Noe wrote:
I believe the (many times suggested) option each user could check in settings to have active threads “unstick” threads – present the view that David kindly created (but only accessible through a link) would probably bury this thread forever.
This.
Or, if you want to make it perfect, the option to click on an “unstick” icon next to each sticky thread, which saves that preference in your profile.
The active thread style is in my opinion much btyyer than later posts
Yes; OK. Personally I find the “latest posts” mode useful because it gives me a quick scan but I normally check the forum frequently through the day. I do that partly to catch spam and other stuff which needs action. If I checked say once a day it would not be as useful.
the option to click on an “unstick” icon next to each sticky thread, which saves that preference in your profile.
That’s already there
but you have to go into the thread to see it. It then reappears (quite correctly) when a new post is made to it. There is a bug in the code which makes it reappear when a post is made but is deleted, and that issue also exists in other contexts, but perfection is hard to do 
It then reappears (quite correctly) when a new post is made to it.
OK, you have to know that. Clicking “Hide” feels like a bit too much otherwise.
FWIW I found that a bookmark pointing to https://www.euroga.org/recent-threads?nostickies=1 solved all my issues, even when not reading EuroGA during offline detoxes of several weeks. Yes, one needs to open a lot of tabs to catch up, and just skim most of the threads, but it’s doable. Yes, you have to be logged in, but come on, you’re logged into the Google/Apple world all the time, and I’m sure any tracking and data collection done by Peter and David is negligible by comparison.
Anyway, for me the ?nostickies=1 option is the best thing since tabbed browsing / sliced bread.
tmo wrote:
Anyway, for me the ?nostickies=1 option is the best thing since tabbed browsing / sliced bread.
Now all the people demands is a button not to have to type the link!
Icing on the cake: One each at the top and the bottom of the page, to not have to scroll up when finishing reading a thread.
I’m sure any tracking and data collection done by Peter and David is negligible by comparison.
Any stats from EuroGA are useless for the “usual purposes” because nobody on EuroGA has a real identity. Even your email address is not visible to google etc because these bots can’t log in (it is advisable to not have an email address in your public profile; there is a field for it but in view of some past activity it is better left blank).
Also we guarantee that nothing will ever be passed on (short of a court order, of course).
