Vanilla Forums: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:59, 29 April 2011

Vanilla Forums are open-source, standards-compliant, customizable discussion forums.

Tips for using our discussion forum

Under section Discussion Views (right sidebar), you can change the view to see latest discussions or latest discussions with categories
Hover your mouse over Discussions (at the top) to see a category menu
- A category contains discussions (a.k.a forum posts) related to a given topic
- Create an email subscription to a category of your interest by clicking on E-mail Subscriptions
- To subscribe to a particular discussion, click on Follows at the right side of the discussion title
  - You can see the number of people who subscribed to a discussion right under Follows
Click on your login name (top left side) to access your account page and change your preferences.
- Change your notification settings by clicking on My Preferences on your account page

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 * Under section '''Discussion Views''' ''(right sidebar)'', you can change the view to see '''[http://openfarmtech.org/forum/discussions latest discussions]''' or '''[http://openfarmtech.org/forum/categories/discussions latest discussions with categories]'''
 * Hover your mouse over '''Discussions''' ''(at the top)'' to see a '''category menu'''
-* Click on your login name to access your account page and change your preferences.
+** A ''category'' contains discussions (a.k.a ''forum posts'') related to a given ''topic''
-** Change your '''notification settings''' by clicking on '''My Preferences'''
+** Create an '''[http://vanillaforums.org/addon/636/emailsubscribe email subscription]''' to a category of your interest by clicking on '''[http://openfarmtech.org/forum/profile/subscriptions E-mail Subscriptions]'''
-** Change your '''[http://vanillaforums.org/addon/636/emailsubscribe email subscriptions]''' by clicking on '''[http://openfarmtech.org/forum/profile/subscriptions E-mail Subscriptions]'''
+** To subscribe to a particular discussion, click on '''Follows''' at the right side of the discussion title
+*** You can see the number of people who subscribed to a discussion right under ''Follows''
+* Click on your login name (top left side) to access your '''account page''' and change your preferences.
+** Change your '''notification settings''' by clicking on '''My Preferences''' on your ''account page''
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