Search for Posts you made in a Certain Thread

[Shift 4,272]

Okay, so I have like well over one thousand posts. To find one post in one certain thread is near impossible. For example, in the 'Post your unpopular opinions' thread, I want to see what posts I've made and read them, and find them, not the number, and I really can't do that since the thread has pages upon pages and it would take forever to find all of the posts I've made.

 

So I propose that we have a feature to find all of the posts we made in a thread and show them. Like below the '100 replies' or however many replies in the thread, maybe have it show 'Posts you made' and when you click on that it'll show the posts you made? I dunno. Just if you could pretty please implement that you would be, like, the best thing.

[Fubz 300]

That actually is actually a default feature on forums. At least MyBB ones. Not sure why it's not here.

 

Another simple default feature which isn't here as well is to see the rest of the thread when you're replying (in full editing mode).

 

 

Or at least I think they're default. They're either default or really common. :I

 

Edited January 6, 2014 by Fubz

[Best Username Ever 211]

I know i find it annoying too

[Sabrinie 392]

YES! This needs to be a thing because I can never remember what I've previously posted and hate trying to find it

 

I usually just give up and hope I'm not repeating myself 

[Dddrgn 450]

I support this, I can't tell you how many times I want to find someone's response to one of my posts, and I'm completely unable to find it due to the length of the thread. :c

[Legacy Dash 439]

I support this - alot.

This would especially useful in threads like "how popular is the user above you" - cause otherwise it is near impossible to find your post and what you were rated - and if you follow a topic like that, you're gonna have 50,000 notifications each morning.

[SCS 7,537]

I support your suggestion. It would indeed be a useful feature.

 

However, in the interim, I propose two temporary solutions:

• Look for your post on your My Content page. You can access this by clicking your username in the upper righthand corner of the screen, and then clicking My Content. This is may not be feasible for people with a great amount of posts.
   
• When searching for your post in a particular thread, hit Ctrl + F and then search for your username. That speeds up the process of searching for your post on each page of the thread significantly.

Edited January 12, 2014 by SCS

[Shift 4,272]

@@SCS,

 

I know, but what if a thread has say 100 pages? Do we have to go through all 100 pages using ctrl f? What about 500 pages? And the GCT is probably over 900 pages now.

 

And the first option isn't exactly an option due to me having well over one thousand posts.

[Jokuc 8,174]

I support this. You can't even imagine how many times I have tried to find my own posts in threads I know I have posted in. It always take me forever to find them.

 

 

Look for your post on your My Content page. You can access this by clicking your username in the upper righthand corner of the screen, and then clicking My Content. This is may not be feasible for people with a great amount of posts.

 

Basically this, but as you are saying it won't really work for people with lots of posts. The "my content" shows 25 posts per page and for someone like me with over 7700 posts, it is still ridiculously hard to find since that would give me over 9000 300 pages. ...Though it's worse than that. The "my content" doesn't even show posts as far back as I'd want it to, or at least not as many pages as I want to. It only shows 40 pages and then it deletes something old for every new post I make. 25*40 = 1000 so it will just hold 1000 posts saved.

 

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@, @@SCS,

 

I almost forgot to say,

 

Remember that we do have the advanced search option which you can reach from the top right corner of the navigation bar. Here you can find many settings which will help you.

 

 

If you put in yourself as author, chose a section and select "Display results as posts" (you can also put in words to search for or a date to filter it better), you will eventually...

 

 

...Find your post. (well maybe not in larger sections but still, it works better than looking through every page in a thread)

 

But again, having an option to just press search and search for posts directly when you are in the thread would help a lot.

Edited January 20, 2014 by Jokuc

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

For the record, I made a blog post about the best way of doing this. It's probably the best you can get with IP Board.

[Jokuc 8,174]

For the record, I made a blog post about the best way of doing this. It's probably the best you can get with IP Board.

Yeah well I know about that, however that almost never works for me. Each time I do it, it finds nothing

 

 

It only finds stuff when I put site:mlpforums.com whatever =(

[True Rarity 1,240]

I actually think that would be a good idea. I'm often trying to find my own posts, and this would be a quick and easy method for it.