Our Forum software is a bit aged and quirky like looking for certain members posts requiring to put the exact name, capitals and all into the Search Template , but that does not mean it's unnavigable....Odysseys managed to cross the straights, so why can't we. This post is going to collect all the little How-To's to get around quickly.....

1. Tired of paging thru to get to the end of a long thread...... just click on the thread, once opened, append &lastpage=yes at the end of the link in the address-bar and enter. The last one pops up. In Firefox its easy and some keyboard shortcut software / macro trick can do it for you, but simplest, if u are a frequent visitor of e.g. long running team threads, just append the code, enter and bookmark and for ever will u go to the end of the Famous Last Words. (Ignore the page 1 indicator up top, you're really there..... and too simple would of course be to hit the near the name of the last poster in the threads lists ;>) ).

2. Tired of entering a search for that 'where was that again' post and wished u could narrow it down quickly...... well any word combination you remember put in exclamation quotation marks entered in the search box will do that for you.... just thru "This Post Pops Up"..... Low and behold, this post pops up.

3. Trouble signing in during Statistics Updates and Sunday Mornings backup, yet eager to add a post? Well the way to get in is to go to the forum and hit the index button. Then, sign in. Should work most of the times, albeit a bit slow as the servers are very busy during backup.

4. Got irritating security pop ups, particular in Internet Explorer? The Forum is hosted on 2 addresses, one starting with https://secure..... and the other with http://www..... just change the link in the address bar after sign in if not done automatic to the second and away you go.

5. Want to keep track of certain threads / posts, be notified of changes by email, like to read up on your own literary creations....... U can by going to the My Forum Profile at top of all forum pages and middle under the big gray button bar u see/utilise 3 options.... My Watch , My Favorite Threads, & Find all my posts .

6. You got that problem and with all the Tips and the Help above u could not find an answer........ Can open up a new thread or do the Contact Us . The link can be found for instance at the bottom of the Forum Rules page. This one will not fire up your E-Mail application, rather provides a little template and a problem type selector. Your mail address for response has already been entered for u and even tells u how to get the UD Agent version number.
7. U want to know what those colourful envelopes on left of a subjects means..... don't go to this which is the WCG one, but that Help which explains:The colour coding only works if u are signed in!

8. It's one of those d-oh one's ......U have these regular visited threads and it exhausts in finding them as the post is e.g. in an entirely different section .......bookmark them in your internet browser or subscribe to them in 'My Forum Profile' (item 5. above) .... here a sample of bookmarks....using the subfolder structure for easy reference:
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These are just few how-to's to help u along the way. Feel free to append any to this thread and i will incorporate in this post (u will be named as the tipper)......and please stay

thank u

PS, there is a "'Forum' Feature Wishlist" thread to add your ideas on what this place needs in added kit........ go seek and add using tip # 2