Vanilla Forums

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

Tips

Tips for using our discussion forum Under section Discussion Views (right sidebar), you can change the view to see a list of latest discussions or latest discussions by category 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 By subscribing to a category, you make it work more like a mailing list You can vote for the most important discussions by clicking on the Votes blue box, at the right side of the discussion title Click it again to remove your vote, in case you have changed your mind To bookmark (subscribe to) a particular discussion, click on the Follows blue box, at the right side of the discussion title You can choose to receive email notifications when there are new comments on your bookmarked discussions You can see the number of people who bookmarked a discussion right under Follows Click on your login name (top left side) to access your account page and change your preferences. Change your email notification settings by clicking on My Preferences on your account page

Email Notifications

You can receive email notifications when:

• There's a new discussion or comment on any of the categories you have subscribed to
• people comment on your bookmarked discussions.
• people mention you in comments (by using (@login)
• people mention you in discussion titles (by using @login)
• people write on your wall.
• people reply to your wall comments.
• someone sends you a private message.
• you are added to private conversations.
• people comment on your discussions.

Plugins we use

• Email Subscribe
• Facebook
• Google Sign In
• Twitter
• Gravatar
• FileUpload
• Flagging
• ...

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