Ignore User Option

[Deflection]

How about an ignore user option where their posts are extracted from the thread?

[Simon F]

Hmm a usenet Kill file heh :-)

Perhaps a little less drastic is an option to mark certain threads as interesting. There's so many these days that an old bloke like me forgets which ones I'd made a mental note to ignore.

[Dave Baumann]

Sorry, the board doesn't support options like these at the moment, and we aren't going to mod the board.

Possibly when phpBB 2.2 comes around they may have a few more features like this.

[nonamer]

Well, how about now? We desperately need that function now.

[K.I.L.E.R]

Well, how about now? We desperately need that function now.

You know why Dave isn't going to mod the board to include the option now?

Simply because he doesn't have the time to.

Maybe we can mod the board and Dave could upate the board with our new code when he has the time?
Of course we'd have to get permission first. :D

[Kristof]

Hmm, I wonder what impact this option would have on CPU load. I mean currently a lot of the pages are the same for every user so cache mechanisms come into play for popular forum pages (no need to regen the same html from the database). If you have a per user kill file then the CPU and bandwidth loads of the server will shoot up since a page (html) will be different for every user depending on the kill list...

K-

[Simon F]

And since B3D doesn't have threaded displays, a kill file would make some of the conversations (even more) difficult to understand.

I like the "ignore topic" or "Interesting topic" option since that would not clash with the caching architecture.

[Rodéric]

I second Simon's idea.

It'll be nice to have a simple boolean flag to mark topics... however multiply the number of topics by the number of users and that's a lot of data in the database...

[Dave Baumann]

I'd be surprised if there would be muych of a hit in terms of HTML caching - the forum is all in a MySQL database so that for every click made it ha to query the database to get the relavent threads and/or topics. Conversly and ignore option might actually reduce the overhead slightly since the results returned from the database would be less.

However, as a general rule I'm opposed to making any modifications to the forum as then this becomes an issue for support with later revisions (which I'm already behind on). I'm keeping an eye on the progress of phpBB2.2 which does have more options and functionality including (I think) ignores and ratings etc.