Deal All,
Our community forums are now powered by Discourse (not the same as Discord). We imported all the previous discussions and attachments.
There are many cool features that we will be introducing slowly. I’ll start with a few here
To add images just Copy/Paste (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) or drag an image from your computer
You can mention anyone using @username and they will get an alert on their community avatar (at the moment these alerts only show up when you are in the community website. You will not see these alerts if you are on the main site)
Click on the Chat icon next to your picture to join public Chat channels or create your own private channel.
We’re very satisfied so far. Let us know what you think!
The Chat interface takes some getting used to. By default you see the General channel. It’s a public channel and anyone can post on it. To change settings for a channel click on its name (2) to disable notifications for example. To see other channels click on the left arrow (1). To create a private channel click on the + (3) and you can then add multiple users
Only admins can create public channels, so let us know if you would like multiple topics.
Discourse remembers were you left off, both at the latest topics level (index page) and inside a certain topic, so this should not be a problem. However, hovering the activity column value should show the topic creation and last post dates.
The old platform was a third party product (as Discourse is also, of course) that was no longer receiving updates for quite some time, switching to a modern and actively maintained product had become both a necessity and a priority for us. We spent quite a lot of time looking for the best replacement candidate and Discourse stood out as one of the most mature, fully featured and actively maintained platform. Give it a little chance and you will soon discover that it is vastly superior to the previous platform.
I had saved a couple dozen or so threads under my account on the old forum software. Is there anyway to temporarily access that old Saved Threads page so that I can copy them over?
I have created a temporary page where everyone can access the bookmarked threads from the previous forum platform: https://www.portfolio123.com/forum.jsp
With a default limit of 20, they must have been trying to prevent those infamous bookmarking DoS attacks
Thank you for raising the limit, that worked – I was able to save the rest of mine. And thanks for the forum upgrade in general. In particular, the search results seem more relevant and navigable so far.
