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How To Guide For The New Forum

cybereality
Grand Champion
Hey everyone!

I realize change can be difficult, so I want to share a quick guide on how to use the new forum.

First off, if you want to switch between the different forum areas, click the drop-down menu on the upper right-hand side of the forum. It will say "Community" with a down arrow. Click on the down arrow and choose "Developer", for example, to go to the developer section. This same menu is also used for the different international language forums.

To create a new discussion topic, click the "New Discussion" menu button on the top right. Be sure to pick a category it should go in, for example "General" or "Off-Topic". Enter the topic title and the post content. And click "Post Discussion".

To comment on a post, just use the comment box area at the bottom of the thread. You can also interact with posts in varying ways with reactions. You can, for example, "Like" a post to show your appreciation. There was a "Dislike" button, but people were abusing it so it was removed. If you see a post that is spam or abusive, please private message one of the moderators with a link to the comment.

Your post may be flagged as spam by the automatic spam filter, and require moderator approval. If this happens, please don't just double-post the same message over and over (these will be detected as spam as well). Just wait a few hours for a mod to approve the post, or send me a PM and I can do it for you. I can also verify your account, so you are exempt from the spam filter in the future.

Editing your own posts is possible. Just click the gear icon on the black bar above the post and choose "edit". Please keep in mind that deleting your own posts is not currently supported. If you wish to delete a post, you can edit it and put in "[deleted]" or something like that, or send me a PM and I can delete it for you.

New topics you have not visited will be in bold title text in the discussion list. If you click them, they will become unbold and have a slightly darker background. If new posts are made, they will become lighter with bold text again. There is also a small yellow bubble with a number to show you how many new posts were made since you last visited the thread. After clicking you will be taken to the newest post available.

You can "bookmark" any discussion thread by clicking the orange star icon on the right-hand side. This will give you forum notifications when people respond to that topic. It will also give you access to your bookmarks on the top right header if you have a few particular discussions you wish to follow.

To post YouTube videos, you don't have to do anything special. Just post the YouTube video URL in your post on it's own line and it will automatically become an embedded video. Since the forum uses the HTML5 YouTube player, videos will even work on your mobile device.

Have a link to a particular Twitter post? Just post the URL on it's own line and it will embed the tweet. People can see the images or interact with the tweet directly inside the forum.

If you wish to post an image, you can click the paper document icon above the post area and either paste the image URL or upload a file from your computer. It will be inserted into the post and resized to correctly fill the space. You can also drag and drop images directly from a file explorer window into the forum post box. It also seems to work if you are on a website (like Google image search) and right-click, do copy image, then paste it into the post area.

We now have a Badge system. These are sort of like achievements you gain by interacting on the forum. For example, making a certain amount of posts, getting a certain amount of Likes, adding an avatar image, etc. You may also notice the star icons next to your name. There are currently 5 Levels that you can unlock based on how much you interact on the forum. Everyone starts at Level 1 and you can move up the ranks just by interacting with people in the community. Check the Activity tab on the top of the forum to see how you stack up in the leaderboard.

You can also add tags to posts near the bottom of the post area. Use popular tags or create your own.

RSS feeds are available on a per category basis. Click "Categories" on the top menu, then click the orange wave icon on the right next to the category you wish to follow. Separate from RSS, you can also mark an entire category as "read" by clicking the gear icon on the right and choosing "Mark Read". The "Hide" functionality does not appear to be working currently, but I can look into it.

Please feel free to ask any questions here in this thread if you are confused or need help with this new forum. Thanks again for your continued support of Oculus and the VR community and hope you have a good time.
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EliteSPA
Superstar
CR, when I try to queue with my iPhone get the word "null" on my post comment instead of the queue, why is that?
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cybereality
Grand Champion
@EliteSPA Yeah, there are a few things broken on the mobile site we're trying to fix over the next week or so. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Quentym
Explorer
Is this a forum for mobile? The font size is HUGE on a 1080p monitor. It looks normal on 80% zoom.

kernow
Heroic Explorer
Mostly I like the new forums. My main remaining issues with it right now is just:

1) Please have someone fix the behavior of CTRL+Arrow in the text edit boxes. Ctrl+Arrow shouldn't jump to beginning or end of a line, just word by word.

2) Can someone add (pretty please) the ability to do themes? The white/black color scheme was way too harsh for my eyes (and it seems, for others'), so I ended up adding an entry in Firefox's userContent.css file to do a quick fix, but I would rather not use the userContent trick. An option for a less "intense" color scheme would be nice (attaching screen cap of what I threw together in userContent, which, at least for me, is less hard on the eyes).

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GSS
Explorer
facebook made the new forum didn't they? all the new design choices just remind me of going to facebook.com

cybereality
Grand Champion

GSS said:

facebook made the new forum didn't they? all the new design choices just remind me of going to facebook.com


The new forum was designed by the in-house Oculus design team, though I think there was some inspiration derived from modern social networks like Facebook and Twitter. 
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Constellation
Expert Protege
When subscribing to threads the old forum would send a single mail when there was a new post and then it wouldn't send any more until you revisited the thread. I'm now getting a mail each time someone posts which is kind of a lot especially with busy threads like this one. Is there a way to make it work like it did before?

TwoHedWlf
Expert Trustee

JeffBail said:

When subscribing to threads the old forum would send a single mail when there was a new post and then it wouldn't send any more until you revisited the thread. I'm now getting a mail each time someone posts which is kind of a lot especially with busy threads like this one. Is there a way to make it work like it did before?


Does it subscribe you to threads?  I haven't received a single notification by email since it switched.  And I can't see any way to tell if a thread is one I've commented in.

cybereality
Grand Champion
I believe that's intended functionality, and I'm not sure I have the option to change it. However you can turn the emails off in your preferences and just receive in-forum notifications. You can also see on the top-right the star icon will show your bookmarked threads and how many posts are unread.

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Constellation
Expert Protege
On the plus side the links in the emails now take you directly to the thread (whereas before they'd just take you to the forum). The problem is there's just too many emails each day to make the notifications worthwhile.