You Can Now Ignore Threads and Forums

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I have installed an add-on that allows you to ignore threads and even forums. Here's how:

For a thread, in the main thread view within a forum there is now an "ignore" link. Click it and that thread will be ignored:

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For entire forums, you need to go into that forum and there is an option in the headers.


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Note that you will have to confirm this action on the next page. The "reason" for ignoring is optional.

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If you've ignored a forum or thread and want to un-ignore them, then click on your username in the header of any page and click on "ignoring":

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When you click on that you'll get a summary of what you're ignoring:

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Click on "Forums" or "Threads" and you'll get details.
You can "unignore all" by clicking the button on the top right, or you can click the trash-can icons to the right of each thread.

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That's it!
 

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Interesting features, thanks for the heads up!
 

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Thanks.

But personally, I would like a button that generates free time to explore threads and forums.
 

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Do people know if you ignore them?
I don’t believe so.

Ignoring users can be useful but I’ve always found it kind of frustrating if one person’s posts are missing from a conversation, but my requirements as a mod and admin are different than the average user.
 

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That's a cool feature!

Question - once I ignore it, then that thread no longer shows in my "Unread posts" list?

walrus
 

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That's a cool feature!

Question - once I ignore it, then that thread no longer shows in my "Unread posts" list?

walrus
Correct. It should’t show up anywhere except in your user “ignored” page.
 

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This XenForo software makes all the vBulletin boards like AGF look archaic by comparison. Thanks for all your efforts Gary!
If memory serves, VBulletin had a major change that everyone hated and there was a bit of a revolt in the developer ranks. Some of the devs left and formed XenForo and wrote it from scratch to fix some of the longstanding problems they felt existed with vB.

I’m too lazy to look that up, but I’m pretty sure that’s the gist of it.
 

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I have one that immediately comes to mind. I tried to ignore it before, but couldn't. And just ignoring it was irritating. So now I have the power!! Thanks, Gary!! (y)
 
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