Is there a way to quickly clear out some of the "Activity for You" file?

When you get a question click on the questions for you, and there are a couple of buttons in that, one is remove and one is remove all. That’ll clear all the questions out.

You can “mark all as read”, which allows you to keep following the questions, but change your Activity for You number to “0 new”.

To answer your question, there doesn’t seem to be a way to clear out some of the activity. After all, how would Fluther know which questions should be cleared and which shouldn’t?

I had asked this question of Augie once.

Not that I wanted Fluther to figure out what I wanted cleared out, @dappled_leaves, but that it would be nice to be able to highlight a bunch at a time or click on a bunch at a time (like with email) and then delete. Sometimes, what I’m following is no longer timely, for example soccer question or politics question, or it just no longer interests me. The way it’s set up now, it does take so long to “stop following” – it’s just as easy to just click on the question, and then be done with it that way.

It would be nice to be able to highlight a bunch or click on a bunch and then stop that way. I don’t want all of my Activity for you deleted, just maybe half.

@jca thank you for better expressing the question I was trying to ask. Yes, that is what I was wondering, can you highlight a bunch and say begone without losing all?

I use Firefox.

When I want to mark a question as read without going to the question, I’ll right click on the question as it appears on the AfY page and select “Open Link in New Tab”. That way I can stay on the “Activity for You” page and then go to the next question.

If I want to stop following certain questions, I’ll right click on their “stop following” links and proceed as above.

Eventually you might want to close the tabs to recover some of the RAM the above processes will use.

@jca Good point.

If you click “stop following” on the “Activity for You” page, it will remove that entry from the list and you won’t get any more notifications when someone answers the question.

but, @SavoirFaire even that way it is an individual thing, you cannot eliminate multiple questions at the same time, only on a one by one basis.

@rojo I know, but you have already been told that the answer to your original question is “no.” I was letting you know the closest thing to a “yes” that the site offers. Note that this way is actually fewer clicks, though. Otherwise you’d have to click a bunch of boxes and then another button to clear everything out.