# TIL: You Can Change the Watching Status of a Thread

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**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/til-you-can-change-the-watching-status-of-a-thread/981878 "2023-03-30T13:24:40Z")
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### Author: ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/til-you-can-change-the-watching-status-of-a-thread/981878/7 "2023-03-30T21:52:15Z")

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Here’s how I use that functionality to easily keep up with threads.

> [@How to perfectly emulate the UserCP bookmarked threads page from vBulletin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perfectly-emulate-the-usercp-bookmarked-threads-page-from-vbulletin/929113):
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> 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…

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