New Post Search, NO LOUNGE results

[II2II]

This seems to work, the major drawback being that changes to the forum may break it.

http://68kmla.org/forums/search.php?fid[]=1&fid[]=3&fid[]=4&fid[]=18&fid[]=19&fid[]=7&fid[]=8&fid[]=9&fid[]=10&fid[]=11&fid[]=12&fid[]=13&fid[]=21&fid[]=6&fid[]=14&fid[]=15&fid[]=20&fid[]=16&search_id=newposts

 

[Anonymous Freak]

This seems to work, the major drawback being that changes to the forum may break it.

http://68kmla.org/forums/search.php?fid[]=1&fid[]=3&fid[]=4&fid[]=18&fid[]=19&fid[]=7&fid[]=8&fid[]=9&fid[]=10&fid[]=11&fid[]=12&fid[]=13&fid[]=21&fid[]=6&fid[]=14&fid[]=15&fid[]=20&fid[]=16&search_id=newposts

When I click "View new posts", I get Lounge results...

 

[~tl]

That can be simplified a bit by enabling the sub-forum search option (&sc=1) since phpBB doesn't distinguish between forums and categories – so the forums listed on the index page are technically sub-forums of their categories. You can therefore include all the categories except for the "Community Connections" one and just include the relevant forums from that.

http://68kmla.org/forums/search.php?fid%5B%5D=1&fid%5B%5D=3&fid%5B%5D=4fid%5B%5D=23&fid%5B%5D=24&fid%5B%5D=25&fid%5B%5D=26&sc=1&search_id=newposts

We don't change the forum set up too often (i.e. basically never) so it shouldn't be a huge problem. I'll see if there's a sexier way to do it... but that's a fairly good solution for the time being.

When I click "View new posts", I get Lounge results...

Yeah, that link still points to the main search results. You have to use the URI that II2II posted or one that I gave above (save it as a bookmark) to get the results without the Lounge.

 

[II2II]

Incidentally, you can make your own view new posts URL that excludes other parts of the forum (or, more properly speaking, only includes certain parts of the forum) by mucking around with the advanced search and figuring out which forums correspond to which fid[]=# statement (which is how I built the above URL, after some fiddling to figure out which options are necessary). Another example may be Apple II users excluding the Mac forums, or vica-versa.