2.1 Ignore Function

FrizzleFried · February 21, 2022, 08:24:06 AM

Did the way the IGNORE function works change from 2.0 to 2.1? I am getting an influx of complaints from my users who use this function. They are telling me they could ignore entire sub-forums before, but they can not do that now. Was that functionality a modification I added to 2.0.x or was the way it worked changed from 2.0.x to 2.1.x?

FWIW, my #1 complaint about the SMF forums software has been the not-so-good ignore functionality. I have a lot of real whiney "younger" folks on my forum and they seem to be incapable of manually ignoring people they don't agree with.

Arantor · February 21, 2022, 08:43:44 AM

No, the functionality has not changed, if enabled in the ACP it's been possible to ignore boards entirely.

Still there too, I use it to exclude all the non-English content on this site for example.

What did change is that it's also possible to ignore individual threads too.

FrizzleFried · February 21, 2022, 09:39:50 AM

The "ACP"? Can you please expand. I'm guessing I have it set as "not enabled".

Thank you.

Arantor · February 21, 2022, 09:40:51 AM

ACP = Admin Control Panel.

I want to say it's in the boards > settings page to allow users to ignore boards, then it's just an area in the Profile after that.

FrizzleFried · February 21, 2022, 09:48:25 AM

OK. That setting is, indeed, set... but the users are complaining they can't ignore boards now.

I've never used the ignore function ever... I guess it's time to go poke around.

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen · February 21, 2022, 09:52:44 AM

I do use it here, like Arantor, to avoid certain non-english boards. Haven't had issues with it.
Once it's enabled, it's pretty straight forward. Profile -> Forum Profile -> Ignore Boards

@rjen · February 21, 2022, 10:26:41 AM

I was curious, because I am also ignoring the language boards here (those languages I do not speak).

Just went to my profile and the ignore boards flags were showing. Then I changed 1 board and saved .... and now all ignored board settings are gone from the profile(!)

Same happens on my 2.1 test forum... I feel this may be a bug...

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen · February 21, 2022, 10:29:34 AM

Interesting, that does indeed sound like a bug.

shawnb61 · February 21, 2022, 10:38:31 AM

Logged:
https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/issues/7343

FrizzleFried · February 21, 2022, 11:46:41 AM

Update...

I asked my users who are experiencing this issue to describe the behavior...

This is what one just posted...

QuoteI'm not sure how much more specific I can be, really.

I had two sub-forums ignored on the old version. They did not show up on my main forum page where it had all the sections and section descriptions. They show up now.

I went to the review board section of my profile, I can check boxes and hit save, but as soon as the page reloaded there were no boxes checked.

I have tried on both the mobile and desktop sites.

m4z · February 21, 2022, 01:38:46 PM

Didn't we have a similar issue to this before? A couple of months back, when this forum was updated to some 2.1 RC git version, we (or at least I) had to re-enable notifications.

https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/issues/6956 → Maybe the underlying cause is similar?

Kindred · February 21, 2022, 03:08:23 PM

Also could be related to a host side cache

shawnb61 · February 21, 2022, 03:33:57 PM

Bug confirmed. It's not properly saving updates.

@rjen · February 23, 2022, 11:19:26 AM

Is there any chance to get some sort of 'advanced correction' for this issue applied to this Simplemachines forum?

https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/issues/7343

Due to my 'test' I can now no longer ignore any boards here anymore...

$:-\$

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen · February 23, 2022, 11:25:37 AM

That would be up to @SleePy

@rjen · February 23, 2022, 12:15:22 PM

I just created my own package to patch this on 2.1.1. attaching it here. No warranty...

@rjen · March 03, 2022, 12:41:46 PM

The ignore boards function here is still broken...

Diego Andrés · March 03, 2022, 12:46:03 PM

I suppose there's no point in adding "hotfixes" that are not security related if they'll be fixed in a future patch

@rjen · March 03, 2022, 01:15:56 PM

Quote from: Diego Andrés on March 03, 2022, 12:46:03 PMI suppose there's no point in adding "hotfixes" that are not security related if they'll be fixed in a future patch

I am pretty sure that there was at least one of those (not security related) hotfixes applied here when it was still on 2.0.18.
Mind you it's not that urgent, I am just reminded of it every time I look at the unread topics these days and half of them are in languages that I cannot read...

Diego Andrés · March 03, 2022, 01:37:38 PM

Quote from: @rjen on March 03, 2022, 01:15:56 PMI am just reminded of it every time I look at the unread topics these days and half of them are in languages that I cannot read

Oh yes I can agree on that.

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2.1 Ignore Function