House cleaning YT style

[yorkiesmiles]

I just went & got rid of a bunch of thread subscriptions. I was subscribed to 1,125 threads Yeah - no addiction here

I try to clean these out every so often - but I still only got it down to like 970. It's kinda boring deleting them & for some reason I know I hang on to too many

How do you all handle your thread subscriptions??

While I was doing this, I started wondering if dumping this old stuff would help the YT server run better

[kalina82]

good question. i don't delete them. should we be doing this? would it help the server to not get backed up as much? admin??

[littlewhip]

i always delete mine after about a week. dont know if that could cause the slowness, but i know my puter runs better when i clear my cookies every other day

[addicted]

Originally Posted by littlewhip

i always delete mine after about a week. dont know if that could cause the slowness, but i know my puter runs better when i clear my cookies every other day

Yeah, I delete after a week or if no one really responds to my replies.

[yorkiesmiles]

One reason I hang onto some of mine, is it's easier sometimes to look there for a particular thread I posted in, then by using the search option.

The other reason, is sometimes, I can contact someone about something they posted about - a sick puppy, a newbie struggling with something -- I can pm them if I haven't seen them post & see how their doing.

But if I need to be more diligent about getting rid of these I would - shoot am I the only one with 1,000 subscribed threads?

[kalina82]

Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles

One reason I hang onto some of mine, is it's easier sometimes to look there for a particular thread I posted in, then by using the search option.

The other reason, is sometimes, I can contact someone about something they posted about - a sick puppy, a newbie struggling with something -- I can pm them if I haven't seen them post & see how their doing.

But if I need to be more diligent about getting rid of these I would - shoot am I the only one with 1,000 subscribed threads?

no i'm subscribed to a lot more i use the new post button and the subscribed thread link the most on here.

[zcb]

Duh, dummy here. How do you delete them?

[yorkiesmiles]

Well, shoot you've only posted 20 times, you don't have anything to worry about and that doesn't mean 20 threads are hooked to you.

But this is how you do it & how some people check for new updates to threads they are interested in. (all though most people seem to use "New Posts")

Up above in the dark blue bar it says "User CP" - click on that - that takes you to all your info. Then on the new page on the left hand side scroll down to where it says "Subscribed Threads" below that it says "List Subscriptions" - click on that.

Then it opens up a page with all your subscriptions. You can delete them by checking the box on the right hand side next to each subscription, or do other things with them. But you have to go to the bottom of the page to where it says "Move to folder" and then choose what you want to do there - like "Delete" Another thing you can create a folder. I only have one folder & I named it "Recipes" and then put all the threads that I have subscribed to that have yummy recipes into that folder, that way if I'm looking for a recipe someone shared, I can find it really easy.

There's a bunch of things you can do under User CP

You're not a dummy!! Don't speak such things into your life - tell yourself how wonderful you are

[kalina82]

Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles

Well, shoot you've only posted 20 times, you don't have anything to worry about and that doesn't mean 20 threads are hooked to you.

But this is how you do it & how some people check for new updates to threads they are interested in. (all though most people seem to use "New Posts")

Up above in the dark blue bar it says "User CP" - click on that - that takes you to all your info. Then on the new page on the left hand side scroll down to where it says "Subscribed Threads" below that it says "List Subscriptions" - click on that.

Then it opens up a page with all your subscriptions. You can delete them by checking the box on the right hand side next to each subscription, or do other things with them. But you have to go to the bottom of the page to where it says "Move to folder" and then choose what you want to do there - like "Delete" Another thing you can create a folder. I only have one folder & I named it "Recipes" and then put all the threads that I have subscribed to that have yummy recipes into that folder, that way if I'm looking for a recipe someone shared, I can find it really easy.

There's a bunch of things you can do under User CP

You're not a dummy!! Don't speak such things into your life - tell yourself how wonderful you are

you can also check your subscriptions by clicking 'quick links' and then "subscribed threads" that's how i do it. click on that and 'new posts' all the time.

[Marina]

Thanks for the info i cleaned mine out... opps but now i guess ive subscribed to this thread...its a vicious cycle this whole YT thing is...lol

[addicted]

OOOOH... I never delete my subscribed list. I delete the new subscribe... All my subscriptions are still in my list. I only look at the new subscribed list to see if anyone made a new post.

[sexiixtc]

the last time I deleted my subscribed threads was w few months after I joined..

If it would help speed up the site... then by all means, Admin let us know!