@Errol   The forum menu displays on my PC in a way that sometimes any recent attached photos appear as thumbnails on the right side menu. They are often completely unrelated to what I am currently reading. They can be thumbnails of still images or thumbnails of animated gifs.  Is there a way to disable that, please?

(I added more downthread re: unread content)

Edited February 28, 20232 yr by janea4old

56 minutes ago, janea4old said:

@Errol   The forum menu displays on my PC in a way that sometimes any recent attached photos appear as thumbnails on the right side menu. They are often completely unrelated to what I am currently reading. They can be thumbnails of still images or thumbnails of animated gifs.  Is there a way to disable that, please?

Are you talking about this:

Because, I'm 98% sure it is embedded in the sidebar from the backend of the forum, and I'm pretty sure it's not customizable.

^ Yes to what @Liberty City posted - that's what I'm referring to, and I was hoping @Errol could remove it from the forum entirely.  There's just no need for it.

Adding on more info.  It's not just the sidebar.  Thumbnails of attachments also appear on the "Unread Content" menu.
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/discover/unread/

I often go to that menu to scroll quickly to see what's new on all topics from politics to cancelled soaps, to music, to spoilers, to primetime, to current soaps, etc etc etc.  

I view "Unread Content" in "Expanded View" because I like to see the first few lines of the post, to see if I want to click.  The expanded view shows thumbnails of any attachments underneath the first few lines of the post.
I can eliminate the thumbnails if I go to "Condensed View" but Condensed won't let me see the first few lines of text.

I created a generic example of what I sometimes see when scrolling Unread Content:

@Errol Is there any way to allow Expanded View of Unread Content
to *not* display thumbnails?
I'd like to see the first few lines of text that Expanded View gives
but no thumbnails.
The thumbnails are usually just reply-gifs and don't give any insight into what's being discussed.

Edited February 28, 20232 yr by janea4old

Errol, there is a way to remove it from topics. If you'd like to know, DM me! As for unread content, I haven't a clue.

Edited February 28, 20232 yr by Liberty City