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O2 Community - Default to Discussions view on "Unread Posts" click?

pgn — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:00:11 GMT

When I log onto the O2 Community board, I usually head for the "Unread Posts" link at top right.

Is there a way I can get this to land me on the Discussions tab rather than the Posts tab?

Not immediately obvious in the many options in "My Settings" or "Preferences"...

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MI5 — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:04:23 GMT

Nope, it always defaults to posts.

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Anonymous — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:04:29 GMT

I'm guessing it's part of the lithium software

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Beenherebefore — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:25:44 GMT

I might be wrong but the software is doing exactly what you've requested by clicking on "Unread Posts"......that's where it takes you.

All that needs to be done is for Lithium to code a clickable "Unread Discussions" alongside or below the clickable "Unread Posts".

Should be a simple correction but will probably take Lithium the rest of this decade to implement.

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pgn — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:46:01 GMT

Thanks, yes, the clue is in the prompt "Unread Posts" D'oh!

So this Lithium crowd can be recalcitrant too, eh?

Thanks @Beenherebefore.

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jonsie — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:01:41 GMT

Yes they certainly can... whatever that means 😂

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MI5 — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:15:09 GMT

@pgn wrote:
Thanks, yes, the clue is in the prompt "Unread Posts" D'oh!

Technically, both posts and discussions are the same thing, ie the same threads, it's just that discussions opens the thread in that view to save you time deciding if you want to read the whole thread or not.

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Cleoriff — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:21:56 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
Yes they certainly can... whatever that means 😂

@jonsieRecalcitrant

adjective: recalcitrant

1.
having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
"a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds"
noun
noun: recalcitrant; plural noun: recalcitrants
1. 1.
  a person with a recalcitrant attitude.
  "a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker"

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Cleoriff — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:27:03 GMT

@pgn

You can also go to the options box (left hand side of your picture ) and from the drop down menu 'Mark all posts in the Community as read'....

The problem with that is, you cant select those you have no interest in....It clears them all....

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pgn — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:30:40 GMT

Uncooperative, basically, @jonsie

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Beenherebefore — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:44:53 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
Yes they certainly can... whatever that means 😂
@jonsieRecalcitrant

adjective: recalcitrant
1.
having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
"a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds"
noun
noun: recalcitrant; plural noun: recalcitrants
1.
a person with a recalcitrant attitude.
"a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker"

You called ?

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pgn — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:52:40 GMT

Done that too - sledgehammer-nut approach.

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jonsie — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:57:32 GMT

But did you know what it meant before you Googled it or am I the only uneducated numpty here?

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Cleoriff — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:06:56 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
But did you know what it meant before you Googled it or am I the only uneducated numpty here?

I had a good idea of it's meaning @jonsie but googled to make sure. I'm not absolutely certain its the correct word to use for Lithium/O2 though....

I seem to remember we had a discussion years ago about Lithium v phpBB .....as many of us felt phpBB was superior in many ways. . We were told at the time that phpBB would never be an option for the O2 forum

Horses for courses I think.....

(It would take someone vastly superior to me to discuss this in greater technical detail however...)

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Cleoriff — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:08:32 GMT

@Beenherebefore wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
Yes they certainly can... whatever that means 😂
@jonsieRecalcitrant

adjective: recalcitrant
1.
having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
"a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds"
noun
noun: recalcitrant; plural noun: recalcitrants
1.
a person with a recalcitrant attitude.
"a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker"

You called ?

Yep...fits you perfectly my good man...

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MI5 — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:11:03 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
I seem to remember we had a discussion years ago about Lithium v phpBB .....as many of us felt phpBB was superior in many ways. . We were told at the time that phpBB would never be an option for the O2 forum

But that was said by someone, whom we correctly predicted, would soon become a "has been"

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Anonymous — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:13:38 GMT

And where is said person these days I wonder

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MI5 — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:22:14 GMT

Who cares

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pgn — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:26:07 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
But did you know what it meant before you Googled it or am I the only uneducated numpty here?

Me? Yep. I remember it being applied to me at a couple of points in my schooldays.

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Cleoriff — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:53:56 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
I seem to remember we had a discussion years ago about Lithium v phpBB .....as many of us felt phpBB was superior in many ways. . We were told at the time that phpBB would never be an option for the O2 forum
But that was said by someone, whom we correctly predicted, would soon become a "has been"

Yep.....how very true....