There should be several links at the top of any page within the PCWorld Forums. The first link (*PCWorld Community*) should be on any page of the forum. If you click on it, it will take you to the "primary" front page of the forums. At the top of that page, there should be a section that says "What's New" with two links - All Content and Your View.

Click on Your View. This will give "your view" of the communities...i.e. only like the most recent posts from the communities that you want.

If you have not modified the default settings, then it will be the same as All Content. But, when you switch to Your View, there should be a blue box just below the What's New bit with a link titled Edit Your View. The top of the PCWorld Forums home page should look like this at this point:

Click on the Edit your view link. This should expand the blue section allow you to select which sections/communities that you want displayed in your view. It should look something like this now:

You can now uncheck those communities that you don't want and keep checked the communities that you do want...just remember to click on the Save View button when you are done.

Keep in mind that only the front/first page of the list of ALL communities, whether you are looking at All Content or Your View, will show new/modified topics in BOLD and topics that you have already read (clicked) in normal text. Thus, a topic that you are interested in has been bumped to the second page, you can no longer tell if that topic has been modified/updated since you last read it or if it is a new topic.

Thus, the Your View mode is a way to limit the number of topics that will display on the "front page" and thus potentially make it easier to keep track of new content. For example, if you want to dramatically reduce the number of topics that get added to the list on a regular basis, then uncheck the News Discussion community. This will eliminate all the posts from the PCWorld Bot that puts up new topics for each PCWorld news item so that members can discuss them. The Bot tends to put up a hand full or more each day.

Or if you want to eliminate the non-technical discussions, then you can uncheck the General Talk community. Or if you don't really care about Macs or Linux, you can uncheck those communities. Basically, this will allow you to control which communities you will see in the "customized" view of the PCWorld front page.

If you want to see all the content, then you can just click on the All Content link and all the most current posts from all the communities will be displayed.

This document was generated from the following thread: What do you think of the new Macworld forums?