Vanilla Forums

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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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