How does one block a category on this forum?

[Eric Woodbury]

Thanks.

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[Oren Grad]

If you mean make a subforum invisible, afraid I don't know of any way to do that.

EDIT: Looks like this is wrong, see below.

https://www.largeformatphotography.i...=1#post1686951

[Eric Woodbury]

I think of this whole thing as "THE FORUM". I'd like to block the next level, such as ANNOUNCEMENTS, CAMERAS, DARKROOM, etc.

[Oren Grad]

Yes, those are what I'm calling "subforums". I don't know of any way to hide individual subforums.

[Bruce Watson]

Thanks.

I do it like this:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...clude=17,22,18

Those numbers on the end are the subforum numbers. One of those is "the lounge" for example. But I did this like 20 years ago. I no longer remember how to find the subforum numbers. The moderators might know, or might know how to find out. IDK.

[Oren Grad]

Thanks, Bruce. Yes, you can construct custom searches in that way, though that gives you posts from all of the included subforums jumbled together. I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that what Eric was looking for is a way to make subforums disappear from the main Forum index page.

For those who would like to construct custom searches: you can extract the subforum number from the subforum URL. For example, the Lounge is:

"https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?17-The-Lounge"

[Eric Woodbury]

Must be a switch in there somewhere. The FOR SALE subforum can be blocked for new users. I did a deep search and found an old reference to do this. Involved MY PROFILE, and some other sub menus, one of which is no longer there. Thank y'all for trying. E

[BrianShaw]

I find it easier and almost as effective to ignore individuals rather than consider ignoring a whole subforum.

[Oren Grad]

Yes, that option is always available. For those who aren't familiar: if you open the "Forum Actions" menu under the "Forum" tab in the menu bar, then select either "General Settings" or "Edit Profile", you will get to a screen with a "My Settings" menu box at the left. Select the "Edit Ignore List" item.

[Oren Grad]

MEA CULPA!

Looks like I was wrong about this - I've discovered another admin panel setting that I've never used before that appears to allow me to turn off access to individual subforums for a member without changing their Usergroup. I'm happy to test this with anyone who would like to try turning off one or more subforums - just PM me.

Apologies for the bad information and thanks to Eric for raising the question and eventually getting me to dig deeper on this.