News Reporter and Usenet Posts

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Excluding News Reporter and Usenet posts from 'New Posts' searches is not functioning as intended, with users reporting that their preferences are not saved. Despite checking the exclusion boxes and saving changes, they remain unchecked upon revisiting the profile settings. The issue appears to stem from the custom hacks developed independently of the platform's standard functions. There is an indication that these features will be ported to a new system, which may resolve the problem. Users are hopeful for a more responsive solution in the future.
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Whenever I choose to exclude News Reporter posts and Usenet posts from my 'New Posts' searches, it never works, and those posts still show up. In fact, every time I go back to edit my profile, those boxes to exclude those posts are unchecked (even if I checked them 5 minutes ago and clicked on "Save changes").
 
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The news reporter and usenet posts are hacks that we've developed independent of vb's normal functions.
 
Okay, but when I edit my options so that those posts are excluded from my 'New Posts' searches, why do they keep appearing, and why don't the boxes stay checked?
 
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Okay, but when I edit my options so that those posts are excluded from my 'New Posts' searches, why do they keep appearing, and why don't the boxes stay checked?

Hmmm not sure, but we will be porting those features over to the new system so hopefully they will be responsive then.
 

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