good, great even.
To keep it simple, when the format was IMPROVED, I figured out how to see "All Forums, All Discussions" and use the legacy click.
I miss nothing.
I don't miss a thing.
What's so hard?
Stu, this reminded me that I said I'd re-work the Legacy New Posts to speed it up. That's installed now.
You can't hide it, but really, it's no different than showing you a list of forums you have no interest in, right? 
Edit: You can also access the forum from a bookmark of:
http://forums.sailboatowners.com/index.php?find-new/19157/posts
That will take you directly to the new posts page with the content you have selected, without posts from the forums you don't want to view. And it lets you completely bypass the front page of the forum.
Edit: You can also access the forum from a bookmark of:
http://forums.sailboatowners.com/index.php?find-new/19157/posts
That will take you directly to the new posts page with the content you have selected, without posts from the forums you don't want to view. And it lets you completely bypass the front page of the forum.
how do I get to my photo albums?.. and how do I view someone elses albums?... I cant find the link to take me to either place.
Go to any user's profile page: click on their username, then click Profile Page. You'll see a tab for Media -- all of your images -- and albums, which is the same stuff but organized into albums. Or, you can click the big Media tab in the nav bar and see the latest uploads. I believe you can also search for user's media there.
Ahhhh!.. Media is the keyword.. I was looking for a word like "photos" or "albums"... silly me
Thank you
Find other posts by this member used to be a feature if you clicked on the name of the person posting.
Is there some way to do this now?
Is there some way to do this now?
Yes, it's just one click deeper. Click the username, then click User Profile. The second or third tab over, at the top, is Postings. I used that link to get here.