Thank you soooooo much to both of you for your time well spent. This is way cool.
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James' Handy Dandy Guide to Avoiding Stuff You're Not Interested In
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Those are ones I definitely don't want. Whether one opts in does not matter, they are still there in a search. Where do I find the number of a particular forum I want to add to my exclude list?James Goddard:
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Ckick on the forum and read your addres bar, for example singles gives you:liberato:
http://www.scubaboard.com/f200-scuba-singles.html
The forum number is 200.
James
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You the MAN, James
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Oh... [hitting forehead with palm]. Thanks much! A truly valuable contribution to SB.
ArthurGerla
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Great contribution. Just what I was looking for.
ShoalDiverSA
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I know there is another way of skinning the cat these days by using forum subscriptions. But I prefer my neat-and-tidy subscribed forum view in the User CP - with the functionality of seeing New Posts from all sorts of forums that may interest me.
So I wrote this little HTML page with a simple text manipulation javascript. Save the file locally and double-click it. It takes the HTML source of the Scubaboard forum home page as the input, converts it into a check list, then generates the URL for the New Posts search for you to click or copy & paste into your Favorites.
It is not 100% bulletproof as a few forums don't have links on the home page, but once you have compiled the basic URL, you can tidy up the search by removing "false" hits. Run the search, then hover your cursor over the link to the forum that you want to remove. Note the number displayed in your status bar after the text "forumdisplay.php?f=". Add that number at the end of the search URL (with a leading comma).
This is a workaround and it's not graceful, but I have found it useful. YMMV. I have just tidied it up a bit so that someone else (other than myself) can use it!
Cheers,
Andrew
PS: Apologies for resurrecting an OLD thread...
So I wrote this little HTML page with a simple text manipulation javascript. Save the file locally and double-click it. It takes the HTML source of the Scubaboard forum home page as the input, converts it into a check list, then generates the URL for the New Posts search for you to click or copy & paste into your Favorites.
It is not 100% bulletproof as a few forums don't have links on the home page, but once you have compiled the basic URL, you can tidy up the search by removing "false" hits. Run the search, then hover your cursor over the link to the forum that you want to remove. Note the number displayed in your status bar after the text "forumdisplay.php?f=". Add that number at the end of the search URL (with a leading comma).
This is a workaround and it's not graceful, but I have found it useful. YMMV. I have just tidied it up a bit so that someone else (other than myself) can use it!
Cheers,
Andrew
PS: Apologies for resurrecting an OLD thread...
Feel free to drag up one from the previous century if you can help with solving problems.ShoalDiverSA:PS: Apologies for resurrecting an OLD thread...
Hey Snow,
good idea! :thumbs_up
El O.
good idea! :thumbs_up
El O.
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