wo great, this i have loking for

Is it possible to search a forum what is opted out?

The reason I ask is my forum has specific news releases. The releases cover various areas and my memberships are not interested in the areas they are no associated with so they asked to turn off new posts for those areas.

However, some of them want to catch up with new posts when the time is right, so I was wondering if there was a way to create a link or button which would allow them to get the new posts for that forum discretely when the time is right.

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I have run into an interesting problem. I had been getting reports from one of my members that this hack was not working correctly for him. I have been running it for months with only this one guy stating he was having a problem. I assumed it was just user error. After some troubleshooting with the guy I finally logged in under his account and went to check the options page. I then saw why he was having problems. For some reason, a handfull of some of the sub-forums in one forum area are not listed in the selection list. They appear in mine just fine but his UserCP Options are missing some of them. What in the world could cause this and how might I correct the issue?

Check the Forum Permissions section for every forum. You can define which usergroups have the ability to ignore which forums.

Thanks! That certainly was it... it was user error after all! HAHAH

Will this work on vB 3.6 beta 3

Yes, I have it working on 3.6.0b3 :)

Thanks for the reply....:cool:

Great mod - thank you author :D

I've heard that over 82% of people will make up statistics to support their point of view. :D

-- hugh

Anyone test with VB 3.6 Gold?

This modification is working on My site running vb 3.6 Gold

i appreciate this hack.. and i installed it... i have a question though that i thought about when i first saw this hack...

is there a hack available where members could select to have postings sent to their emails?? sorta like yahoo groups do...

i think this would be pretty cool for those members who cant get online at work, but still have email access.. or passive members who just want to be kept abreast of whats going on on the site..

Thanks A Lot.
I'm Searching Plug-In like This for a long time

working great in vb3.6.0, thanks again kirby

Any idea if you can flip this on it's head and make it "include" rather than exlcude?

Nice1..cheers for this..

But a good add-on would be to "allow certain forums" from NOT being able to be opted out..

but otherwise a gr8 one to have.. many thanks..

It has that feature already. Check Forum Permissions.

Hey, great Hack, but my Problem:
The SQL-Query dosent work??
The hack work greatfull, but if i select the Forum i cant save it. :(
Please help :)
Thank you!

I wanted to by default exclude a forum from the the new posts search, so I went to Post #120 and implemented that mini-plug-in (and saved it as a product so I can save it/enable it/disable it over forum upgrades).

But this didn't fix my existing users. I then used this SQL query:

to have forum #17 opted-out by default for all existing users, unless they had taken the time to already choose their own excluded forums, then the query leaves their profile alone.

Great! Installed!!! Users like it :-)

Any chance to guide me how to implement this also for latest (10) threads on forumhome page? I wish if they set up excluded forums they do not wish to see them there either...

Thank you!

This looks like a great hack.

Can it be used with v 3.6?

Thanks!

Works fine with 3.6.1 on my board.

Thanks! I'll give it a shot.

Thank goodness!

This hack should be standard with vB. It's essential on large boards.

I use another HACK on my forum which our community highly relies on "Unread Posts" this mode simply put places the number of unread threads and posts on the forum home when a user visits the forum.

The opt out forum mod is great, however the Unread posts hack does not register that these forums are opted out, is there a way to get the two to work together?

I just added the custom code to opt out forums by default (great!)
Is it possible to apply this based on usergroups?

For example, usergroup id 7 exclude forum id 17 by default

Ok, I installed this, made the appropriate changes in my AdminCP to allow groups to use this feature, but for the life of me, I cannot see where the user notates which forums to ignore. What am I missing?

So sites are running this in 3.6.x without issues? Was trying to find some explict support for v3.6 but don't see it mentioned, or references to a v3.6 equivalent? Closest I found was this one https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132279 but that excludes the forums from views, not just new posts

thx

I'm using this under 3.6 with no problems.

WAS working with 3.6 no problem...
just noticed that now seems to be a bug "all of a suddent" in IE (7) where I can't pick multiple forums with ctrl key.

-choose one forum works
-choose a bunch of forums with shift+control works.
-but chosing selected ones with just ctrl doesn't. no response to click when choosing multiple forums. :(

any ideas? only in IE. works in FF.
I even reinstalled it just to see if that would do it. :/

(I know this isn't supported...but it does say for bugs. < fingers crossed > :))

It should be in their User CP under options at the bottom.

I have a question on this - I know it's not supported but hopefully someone can tell me if this is happening to them or if they fixed it, etc.

I set this up hoping people could exclude from New Posts, because that's what it says. However, when I tested it it excludes selected forums not only from New Posts but from ANY SEARCH. This is not what I want. For example, people might want to exclude the Buying/Selling forum for New Posts because it clutters up their search, but if they do a regular search for a specific item, they might want to see search results from the Buying/selling forum. As it is, they can't seem to do a global search that includes the forums they've checked off.

If I go into Buying/selling and run a 'search this forum' it works just fine.

Is there a way around this? Was it always like this or is this a 3.6.x thing?

Hoping for some help. Thanks.

Just wanted to say thank you to the author for such a great mod!

I tried to run the SQL query to pre-exclude forums for new members and got this error:

Now....did I do this right? Is the "137" supposed to be the forum ID I want excluded?

So is this right:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Why isnt this a standard vb feature yet?

With the template hook ($template_hook[usercp_options_other]) is it possible to make this a plugin hack?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

Perfect. I have been looking for a hack like this for months!!!!!!

Tell me about it!

Please update this for 3.7!
This is THE solution for boards with multilingual forums.