Opt-Out Forums from Get New/Get Daily

Description
This Hack allows the Users to select certain Forums they do not want to appear on Get New/Get Daily.
It includes a new Permission, so you can specify which Usergroups can use this feature, which Forums
can't be excluded, etc.

Details
1 Product XML with 3 Plugins, 4 Phrases and 1 SQL Query
1 Bitfield XML
1 Template Edit

History
1.0.0 Initial Version
1.0.1 Added Option "None" for users who don't know about their CTRL Key
1.0.2 Updated for RC1
Note: This Hack does only work for vBulletin 3.5.0 RC1 and up!
1.0.3 Fixed a small Typo and a possible Problem with Forums that contain HTML in Title

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall when you don't use it any longer!

This Hack is unsupported! All support requests except proven bugs will be ignored

[tokenyank]

I know there's no support offered for this mod but I figured, what the hell... I'd ask anyway!

What I've done is made 2 forums for RSS feeds to pull in new competitions and the like, but it hammers New Posts with, well... New posts. I found this hack, installed it, set up the permissions so that only the two new forums for RSS feeds are eligible for optout.

HOWEVER, due to the amount of posts that are generated via the RSS... I thought, instead of having the user optout, is there a simple query I can run to make it so they have to optin?

More to the point, I want to be able to allow the majority of my users to ignore the massive influx of RSS feed posts while allowing the small minority who would benefit from the information to optin.

Thanks and I hope someone out there is still listening!

[offline]

Is there a version of this that will work with 3.6?

[ProAzn]

Damn I added this mod awhile ago and now need to update to a new user group. Anyone know where to find the mod in admin cp?? I searched everywhere and can't find it. Yea, me dumb but it's frustating.. LOL.

[JenniferK]

I installed this for 3.7.3 and thought it wasn't working. I double and triple checked the installation and that I had given usergroup permission. Still didn't show up in the User CP. Then I realized that the default is for each forum to say NO to the permission Can exclude Forums from "Get New Posts". Until you have at least one forum say yes to this, nothing will show in the UCP.
This is a great hack, I just wish the default was yes because it is a major PITA for anyone with alot of forums to have to go in and change them all.

Anyway, hope that helps someone else who it is not working for.

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by Andreas

No update necessary, this works just fine with 3.7

It works with 3.7, but not perfectly.

We get two copies in our UserCP:

(1) UserCP->Options->Login and Privacy

and

(2) UserCP->Options->Miscellaneous Options

Anyone know where to hack the plugin to make this appear only once in the UserCP?

[dklassen]

When I enable can exclude forums in forum searching permission and save it, I go back and it's not saved. Tried it a few times.

[sinucello]

Hi,

great mod. I have general question regarding the user permission system. I have a lot of subforums and usergroups and would like to set the "is excludable" option to yes in all forums and for all usergroups. Is there any way to do this quickly without touching the other permissions?

thank you - all the best,
Sacha

[firstrebel]

Not working in 3.8.0

Bob

[dklassen]

Any chance we can get an update from someone willing? I'd be willing to kick in some $$ to make it happen. This is the most important mod I have on my site bar none and it will hold me back from moving to 3.8

D.

[kambiz]

Works fine on 3.8.0.