'Ignore Topics' Button Gone?

[DKS]

OK, two things. Thing one: that's about the least intuitive procedure as I've seen in recent times. Thing two: it only blocks the topic from the "Unread Posts" view; the topic still appears everywhere else. That's about as useless (for me) as I could imagine, since I normally don't use the "Unread Posts" view because that's more difficult to navigate and make sense of than the plain old top-down view. Oh well, hope it helps other folks.

[peteski]

OK, two things. Thing one: that's about the least intuitive procedure as I've seen in recent times. Thing two: it only blocks the topic from the "Unread Posts" view; the topic still appears everywhere else. That's about as useless (for me) as I could imagine, since I normally don't use the "Unread Posts" view because that's more difficult to navigate and make sense of than the plain old top-down view. Oh well, hope it helps other folks.

You're right. I thought it would be usable when viewing the parts of the forum I visit. I also read the forum by browsing the individual sections (not just the unread posts since last visit).  Oh well. . .

[DKS]

Well, at least the virus thread is locked. Hope it stays that way and falls off the list quickly.

[C855B]

Good point. Its usefulness fades with increasing intervals between "show unread posts" requests. It quickens things mostly for the screen-addicted who are on multiple times a day... Pete... (...oh... myself included). But, really, it's a chicken-or-egg situation. The more you ignore spot threads not in your wheelhouse, the fewer threads that show up in the big "unread" list if you're away for a bit.

FWIW.

[ednadolski]

Thing two: it only blocks the topic from the "Unread Posts" view; the topic still appears everywhere else. That's about as useless (for me) as I could imagine, since I normally don't use the "Unread Posts" view because that's more difficult to navigate and make sense of than the plain old top-down view. Oh well, hope it helps other folks.

I find it pretty useful... almost indispensable to me, really, since 'Unread Posts' is the primary way I check for new activity (parsing each forum individually is too time-consuming for me).  Now that it's fixed, I appreciate more than ever that those topics I don't want to read (e.g., coronavirus threads) do not keep re-appearing every time I refresh the Unread Posts view.

It doesn't matter to me that ignored threads still appear in the regular forum views; in fact I see that as a good thing, since sometimes I will ignore a topic because it is too busy, yet I might still want to look in on it at some future occasion.

Ed

[ednadolski]

Well, at least the virus thread is locked. Hope it stays that way and falls off the list quickly.

QED, it would have been a waste of time to follow that.