This discussion will present some useful hints and tips on using the forum software. Its creation was in part prompted by me accidentally stumbling across a cool feature that'll be useful to many, but is hidden away.
Removing categories from your viewsIf there are categories in which you're not interested (Shopping UK, perhaps, if you're in the USA), you can prevent discussions from those categories appearing in your view. Here's how to remove specific categories:
1. Click on
Categories in the menu on the right to access Category Management
2. Hover over the one you're not interested in
3. Click on the
Options button that appears
4. Click on
UnfollowIf you wish to follow the category again, repeat the previous steps and in the last step, choose
Follow. If you don't see the categories previously marked as "unfollowed", you may need to select "Show unfollowed categories" from the right hand navigation to display.
Mark all viewedNew to the forum? Want to remove all the yellow new message counts? Click on
Mark all viewed in the top menu to do so. Note that if you've read some of the replies in a conversation, it will remove the new message count but also forget those that you've read so the next time you view it will appear as if you've not read any of them.
There is a
Mark read menu item in the categories list options, which implies that you can mark conversations in specific categories as read, but it doesn't appear to do anything for me.
Do you have any handy tips to share? Let us know here and we'll add them.
Inserting hyperlinks to Brickset set detail pagesSet numbers preceded with a # will be converted to hyperlinks to set details pages. If a set suffix is not provided, -1 will be assumed. Examples:
#6876 -- link to the Blacktron Alienator
#6876-1 -- link to the Blacktron Alienator
#6862 -- link to Secret Space Voyager
#6862-2 -- link to Superman Vs Power Armor Lex
(thanks to @brickmatic for the jQuery script to implement this)
Comments
For your profile, the link at the top of the main site to 'Your profile' can be shared as it has your name already in it.
@jonboy2000
If I want to link to google, and type out
http://www.google.co.uk
, then the link works. If, however I type out<a href="">http://www.google.co.uk </a>
(using the hyperlink button), then the link doesn't work. (I've seen this a lot)So for normal URLs to work (where you don't want text to be the link, like this, which can be accomplished like this
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk">this </a>
) then just type the URL (with http://) and it will automatically hyperlink. Only use the hyperlink button if you want an item of text to link.Clearing cookies to me usually means scoffing something chocolatey :-)
http://m.brickset.com is the mobile site URL. There is no auto-switching or cookies used to remember which one you visited.
In the meantime, please switch to "full version" as needed.
Weirdly, I can only see the recent discussions button when I'm already in all discussions on the mobile site, can't see a button for it in category view. I have to reload the site using a favourite shortcut to get discussions view.
Workaround
- Utilize this link: http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussions
- When done with a particular discussion, simply use your back arrow
- To refresh the discussions you've then read, click "Recent Discussions" up top
At the bottom of every discussion in the Forum's Full Site Version, you should now find 4 links.
- Home = Sends you to the default Forum view which is currently set for "Category"
- (Current Category) = Sends you to the view of discussions in that specific category
- Recent Discussions = Sends you to the "All Discussions" view
- Categories = Sends you to the "Category" view
Please note that this solution does not apply to the Forum's Mobile Version. Thus, we Mobile viewers will have to still employ the "workaround" noted above.
I guess full site isn't optimized for the smaller screen of mobiles, but most modern smart phones with zoom capability should remedy this. So is this mostly an issue for older smart phones?
It is too close to the refresh button: I hit it *again* by accident.
Vanillaforums should implement this.
EDIT- I can edit this comment, which has the cog button, but none of my other comments!