There are things I still don’t understand on the forum screen. See the picture. Can you answer the questions?
- New topic
- Unread responses.
- You read them and there’s no new responses
- Haven’t read it yet
- Number of total views
I think. All answers off the top of my head.
Okay, helpful. But still confusing.
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You said unread responses. Which denotes unread? The gray number or the blue number? And then what does the other color denote?
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Why is the one number red. All the others in that column are gray.
The more red/orange the number, the more “likes” on posts in that topic.
Okay. Good to know. Thanks.
FYI - you can hover over them and see a pop-up that describes each.
But it doesn’t fully explain each. For example color differences. What is a gray dot compared to a blue dot next to each topic? I never gave it much thought since I basically read every post.
As a brand new member these are very good questions. On many forums I am a member of the is a thing called “frequently asked questions” or FAQ. Perhaps these answers could be added to your FAQ!
Yes we have an FAQ. But this is the first time I recall anyone asking about this. I’d have to look up the answers somewhere and maybe I will someday. The settings are default of the Discourse software so maybe Discourse has something on their website.
I believe it has to do with whether or not you’ve responded on the post. I notice there are gray dots on posts that I’ve read but haven’t participated in by posting.
Ah yes, I have just had a look at your FAQ. However it doesn’t have any of the questions/answers I would have expected, it’s more of a set of forum rules.
It appears you are using the default FAQ page available in Discourse, some quick googling shows those default categories can’t really be added to though i.e. [sorry, can’t link]
Maybe you could just create a stickied post for your FAQ, can you do that in Discourse? (I guess I could Google that too … ok, just did, maybe the answer is no, see this: [sorry, can’t link])
In that case maybe you could create a new forum with just the FAQ as a post and maybe lock it from being updated?).
Sorry, I think I’m going off topic, I’ll stop now.
Edit: My first version of this post had links but the post was rejected, so I just replaced them with [sorry, can’t link]
Thanks for your input, @airdnd. As a moderator I don’t have control over the forum settings. @tom2 is the forum owner/admin and he would be charge of making a new FAQ.
All sorts of fun that can had with “mouse hover”