Browsing the Forum

Topic lists

By default, the Discourse homepage will show all Latest conversations in the community but you can filter this list in a number of ways:

• By category: in the menu line, click the ‘all categories’ title and a list of all the categories appears.

• By tag: in the menu line, click the ‘all tags’ title and a list of all the tags are used will appear.

• By level of activity: if you click on ‘Top’ the conversation topics will be listed in order of most activity (views and replies) for a specific time period. You can choose whether this is for all time, or select a specific period such as quarter, month, week or just today.

• By what’s ‘New’ to you: by default, new topics are those created in the last 2 days that you have not opened yet to keep the list fresh and relevant. New topics show a small blue dot next to the topic title

  

• By what topics are “Unread”: by default, unread topics are those that you have previously opened and read for at least 4 minutes, and that have new posts (replies) submitted to them. Unread topics show a number in a blue circle indicating how many new posts are in the topic.

  

See who is participating

There are several ways to see who is involved in topics.

participants

On the homepage you will see a selection of avatars (profile pictures) of:

• the user who started the topic (always the first photo);

• a selection of the most active participants;

• and, who created the most recent post (usually the last photo).

• in some cases, the first photo has a blue border or blue halo to indicate that the original poster is also the most recent poster.

The box at the bottom of the OP tells you; who created the post and when, gives a count of the replies and views in this topic to date, and a display of the avatars of the most frequent participants.