David N.

Great! I did that and it works! Thanks a lot for the simple idea. And thank you too @Nathan Explosionfor the detailed code, I'm sure this will come in handy at one time or another, I appreciate the help as well.

Ok thank you Marc.

Thank you. However on my main computer where I'm always logged in, they are never shaded, even when there is no new content at all? Edit: Oh I see they're shaded only when logged out and there's no unread content then. Is there a way to disable this function?

I noticed that when I'm not logged in (on another machine) the forum icons are shaded. What is the meaning of shaded icons, and is there a way to disable them so they're never shaded (I am using custom forum icons).

Thank you!

Thank you!

I really like the widget we can see at the top of the sidebar on this forum, the one about "Scheduled Maintenance - Today - Complete". Is it possible to make my own for my forum? Thanks!

I clicked the little x to the right of a user's signature and chose to hide it. If I want to now display it again, how do I do that? Thanks!

Ok I understand, and I will post there. Thank you!

Let me clarify the behavior I wish, which is similar to mail apps such as yahoo mail, gmail, or the Mail app on a Mac computer. There are 5 new posts since you last visited and the bell shows a (5) badge. You click the bell and see 5 highlighted notifications listed at the top for posts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. You click the link to visit post 3, reply to it, do a few other things etc... The bell now shows a (4) badge. You click the bell and see posts 1, 2, 4 and 5 highlighted, but 3 is now grayed out because you visited it. That way you can immediately identify visually that you've already processed the notification for post 3 but you still have to take care of posts 1, 2, 4 and 5. Does that make sense?

Thanks Marc for your answer. That's too bad. I really wish the Notifications could keep track of what you've visited and what you haven't, like on an email program for example. When I have multiple notifications and open the menu, and click one notification to visit the post, maybe type an answer, and then come back to the notification menu, I can no longer tell which notifications I've already clicked and which I haven't. Let's call it a feature request for a future version of the software! 😃

Recently moved from another forum software to Invision and I love it for the most part. I do however miss the behavior of the bell / Notifications pop-up menu and want to see if there's a way to implement it in my Invision Community board: If I had for example 3 notifications, the bell would have the number 3 and show 3 highlighted notifications in the pop-up menu. If I then clicked one of the notification that took me to a new post or a new private message, or if somehow I read the corresponding post or private message, then that specific notification was no longer highlighted, and the bell would show the number 2 with only 2 notifications highlighted. That behavior made it real easy to keep track of which items in the notification list had been visited and which ones were yet to click/visit.

Ok great, thanks Jim, I appreciate it, and I will contact my ad provider. I will update this thread once I find the answer.

Thank you Jim. The reason I was thinking this may be an issue with Invision was because once I add a widget (any widget), everything behaves as expected, both the sicky part, and the padding part:

Thank you, however that did not work as expected unfortunately. First, the sidebar ad is stuck to the content on its left with no padding, unlike a real sidebar. Second, the sidebar ad that is supposed to turn into a sticky ad (stays in place while scrolling down) once it reaches the top of the viewport, completely disappears when you scroll down (and the forum content becomes full width again).

I need a sidebar in order for ads to be automatically displayed in the sidebar. However the only way I've found to create a sidebar is to open the builder and create a small widget (a small text widget). Now I have my small text widget and the ads automatically shows up below. But I would prefer to not have that small text widget at all. Is there a solution? Thanks!

Thank you very much, that works! 😃

Longer topics on my forum automatically display a sidebar with Replies/Created/Last Reply counts, Top Posters in this topic, Popular Days...etc. How can I remove that sidebar? Thanks!

Great! Thank you. And indeed, that is the behavior. 😃

Thank you Marc. I already have "Can edit silently?" turned on in the Content tab of the Admin group, however when I edit a message it does display the "Edited by" message.

I would like the admin to edit posts silently (without displaying edited by my_name), is that possible? I often correct typos, add an uppercase at the beginning of a title, make corrections to the formatting of a post etc.. and would rather not have that "edited by" line displayed. Thanks!

Great, thanks a lot for providing two different solutions. I'm going to have a look at that 3rd party app, it looks like what i'm looking for.

Is there a way to create a link (perhaps an "activity" stream?) that lists all recent topics that haven't been answered to yet?

Great, thank you. I just changed the font to "default" and that gave me what I needed.

Hello, Is there a way to remove the "Inter" font-family so that fonts default to -apple-system instead?