One gets to ones 'personalised page' via the homepage only?

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One gets to ones 'personalised page' via the homepage only?

Not that I would want to get there but it is still funny the only way to get to ones 'personalised page' (ie, https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa?showpersonalized=true) is via the discussions home page (https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa).

When you are anywhere else on the site none of the links, nothing in 'Your Stuff', will lead you to your 'personalised page'. Again, I see little point in using that 'personalised page', this is no Facebook, I am not going to make my 'personalised page' my browser homepage. I navigate to the discussion forum I need to go to and then either post a question there or start a search there. And I subscribe to individual threads via e-mail or read threads Google or others lead me to. I am not going to browse different forums here as a past time unless I use browsing as an extended way of searching, way way too much traffic here.

Posted on Apr 18, 2011 5:42 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 18, 2011 5:45 AM in response to Sekoya

I was JUST thinking the same thing. I actually like the personalized page so I see what I want to see all in one place but the fact that I can only get back there by first going back to the main discussion page is nuts.

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Apr 18, 2011 5:54 AM in response to Michele Gardner

Hi Sekoya and Michele,

In general I agree with the point. It would make sense to me for it to be under the Your Stuff menu.

I have set the Your View page as the defualt forum homepage. When you go to the Your View tab there is an option to set as default tab.

Best wishes

John M

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Sekoya Author

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Apr 18, 2011 6:21 AM in response to John Maisey

I still find it highly confusing to have 'Your Stuff' and 'Your View' as two separate items, particularly as only in 'Your View' you can view more than 50 of your posts (in the 'Your Stuff' page, once you make the extra click on discussions you can increase the number of posts shown to 50 but even though it says '50 per page' there is no way to get to a second page with any additional posts).

And even seeing all your posts in 'Your View' is highly hidden via first the 'personalize' link, then a very small grey triangle and then a 'Edit this widget'. Surely that must be the most intuative way to show more of your posting history.

And 'Your View' uses about 50% more vertical space than 'Your Stuff'.

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Apr 18, 2011 9:31 AM in response to John Maisey

John, you solved my issue - now I have a direct link to my personal page no matter where I am - just click the big ol' Apple Support Communities text and I'm there. Thanks.

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Apr 18, 2011 11:07 AM in response to Michele Gardner

Michele, Glad it helped.

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