Miss the old Subscriptions page? Try a custom Activity Stream

[Red Iron Crown]

One thing I used heavily on the old vB forum was the "Subscriptions" page, which listed my subscribed threads in order of last reply. I did not find a default substitute for it in the new software, the closest being the "Threads I Follow" activity stream (which lists individual posts instead of threads) and "Manage Followed Content" (which is sorted by date/time followed and doesn't permit jumping to first unread post), neither of which is a great substitute.

However, I tried messing around with a custom Activity Stream and have found a way to duplicate that old functionality. Here's how:

1. At the top of the page, select Activity > My Activity Streams > Create New Stream
2. Enter the title of your choosing and the following settings:

3. Click "Save as new stream".
4. Enjoy!

I'm still playing with custom streams, and there's some interesting potential there. For example, clicking the gear icon by Content Types > Topics allows you to restrict it to one or more subforums, so you could have all your subscribed Add-on threads in one stream separate from one with all followed content.

Edit: It is also helpful to switch to "Condensed View", that puts more threads on the page but you lose the preview of the most recent post.

Edited December 2, 2015 by Red Iron Crown

[Guest]

Very useful, I´ll directly set it up for me. Thank you!

[kerbiloid]

Me really misses RSS, it was so handy thing.

[Red Iron Crown]

13 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Me really misses RSS, it was so handy thing.

Still a thing, and for individual Activity Streams, too (including custom ones like this).

[Gaarst]

Also, clicking on the grey "check" point (1) when viewing any stream (custom or not) allows you to set it as default: it will appear on every page (2) for quick access (also appears on the bottom of the page) next to the "Mark site read" button, here with a custom stream named "New posts".

 

Edit: also, custom streams are generated with proper urls: everyone can access other users' custom streams, for example: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/discover/12/

Edited December 2, 2015 by Gaarst

[Red Iron Crown]

@Gaarst Great find, that will save me some clicking.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

I have mine set up like this:

Which is what I've posted in my thread on the changes, but I realize your way works more like the old forums.  Would you mind if I used your image instead of this one on the thread?

[Red Iron Crown]

By all means, help yourself.

[Norpo]

Streams seem *really* cool, even if they are a little bit facebook-ey. Is there any way to limit the type of content they show? For example; I don't want to see new posts in topics, but I do want to see "X Created new topic "Y"" type notifications.

My idea was to create a stream for new topics being created in Add-On releases so I could look at new add-ons as they come up, but I haven't found any way to sort it so that it ignores new "posts" and only lets through new "topics"

Any suggestions, or can streams not do that?

[Red Iron Crown]

@Norpo I haven't found a way to do that with a stream, but two clicks in the subforum will do it (I do this in Add-On releases about once a week to see what's new, did the same on vB before the change):

[NecroBones]

Man, this is great. Thanks!

[Virtualgenius]

Has anyone had any success removing the chat balloons when you follow a thread