Don’t know about the rest of y’all but I’m still struggling mightily with finding things in this (not so new now) forum. Today I got scolded for commenting on a duplicate thread rather than the main thread - which I had no idea even existed. How on earth would I know about an active conversation happening on a thread that was started several months ago?
Well, I did some digging, and it turns out that the “recent” feature works differently on the Explore page https://community.zazzle.com/t5/custom/page/page-id/Explore (which is the only one I visit regularly) than it does on the specific forum pages. On the Explore page, sorting by “recent” gives you the most recently started threads - NOT the most recently commented upon.
BUT if you go to the individual forum, sorting by “recent” gives you the thread with the most recent comments! Who knew?
Well anyhow, I personally think it’s a major pain in the rear end to have to check each forum separately, but I’m gonna try to force myself to get into the habit so I don’t miss important conversations and/or create problems for the Zazzle mods by creating or participating in duplicate threads.
Don’t know about the rest of y’all but I’m still struggling mightily with finding things in this (not so new now) forum. Today I got scolded for commenting on a duplicate thread rather than the main thread - which I had no idea even existed. How on earth would I know about an active conversation happening on a thread that was started several months ago?
Well, for one you could go to the Community Home page https://community.zazzle.com/ and use the Search function there. You don’t have to go to each individual parent forum to search. If you use the search on the Community Home page the keywords you choose will be searched across all boards.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve avoided doing that when there’s a problem that I want to report, because I thought if I commented on an old thread it would never get seen by the mods. Perhaps that’s not how it works.
@Cat RE: BUT if you go to the individual forum, sorting by “recent” gives you the thread with the most recent comments! Who knew?
///////(Not sure how to make a BLOCK of that so you’re quoted)//////// What is the URL for the “Individual forum” where you can click sort by “recent”?
But I am experiencing what you originally said, that " these don’t show the most recent posts."
I updated a thread yesterday that has never had a reply. Maybe it is not considered a “latest conversation” since I am only talking to myself in there? Anyway, it does NOT SHOW in the Explore url which is what I use myself to view the latest news and issues.
So please what is the URL for “individual forum” to see the most recent POSTS vs CONVERSATIONS? Pls screenshot the “recent” sort button if possible. THANK YOU
On same note, I was looking last night for the most recent / main thread of the many discussing indexing delays. Several have been locked now (great!) but you can’t tell that until you open the thread. I was wondering if there is a forum option the Mod can turn on that will put a locked icon or whathaveyou on such threads so you can tell by looking at the main list they are locked/closed.
Thank you, but that takes me to the boards when I click - I see each forum topic and no way to sort by newest post.
I’m wondering why I can’t find my thread and I also noticed that despite us updating in here with some “Latest Updates”, even THIS thread doesn’t show when I go to the LATEST conversations here: https://community.zazzle.com/t5/custom/page/page-id/Explore
Maybe it is what it is and I will just have to always check each board section area, but I also just wanted to point out that when people don’t get replies, MAYBE it’s because the post has not been seen by hardly anyone.
***OR I am still missing how to get them to show, like where to click.
*I appreciate your time
Sorry, I guess I don’t understand what you’re wanting. I’ve never seen that Latest Conversations feed. I just go to the link I posted, look for the bold items, read what interests me, and Mark All as Read on my way out. Your comment is here
Well, I’m not sure I’m the right person to give advice on navigating the forum since I totally suck at finding anything. As far as I know there is no general “latest comments” feed. You have to go check each board individually.
So, to get to each board I use the “Creators” menu at the top.
Then at the top of the individual board there’s a dropdown that allows you to order by most recent (I think that’s the default). This orders the threads by most recent comments, but you can’t see any comments or anything unless you click on the thread in question.
But the individual boards seem to work differently. Some don’t have a “most recent” option - at least the ideas and suggestions board doesn’t. On that board the choices are “hot ideas” “top ideas” and “new ideas” - no clue what that means in terms of most recent.
I have commented several times on the inability to find all of the RECENT comments in the IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS board. Lately it hasn’t been too bad, but WHY can’t this board be sorted the same as the others with the LATEST COMMENTS being what is sorted on?
NEW IDEAS should be the newest THREADS
HOT IDEAS should be newest COMMENTS
TOP IDEAS - I have no idea what this would be - possibly ideas that Zazzle is taking to heart and actually working on?
