MB Forum Functions You Never Knew Existed
 

• View first new post in thread - You ever noticed those little http://www.musicbanter.com/images/buttons/firstnew.gif icons to the immediate left of every thread containing unread posts? If you click it, it will take you to your first unread post in the thread. This will save you from having to trawl through posts to find where you left off.
• View first new post on current page - There is a link at the top left corner of each page in a thread: View First Unread. This will bring you to the first unread post on that specific page. This is especially useful if you have your settings set up so that a large number of posts are displayed per thread.
• WYSIWYG editor - At the top right of all reply boxes, there's a white http://www.musicbanter.com/images/editor/switchmode.gif icon. This switch toggles editing modes. WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get, and having WYSIWYG mode on allows you to see the post exactly as it will be displayed in the thread, while you're creating it. The forum default is not WYSIWYG mode, but you can make this mode your default mode for posts by specifying it in your settings, which can be found through your User CP link.
• Flexible multi-quoting - To multi-quote (quote more than one post in one reply), you can use the multi-quote button: http://www.musicbanter.com/images/bu...iquote_off.gif located to the immediate right of the standard quote button in the bottom right of every post. You simply click the button for each post you want to quote. The buttons will become red. The important part about this is that if you want the quotes to appear in a specific order, you must click the multi-quote buttons in the order you wish them to appear in your reply. After you have done this, simply click the "Quote" http://www.musicbanter.com/images/buttons/quote.gif button on any of the selected posts, and your reply will contain the quotes in the order you chose. This is an extremely convenient way to quote other posts without having to do it manually.
• Who posted? - While viewing a forum, if you click on the number of replies to a thread, a box will pop up listing everyone who posted in the thread and how many posts they made. If you then click on the number of posts a specific user made in the thread, you will be taken to a list of all that member's posts in the thread.
• Searching for threads, the right way - If you find yourself needing to search for a thread, using the search box without doing an advanced search is highly likely to be frustrating. For everyone. When searching for threads, use the Advanced Search link you see when you click "Search" at the top of the forums, then in "Search by keyword", type your keyword(s) in the box, then in the drop-down select SEARCH TITLES ONLY. This will only return results containing the keyword(s) in thread titles only, and make your search a lot faster, more precise, and a lot less frustrating. For everyone.
• Searching for threads, the Google way - You can also search for MB threads via Google. Just type your keywords into the search bar and use the word Musicbanter in the query. This is often a fast way for general searches if you don't fancy messing around in the forum search feature, but your results may vary.

Thanks Freebase. Pretty much everything in there I didn't know of, so thanks.

I had figured everything else out on my own but I did not know about the WYSIWYG thing. Cool, thanks!

me to, i actually use the V box function on a regular basis



here's a few some people may not know of or don't care about:

permalink capabillity on every post
blogs (look at top of site)
Quick links
thread tools
rating threads
display modes
deleting shoutbox messages
the "got to top buttons" http://www.musicbanter.com/images/bu...lapse_tcat.gif
archive (at bottom of home page)
contact us (next to archive)
groups (though only a few people know how to use these)
picture albums
subscriptions
ignore list
forum jump

Pictures now available for forum searching and Youtube embedding.

you expect people who would look at a busy music forum and think 'geez, i need to start an OFFICIAL Ramones (or Beatles) thread here, i must be the first person to ever visit with enough knowledge about these bands to make one' is actually going to look at instructions on how to search?

the rest is awesome though.

Definitely not. But now we have a single link/photo to reply to such threads instead of searching for all of it ourselves like a bunch of slaves.

"Give a man a match, he'll be warm for an hour. Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

i must say, i quite like your methodology :beer:

Your pictures with simple explanations are very nice, Freebase. The little circle dots on the i's are friendly and cute.

Snort! I've never heard that version of the old "give a man a fish" saying before. That must be some big match, though, to last for an hour! I'd say, "Give a man a match, he'll be warm for a minute." Unless he's an arsonist, in which case he could get quite a blaze going!

What does the "+" behind some names of online persons mean?

People you're friends with.

It means you have them as a friend on your profile. At least I'm pretty sure it does, because for me, all the names that have the + sign are users that I've "friended"

Oh that seems to be the case indeed.
Thanks. I was looking for a link myself but couldn't find it.
Sorry for using this topic, I didn't think it was worth a new topic and I couldn't find a better place to post this in.
Feel free to delete this if it annoys you :)

It always says OR between search words, any way to make it AND instead?

To restrict your Google search to show results only from Music Banter add

to your Google search.

Is it possible to block someone on here?

You can add them to your ignore list, if you like. This means that you will know that they have posted, but what they have written will be hidden.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that it will also prevent them sending PM's to you.

To put a user on ignore, click on "User CP", and then under "Settings and Options" click on "edit ignore list".
Type in the username into the box, and they will immediately leave your life forever, unable to communicate with you in any way.

What ever happened to the spoiler tags? Last time I checked they actually worked...

edit: Disregard, turns out they are just IMMENSELY complicated.

No too hard. Just type in the option when it comes up.

I finally found the hidden porn forum.

Is there a way to view threads that have been updated since you last posted to them? For example through your user CP you can get a list of threads you have posted to. Is there any way to filter them to only those that have changed since you posted? Kind of like thread subscription without the subscription? What is the significance of the various envelope icons in that list?

ie.
http://www.musicbanter.com/images/st...thread_hot.gif
http://www.musicbanter.com/images/st...ad_hot_new.gif
http://www.musicbanter.com/images/statusicon/thread.gif

I believe the only way to see changes to threads you've posted in is by subscribing. You can set your profile to subscribe automatically when you make a post in a thread.

The envelope icons tell you which topics are popular and have or have not been read by you. Red envelopes indicate the topic is popular (it has 15 replies or reached 250 views), and the red one that looks open has posts that you haven't read yet. Blue envelopes are new (or not as popular) threads that you have read. The beige one that looks open is a new topic that you haven't read yet.

Ok thanks. I just use a function in Tapatalk where you can see a list of threads you have participated in regardless of whether you are subscribed. I wondered if there was an equivalent forum function built in because it comes in handy.

I use Tapatalk on my iPad, so I know what you're talking about. I don't think the actual website has that function.

Actually I suppose you can sort of get the same thing by doing an advanced search on your own user name, listing results by thread. Any updates show up in bold.

That could work, I guess. Never thought of it before.

Just tried it and made a shortcut to the results. Seems to work :)

Well, half worked. It seems the searchid expires so my book marked search doesn't work any more.

Just found this thread, wonder if anyone knows how to do this/if it can be done?

I constantly have to zip back and forth through my journal for various reasons, but though there are certain pages I can go to via the top bar or whatever (it might show first, then 7 then 24 then 41 etc) I can't jump to a specific page that's not shown. If, for instance, I know I want page 73, I have to get to something close (say 80) then jump backwards, often a page at a time.

I keep a record (spreadsheet) of what I post and where, ie what page, date, what the post is etc (yeah, I'm THAT geeky! It helps though, when you want to find out when last you posted a particular review, section, special or if you featured a certain song/album/artiste before) so I know WHERE to go, at all times. Getting there, despite what they say, is NOT half the fun!

If anyone knows how to jump to a specific page in one or less moves I'd love to hear from ya! With my journal currently exceeding 120 pages, it's getting more than a little tiresome....

Thanks
TH

change the number at the end of the url before .html to the desired page number?

The only way is editing the url.

For example, the url of this thread is http://www.musicbanter.com/announcem...existed-3.html

Where the very last number is the page of the thread, in this case three.

If you edit that to http://www.musicbanter.com/announcem...existed-2.html

Then the link leads you to page two.

OK, thanks anyway. Pity the function doesn't exist, but what the hell, it's not like it's a huge hassle.

TH

Actually there is a way to do it. Just click on the downward-pointing triangle to the right of the row of page numbers. That will bring up a tiny little drop down item with a text field where you can simply type in a page number and then click "go".

I actually never knew that. How sad, since I've been using VBulletin Forums for almost 10 years :o:

Absolutely excellent! As Burns once said to Homer, Sir, I am in your debt!
:thumb:
:clap:

That "absolutely excellent" makes me think that your real name is Charles Montgomery Burns.

You mean, the picture and quote on the avatar didn't give it away? ;)

Ok I have to ask. What's with the Knowledge Encyclopedia and can members contribute to it?

I have no idea. There seems to be an issue with random links appearing in posts that lead to it and also other places on MB. Mods are not editing these links into the posts - we have no idea where they're coming from. Possibly the admins.