# What happened to "Show all threads started by \[user\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 9, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709 "2006-11-09T15:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/1 "2006-11-09T15:36:56Z")
When you click on a user’s name at the top of one of their posts, a sub-menu pops up with several options, including Send email to [user], Show all post by [user], etc. I’m sure that one of the options used to be “Show all threads started by [user]”, but lately that seems to have disappeared. Am I losing my memory, or did this go away with a vB update, or what? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/2 "2006-11-09T15:39:15Z")
It’s still doable, if you go into advanced search. Which of course doesn’t answer your actual question, only what I interpret to be the motivating force behind your question. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/3 "2006-11-09T15:42:00Z")
It’s also an option if you view public profile. I don’t think I remember the threads started being on the dropdown - could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/4 "2006-11-09T15:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] It’s also an option if you view public profile. I don’t think I remember the threads started being on the dropdown - could be wrong. [/QUOTE] OK, that’s probably where I saw it before. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/5 "2006-11-09T17:08:49Z")
It’s still there. You need javascipt enabled, but if you let the page load completely then click the username, the dropdown menu appears with the “Find All Posts By [user]” option as the last item. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/6 "2006-11-09T17:15:45Z")
[Here](http://img276.imageshack.us/img276/8995/dropdownll9.jpg) is a screen cap of what the menu typically looks like. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/7 "2006-11-09T17:30:15Z")
**Q.E.D.** , I wasn’t asking about the drop-down menu not displaying. That’s always been there, as well as the “Show all posts by [user].” I somehow had it in my head that “Show all threads started by [user]” was on there, but as **Frank** pointed out, that option is in the View Public Profile screen. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/8 "2006-11-09T17:34:41Z")
Ahhhhhh. I gotcha. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/9 "2006-11-11T02:25:10Z")
It currently doesn’t seem to be functioning at 100%. Just now (coincidentally, just before I found this thread), I ran that search on threads I have started, and it failed to pick up the two most recent ones I started. Anyone have any idea why? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2006, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-show-all-threads-started-by-user/379709/10 "2006-11-11T10:18:26Z")
Actually, now you mention it, could this feature be added to the drop-down menu please, admins?