# How to perfectly emulate the UserCP bookmarked threads page from vBulletin
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113
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**Created:** [December 28, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113 "2020-12-28T16:52:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/1 "2020-12-28T16:52:07Z")
This was probably already shared in one of the discourse megathreads, but I stopped reading those after the first few days post-move. So apologies if this is old news.
I’m a weird flavor of Luddite. I don’t mind new technology, but I hate new **systems** which replace those I’ve grown familiar with. I used in-browser mouse gestures for long after the extra little buttons standard on most meeses made them irrelevant.
The thing that I hated most about Discourse was the loss of the userCP page, which is what I always used as my SDMB landing. Here is how to recreate it perfectly. It doesn’t take much fiddling at all, but it does take a minimal amount of fiddling. Here’s how to do it for anyone in my boat.
**1) Navigate to your user preferences.**
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/ZH1135Q/usercp1.png)
**2) Go to ‘notifications’ and set “when I post in a topic” to “tracking.” This is not the default setting.**
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/930gWqN/usercp2.png)
**3) Set up a new bookmark in your browser with the following url: [Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest?state=tracking)**
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/10R0hvH/usercp3.png)
1. That’s it. The bookmarked search result’s output is identical to the old userCP and makes checking up on your most relevant threads a breeze. It’ll put threads with new responses at the top. And, of course, you can set interesting threads you haven’t posted in to “tracking” and they’ll show up as well.
Enjoy!
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### Author:  [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/2 "2021-01-01T01:44:35Z")
Thank you. I will find that useful when I get back to my normally-used machine.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/3 "2021-01-01T05:23:36Z")
Thank you for this.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/4 "2021-01-02T16:39:49Z")
I’m glad some people found it useful!
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/5 "2021-01-03T15:00:07Z")
I will try that. I, too, used to use UserCP as a main way to keep up with my activity, and have been missing it.
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/6 "2021-01-03T15:09:34Z")
I bookmark threads from the topic controls button and open them by going to the bookmark icon in my avatar controls.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/7 "2021-03-24T11:19:10Z")
Dang. Why am I just seeing this now? Gonna try it.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/8 "2021-03-24T11:54:02Z")
Thanks, I had been looking for something like this. Not very hard, but looking. I had to set my preferences for ‘Automatically track topics I enter’ to ‘never’ for this to work right, though—for some reason, it was set to ‘after 2 minutes’, so threads I’d only ever read, not posted to, would show up there, too.
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### Author:  [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113/9 "2021-03-24T18:07:00Z")
Thanks for bumping this, I missed it the first time around and I’m finding it pretty useful. Saves me the trouble of having to set a thread to “tracking” and bookmarking it at the same time.