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by AYBG » Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:16 pm
So, as you may have guessed by now, your home for customisation is the
User Control Panel
Let's have a look at more of its functions for personalising your forum.
The UCP may look daunting at first, but once you get to know it and remember to love it occasionally (!), you'll get the most out of it, and your forum experience. There's really a tonne that you can customise to make FMUK your own.
Overview
Manage Subscriptions - throughout the board you can subscribe to threads and boards, thereby you'll be notified of new posts in said thread/board.
From this page you can check your subscriptions, see if there are new posts to view or 'unwatch' them to unsubscribe if desired.
Manage Bookmarks - you can bookmark threads for future reference without subscribing to them. The process is nearly the same. Click the wrench button at the top or bottom of a thread page, then 'Bookmark topic' instead of 'Subscribe topic'. The UCP page allows you to review your bookmarks and delete them as applicable.
Manage drafts - If you've manually saved drafts, this is where they end up. Simply click 'view draft' to pick up where you left off.
Manage Notifications - to view all past notifications
Profile
This tab lets you change the stuff people see on your profile and posts (incl. avatar and signature), as well as allowing you to change your password and registered email address.
Board Preferences
The home of customisation! Set permissions for other users and mods, as well as settings for Private Messaging, Board Style (yay!), language, timezone, etc. Plus there's posting defaults (like whether your signature should be automatically put at the end of posts or not) and display options (unless you don't want to see sigs and avatars I recommend staying away from these options).
This is also where you can adjust what you get notifications for, on the board and/or emails.
Private Messages
PMs are basically a mini-email system within the site. Use it to contact other members. You can add extra folders if you like, and assign rules. For instance, I have a rule where all PMs from Beate get sent to a specific folder.
Usergroups
Here you can see which usergroups your account is assigned to, a phpbb feature that allows for different permissions to be set according to groups. Beate and I are in the admin group. We are joined by lovely volunteers in the moderator group. For most people this will just be 'Registered Users'.
Friends and Foes
You can add 'friends', simply as a means to have easy access to add them to your PMs. 'Foes' ignores a given user's posts, but I don't know why you'd want to use that, everyone here is lovely.
Privacy Data
Displays all the data stored on the site regarding your account. We're super on-board GDPR now!
And that's it I think! There's plenty to customise so what are you waiting for!!
