Preferences
Q. How do I access my user preferences?
Preferences can be found by clicking on your Username in the Main Menu and navigating to "Preferences", or by selecting "Preferences" from the "Your Account" sidebar.
Q. How do I adjust the website style or background?
The hub has a few different style options to choose from, with more being developed for future release. You can select from the currently available styles either in your Account Preferences or by clicking the paintbrush icon in the lower-left corner of the website.
Q. How do I adjust my time zone?
To adjust your time zone settings so that times and dates for content posts can be read relative to your local time, select your zone from the "Time Zone" drop-down in your Account Preferences.
Q. How do I adjust my email notification preferences?
You can select which email notifications you would like to receive from the "Email Options" section of your Account Preference. Note: The Hub does not send spam, newsletters, or other advertisements. The only communications you will receive from the Hub are account or notification-related emails.
Q. What are the "Content Options"?
Content Options refers to the automated behavior of the Hub when you interact with content. Here you can choose whether new content you view will be automatically "Watched" (meaning; you will receive notification alerts about updates to the media, resource, or thread and have the additional option to receive email alerts as well).
Some examples of these options are:
- When downloading a resource from the Hub, that resource will automatically be added to your "Watched Resources" list.
- When adding a new media item, your media will automatically be "Watched" so that you will receive notifications if someone comments or reacts to your content.
If you choose to turn off these automated options, then you can still manually "Watch" any content on the Hub by clicking the "Watch" button. "Watched" content can be viewed at any time from the main menu by navigating to the content category (i.e. Resources, Media, Forums, etc) and clicking the "Watched" submenu item, or by navigating to "News Feed" from the Account menu under your Username.
Q. How do I turn off the gallery images that display in the resource list?
"Resource Gallery Options" in your Account Preferences handles the display of gallery images when you are viewing lists of resources in search results and category filters on the Hub. You can turn on/off resource galleries either from these options or from the filter bar when viewing resources.
Turning off "Expand resource galleries by default" will hide galleries unless you hover over the resource (for desktop), or tap the resource (for mobile).
"Fade resource gallery thumbnails unless focused" reduces the brightness of the resource galleries unless you hover over the resource (for desktop), or tap the resource (for mobile).
Q. What is "Hide Media Content"?
These options were added based on user demand when the Hub was created, but have limited usefulness. Currently, these options only hide the "Futa" and "LGBT" categories from the Media section, but have no effect on Resources or on media that has not been placed in those categories.
Q. What does "Restore Dismissed Notices" do?
This option refers to system notices, which are the banners you may sometimes see that include messages from Hub staff or MeshedVR. If you accidentally dismissed a notice and it has not expired, you can view it again by selecting this option.
Q. How do I change the default search options?
Navigating to "Search Options" in your Account Preferences will allow you to switch between "Most recent" and "Relevance (most relevant)" as the initial sorting for your searches on the Hub. The default sorting option is "Relevance" so that you will see the content that matches your search parameters the best when searching.
Q. How do I adjust the settings for Alerts / web notifications?
First, let's clarify. "Alerts" refers to the notifications you receive under the bell icon in the main menu, next to your Username.
There are several options for Alerts in your Account Preferences. You can also access these options by clicking "Alert Preferences" when viewing all of your alerts, or by clicking "Preferences" from the Alerts drop-down menu.
To view your Alerts page, simply click the Bell icon in the main menu and select "Show All".
Back in your Account Preferences, the "Alerts page skips summarizing" and "Summarize threshold" will only work on some types of alerts. This setting will prevent your Alerts from being grouped or summarized on the Alerts page, or set a minimum number of similar alerts before they will be grouped.
"Alert pop-up options" allows you to control what happens when you click the bell icon to display your alerts. You can set this so that all alerts are marked "read" as soon as you click the icon, or so that alerts are never marked "read" unless you manually mark them. Per-alert configuration will automatically mark an alert as "read" once it has been viewed.
The "Dependency Alerts" option will enable or disable the alerts you might receive when your content is being used in another resource as a dependency, or when you have been credited in a resource.
Finally, you can disable, enable, or customize which alerts you receive on a per-content basis by adjusting your "Alerting Preferences".