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I'd be willing to pay yearly to be able to stop the Games forum appearing in the "View Posts Since Last Visit" list. Barring that, does anyone have a user script that will hide/remove them from that page/view?

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^ Haha, this post made me chuckle.

An alternative read-only url to share the forum, yet exclusively shows a single live thread, page or post and not the official forum itself.

I'm not sure if that exists already or not.
If it does, please tell me how.

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Lose more time here - Updates at least once a week.

At the top left of every post, next to the post date/time, is a tiny rectangle. If you really squint at it you'll see it's supposed to represent a sheet of paper with a folded corner.

Hovering your mouse pointer over it you'll see that changes from an arrow to a pointing finger.

That's actually a URL for the post it's attached to and can be copy/pasted like any other URL - so, for example, this is a specific link to your post above:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=177688&p=9194805#p9194805

Copy the URL by holding your mouse pointer over the icon then do right-click -> copy link (the phrasing may vary depending on the browser - that's what Firefox shows), and then paste it in a post or your browser's address bar.
Being a URL it can be bookmarked/added to favorites like any other link.

If the post happens to be the opening post of a thread you can use it to bookmark threads - or any of the posts in a thread.

But it won't be a read-only URL or make what the URL refers to read-only - that's not something the WP forum software can do.

Actually, making a URL read-only is also something your browser can't do - it's just a string of text entered into its address bar and that address bar is always editable.
But that's not to say you can't treat a URL as read-only: you don't have to change it.

I'm not sure what you're referring to here - maybe a similar-looking icon outside of the post?
That icon is always a URL for the post it's attached to - the display order of posts won't change that.

Edit: Ah yes, of course - profile|board preferences|display options -> ascending or descending on the drop-down.
I just set that option to "descending" but a post's address, obtained from the icon I described above, wasn't changed.

On the forums, there's a set of page links above the table of posts, thus (or equivalent):

"Page 1 of 204 [ 5289 topics ] Go to page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 204 Next Jump To:"

I'd suggest to have this duplicated and also appear directly below the table too.

At the moment, in order to browse the forums and open posts, a user might start at the top of the page (where the page defaults to displaying on loading), and move down the list. Once they reach the bottom, they might want to continue onto the second page - but with the current format they will have to scroll back up to the top of the page in order to be able to click on the appropriate link. Once they do so, the same problem will occur on the next page. And the next, and the next, and the next...

Duplicating the navigation line underneath the table of posts will make it easier to quickly go to the next page once the list of posts has been read top to bottom. It's a moderately common layout technique used in a lot of internet post forums (the ones which haven't switched to infinite-scroll, which is annoying in its own way).

Yes, that's particularly irritating having to keep scrolling back to the top - especially as once you've opened a multi-page thread, that "go to" link is at the top and bottom of the page.

But, sorry to keep restating it - the site is effectively abandonware with no active development.

I feel the haven should be hidden from the public, like the members section. I know there's a random members thread but we still prefer to post personal issues in the haven because of the way it's a sensitive part of the forum (referring to the haven rules). But a lot of people's threads in the haven can involve personal private issues that they may wish to keep more private.

That is why I post a lot of haven posts in the members only, for privacy reasons, even though I want haven-friendly responses.

I always think it would be an idea that when someone gets banned to put like a "Banned" stamp type thing on their profile picture.

I used to be a member of a site that did this and I always thought it was a good touch.

Something like this

Several years ago the avatar used to be changed to a small "x" icon for banned users but this was stopped - probably because changing their avatar makes their posts more difficult to spot.
And that particular member is temporarily banned.