# Deal breaker: lack of a list of subscribed threads sorted by currency

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deal-breaker-lack-of-a-list-of-subscribed-threads-sorted-by-currency/911659>\
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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deal-breaker-lack-of-a-list-of-subscribed-threads-sorted-by-currency/911659 "2020-06-22T15:04:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deal-breaker-lack-of-a-list-of-subscribed-threads-sorted-by-currency/911659/21 "2020-07-18T03:35:29Z")

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Yeah, I thought for a minute- dollars, pounds, Euros… 🤣 😝

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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deal-breaker-lack-of-a-list-of-subscribed-threads-sorted-by-currency/911659/22 "2020-07-18T10:42:25Z")

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> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#):
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> Manually subscribing to every thread I post in is not equivalent functionality.

Go to click on your avatar \> click on your name \> select the preferences tab \> select Notifications from the column on the left \> select as desired

[![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/snmxpc4.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/snmxpc4)

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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deal-breaker-lack-of-a-list-of-subscribed-threads-sorted-by-currency/911659/23 "2020-07-18T14:37:18Z")

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> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#):
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> Go to click on your avatar \> click on your name \> select the preferences tab \> select Notifications from the column on the left \> select as desired

Except that Discourse will also put any thread you’ve read for a while into Tracking; so there’s no way, without opening the thread, to tell a thread that’s in Tracking because you posted in it from one that’s in Tracking because you only read it.

You can individually set the only-read threads back to Normal. But there isn’t any option in preferences to not have threads you’ve only read not set to tracking – the best you can do is to raise the time you spend reading the thread before that happens to ten minutes.

It makes no sense at all to me, and I find it really annoying, that I can tell preferences to leave a thread as normal if I’ve posted in it, but can’t tell preferences to leave a thread as normal if I’ve only read it.

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**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deal-breaker-lack-of-a-list-of-subscribed-threads-sorted-by-currency/911659/24 "2020-07-18T14:49:10Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> But there isn’t any option in preferences to not have threads you’ve only read not set to tracking

Yes, there is. The first option on the list is ‘never’. Just scroll up the list of options.

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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deal-breaker-lack-of-a-list-of-subscribed-threads-sorted-by-currency/911659/25 "2020-07-18T14:56:43Z")

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> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> The first option on the list is ‘never’. Just scroll up the list of options

You’re right; and I didn’t see that. I clicked on the menu and got offered “five minutes”, “ten minutes”, and one other time less than ten minutes, I forget which. I didn’t see the nearly-invisible scroll bar, and assumed that was the whole list.

Thanks! That was making me grumpy; and now it won’t.

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