Is there a way to find threads you've posted to?
by William Freeman · in Site Feedback · 01/21/2009 (9:12 pm) · 10 replies
There used to be a way to follow your posted threads in your account stuff.. but thats gone.
I can't find any of my posts recently. The site has become unusable.
How do you guys follow your threads other than marking them for reply?
I can't find any of my posts recently. The site has become unusable.
How do you guys follow your threads other than marking them for reply?
#2
01/21/2009 (9:36 pm)
i think everyone wants that as there are some people that have all good resources so instead of making a link to all there products we can just make a link to there profile. 
#3
01/21/2009 (9:52 pm)
Heh, that is one thing i had done, alot of the stuff i always thought i would get back to, was location saved by a commit or just placing a SCORE (if it was a resource).
#4
The new site is a maze with no way out. I felt pretty lucky to find this thread again.
Adding the "Notify me of replies" is not a good answer, since my email is more than full enough of unwanted comments from facebook, zbrush, etc. I thought I knew how to turn that function off, but apparently I didn't.
I think I'll wait a few months to see how the new site pans out and whether its still the useful resource it used to be, before I finally upgrade to TGEA or Torque3d. I'm in between game projects at the moment anyway, so at least the timing is good for me :) In the meantime, I'll try out Unity or something else.
Good luck guys, I hope they get all the functionality back in the site. It was hard to find stuff in the old layout, but at least you could find it.
01/22/2009 (6:32 am)
With the volume of posts that GG gets in a day or two, I find it hard to believe anyone can follow the threads they post to without this function. Even on the old site, I couldn't find things I'd posted answers to or comments on without it.The new site is a maze with no way out. I felt pretty lucky to find this thread again.
Adding the "Notify me of replies" is not a good answer, since my email is more than full enough of unwanted comments from facebook, zbrush, etc. I thought I knew how to turn that function off, but apparently I didn't.
I think I'll wait a few months to see how the new site pans out and whether its still the useful resource it used to be, before I finally upgrade to TGEA or Torque3d. I'm in between game projects at the moment anyway, so at least the timing is good for me :) In the meantime, I'll try out Unity or something else.
Good luck guys, I hope they get all the functionality back in the site. It was hard to find stuff in the old layout, but at least you could find it.
#5
01/22/2009 (8:32 am)
it's not the most convenient, but you can go to advanced search, enter your name in the "author" field, check "all documents" and uncheck "all forums", and it'll return all the threads you've created.
#6
01/22/2009 (3:27 pm)
Orion is correct but after you do as he says in his reply you have to strip down Naked and bang your head on your keyboard 3 times and hope the the GG Search gods favor you other wise you will get threads in the search that do not even mention your name what so ever and were posted 8 years ago.
#8
actually I have no problem finding threads I've created. It's finding the ones I've actually replied to that is the major pain. In the old site you could see your history of reply's in your profile. Now? There is no way that I can see that will allow you to follow the threads you have replied to without getting spammed in your email.
Add to that the fact that the site gets so many threads a day and its pretty easy to try to start following a thread and lose it the next day if you don't know the correct search to find it.
01/25/2009 (1:59 pm)
Orion,actually I have no problem finding threads I've created. It's finding the ones I've actually replied to that is the major pain. In the old site you could see your history of reply's in your profile. Now? There is no way that I can see that will allow you to follow the threads you have replied to without getting spammed in your email.
Add to that the fact that the site gets so many threads a day and its pretty easy to try to start following a thread and lose it the next day if you don't know the correct search to find it.
#9
otoh,
search was deeply broken on the old site and seems much improved on the new site, and when you've made as many replies as i have (2,500 - holy crap!) just getting a list of all of them isn't really much help. it's way more useful for me to have a reliable tool for finding threads which contain keywords i remember than to have a list of every thread i've participated in. but ideally of course, we would have both.
with the old site i actually used my own gmail inbox as a primary way of searching GG, because pretty much everything i was interested in i'd flagged as watched. i'm very happy not to be doing that anymore. (well, i still flag everything i'm interested in, but i don't have to rely on my own inbox for search)
01/25/2009 (8:28 pm)
true that.otoh,
search was deeply broken on the old site and seems much improved on the new site, and when you've made as many replies as i have (2,500 - holy crap!) just getting a list of all of them isn't really much help. it's way more useful for me to have a reliable tool for finding threads which contain keywords i remember than to have a list of every thread i've participated in. but ideally of course, we would have both.
with the old site i actually used my own gmail inbox as a primary way of searching GG, because pretty much everything i was interested in i'd flagged as watched. i'm very happy not to be doing that anymore. (well, i still flag everything i'm interested in, but i don't have to rely on my own inbox for search)
#10
I really miss the feature to find "My Posts", "My Blogs", and "My Resources" under My-account. I too am having trouble finding my own posts, and hope to see this feature resurrected soon.
Right now I'm hitting a compile/linking error that I run into once a year. I know the answers here somewhere because I wrote a forum-post to myself in 2006 and have been going back to it ever since..
Orion thanks for the advanced search tip. Good workaround.
[edit]When you search for a common name like mine, you get posts from everyone with my first name, in no particular order..[/edit]
02/01/2009 (3:40 pm)
MY $0.02: I really miss the feature to find "My Posts", "My Blogs", and "My Resources" under My-account. I too am having trouble finding my own posts, and hope to see this feature resurrected soon.
Right now I'm hitting a compile/linking error that I run into once a year. I know the answers here somewhere because I wrote a forum-post to myself in 2006 and have been going back to it ever since..
Orion thanks for the advanced search tip. Good workaround.
[edit]When you search for a common name like mine, you get posts from everyone with my first name, in no particular order..[/edit]
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