I use Chrome as a browser, optimized for general speed and low clutter. Forums like vblive have a lot of content that I could care less for.

The long and short of it is, I hate these features, and I can disable them in say Internet Explorer. When I use Chrome, I cannot. I have no adblockers.
Is a mod able to look into my profile and adjust my settings on some global level? It seems to take when I'm in IE, but after taking all the regular cookie/cache clearing activity I still see "Related Threads" and have infinite scroll on in Chrome, while not in IE.

Side note, I also can't view the marketplace in Chrome, just whitescreens.

 

I checked your profile and both infinite scroll and related threads are disabled so I would expect it to work for any browser - but may be a question IB needs to answer.

 

As @sklimii notes, your account shows both Infinite Scroll/Related disabled. It is account-based and not browser based (with exception to mobile). I have verified it is disabled when using Chrome. Additionally, Marketplace is working correctly with Chrome from my testing. We have a lot of viewers who use Chrome and I've not heard any other reports.

I'd suggest you make sure you're not using any 3rd party add-ons within Chrome and that, of course, you're shown as logged in with Chrome.

 

Thanks for the prompt responses. While you were viewing my thread, I was able to manually delete jaguarforums cookies, and update delete on exit. For some reason, this time it seemed to work. I took this route after trying in incognito mode, and that functionality was just fine. Probably just a "me" issue this time.

Thanks!

 

Can we please disable this by default? I am tired of constantly seeing accidental off topic post by new users ambushed by this functionality. Forums operate on concept of a thread - it is expected to have a start and finish and contain discussion around specific topic. Users are trained to go to the end of thread and post there. Having a threat algorithmically continue into irrelevantland is not good for anything but casual smartphone scrolling. It results in users being unexpectedly lost and/or making necro/off topic posts.

 

A very good point.

I suspect most of the high participation members have disabled this feature. It certainly does contribute to many newbies resurrecting long dead threads.

IB - do you have a way of monitoring how the top 50 or 100 post count members have this set? Also, is there a perceived or proven benefit in having the feature?

Graham

 

The feature is to encourage continued participation and site usage. This concept is found in many ways - both online and offline. There is continued work to help improve the relevancy of the similar threads that are shown. Additionally, there's also a "block" that is shown at the end of the original thread to inform the reader that the following are related threads.

There is no near plan to disable the feature as the default setting.

 

I like the infinite scroll and miss it on other forums that don't use it, I don't care if I never come across related threads again, isn't that what search is for?