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
To bookmark (subscribe to) a particular discussion, click on Follows 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

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.