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huh...If you go to the "unread content" link, then click on the "activity" option in the breadcrumbs it shows an interesting view. Not anything I'd look at all the time, but still an interesting view.

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javy knows my name Myrtle Beach Pelicans

javy knows my name

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So I'm using Wrigley22's custom Active Topics feed (thanks for sharing, btw!) but it still shows new articles along with the new posts. I guess posts and articles are both considered "topics" and you can't filter any further? Articles are everywhere and very easy to find, would like them excluded from this view if possible. Thanks!

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32 minutes ago, javy knows my name said:

So I'm using Wrigley22's custom Active Topics feed (thanks for sharing, btw!) but it still shows new articles along with the new posts. I guess posts and articles are both considered "topics" and you can't filter any further? Articles are everywhere and very easy to find, would like them excluded from this view if possible. Thanks!

Eyeballing that feed, I think the issue is that Articles live in their own category, but writers cross-post them to the forum for discussion.  Taking Matt's article today as an example, the article lives at this URL: https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-marcus-stroman-explains-the-2023-cubs-we-hope-r12/

but there's a forum topic about it that shows up in that feed: https://northsidebaseball.com/forums/topic/50759-article-how-marcus-stroman-explains-the-2023-cubs-we-hope/#comment-3804570

 

 

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WrigleyField 22 Knoxville Smokies

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2 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Eyeballing that feed, I think the issue is that Articles live in their own category, but writers cross-post them to the forum for discussion.  Taking Matt's article today as an example, the article lives at this URL: https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-marcus-stroman-explains-the-2023-cubs-we-hope-r12/

but there's a forum topic about it that shows up in that feed: https://northsidebaseball.com/forums/topic/50759-article-how-marcus-stroman-explains-the-2023-cubs-we-hope/#comment-3804570

 

 

Yea I think that is the issue. It's both an article and a topic. 

 

Which is fine. Presumably these articles will spin out into threaded discussions and that's kind of the whole point (down with the mega threads) 

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2 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Eyeballing that feed, I think the issue is that Articles live in their own category, but writers cross-post them to the forum for discussion.  Taking Matt's article today as an example, the article lives at this URL: https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-marcus-stroman-explains-the-2023-cubs-we-hope-r12/

but there's a forum topic about it that shows up in that feed: https://northsidebaseball.com/forums/topic/50759-article-how-marcus-stroman-explains-the-2023-cubs-we-hope/#comment-3804570

That's exactly how it works. For better site integration, we actually use the forums for article commenting. If you place a comment in either place - the front page article or its corresponding forum thread - it appears in both places. The goal is to tighten up most of the site into more of a cohesive whole. You use the site how/where you want and that content propagates elsewhere.

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Are there any robust ignore settings on this board?

I've got a [expletive] of climate change anxiety, and would love to ignore the weather thread. Or maybe set up a list of keywords so that things don't show up in my feed. Anything like that? All I've been able to find so far is ignoring specific posters.

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8 minutes ago, Rob said:

Are there any robust ignore settings on this board?

I've got a [expletive] of climate change anxiety, and would love to ignore the weather thread. Or maybe set up a list of keywords so that things don't show up in my feed. Anything like that? All I've been able to find so far is ignoring specific posters.

Nothing quite like that but I'll add it to the list of things to look into once things settle down a bit. It's an interesting idea. Not sure how to implement it exactly using keywords - that could lead to chaos - but I'm pretty confident that I could cook something up where if you don't like a particular thread, you can put the entire thread on ignore.

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2 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Nothing quite like that but I'll add it to the list of things to look into once things settle down a bit. It's an interesting idea. Not sure how to implement it exactly using keywords - that could lead to chaos - but I'm pretty confident that I could cook something up where if you don't like a particular thread, you can put the entire thread on ignore.

Yeah, the keyword thing seems tough to implement outside places like twitter where each post is somewhat-standalone.

I could see it working solely off thread titles, though. For instance, put Trump on the blocklist, and those threads with his name in the title are auto-ignored or something. Could be useful as we move away from mega-threads.

Thanks for thinking on it.

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So I'm looking through my "badges" which is harmless and fun.  One of the badges I apparently got is for my first "follower".  What exactly does that mean and is there a way I can look up who's "following" me?

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3 minutes ago, Banedon said:

So I'm looking through my "badges" which is harmless and fun.  One of the badges I apparently got is for my first "follower".  What exactly does that mean and is there a way I can look up who's "following" me?

Go to your profile page, left sidebar on desktop, there's a followers box.

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11 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

Has anyone figured out how to delete a quote section if you accidentally add it?  It won't let me delete so I just have to refresh. (mobile, chrome) 

If you refresh the page and then go to the reply box again, there should be a banner above the text box that lets you clear contents.  There's probably an easier way to do it but thats the workaround im using.

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WrigleyField 22 Knoxville Smokies

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1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

If you refresh the page and then go to the reply box again, there should be a banner above the text box that lets you clear contents.  There's probably an easier way to do it but thats the workaround im using.

Yea I'm doing the refresh trick, but it's a little bit tedious. Gotta remember to hit the reply below if I don't want to specifically quote someone. 

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