Accessing My Discussions under Quick Links
I have contributed to a number of discussions and wanted to go back to one of them. When I click on the link 'My Discussions' under Quick Links the page comes up blank? Not sure what's going on?
Is there a time limit to what can be seen under 'My Discussions'?
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Try clicking on your name/photo at the top of this question you have just posted. A window will open showing your profile, with Discussions and Comments. Click on Discussions, and you will find a list of discussions you have posted.
This works for us, hopefully it works the same for all users of the Community.
Best wishes.
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@Liz Solomon - Unfortunately, this is a known issue. We have turned this over to the engineers, and all we can do now is wait.
The workaround is to go to your profile and look at the list under your profile picture. Click on Discussions to see those you've started. Select Comments to find posts you've created under a discussion.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
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@Liz Solomon - I worry that I may not have been clear enough when I directed you to your profile.
You should see your information below the big picture on the right side of the page. Let me know if that helps or not.
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Just to summarize and make clear, with pictures but hopefully with also the right words so that it'll still make sense if the forum fails to convey the pictures (as it often does) ....
The "My Discussions" link in the Quick Links box doesn't work.
(It's at the top of the right-hand column on most Community pages.) For some people, it's completely blank. For me, it shows 11 out of the supposedly 33 discussions I've started. I can find no pattern for what it does or doesn't show.
What works slightly better is to go through one's profile. To access this, click your profile icon at the top right.
In the resulting drop-down, click your name.
In the right-hand column of the resulting page, below your profile picture and above your badges, there are links to Activity, Notifications, Moderation, Inbox, Discussions, and Comments. It is the last two that are of interest here.
If you click Discussions, it'll show you the seven most recent discussions you've started, with "more" links that'll add 10 more each time, until you get to the end of what it's willing to show. (I can get 29 out of my mythical 33.)
If you click Comments, it'll show you the ten most recent comments or replies you've made, with a "more" link that'll add ten more at a time. (I've gotten back to two years ago and it's still going, so it doesn't seem to have a limit.)
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You solved it for me!! Woohoo! I have to click on my profile avatar at the beginning of my question or discussion, NOT the avatar at the top right of the community page. Thanks!! We can close this.
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Thank you both for your help. I've been to my profile pic and clicked on Discussions but it only shows this discussion. ??? And there is no option for Comments?
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@PiperTWilson - this is what I see
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I am not connected with Family Search.
What I see on my page is different to that of PiperTWilson.
In the screen shot immediately above, you need to click on your name.
This should take you to another page, where on my equivalent page I see Discussions and Comments.
Discussions are topics you commence, Comments are what you add to other people's Discussions.
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When I click "My Discussions" in the panel on the right hand side, I just get a blank screen (as per image). Should my current and/or past questions appear there, or have I got that wrong? What is the best way for me to check my previous questions to my community group?
Thanks!
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Thanks Norm. When you click on that (My Discussions) in you account, do all your discussions appear on the left? Mine doesn't.
I just noticed that when I bookmark a question I've posted that it registers next to "My Bookmarks", and also appears to the left of that panel.
I'm just wondering if my "My Discussions" tab is not working properly perhaps?
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@Norm Jones ... sorry, I forgot to tag you in my response above ....
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hmmm, that's interesting you can see it. All I see when on click "My Discussions" is in the screenshot. There are clearly 5 discussion threads but only this one is showing. The other 4 are from one other group. There must be a setting in the group account I haven't set properly. I'll go and have a tinker around there now. Thanks @Norm Jones
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I noticed that your profile indicated your role was not verified. I verified you, so perhaps now it will give you access?
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@Norm Jones : Just tried it but 4 discussions are still not showing when I click "My Discussions". But when I bookmarked those 5 discussion threads just now and then click "My Bookmarks" they appear there using that tab. Still not right but at least I can use the bookmarks. Thanks Norm.
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I have 20 discussions, but when I click on discussions, I can only see a few of them. How can I see all of them?
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The label Discussions is misleading. It does not indicate how many threads you have started. Many other activities are included in the count but not shown. For example, if I report a thread as needing to be edited to remove personal info, my Discussion count goes up by 1, but is not listed in my Discussion list.
If you have started more than 10 threads, at the bottom of the 1st page, you will see a row of numbers, to access the additional pages of actual threads started.
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Besides the phantom activities that increment the counter but do not show anywhere, the activity-listing capabilities of this forum have another quirk: there are actually two discussion lists. "My Discussions", which can be accessed via the sidebar, or via the link in your profile drop-down, is the shorter of the two, because it only includes threads you've posted in a category, not anything you've posted in a group. To see a list that includes your activity in the groups you've joined, you need to go to your profile and click "Discussions". (Notice the lack of the possessive pronoun.)
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Either way, I only see 8 of my 21 threads and no numbers at the bottom of the page.
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If you only have a total of 8, then there will be no numbers at the bottom of the page. The first page holds 10.
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@Steve Wassom, I can see 15 of your 21 in the "Discussions" list accessible from your Community profile (https://community.familysearch.org/en/profile/discussions/Steve%20Wassom). Have you flagged any discussions? Those may account for the other 6. Either that, or they're phantoms related to the Community's previous iterations.
As Áine said, the counter doesn't actually report how many threads you've started. You're only "missing" six; this is a far cry from active people like Áine and me -- my counter says 123, of which I can see 82, while hers is over 300, of which the list shows ...exactly one. Yes, one.
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If you visit my profile, @Julia Szent-Györgyi, you'll have to click more 6 times to see more than 1. It seems the threads are segregated by time - I think by week. So, I started one recent thread, but my nearest previous discussion was on 11 Feb. Then 4 more clicks will show a thread I started in early January. And so on.
Don't ask me why - I have no idea.
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Ah, so with considerable persistence in clicking "more", I can get it to show me 38 actual discussions. Out of 361. That's a lot of phantoms, @Áine Ní Donnghaile. 😶
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@Steve Wassom, did you read any of my replies to your question? I mentioned the longer "Discussions" list in my first message, and gave a direct link to it in my second message. Did the system fail to deliver those or something?
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi , I apologize for not responding. I am a full-time FamilySearch missionary in the Oakland FamilySearch Center and was swamped today helping patrons. Thanks for your efforts.
Yes, the link that you provided does get me to all my discussions:
https://community.familysearch.org/en/profile/discussions/Steve%20Wassom
And clicking on my avatar at the beginning of a post goes to the same place, as @Maile L showed. But clicking on my avatar at the top right, then on discussions, goes to a different place with only 8 of my discussions:
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussions/mine
So my take-away is to either bookmark the one you sent, or click on the avatar at the beginning.
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If you click on your avatar at the top right and choose your name (not "My Discussions"), you'll go to your profile page. It has a right-hand column with Activity, Notifications, Moderation, Inbox, Discussions, and Comments. Click "Discussions" there to get the longer list. This has the advantage that it's always accessible: you don't need to find one of your comments or discussions to get to it.
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi, thanks again. I think I've got it. It's just not intuitive to click "edit profile" and not "my discussions" to find my discussions! But at least it works.
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When I look at the Quick Links on the home page of the Community it shows that I have 82 discussions that I have submitted. When I click on "My Discussions", only three results appear, all of which refer to problems with the new Community platform. Most of my questions apply to my German Research group. How can I find my questions/discussions?
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Click your avatar at the top right, then click your name on the drop-down. This takes you to your profile page. In the right-hand column, find and click "Discussions" to see a list that includes Groups. (The "My ..." list only includes Categories.)
Alternately, find one of your posts, click your name, and click on the number above "Discussions". This also takes you to the longer list.
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