Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Thread starter Thunderfall
- Start date
thetrooper
Misanthrope
- Joined
- May 24, 2004
- Messages
- 9,022
Do we have a jump-to-last-unread-post-function or is this default but not in proper condition?
If you are in a thread, at the top right of the page, just above the first post on the page, there should be a button labeled "Jump to New" (next to the button labeled "Watch").
thetrooper
Misanthrope
- Joined
- May 24, 2004
- Messages
- 9,022
Hmm… this is not true every time.
.
.
thetrooper
Misanthrope
- Joined
- May 24, 2004
- Messages
- 9,022
Ah, OK. That could be the case.
You can collapse all the forums you don't want to read. It's located in the upper right-hand corner on the relevant forums on the main index page. This is what it looks like in the Dark theme (the toggles may be differently shaped with other themes but it will be in the same place):
As you can see, I have the Civ III and Civ IV forums collapsed, as I don't play either of those. I have the Civ II forums toggled because I do play that and still post there occasionally. Collapsing the forums you're not interested in will make navigation much easier and faster.
Which link in the navigation do you mean?
And yes, Civ5 has a separate category, https://forums.civfanatics.com/categories/civilization-v.385/ .
Thanks but Valka answered this clearly.
s.bernbaum
Mostly lurking
"Forums" is the top category, to put it a more accurate way, it is the top folder with Feedback, OT, Civ 6, Civ 5, etc folders within it. When you click Civ 5 you are choosing the Civ 5 specific forums: General..., Ideas..., Strategy..., etc. By clicking Civ 5 and then Forums, you are choosing to back out of the Civ 5 folder to the master Forums folder, where if you have not limited the choices shown by collapsing some, as Valka D'Ur describes above, you will see all the subforums in each Civ folder. Since Civ 6 is the most recent one, it shows at the top of the list. If you only want the Civ 5 sub forums to show, click Civ 5 as you have been doing and leave it there. Don't click Forums.
I'm now getting a quirk, which you can see in the attached screenshot. I participated in a Civ 6 forum about a Univ Leyden study by two researchers who compared Civ 1 and Civ 6 in regard to relevance and freedom of "western" government types. Now it appears as a glitch in my Civ 5 (yes FIVE, not a typo) display, with empty number of posts, NA, question mark, etc. Only TheJ listed as OP.
Attachments
Yes, this seems weird, but is actually correct.
The forum allows us to essentially create links from one place to another, and you see one of them.
This thread is kinda interesting for all Civilization titles, but we don't have an option to combine threads from multiple forums into one (as this would be handy here). Instead, of creating a separate thread in each forum, I made a link in the Civ1 to Civ5 forums to this thread. The default display is then indeed without any number of replies, views, etc, as you see it here.
I think in the old vbulletin times the naming of these links was more obvious. Right now it is indeed so that it's not clear that this is a link
.
The forum allows us to essentially create links from one place to another, and you see one of them.
This thread is kinda interesting for all Civilization titles, but we don't have an option to combine threads from multiple forums into one (as this would be handy here). Instead, of creating a separate thread in each forum, I made a link in the Civ1 to Civ5 forums to this thread. The default display is then indeed without any number of replies, views, etc, as you see it here.
I think in the old vbulletin times the naming of these links was more obvious. Right now it is indeed so that it's not clear that this is a link
.
Click the small icon of your avatar on the top right-hand side of the screen (next to the envelope icon). That lets you into your account.
Click "Account Details" on the left hand side.
Then scroll down past "Username", "Email", "Email Options", "Avatar", "Profile Banner", "Custom Title", and "Date of Birth".
The next one will be your "Location." Change it to whatever you want, and then click Save.
That should do it.
Under "Account details" I see this:
Any idea why this might be the case? It's a new account, FWIW.
Ah, okay. I think it's probably because you don't have a high enough post count. The admins put in a few restrictions on new accounts to deter bots and spammers.
I'm not sure how old your account has to be before you can edit. You've been here for 10 days, but you only have 3 posts. If you post some more (sorry, not sure how many you need), you'll be able to edit your account. When you can edit, follow the steps I outlined above, and it'll work.
@leif erikson, @The_J, can you please refresh us on how many days and posts a new member needs for editing their account?
I'm not sure how old your account has to be before you can edit. You've been here for 10 days, but you only have 3 posts. If you post some more (sorry, not sure how many you need), you'll be able to edit your account. When you can edit, follow the steps I outlined above, and it'll work.
@leif erikson, @The_J, can you please refresh us on how many days and posts a new member needs for editing their account?
