In case you were wondering where your favorites are, they are no longer displayed at the top when you visit a forum section. They have been moved to a new feature of PFF: "My PFF".
If you visit a forum section, you will notice a small bar at the left of your screen:
Clicking this will open the "My PFF Sidebar". The "My PFF Sidebar" contains all your favorites, the last 40 threads you posted in, and a "Friends List" (new, more on this later):
You can hide the sidebar again either by clicking on the "X" button in the top right, or clicking the small bar again.
To expand a list, simply click on the "plus" sign:
The "My Recent Posts" list contains the last 40 threads you posted in. You can go directly to a thread by clicking on the subject. To view more information about a thread in your list, click the plus sign next to the subject:
To remove a thread from your favorites list, click "Remove". You cannot remove a thread from your recents list.
The "My Friends" list is new to PFF. You can add members to this list so you can easily send them email or PM's. To add a member to your Friends List, click on the "Profile" button of a member inside a post:
In the window that appears, click the "Friends List" link:
This member will now appear in your Friends List (a reload of the page might be necessary for it to show).
To view profile information of a member on your Friends List, click the username. To send an email, click the email address (the email address will not show if this particular member has chosen to hide his email address from other members). To remove this member from your Friends List, or to send this member a PM, click the appropriate option next to "Options":
In short, that's what "My PFF" is all about. I will probably add some more cool stuff to the "My PFF Sidebar" in the future.
EFAQ (Expected Frequently Asked Questions) Q: The sidebar looks like crap on my screen! It messes up my screen! I can't get rid of it! What have you done? A: My PFF relies heavily on a 100% DOM-compatible browser. I've tested it on IE 5.x, IE 6.x, Mozilla and Firefox. I haven't tested it on Opera or any other browser. I also haven't tested it on a Mac. I will probably create a setting in your profile where you can completely disable My PFF if it messes up your screen.
Also, My PFF looks best on resolutions of 1024x768 and higher.
Q: I don't see a small bar on the left. What bar are you talking about? A: My PFF is only available for registered members. And you need to be logged in to see it. Also, for now the sidebar is only visible in a forum section. So not on the forum's main page, and not inside a thread itself.
Q: My favorites list is way too long. I need to scroll for ages to reach my Friends List. Can you fix that? A: First of all, your favorites list now list all favorites, not only the ones from the forum section you are visiting. Second, If your list is too long, try to make it shorter (duh). Do you really need to have the "Gwen Stefani" thread in your favorites?
Q: I only see the last 40 recent posts? I've posted in more threads than that in the last hour! A: I've taken some arbitrary number. 40 seemed reasonable. If you want me to make that number higher, please let me know.
That's it. Any questions or remarks, please put them in this thread.
Follow up: I just noticed a small bug under Win98 causing the sidebar to not show up. I'm looking into it right now (have been testing in XP only so far).
Edit: it's not a bug but a caching problem. If the sidebar doesn't show up, a [CTRL]-Reload/Refresh (or [SHIFT]-Reload/Refresh) might do the trick.
I was runnign xp - and couldn't figure out why my favorites disapeared and why i couldn't add anything to the fav's then found this thread and had to refrehs a few times before the sidebar would show up.. looks great though - love the recent posts section
hmm I can't seem to remove anything from my favorites
[This message has been edited by Kohburn (edited 04-13-2005).]
Nice! The page takes a while to reload here every time I show or hide the sidebar (IE's status bar claims 200 or so items to download!), but really... how many times does one need to show/hide the bar in one sitting anyway?
Haven't yet tried it via dial-up from home though. That might be interesting.
Above & beyond, Cliff. Above & beyond.
[This message has been edited by dguy (edited 04-13-2005).]
I like the new sidebar, but there is one thing I liked about the old style favorites. I liked that you didn't have to click on them to see if there were more replies; the number was right there. Is there any way to make them look different in My PFF if there has been a new post? Maybe this is built-in already and I just haven't seen it yet. The My Recent Posts and My Friends look great!
Thanks,
Vin
Uh Oh, just went back to the page and the sidebar is gone completely.
[This message has been edited by vlatus (edited 04-13-2005).]
Cliff thats friggin awesome!!! Now i can keep track of all the posts i recently made... woo hoo. Although... i may have been able to do that before... but... never... noticed... it?
Anyway... sweet... give ya props!! Always got somthin new and cool!!!
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Q: My favorites list is way too long. I need to scroll for ages to reach my Friends List. Can you fix that? A: First of all, your favorites list now list all favorites, not only the ones from the forum section you are visiting. Second, If your list is too long, try to make it shorter (duh). Do you really need to have the "Gwen Stefani" thread in your favorites?
I guess it COULD be worse Cliff... he could have ALL of the VARIOUS "hey Fiero Lisa" threads in there that had been posted through the years!!
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[This message has been edited by The Fieromaster (edited 04-13-2005).]
Oddly enough I found it without seeing this thread first. I looked at the top of the forum i was all like "Ok, where did my favorites go" then I saw the little odd things on the side and I was all like. "OHHHHHH, Goid one Cliff Dude"
Good one
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Don't know why, but it doesn't work very well with my Firefox version 1.0.2
I can't see the sidebar, but if I blindly click, it will expand out. When it does open the font is large and favorites are expanded everything is in a crazy blue color that I can't read. I also can't see the bar at the top with the little X close box. It works great with IE, but I don't use IE very much anymore. Maybe it's a setting I need to change, either way I like it on IE, not so well with Firefox. Also, I really liked how it was before when going into the individual forums seeing instantly when something new was posted in a thread I was watching. Now it doesn't seem quite as convenient. Just some constructive criticism.
Really nice feature! Good work Cliff! I would like to see it expanded to the reply/post topic page, as it would be useful to be able to reference the list while posting.
A: My PFF relies heavily on a 100% DOM-compatible browser. I've tested it on IE 5.x, IE 6.x, Mozilla and Firefox. I haven't tested it on Opera or any other browser. I also haven't tested it on a Mac. I will probably create a setting in your profile where you can completely disable My PFF if it messes up your screen.
I'm running a Mac-n-trash using Safari as my browser. I can see the little bar like this:
But it won't expand like this:
I like the idea though! Especially the last 20 posts.
Originally posted by vlatus: I like the new sidebar, but there is one thing I liked about the old style favorites. I liked that you didn't have to click on them to see if there were more replies; the number was right there. Is there any way to make them look different in My PFF if there has been a new post?
I agree - one of the things I liked about the Favorites at the top of the page was the 'New Reply' icon - made it much easier to keep track of the active conversations going on.
Any way to add the icon back in to the thread listing?
Would it be possible to add a link to the bottom of every thread, so you can add that thread to your favorites? That's the only problem I have, is when I find a thread using the search, I can't "favorites" it unless I reply to it, and bring it all the way back to the top.
Ok, I'll make something so you can easily view if there are new posts to a thread, and an easier way to add a thread to your favorites (from inside the thread itself).
Ok, I'll make something so you can easily view if there are new posts to a thread, and an easier way to add a thread to your favorites (from inside the thread itself).
Great forum and thank you for all the time and effort you have put into it
As this is a feedback thread for your excellent upgrade/improvement there are two things that I just tried to do but was unable to. 1. is there any way you can make the "My PFF" section adjustable, so that a person can decrease or increase the width of the new feature while keeping it open?
2. Is it possible to move a thread in "recent posts" to "personal favorites" or to any other expandable folder in "My PFF"? Example: In Windows favorites an individual can "left" click on the mouse and hold the button down and move that particular "favorite" book mark to a new folder or location.
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1. is there any way you can make the "My PFF" section adjustable, so that a person can decrease or increase the width of the new feature while keeping it open?
That was my original plan, but I'm not sure it can be done (easily). I'll have to look into that.
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2. Is it possible to move a thread in "recent posts" to "personal favorites" or to any other expandable folder in "My PFF"? Example: In Windows favorites an individual can "left" click on the mouse and hold the button down and move that particular "favorite" book mark to a new folder or location.
I will do some tweaking of the "My PFF" sidebar. One of the tweaks will probably be that you can easily move a thread from "Recents" to "Favorites".
It doesn't work in the 'Safari' browser, too bad .... I still refuse to go 'PC'. It does work in 'Int. Exp. 5.2' browser, but I don't like that one. It shows up w/out being asked after log-in, and can't function or be put away using an old version of 'Omniweb'. I don't even keep a copy of 'Netscape' any more.
Norm
[This message has been edited by gt88norm (edited 04-17-2005).]
Great forum and thank you for all the time and effort you have put into it
is there any way you can make the "My PFF" section adjustable, so that a person can decrease or increase the width of the new feature while keeping it open?
Thanks for all your hard work Cliff,
But I had the same comment, I really would like to adjust the width of that column so I can better control my viewing experience. And I agree with the other comments about being able to quickly see if there has been any posts to the favorites would be nice.
