Request to Filter "What's New" view

[subzero]

I don't think anyone is unaware that there are alternative ways of viewing. It's also not the same view, not as easy, and doesn't give the same insight into everything that's happening to view from a folder by folder perspective. It's substantially more mouse clicks for reduced information. It's a fairly important feature that you're telling people that they have no right to use because they're asking for enhancements to the feature.

I'm not telling them they don't have a right to anything. I'm just laughing at all these laborious mouse-clicks.

[Tgo01]

Reading posts from the Activity Stream is so jarring to me I don't understand why people like it.

Rather than going to "New Posts", finding a thread you want to read, then clicking the blue arrow to bring you to the first unread post then reading all new posts in order, you instead click "Activity Stream" and get all posts forum wide in order of which they were posted.

So you're reading about an auction in one post, then about who sexed up whom in GS, then about how much of an asshole Trump is then BAM! You're back to the sex thread, then you're back to Trump is an asshole, then you're on how much monks suck, then back to sex, then back to the original auction thread, then monks sucking Trump's asshole.

Just seems like an odd way to read the forums.

[subzero]

Reading posts from the Activity Stream is so jarring to me I don't understand why people like it.

Rather than going to "New Posts", finding a thread you want to read, then clicking the blue arrow to bring you to the first unread post then reading all new posts in order, you instead click "Activity Stream" and get all posts forum wide in order of which they were posted.

So you're reading about an auction in one post, then about who sexed up whom in GS, then about how much of an asshole Trump is then BAM! You're back to the sex thread, then you're back to Trump is an asshole, then you're on how much monks suck, then back to sex, then back to the original auction thread, then monks sucking Trump's asshole.

Just seems like an odd way to read the forums.

It's definitely a jumbled mess. I'm honestly surprised at how many people use it.

[Mogonis]

I bookmark usercp.php. I middle-click any thread I'm subscribed to that I care to see new posts in, which opens those threads as new tabs. Still in the main tab, I then click New Posts to see what else I want to suffer through. It's easy.

[Tgo01]

The only nice thing about activity stream is it also shows when people post to people's walls, group messages, blogs, and stuff like that. So since I can't stand Activity Stream to begin with I tend to miss out on all of that stuff.

[Whirlin]

I'm not telling them they don't have a right to anything. I'm just laughing at all these laborious mouse-clicks.

One for the folder, another for the thread, to realize it's a bullshit post... that's two mouse clicks, third mouse click to return to normal. Per entry. Activity stream by default shows 25 posts, so that's 75 clicks as opposed to 1. We can discount probably about 1/3rd of those due to repeat posts on threads, so lets go ahead and say 50 clicks

[Parkbandit]

I don't think anyone is unaware that there are alternative ways of viewing.

This forum is filled with unaware individuals. You are giving some of them far too much credit.

It's also not the same view, not as easy, and doesn't give the same insight into everything that's happening to view from a folder by folder perspective.

It's pretty fucking easy. You literally would have to be dumb not to get it.

It's substantially more mouse clicks for reduced information.

LOL.

If someone is that concerned with the "substantially more mouse clicks", they should probably be using some voice directed software to use the forums. Seriously though, how many people are that concerned about using an extra 2 or 3 mouse clicks?

It's a fairly important feature that you're telling people that they have no right to use because they're asking for enhancements to the feature.

You might be losing it if you believe people's "rights" are being trampled on at this point. We get it... Kranar didn't respond to you and you're upset.

It's going to be ok.

[Methais]

I'd love the option to select folders within the PC to hide / filter from the What's New view. I like reading about the game, but 90% of what you see in this view is Politics. This means I have to go hunting through each game-related folder for new dates to read about the game on a forum that is primarily designed to support a game community.

Much appreciated if there's any way this could be implemented!

It's time4fun's fault.

[Gelston]

It's time4fun's fault.

It really is. She trolls the fuck out of the political threads. Shit is dead and she pops back up and posts retardation that is hard to ignore.

[subzero]

If someone is that concerned with the "substantially more mouse clicks", they should probably be using some voice directed software to use the forums. Seriously though, how many people are that concerned about using an extra 2 or 3 mouse clicks?

I'd like to know how many of them are actually desk-jockeys browsing the forums at work.

It really is. She trolls the fuck out of the political threads. Shit is dead and she pops back up and goes Potato 10 (or P10 or full Potato) that is hard to ignore.

Potato Scale'd.