Whether you practically live your life on your Multiply Message Board, or at the very least use it from time to time, you know how much easier it makes keeping up to date with the latest posts from a large (or small) number of people, all depending on how you choose to filter it.

Well, if you spend any sort of a good deal of time on the page, you'll appreciate the new preferences we recently added.

In addition to the old essentials, like choosing the number of items that appear per page, the way they're sorted and what view style you prefer, you can now choose which of the sidebar boxes you'd like to see.

You can now hide:

• Post New Content
• Upcoming Events
• Popular Tags
  

And of course, showing them once again is just as easy as unchecking the appropriate box.

Which boxes (if any) can you do without, and end up hiding on your message board?




Source: http://multiply.multiply.com/journal/item/145/New_Feature_Hide_message_board_boxes

With the ability to see what's being shared in your entire social network, your "My Multiply" Message Board is almost certainly the best way to see what your friends, family and other people close to you, are up to.

Using the tabs across the top of the page, you can show more (or less) of what's being shared in your network with one click. However, Custom Filters really let you take this to the next level.

What we're doing here is creating a custom page view, which will allow you to quickly and easily display only the types of posts you want to see right now on your Message Board. Click Custom Filter. This tool will appear:

Simply select how much (if any) of your network you would like have appear, if you'd like to have posts from any group (or groups) included, any other specific users you would like to add, what type of content you'd like the filter to display, and whether you'd like to only be shown unread posts that meet those criteria. Give the Custom Filter a name if you'd like it saved for later, or don't bother if you only plan to use it once.

Then click OK!

When you do, you'll find your Message Board displaying only what you're interested in seeing at the moment. When you'd like to remove the filter and view all of your network once again, simply click the [remove filter] link that you'll find at the top of your Message Board. And if you chose a name for your filter, you'll be able to select it later by clicking Custom Filter once again.

Here are some of our favorites:

	People in your Network	Groups you are in	Specific Individuals	Filter by Type	Show only unread
Unread from contacts (great for catching up on "required reading"!)	You, Contacts	None	[None]	All Posts	[Checked]
Missed Video (never before viewed)	You, Contacts, Medium, Distant	None	[None]	Video	[Checked]
Multiply-related groups (groups related to Multiply; will only work if you're in these groups)	[None]	multiplydesign, muds, modify, pimpursite, multiplynewbie, customizedthemes	[None]	All Posts	[Unchecked]

Source: http://multiply.multiply.com/journal/item/116/Featured_Feature_Custom_Message_Board_filters