What controls these two icons?

[Snowhog]

The RSS Feed and Subscribed icons that are showing on the attached images of our main Forum page. These images are while I'm logged in. If I log out and go to the same page, then only the RSS Feed icon shows.

I have no subscribed items in Settings (I did at one time, a long time ago).

Where the heck are the settings that control this?

[Seven Skins]

You are not subscribed to these forums .. you can.
If you are subscribed then it will show black circle with white bar in the middle so that you can unsubscribe.




https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=155538&stc=1&d=1481485844

[Snowhog]

But what setting, or template, or other control determines when these icons are present or not and on which forums?

[Seven Skins]

Thread Display Options (showthread) > Check Thread Subscription
User Registration Options > Automatic Thread Subscription Mode

Check above 2 settings and threadbit template there maybe more but I found these.

[Snowhog]

Thank you. That's the information I was hoping for. I'll check it out.

[Snowhog]

Okay. So in Thread Display Options (showthread) in AdminCP, there is:
Check Thread Subscription

If enabled, this option will notify the user that they are subscribed to a thread by displaying a small icon when viewing forumdisplay and search results. It will also change the "Subscribe to this thread" text on showthread to "Unsubscribe from this thread".

"this option will notify the user that they are subscribed to a thread". But in my case, as stated above, I am not subscribed to any threads anywhere within our forum. I used to, but I haven't had any for a long time, so why are the icons present. The attachment shows My Subscriptions under my Settings.

[Seven Skins]

Green icon is shown for you to subscribe.
Black icon is shown for you to unsubscribe.

As you are not subscribe to any forums/thread you are shown green icon.

[Snowhog]

I understand that. What I don't understand is "WHY" these icons are showing on the Forum Display page, and why "ONLY ON" those specific forums. I can't find anywhere where I can control/change that.

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Okay, I see now that every 'unlocked' forum/sub-form displays these icons 'by default'. So it must be hardcoded in one of the primary templates.

[the one]

If you go to options in your admin cp then click on External Data Provider.

If you then look for Enable RSS Syndication if you click on no then that will turn off the rss feed and icons.I am not sure thats what you are looking for.

[Kane@airrifle]

I understand that. What I don't understand is "WHY" these icons are showing on the Forum Display page, and why "ONLY ON" those specific forums. I can't find anywhere where I can control/change that.

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Okay, I see now that every 'unlocked' forum/sub-form displays these icons 'by default'. So it must be hardcoded in one of the primary templates.

If you want to hide the green subscribe icons; in CSS Templates of your style look for forumbits.css; comment out the code that looks similar to this.

.forumactionlinks .subslink {
background-image:url({vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/subscribed_40b.png);
}
.forumactionlinks .unsubslink {
background-image:url({vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/unsubscribed_40b.png);
}

Like so:
//.forumactionlinks .subslink {
background-image:url({vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/subscribed_40b.png);
}
//.forumactionlinks .unsubslink {
background-image:url({vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/unsubscribed_40b.png);
}


Note: If you do this then your members will have to use the sub/unsub actions from the forum tools menu; some might find that inconvenient or not even know where to find it.