Finding who's doing what .

[JR]

Hi all , apart from trawling through the latest posts is there a way to see what your friends are doing. I miss quite a few builds .
John .

[AlanG]

If you add/follow members on here then their posts and work will come up in your news feed on the 'what's new' tab

[JR]

Thanks Al .
I do that, but I suddenly find I have missed a build. Perhaps a daily check might be the best option.
John

[AlanG]

Or you could 'watch' a build and get it to email/notify you when a post is made?

[JR]

Al I used to do that, but it's the new posts that I tend to miss.
Going to have to be more diligent in my approach to the forum !
John

[Steve Jones]

I know what you mean mate. What I would like is an option where you type in a members name and his/her builds/blogs all pop up in the find threads section. I think that would be very handy.

[Jim R]

Hi John
I know how you feel. There is so much going on on the forum that I like to look at. Because the forum is so active threads tend to be pushed quickly off the first page and I miss them. Sometimes people post an update and get very few comments which is understandably upsetting. I really do not feel that it is a lack of interest or appreciation it is simply that things are easily missed.
Jim

[Lee Drennen]

John
I always go to “recent” posts or “New” post try recent post first then work your way down to New Post I’ve been having some luck finding everything like that

[Mini Me]

John, same here. I think the good Mr. Jones has nailed it. A search by builders name would do the trick.
Cheers, Rick H.

[Guest]

What I would like is an option where you type in a members name and his/her builds/blogs all pop up in the find threads section.

The problem is that the forum can’t know what’s a build thread and what isn’t, unless the poster adds some or another identifier for that.

This is (part of) what tags are intended to solve: if everyone were to add the tag “build” (for example) to the first post a build thread, finding them would be trivial. Though I must say the forum’s advanced search function does leave something to be desired, in that you can’t do searches on multiple different things very well: you can search for a certain member’s name, for example, and you can search for certain tags, but you can’t search for all posts with a certain tag by a certain member.

[JR]

Evening all, and thank you for taking the time to post.
I agree with the replies, Steve has got something there. Feel wrong when someone kindly follows me and I find they have a build either finished of about to be. Jim was this in case, i've nearly missed some of his builds, along with Si 's.
Lee I do that now, but as Jim has said posts get pushed down, and you can end up trawling up to 3 pages to find someone. To do as Steve has said would be great, type in a name and see their latest build and all the previous ones .
Perhaps one of the mods could look into this, I have no idea how complex it would be. Jakko seems the likely person to explain how complex this would be .
John .

[scottie3158]

would it be possible to add a "Follow" button next to the "like" and "Reply" buttons

[Mini Me]

That would certainly simplify things if that were possible Scottie.
Rick H.

[PaulTRose]

honestly dont see a problem

theres so many ways of seeing whats new or what someone is doing

personally i always hit the 'mark all forums read' just before i leave the forum.....then when i return i hit 'new posts' to see everything thats new......even if theres 2 or 3 pages it dosnt take long to go through it

if you 'watch' someone its possible to see every new posts they make by clicking on 'latest activity' on their profile

[JR]

Paul .
Thanks for joining in,I've just looked at "Mark Forums Read " it says mark all ! So how can I do one as I go .?
John .,