Posts from users on one's ignore list used to show up like regular ones, just "folded up", with an option to show their content. They have now completely disappeared, with only a link at the very bottom of a thread revealing what non-ignored users may be reacting to, any why threads with supposedly no new posts get flagged as 'unread'. Not sure what caused this change, but if it didn't come from a board upgrade but just from someone fiddling with the board settings, I for one would very much prefer going back to the old behavior.
So it ignores them a little TOO MUCH? Maybe that's not such a bad thing. You shouldn't be looking at ingored users posts anyway. It'll probably get you mad, then you'll cuss them out then go on happily cause you know they can't cuss you back. That isn't fair.
Well it doesn't ignore them when looking for new posts. I could live with users talking to ghosts (the important stuff often shows up as a quote anyways), but threads getting bumped for no reason is kind of annoying. And it happens quite often once your collection of retards has grown past a certain point.
No, I would like to know where parts of a conversation have been skipped (but not necessarily what), and why threads are marked as unread. There used to be a single line of text in the appropriate places ("$user is being ignored"), now there's nothing at all. edit: Looking at the XenForo Demo, this is related to some "templates", namely "message" and "message_simple". Seems like it was deliberately removed on this site?
Odd. Guess I'll just have to live with it then, unless anyone else has an idea what might cause this? Skin/"style" maybe? If my guess of this being "Flat Awesome" is correct, I can't find any bugs filed for this issue (but then again Pixel Exit's Forum refuses to search for "ignored"). Hrmph. edit: ...aaand now it's getting weird. I just had a single old-style "you're ignoring this user" post show up - once - after a page reload it was gone. Wtf?
As a test, I just ignored Bad_Ad84, only his last post showed the message "You are ignoring this User" "Show Postings", all other posts by him were gone. They all re-appeared when I un-ignored him. So you have to find the single post from the ignored user and click show posts in order to see everything from him. Edit: But yeah I believe before when I viewed ignored users in a thread it would always show each individual ignore post by them, not just the last one.
Nope, already ruled that one out. Even tried a completely fresh, script- and plugin free browser. Not for me. I've ignored "Shoutbox_Bot" (sp?) and when I go to the shoutbox archive all I see is Kev's opening post and then hundreds of pages of nothing at all. At least for the most part - coincidentally, that is where the single semi-visible post I mentioned turned up, though not on page one but way back on 300-something. I just noticed everything's still present in the source, and editing the DOM to make a post's class just "message" instead of "message ignored" makes the old "you're ignoring..." stuff show up again. Hm. Will look into that. ed: Well, the snippet Code: /* ignored content hiding */ .ignored { display: none !important; } coming from css.php is to blame here. The Xenforo demo also does this, so hiding stuff completely seems to have become the default now, ie a recent board update is to blame. another ed: Seems to be this way only since 1.5.9 (latest one). Is this what we're on? Doesn't say anywhere afaict (css code confirmed my suspicion about the "Flat Awesome" style though, at least).
That code has always been there, though. It is in the templates - all of them. For example: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/style-lost-all-structure-please-help.66697/ ...from Xenforo 1.2, over 2 years ago. In fact, over a year before we started using Xenforo! Are you sure you're not thinking of the old forum, @rso ?
You're right about the CSS, I must've f-ed up while grepping earlier. But I'm positive that the XenForo installation on this very site used to show those ignored-post placeholders. I'll give you one thing though: I was wrong about being able to toggle individual posts - it works (worked) on a per-user basis. I have it working like this right now in a demo instance, after one minor template edit. I'm also comparing a couple of XF versions and have no clue what the relevant difference might be (it's not the bit I changed). Too bad there's no demos of previous releases. And I'm still scratching my head how that one post could showed up for one page view only, earlier... edit: Having slept on it, I decided I already spent waaay too much time on this so I'm just going to give up and patch it on my end with a bit of user css instead. If anybody cares, this Code: #messageList .message.ignored { display: block !important; } makes things work like they used to. There, done.
