MobileRead improvements: Exclude forums, et al.

Alexander Turcic · 05-08-2008, 05:58 AM

Are there forums that you never visit while you're here? Want to exclude them from your "Find New Posts" and from the "Latest Forum Activity" on our homepage? Well boys and girls, now we have the technology!

In your User CP, under "Edit Options", go to "Forum Exclusion" (or simply follow this link). From there, hold the ctrl key and select all the forums you want to exclude, hit Save Changes and you are ready to go.

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Just to clarify, you can still view threads and posts from the exluded forums by navigating to them via our forum homepage.

Because this feature makes "Find new posts w/o E-Book Uploads" redundant, we will remove the latter in a few days.

Book Genres

As you may have noticed, we recently introduced genres to our e-book section. It'll still require some time to add genres to older uploads (we're going to write a tool to ease the process), but all new uploads carry a genre. And what would genres be worth if you couldn't sort by them? Well, now you can, when you browse our e-books. Enjoy.

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Search BBCode

Wouldn't it be cool sometimes if you could link to search results by specifying the keywords in a post? Like, imagine someone asking for help and the best way to help this person is to direct him to a search query. You can do this now with the Search button which is added to the post editor.

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We've invested some serious time into our software, but it's not until you put it in front of your audience that you'll really know whether you got it right. So please, let us know if something isn't working correctly for you. You can also leave us your suggestions on how to improve MobileRead, but please go easy, we're going to read every one of these and we want to make sure the bugs get worked out before we can start rolling out new stuff. Thanks everybody!

montsnmags · 05-08-2008, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Are there forums that you never visit while you're here? Want to exclude them from your "Find New Posts" and from the "Latest Forum Activity" on our homepage? Well boys and girls, now we have the technology! ...

Excellent! Finally I can exclude The Lounge - way too full of unmitigated, unutterable silliness.

Seriously, [must...try...to...maintain...serious...face!] one of the reasons (there are others) that I really like this forum is all of its features and customizability, and the way you keep developing it. It's certainly one of the best, if not the best, in that regard that I've ever attended.

Good work. Your efforts are very gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
Marc (Ahhhh, seriousness over. Now I can let my face go all floopy again)

zelda_pinwheel · 05-08-2008, 07:47 AM

thanks, Alexander, for all your hard work !! i really appreciate all the improvements you're making to this site. it was pretty great before, but now it's brilliant !! have some karma for that, with chocolate on top.

(marc : *that* is your "serious face" ? really ?)

montsnmags · 05-08-2008, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

...
(marc : *that* is your "serious face" ? really ?)

No, that's my floopy face. My serious face has more teeth.

Cheers,
Marc (the better to eat you with!)

aru · 05-08-2008, 10:04 AM

This is a great improvement! I changed some settings, but I can not flag multiple forums for exclusion indiviual marking works fine, and shift clicking works fine. However, when I control-click it opens a new browser window and does not mark the next forum.

Could be something with my computer, but if anybody has an idea, I'm all ears.

Thank you for a great forum!

DaleDe · 05-08-2008, 10:19 AM

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from Alex: Because this feature makes "Find new posts w/o E-Book Uploads" redundant, we will remove the latter in a few days.

I am not sure this is redundant. I might want to leave this in the list but still not include it in a search. Anybody else have an opinion on this?

Dale

nrapallo · 05-08-2008, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

I am not sure this is redundant. I might want to leave this in the list but still not include it in a search. Anybody else have an opinion on this?

Dale

It's a convenient shortcut to leave in the list. A one-click solution.

EDIT: Just tried it and sorry, it's a two-click solution.

Alexander Turcic · 05-08-2008, 01:44 PM

Thanks everyone, also for the Karma. Much appreciated

aru, do you have any extensions (Firefox) installed by any chance? Maybe the default keys are reprogrammed to do what you described. Normally, just holding down the Ctrl key while clicking your mouse to pick multiple items should work fine.

GeoffC · 05-08-2008, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

!! have some karma for that, with chocolate on top.

Oi !

That's my job ----

zelda_pinwheel · 05-08-2008, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aru

This is a great improvement! I changed some settings, but I can not flag multiple forums for exclusion indiviual marking works fine, and shift clicking works fine. However, when I control-click it opens a new browser window and does not mark the next forum.

Could be something with my computer, but if anybody has an idea, I'm all ears.

Thank you for a great forum!

i'm pretty sure that's a regular shortcut for browsers ; i use it regularly to open a link in a new tab (instead of right click > new tab) (ff 2). you might be able to edit the shortcuts in your preferences somewhere. EDIT : however that is only a conflict on LINKS ; i can select multiple non-continguous items in a list using ctrl+click, in firefox.

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Oi !

That's my job ----

i thought you gave chocolate creamed karma ?

not to worry though, i'm pretty sure you can never have too much chocolate...

GeoffC · 05-08-2008, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i'm pretty sure that's a regular shortcut for browsers ; i use it regularly to open a link in a new tab (instead of right click > new tab) (ff 2). you might be able to edit the shortcuts in your preferences somewhere. EDIT : however that is only a conflict on LINKS ; i can select multiple non-continguous items in a list using ctrl+click, in firefox.

i thought you gave chocolate creamed karma ?

not to worry though, i'm pretty sure you can never have too much chocolate...

I give all the chocolate related bits and pieces around 'ere ...

Now ... have I given you any cacao nibs ?

zelda_pinwheel · 05-08-2008, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Now ... have I given you any cacao nibs ?

no, but i never say no to cacao nibs...

pilotbob · 05-08-2008, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i'm pretty sure that's a regular shortcut for browsers ; i use it regularly to open a link in a new tab (instead of right click > new tab)

Ctrl-click is standard for multi-select in a text box element.

You ctrl-click on a link will open a new window/tab. (Although I prefer middle-click to do that.)

BOb

pilotbob · 05-08-2008, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Are there forums that you never visit while you're here? Want to exclude them from your "Find New Posts" and from the "Latest Forum Activity" on our homepage? Well boys and girls, now we have the technology!

Most cool. Maybe this will let me spend less time wondering what all those French and Russian people are saying.

BOb

pilotbob · 05-08-2008, 05:38 PM

Ok, so this doesn't work if you just click on the nodes... you have to drill down and exlclude each forum individual... in otherwords I can't exclude all foreign language formus by selecting "Non-English Discussions"? Would be nice if I could... this way, if you add one it is auto-matically excluded.

BOb

05-08-2008, 05:58 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	MobileRead improvements: Exclude forums, et al. Are there forums that you never visit while you're here? Want to exclude them from your "Find New Posts" and from the "Latest Forum Activity" on our homepage? Well boys and girls, now we have the technology! In your User CP, under "Edit Options", go to "Forum Exclusion" (or simply follow this link). From there, hold the ctrl key and select all the forums you want to exclude, hit Save Changes and you are ready to go. Just to clarify, you can still view threads and posts from the exluded forums by navigating to them via our forum homepage. Because this feature makes "Find new posts w/o E-Book Uploads" redundant, we will remove the latter in a few days. Book Genres As you may have noticed, we recently introduced genres to our e-book section. It'll still require some time to add genres to older uploads (we're going to write a tool to ease the process), but all new uploads carry a genre. And what would genres be worth if you couldn't sort by them? Well, now you can, when you browse our e-books. Enjoy. Search BBCode Wouldn't it be cool sometimes if you could link to search results by specifying the keywords in a post? Like, imagine someone asking for help and the best way to help this person is to direct him to a search query. You can do this now with the Search button which is added to the post editor. We've invested some serious time into our software, but it's not until you put it in front of your audience that you'll really know whether you got it right. So please, let us know if something isn't working correctly for you. You can also leave us your suggestions on how to improve MobileRead, but please go easy, we're going to read every one of these and we want to make sure the bugs get worked out before we can start rolling out new stuff. Thanks everybody!

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05-08-2008, 07:47 AM	#3
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	thanks, Alexander, for all your hard work !! i really appreciate all the improvements you're making to this site. it was pretty great before, but now it's brilliant !! have some karma for that, with chocolate on top. (marc : that is your "serious face" ? really ?)

05-08-2008, 10:04 AM	#5
aru Likes to read on e-ink Posts: 68 Karma: 50 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New Jersey Device: Kindle DX	This is a great improvement! I changed some settings, but I can not flag multiple forums for exclusion indiviual marking works fine, and shift clicking works fine. However, when I control-click it opens a new browser window and does not mark the next forum. Could be something with my computer, but if anybody has an idea, I'm all ears. Thank you for a great forum!

05-08-2008, 01:44 PM	#8
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Thanks everyone, also for the Karma. Much appreciated aru, do you have any extensions (Firefox) installed by any chance? Maybe the default keys are reprogrammed to do what you described. Normally, just holding down the Ctrl key while clicking your mouse to pick multiple items should work fine.

05-08-2008, 05:38 PM	#15
pilotbob Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,832 Karma: 11844413 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa, FL USA Device: Kindle Touch	Ok, so this doesn't work if you just click on the nodes... you have to drill down and exlclude each forum individual... in otherwords I can't exclude all foreign language formus by selecting "Non-English Discussions"? Would be nice if I could... this way, if you add one it is auto-matically excluded. BOb

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