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Guides / Re: [V] Forum Usage Tips - Improve your experience with our boards!
« on: June 09, 2015, 06:08:01 am »
Lol @ Devin.
How to never miss a post:
One thing I would add...you can leave it out, it's your guide. I've been using the "Recent Posts" button for as long as I can remember. It shows every single post that is posted on the entire forums. It's the bookmark (like a button for an application) I have on my iPhone home screen. When I'm on the computer I type 'rec' which is part of the link near the end for Recent Posts. Compared to the unread posts button, it puts absolutely everything in view no matter what, so you don't miss any posts and reread them as you go back. I always know how far I back the most recent post I haven't read is because I always remember where I left off--it goes back 10 pages, 10 posts are shown on each.
I've never missed a post for years...I read everything, I'm not sure if people know this/know about this. It's probably why I have one of the top overall post counts. I once mentioned it to Bassism (Owen, older council & advisor member) and he didn't know about it either. I don't use the unread posts button for some reason--maybe cause I'm OCD on these forums--I feel like you can glance over "unread" posts that you don't read but should or could.
edit: Also, you should definitely put in How to Retrive Posts; when you accidentally reload your browser when writing a long post. For those that don't know, we have an autosave feature. It doesn't work 100% of the time; not sure how exactly the mechanic works, but it autosaves after a good amount of seconds. Usually you're covered if you spend some good time on a post.
How to never miss a post:
One thing I would add...you can leave it out, it's your guide. I've been using the "Recent Posts" button for as long as I can remember. It shows every single post that is posted on the entire forums. It's the bookmark (like a button for an application) I have on my iPhone home screen. When I'm on the computer I type 'rec' which is part of the link near the end for Recent Posts. Compared to the unread posts button, it puts absolutely everything in view no matter what, so you don't miss any posts and reread them as you go back. I always know how far I back the most recent post I haven't read is because I always remember where I left off--it goes back 10 pages, 10 posts are shown on each.
I've never missed a post for years...I read everything, I'm not sure if people know this/know about this. It's probably why I have one of the top overall post counts. I once mentioned it to Bassism (Owen, older council & advisor member) and he didn't know about it either. I don't use the unread posts button for some reason--maybe cause I'm OCD on these forums--I feel like you can glance over "unread" posts that you don't read but should or could.
edit: Also, you should definitely put in How to Retrive Posts; when you accidentally reload your browser when writing a long post. For those that don't know, we have an autosave feature. It doesn't work 100% of the time; not sure how exactly the mechanic works, but it autosaves after a good amount of seconds. Usually you're covered if you spend some good time on a post.
