Possible to filter out iPhone/Touch posts?

[wordmunger]

Am I the only one who's getting completely sick of all the iPhone/iPod touch posts, especially the hacking threads?

I really would like to see a MacRumors without all the iPhone stuff. I just don't care about it. If we can't get these people their own site/forum, could we at least have a way to filter them out of New Posts?

edit: I see we can filter Forum Spy... maybe I'll start using that more...

 

[FJ218700]

that's what I do. Works well enough. Give it a try

 

[Kernow]

Or you could do this for new posts, from the sticky at the top of this forum

 

[wordmunger]

Ha! That works great!

For the truly lazy, here are the forums I excluded:

99,109,108,105,104,113

Just go to this page:

https://forums.macrumors.com/account/preferences

And enter in the "exclude forums" box.

If, like me, you have bookmarked the "new posts" search, you'll need to rebookmark it for it to work. [update: it doesn't seem to work at all from a bookmark.]

The forums I excluded are these:

iPhone (99), IPhone tips (109), iPhone accessories (108), iPHone apps (105), iPhone purchaser meetups (104), and iPod Touch (113). I kept iPhone news discussion (107), but you could delete that one too if you wanted....

 

[Doctor Q]

If, like me, you have bookmarked the "new posts" search, you'll need to rebookmark it for it to work. [update: it doesn't seem to work at all from a bookmark.]

Once you click the New Posts link, it turns into a search. If you bookmark the search, it won't do a new search the next time.

However, you can do the following: Click New Posts and save the bookmark. Then go to your Bookmarks window and edit the bookmark's URL. Set it to this:

https://forums.macrumors.com/search/?do=getnew​

In this version, I've excluded some forums:

https://forums.macrumors.com/search/?do=getnew&exclude=1,2,3,4,5​

 

[valdore]

Yeah, the iPod and iPhone forums are completely boring and irrelevant to me also.