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Title: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Fiyasko on January 16, 2012, 08:53:44 AM
How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Y'know, Like "Show new replies to your posts" How do we remove threads from there, Like.. Stop following them..
I just cant find the freakin button


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: notme on January 16, 2012, 08:55:46 AM
How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Y'know, Like "Show new replies to your posts" How do we remove threads from there, Like.. Stop following them..
I just cant find the freakin button

Subscribing ;)


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: RaggedMonk on January 16, 2012, 09:01:18 AM
i am also interested in the answer to this


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 16, 2012, 09:25:11 AM
How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Y'know, Like "Show new replies to your posts" How do we remove threads from there, Like.. Stop following them..
I just cant find the freakin button

Step 1: raise 9000+ bitcoins.
Step 2: develop forum software from scratch.
Step 3: click shiny new 'unsubscribe' button.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: minimalB on January 16, 2012, 10:57:23 AM
There is an "unsubscribe link" in a email you get for subscribed topic.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: notme on January 16, 2012, 10:58:28 AM
There is an "unsubscribe link" in a email you get for subscribed topic.


We're not discussing email notifications, but thanks for trying.  See OP.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on January 16, 2012, 11:20:22 AM
This thread belongs in the Meta subforum.

This is an issue that was raised multiple times, it is impossible to do this with the current forum software.

I think the "ignore thread" mod of smf can be used for roughly the same purpose, but Theymos isn't willing to do any modifications before changing the whole thing.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Fiyasko on January 16, 2012, 07:15:46 PM
ty


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Stephen Gornick on January 17, 2012, 01:43:09 AM
Step 1: raise 9000+ bitcoins.

Speaking of:
 "Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [1100+ BTC]"
 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50617.0


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: theymos on January 17, 2012, 02:00:00 AM
I think the "ignore thread" mod of smf can be used for roughly the same purpose, but Theymos isn't willing to do any modifications before changing the whole thing.

I would install an "ignore thread" mod if I could, but I investigated this before and the existing mods don't work or are unsuitable for some other reason.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: rjk on January 17, 2012, 03:01:21 AM
I HAVE THE SOLUTION!:

Simply remove the link to "Show new replies to your posts." and force everyone to read ALL THE TOPICS.

 ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: mila on January 17, 2012, 03:14:40 AM
How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Y'know, Like "Show new replies to your posts" How do we remove threads from there, Like.. Stop following them..
I just cant find the freakin button

my button is called delete post. i press it for each submission i contributed in that forum.
it's only a workaround for the real & missing button but it kinda works.
if your posts were useful, someone quoted you and it's preserved


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: tlhonmey on January 19, 2012, 07:07:10 PM
Scroll to either the top or the bottom of the thread page.  You will see a link that says, "notify".  Click it to turn notifications on or off.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on January 19, 2012, 07:14:37 PM
Scroll to either the top or the bottom of the thread page.  You will see a link that says, "notify".  Click it to turn notifications on or off.
As was already explained, this link is for email notifications which are not what the question is about.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 19, 2012, 09:39:13 PM
How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Y'know, Like "Show new replies to your posts" How do we remove threads from there, Like.. Stop following them..
I just cant find the freakin button

my button is called delete post. i press it for each submission i contributed in that forum.
it's only a workaround for the real & missing button but it kinda works.
if your posts were useful, someone quoted you and it's preserved

i tried this for a few, but having trouble finding my posts in the 90+ paged threads.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Fiyasko on January 19, 2012, 09:41:54 PM
How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Y'know, Like "Show new replies to your posts" How do we remove threads from there, Like.. Stop following them..
I just cant find the freakin button

my button is called delete post. i press it for each submission i contributed in that forum.
it's only a workaround for the real & missing button but it kinda works.
if your posts were useful, someone quoted you and it's preserved

i tried this for a few, but having trouble finding my posts in the 90+ paged threads.

push SEARCH?


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: notme on January 19, 2012, 10:41:02 PM

i tried this for a few, but having trouble finding my posts in the 90+ paged threads.

"Show the last posts of this person." from your profile also works.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 19, 2012, 10:43:09 PM

i tried this for a few, but having trouble finding my posts in the 90+ paged threads.

"Show the last posts of this person." from your profile also works.

yeah, but the 90 page threads in question are so long ago, i'd have to go through 90 pages of my previous posts to find them :)

maybe this is why atlas had so many forum accounts... to save him from manually deleting individual posts :D


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: notme on January 19, 2012, 10:50:48 PM
You only have 59 pages of posts... also, jump to page 40, they're in order.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 19, 2012, 10:54:29 PM
You only have 59 pages of posts... also, jump to page 40, they're in order.

oh 59... why to page 40? i don't get why you're telling me they're in order.



Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: notme on January 19, 2012, 10:58:44 PM
You only have 59 pages of posts... also, jump to page 40, they're in order.

oh 59... why to page 40? i don't get why you're telling me they're in order.



You said they were from long ago.... jump to that point in time.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 19, 2012, 11:12:01 PM
You only have 59 pages of posts... also, jump to page 40, they're in order.

oh 59... why to page 40? i don't get why you're telling me they're in order.



You said they were from long ago.... jump to that point in time.

uh, you're right... i mean to say they *could be* from long ago... the point was, i don't know where in that long list they are.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: notme on January 19, 2012, 11:13:49 PM
Your best bet is probably click the thread, then search your name... search is scoped to the thread you're in.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 19, 2012, 11:14:34 PM
Your best bet is probably click the thread, then search your name... search is scoped to the thread you're in.

yeah i've done that a few times... it only finds posts by other people who have quoted me.

and you can't do 'advanced search' just within a particular thread.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: notme on January 19, 2012, 11:16:23 PM
Your best bet is probably click the thread, then search your name... search is scoped to the thread you're in.

yeah i've done that a few times... it only finds posts by other people who have quoted me.

and you can't do 'advanced search' just within a particular thread.


lame... have fun with that :P


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: mila on January 20, 2012, 01:59:27 AM
what worked for me in the past is to list the thread with .all in the url.
then search by my username and click the delete with the middle mouse button so that it opens the delete command in new tab.
that way I don't loose track where am I in the deleting process and can hit next all the way down
might suck in big and dandy threads but is better than nothing.

and you can always outsource this for a few bitcents to a newbie who looks for a job
(don't forget to sign an agreement that he will not mess around with your profile and change password afterwards ;) )


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 20, 2012, 02:16:02 AM
what worked for me in the past is to list the thread with .all in the url.

please elaborate / provide example link


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: rjk on January 20, 2012, 02:21:29 AM
what worked for me in the past is to list the thread with .all in the url.

please elaborate / provide example link

I believe he means that instead of (for example) this link:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=58897.msg703060#new

You would instead use:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=58897.0;all

which shows all posts on one page (not paginated) so that you can search using Ctrl+F or similar.

EDIT: or you can simply click the "ALL" button next to the page numbers.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: payb.tc on January 20, 2012, 02:50:00 AM
EDIT: or you can simply click the "ALL" button next to the page numbers.

wow, that was invisible all this time until you mentioned it.

edit: now i see why it was invisible... that link doesn't appear on long threads like "List of honest traders". i guess because there are so many pages.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: mila on January 20, 2012, 08:30:43 AM
EDIT: or you can simply click the "ALL" button next to the page numbers.

wow, that was invisible all this time until you mentioned it.

edit: now i see why it was invisible... that link doesn't appear on long threads like "List of honest traders". i guess because there are so many pages.


you nailed it. the "really long threads" (I guess over 30 pages) hide the 'ALL' option but forcing it by adding the ;all should work
also in a thread like 'Introduce yourself' in the Newbies section with 200+ pages. careful when following this example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15672.0;all

edit: nope, does not work for the introduce yourself thread. but for honest sellers it worked when I edited/deleted my posts
e2: tried with list of honest sellers and it fails as well. must have stopped working since I last used it :( I was not even able to set custom entries per page that would work around the limitations set by the forum software. seems the only way now is to crawl list of own submissions and search by forum name.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Ente on February 23, 2012, 02:19:50 PM
Come on people, you seriously consider deleting posts to "unsubscribe" from a thread? Thats plain awful! If everyone would start doing this, ugh!
You can, at least, mark all threads "read" at once. I pick out the ones I read, then mark all left ones read too.
And, if you *must* look up your posts in a thread: Search for your postcount, like "Posts: 185". Ah, screw that, it doesnt work any more. I tried it some weeks ago, and did find all posts from all users with that postcount in that thread, which was only that one user.

*subscribe

Ente


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: BadBear on February 23, 2012, 02:24:59 PM
You can, at least, mark all threads "read" at once. I pick out the ones I read, then mark all left ones read too.

That's what I do, read what I'm actually interested in then click the button that says mark all as read, it will clear the rest of the list.


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: Fiyasko on February 24, 2012, 08:21:08 PM
Come on people, you seriously consider deleting posts to "unsubscribe" from a thread? Thats plain awful! If everyone would start doing this, ugh!
You can, at least, mark all threads "read" at once. I pick out the ones I read, then mark all left ones read too.
And, if you *must* look up your posts in a thread: Search for your postcount, like "Posts: 185". Ah, screw that, it doesnt work any more. I tried it some weeks ago, and did find all posts from all users with that postcount in that thread, which was only that one user.

*subscribe

Ente

deleting posts doesn't seem to work. i was bored a few days ago and went through about 100 pages of bullbear thread to delete mine and it still comes up in my list... no way to tell if i've missed one or not though without doing that all over again.


I agree. Some threads just seem to "not let me go" I have no (still exsisting) Posts in the thread and yet i still get notifications about how someone posted something new in the thread where i apparently have a response


Title: Re: How do we unsubscribe from a thread topic?
Post by: mila on February 27, 2012, 02:45:16 PM
I agree. Some threads just seem to "not let me go" I have no (still exsisting) Posts in the thread and yet i still get notifications about how someone posted something new in the thread where i apparently have a response

I disagree. I was able to 'unsubscribe' every thread so far by deleting my posts in there