Suggestion: New Posts search

[Captain Starfish]

Just a thought, prompted by the MRWA stuff spewing out...

How hard would it be to allow users to opt-in/opt-out of forums being included in the "new posts" search?

Control panel mod: list of forums with a checkbox (default checked on subscription).
New table: UserForum (uid, fid, watched)
New Posts search extended to join on that table and only include results where watched=1.

Would make the New Posts (and for those that use it, Live) a fair bit more useful with a lot less wading through crap we don't care about (eg MI / Cruisers / 250 etc)

[Brougham]

We have a new version of PSB Live on beta testing at the moment which has "display only subscribed forums" option to it.

Will look into new posts as well.

[Nath]

Pretty sure we can exclude the, let me look.

[Captain Starfish]

j00 guize

[Nath]

Meh, I can easily block forums by ID however the whole checkbox thing would take a decent amount of work.

[Nath]

Would an advanced search do the job ? Obviously its a multistep process.

You can create a search and only select the forums you wish to search in, then click the "Save Search Preferences" to make things easier though.

Or you can subscribe to what you are interested in and just have the search cover them.

[Captain Starfish]

Will have a play, cheers.

One day (if I ever get some free time) I should check out this vBulletin thing...

[Jasmineee]

The search function is borked but not sure if this idea had been brought up previously and discarded. How about another option for users to donate a one off amount of their choice to PSB? As well as the $19 and $99 options available.

[Brougham]

Jasminee, nice idea, I'll get back to you.

[Jasmineee]

Nice implementation