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[Q] Viewing new posts in which you have participated

Hello, this is the only vBulletin forum that I browse(I'm more of a SMF guy, I use it and develop for it) and I can't find the place where I can see new topics in which I have participated(Tapatalk does this for this forum). Is there a link where I can see the new topics?

Dragooon123 said:
Hello, this is the only vBulletin forum that I browse(I'm more of a SMF guy, I use it and develop for it) and I can't find the place where I can see new topics in which I have participated(Tapatalk does this for this forum). Is there a link where I can see the new topics?
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A couple of things you can do:
1
Subscribe to threads you are interested in and receive email notification of new posts being added.
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Bookmark your profile page http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1153710 and in there go to the statistics tab>Find all posts by. Then by clicking on your posts you can see if there have been any replies.
Not sure if these links might work also:
Find all posts by Dragooon123
Find all threads started by Dragooon123
Mike

im using subscription witout email, means i can go to my user cp and i see all threads i subscripted that have new posts
so i dont get too many emails but see all new replys..

The question is,
why does the XDA app offer this feature,
but the full version of the board does not?
I could theoretically run an emulator, run the XDA android app, and use this forum MORE efficiently than actually turning on a laptop. I use the 'participated' area every single day.
That seems backward. There has to be a way to pull this data to a web browser, if it can be pulled to an Android phone.

pkopalek said:
The question is,
why does the XDA app offer this feature,
but the full version of the board does not?
I could theoretically run an emulator, run the XDA android app, and use this forum MORE efficiently than actually turning on a laptop. I use the 'participated' area every single day.
That seems backward. There has to be a way to pull this data to a web browser, if it can be pulled to an Android phone.
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You should set your usercp so that it will automatically subscribe to threads you reply to (without notification)
Then go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription&folderid=all to view them.

MikeChannon said:
A couple of things you can do:
1
Subscribe to threads you are interested in and receive email notification of new posts being added.
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Bookmark your profile page http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1153710 and in there go to the statistics tab>Find all posts by. Then by clicking on your posts you can see if there have been any replies.
Not sure if these links might work also:
Find all posts by Dragooon123
Find all threads started by Dragooon123
Mike
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Sorry to dredge up an old topic, but I haven't found an answer to the same question, and this is the only time I have seen it have replies. Finding threads posted by a user will not do the same thing, the participated thread button in the tapatalk or xda app does. One should not have to subscribe to every thread either, that would be pointless considering that is for threads you REALLY want to follow.
The information is accessible to the app, which means ultimately it would be easy to implement on the website, and it is counter productive you can only find it in app. The best answer I have is find the posts in the app, but if I have to post something longer, or with links, I have to find the thread on the website.
As popular as this site is, this feature would improve quite a bit.. people(maybe more noobs) would actually follow threads they've posted questions on, so the replies aren't a waste of time. How many threads have multiple people asked for more details and the OP never replies.. Subscribing to threads would only work on any new posts, and some of my oldest ones I would still want to know activity for. This all seems obvious.

View first unread

Hi all,
So here lately, my "vies first un read button has not been working, forst on Energy's rom thread and now on Dutty's rom thread.
It actually has not been working on Energy for some time, it will just take me to the very last post and not the post where I last left off.
Then as I had started to get more and more involved on Dutty's rom thread, (it is much smaller), it was working fine and now that one too just takes me to the last post when I hit the view last read button, maybe it is a size of thread thing, I dont know but I have also tried both the XDA classic and the new 2010 page view selector.
Is anyone having this issue? It is on multiple computers that this occurs, both at home and at work.
Thanks,
Jeff

innovator8 said:
Hi all,
So here lately, my "vies first un read button has not been working, forst on Energy's rom thread and now on Dutty's rom thread.
It actually has not been working on Energy for some time, it will just take me to the very last post and not the post where I last left off.
Then as I had started to get more and more involved on Dutty's rom thread, (it is much smaller), it was working fine and now that one too just takes me to the last post when I hit the view last read button, maybe it is a size of thread thing, I dont know but I have also tried both the XDA classic and the new 2010 page view selector.
Is anyone having this issue? It is on multiple computers that this occurs, both at home and at work.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Do both of these threads happen to have a poll?

pulser_g2 said:
Do both of these threads happen to have a poll?
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Yes, they both do currently have a poll, and I can remember for sure if this was happening with Energy before the poll or not. I will hunt around for another long thread that does not have a poll to see if it works there too.
THanks,
Jeff

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Do both of these threads happen to have a poll?
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I'm also experiencing the problem on the TyphooN CyanogenMod 7 thread which also has a poll. Clicking on "View first unread" always beams me to the last post.
What actually works for me is the Xda Premium Android app. It correctly shows the first unread post on the very thread where the website always directs me to the last one.
Is there any solution available yet to get this working using the website?

I'm getting this as well on the following forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957291

I'm having this issue as well. Anyone know a way around it?

I am getting this problem too in this topic and it also has a poll.

Sorry to kick this, but "View First Unread" doesn't seem to be working for me on any thread I previously visited. It just takes me to the last page all the time.
I was working fine until a few days ago...
What can I do? Clean cookies maybe?

MrMagic said:
Sorry to kick this, but "View First Unread" doesn't seem to be working for me on any thread I previously visited. It just takes me to the last page all the time.
I was working fine until a few days ago...
What can I do? Clean cookies maybe?
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+1 to that.
I have no idea how this "view first unread" is working..or is supposed work.some1 care to explain?
It's works perfectly in the app and that is how one wants it here too.
Also wish it was the default view instead of 'Last Page'

roofrider said:
+1 to that.
I have no idea how this "view first unread" is working..or is supposed work.some1 care to explain?
It's works perfectly in the app and that is how one wants it here too.
Also wish it was the default view instead of 'Last Page'
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It works fine for me in Chrome, and always did in Firefox. What browser are you using? Have you changed your view (under Display Mode)?

reinbeau said:
It works fine for me in Chrome, and always did in Firefox. What browser are you using? Have you changed your view (under Display Mode)?
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chrome and linear mode.
ok, it's working fine today.
thanks

I'm having problems with View First Unread on numerous threads on XDA, and I can tell you what the problem is: it's threads where moderators have deleted posts.
There seems to be an error in the forum code, where the indices of unread posts are adjusted incorrectly for a given thread. The more posts deleted from a thread, the further off the unread count goes (and it can be off by multiple pages).
What's weird is that it isn't what you'd expect -- you don't get shown a post later than that you last saw as "first unread". It actually rolls backwards. If a mod deletes ten posts from a given thread, I will then see the last ten posts I'd already read being marked as unread. If they delete 40 posts, my unread count will be off by 40 posts (and I'll have to skip forward four pages from the supposed "last unread" to get to a post I've not seen before.)
And once the unread count is off, it stays off, only changing if a moderator deletes more posts. If ten posts are deleted, and then the thread is never moderated again, I could come back in six months after hundreds more posts have been made by others and I've read them, and my "last unread" will still be off by a page.
It's a frustrating bug, because the threads where you most need the "last unread" feature are the ones that are tens or hundreds of pages long -- but those are also the threads where tens of posts have been deleted, and so every time you go to last unread you'll have to then manually skip forward one or more pages to get to the first post you've not seen a dozen times or more.

Can you please remove the single-click unsubscribe from emails?

I don't know if it's just me, but I frequently end up unsubscribing from threads when I what I really wanted to do was view them.
The layout of various email notifications from different forums are all different, and in my experience most of the time the "visit this thread on the web" is the first link under the response. In the case here the first link completely unsubscribes you from the thread without any confirmation request. I then have to go and resubscribe again.
Most other forums have a confirmation page when unsubscribing - is there a reason there isn't one here?

Telek said:
I don't know if it's just me, but I frequently end up unsubscribing from threads when I what I really wanted to do was view them.
The layout of various email notifications from different forums are all different, and in my experience most of the time the "visit this thread on the web" is the first link under the response. In the case here the first link completely unsubscribes you from the thread without any confirmation request. I then have to go and resubscribe again.
Most other forums have a confirmation page when unsubscribing - is there a reason there isn't one here?
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We balance ease of unsubscribing with having a confirmation dialog to ensure member wishes to actually unsubscribe. Given that balance we err to the side of unsubscribing right away because we don't want people to mark our emails as spam. It is easy enough to re-subscribe to a topic as well. But I'd be interested in hearing others opinion on this.

Nothing makes me more mad then having to sign in when I want to cancel a subscription. That being said, I usually enjoy the XDA emails I get, but for other sites that I need to sign in to cancel email bombs, but don't know my login information. I get angry.
Keep as is.

I appreciate the perspective, but I don't see either of these points as a barrier.
How does requiring a simple one-click confirmation inside the web page change if the email is viewed as spam? In both cases the email is identical. If someone manually is flagging the email as spam then they obviously aren't active in the first place (anyone who is active wouldn't do that).
Also I didn't say that you had to log in to unsubscribe. A simple one-click confirmation inside the web page is all I'm proposing. Considering how it currently launches the site to complete the unsubscribe this would only add 2 seconds.

Personally I don't see any issues with the current email layout.
The link to the thread is at the top of the email, and the unsubscribe is WAAAAY at the bottom. I have no idea how manage to click the wrong one

Because a lot of other forums have their links all at the bottom, and the first link is usually the one to go to the web version. I'm on a lot of different forums, and I have (unfortunately) developed the habit of just clicking the first link after the response in order to see the response in it's full context.
Oddly enough other forums also have a confirmation for unsubscription.
When there's a 1-line reply it's also not "all the way at the bottom".
How about this then: Instead of a confirmation, how about just a "Did you click this by accident? Click _here_ to resubscribe" after the "You have successfully unsubscribed" message?
That way if you intended to do that then there is no change at all, but if you did it by accident it's easy to undo the action.

Improvement suggestion: sorting of posts in participated section

Hi,
Got an improvement suggestion for the desktop site under Participated threads section:
This section shows 15 threads I participated in. It could have been OK, if not for the following:
1. Threads are sorted by their creation date. This means that if there are new posts in "veteran threads" (and there are lots of mega threads like these), they will soon be out of the list.
2. There's no way to see the next threads in the list (next 15 or so).
This means that if there are new posts in such threads in which I participated, I will not see them at all. Of course I can subscribe to all these threads, but why do so if there's a section for it?
Just to compare, if I browse the forum via the Tapatalk app, I'm able to see new posts in this section sorted by the date of the last post. I believe this should be the right way to go.
I think this is a small and necessary change that should be quite easy to implement.
Cheers.

Anybody home? Maybe this is not the right forum to raise such a suggestion?

Thanks for the suggestion, but we recommend subscribing to a thread if you want to be kept up to date on progress. The "Participated Threads" tab sorts in order of last update.

bitpushr said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but we recommend subscribing to a thread if you want to be kept up to date on progress. The "Participated Threads" tab sorts in order of last update.
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Thanks for your answer. However, it seems that at least on the desktop site, the "participated threads" section is not sorted by last update (as it should), but by thread creation order.

Kindly would like to bump this:
The participated section should have the exact effect as performing an advanced search with myself as the posting user. In this case, I'll get a list of the threads I have posted in, ordered by post date (threads with newer posts are shown first). If number of threads exceeds a page, then I can select the page for previous posts.
However, the participated section button shows only one page, where this page holds threads ordered by thread creation date.
What I think that should be done is that the participated button will simply imitate the search action described above. This is exactly what Tapatalk does, but unfortunately not what happens here. Of course I can always perform this advanced search to see what happens in the threads I participate in, but this is very cumbersome.

[Request] Add subscribed forums to the notification menu

Please redirect if a thread already exists on this question. Did a quick search of the About XDA subforum, and didn't notice anything that directly addressed this question.
So I know that on the main User CP page http://forum.xda-developers.com/usercp.php it shows "New Subscribed Threads", a listing of subscribed threads with new posts.
And of course, you can also view these on the Subscribed Threads folder listing, too: http://forum.xda-developers.com/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription&folderid=all
Could this be added to the "notifications" dropdown at the topright of the screen? As in, the notification dropdown beside the logout button on the header. Show the # of new subscribed threads there, and link to the subscribed threads folder when clicked.
I often miss posts in my subscribed threads because it's not one of the things you get notified on in the notifications dropdown. I also don't want to have my inbox spammed, so I disabled all email notifications for subscribed forums.

@CDB-Man,
If you post your recommendations in this thread dedicated to the subject, then more often than not, your ideas will be seen by the mods and admins, considered, and then possibly implemented the way you would like.
Regards,
Nookie
XDA Senior Member

NOOK!E said:
@CDB-Man,
If you post your recommendations in this thread dedicated to the subject, then more often than not, your ideas will be seen by the mods and admins, considered, and then possibly implemented the way you would like.
Regards,
Nookie
XDA Senior Member
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Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I generally stick to my own subforum so don;t know the way around the other places as much. I'll copy over my post to there.