I'm leaving a complicated wake, here

Occam · Aug 23, 2018

So ... it would be really nice to have a link or other tool in my account area that would show me every thread in which I've participated, which has changed since I last looked them. Just too hard to find them all otherwise, and subscribing to them all only works if I'm willing to get email about every change. I don't even see a simple link to list for me all the threads I've subscribed to. Perhaps I've gone forum-blind on both of these. What am I missing?

RuralRifleGuy · Aug 23, 2018

What about bookmarking an advanced search result page?

Go to https://www.mdshooters.com/search.php, put your username in the "Search by User Name" field, choose "Your Last Visit" in the "Find Posts From" dropdown. Click search now and then bookmark the result page.

Edit: I realize that doesn't give you the exact functionality you are looking for, but it might be an option if there isn't a forum setting.

Biggfoot44 · Aug 23, 2018

Clink on yourself , then click on statistics . You then can choose Recent Posts , or Threads started . Each one goes back for 15 pages worth .

Occam · Aug 23, 2018

RuralRifleGuy said:
Edit: I realize that doesn't give you the exact functionality you are looking for, but it might be an option if there isn't a forum setting.

Yeah, it's just not set up to spare you from having to either wade through a lot of results that do NOT have changes, or forcing you to explore each result to see if there ARE changes. I haven't found a good recipe yet.

Occam · Aug 23, 2018

Biggfoot44 said:
Clink on yourself , then click on statistics . You then can choose Recent Posts , or Threads started . Each one goes back for 15 pages worth .

No cigar there, either. You can see your entire commenting or thread starting history, but there's no indication of which of those merit a visit because someone has commented on them since you last visited.

Biggfoot44 · Aug 23, 2018

Yes there is . Threads with unread posts will have the envelope icon with flap open , in orange and yellow . Threads w/o new posts will have flap closed, all in grey .

44man · Aug 23, 2018

Occam said:
No cigar there, either. You can see your entire commenting or thread starting history, but there's no indication of which of those merit a visit because someone has commented on them since you last visited.

Whenever you hit new posts the first threads you see are the only ones that have been commented on since you last looked

Idk of any way to just Lee track of your own comments being commented on though, but I do see what you mean

Occam · Aug 23, 2018

Biggfoot44 said:
Yes there is . Threads with unread posts will have the envelope icon with flap open , in orange and yellow . Threads w/o new posts will have flap closed, all in grey .

Right, but you still have to dig through ALL of your posts, possibly many pages of them, to find those. Let's say someone has recently commented on a thread I participated in two months ago. Unless I was willing - regularly - to paw through many pages of those listings looking for that altered envelope marker, I'd never know what. If that same display could toggle off/filter for only the updated threads, suppressing the unchanged ones, then we'd be on to something. Close!

Mr H · Aug 23, 2018

You can subscribe to, and enable notifications for, any thread.

Occam · Aug 23, 2018

Mr H said:
You can subscribe to, and enable notifications for, any thread.

Well, sure. But on a thread that starts out busy, that can be pretty intrusive ... so you have to mentally manage the task of NOT doing so while a given thread is on fire, and then later on remembering to take a step to do so.

I guess the point is that it's just a SLIGHTLY different database query (simpler, really) than many that are already supported, and it would actually lighten the load on the server because it would be a one-stop list without nearly so much clicking/paging.

fidelity · Aug 23, 2018

Occam said:
Right, but you still have to dig through ALL of your posts, possibly many pages of them, to find those. Let's say someone has recently commented on a thread I participated in two months ago. Unless I was willing - regularly - to paw through many pages of those listings looking for that altered envelope marker, I'd never know what. If that same display could toggle off/filter for only the updated threads, suppressing the unchanged ones, then we'd be on to something. Close!

If you use Tapatalk to browse MDS, this functionality is built in (if I understand your request correctly). Under participated threads, the ones with new updates are emboldened, and when you click on them, the app takes you to the update starting from the last post that you read in the thread.

Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk

Dave MP · Aug 23, 2018

fidelity said:
If you use Tapatalk to browse MDS, this functionality is built in (if I understand your request correctly). Under participated threads, the ones with new updates are emboldened, and when you click on them, the app takes you to the update starting from the last post that you read in the thread.

Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk

Correct.
Apparently Tapatalk has an APP for Windows.

Art3 · Aug 23, 2018

Threads you've commented in have a little black dot on the little envelope icon...

Some of us just have a wornout spot on our touch screens where the "New Posts" button resides :innocent0

Occam · Aug 23, 2018

I hate to resort to the app-based visiting (I'm usually dropping in via desktop browser in between other sitting-on-my-ass tasks). Definitely a frustrating shortcoming of the platform.

jaredm1 · Aug 24, 2018

No apps needed: Click "New Posts" scroll through and click the double chevron buttons next to the thread titles. This takes you to the first new post since you last read the thread. Like Art said, any thread you've commented in has a black dot on the envelope.

Bikebreath · Aug 24, 2018

I accept the emails, but send them all to spam, them come here and in User PC they are in order of most-popular. Works for me.

eruby · Aug 24, 2018

lolwut

Click on your name, click statistics, click all posts.

Threads with new posts will be hilited.

Click on the hilited thread(s), click first unread.

If this doesn't help, post in the First World Problems thread.

67temp · Aug 24, 2018

Occam said:
So ... it would be really nice to have a link or other tool in my account area that would show me every thread in which I've participated, which has changed since I last looked them. Just too hard to find them all otherwise, and subscribing to them all only works if I'm willing to get email about every change. I don't even see a simple link to list for me all the threads I've subscribed to. Perhaps I've gone forum-blind on both of these. What am I missing?

In the upper right hand corner when using a desktop click on the links tab (between search and log out), then click on "subscribed threads" option 3rd from the bottom. That will open your subscribed threads and show you ones that have been commented in.

Biggfoot44 · Aug 24, 2018

What ERuby said . Seriously , it only takes a few seconds to scan . Unless someone revives a necrothread , all the current action will be on first page , occasionally second page . ( I do this the first time I log on each day .)

Occam · Aug 24, 2018

eruby said:
If this doesn't help, post in the First World Problems thread.

I feel that you may be trivializing my anxiety over missing out on real-time updates involving baboon tasting and gravy fountains. This wounds me.

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