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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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TwoHedWlf
Expert Trustee
Ok, so you have to manually bookmark it, it doesn't automatically do it whenever you post in a thread like just about every other forum?

cybereality
Grand Champion
@TwoHedWlf We have multiple options for notifications (including in threads you've posted in). Click the gear icon on the top right of the page and choose preferences to see your available options.
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Anonymous
Not applicable
How i can order the topics as creation date? I´m sorry, but this new update is not good.

cybereality
Grand Champion
@ktoloco Sorry, I think it always shows most recent activity first.
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AndersNolberger
Explorer
How do I mark all topics read. I always use that feature at forum so that I can se whats new since the last visit.

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
Cybereality wrote: " There is also a "Dislike" button, which will eventually make the post hidden if enough people don't like it. This is a feature aimed at removing abusive or non-constructive posts from the feed. You should not use it if you simply disagree with someone."

It seems there's quite a few people who haven't read this and treat the dislike button like on Youtube. Some people are disliking legitimate posts  and hounding others simply because they have a pro Vive slant. What are you going to do about educating these people?  I would create a thread about this but it's early days. Maybe a quick PM to the offending few Cyber?


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Scawen
Heroic Explorer


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?


Yes, this is a problem.  It is better when you only receive one notification per thread until you next visit the forum.

It's made worse because I can't find any option to unsubscribe from a single thread.  I really do want to get email notifications for any threads I've contributed to in the past, because that is important.  But now I'm getting dozens or emails a day from this one thread so I'd really like the option to unsubscribe from it.

I know there is an option to only receive notifications from "bookmarked" threads but that is not a solution.  It's important to get a notification from all threads I've posted in, no matter how long ago, even if they are not bookmarked,
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dead4sure
Adventurer
Is there a way to change the "Dislike" to "Report" to avoid confusion?

Out of interest, what does the Flag option do? Is that for personal reference if you want to look something up in the future?

VizionVR
Rising Star
@cybereality,
I see we can toggle lights when writing a post in full page mode. Please, please make this an option when in standard mode as well. All this white is killing my eyes.
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cybereality
Grand Champion


How do I mark all topics read. I always use that feature at forum so that I can se whats new since the last visit.


If you go to the Categories tab from the top menu, you'll see a list on Categories in the center. To the upper-right of each category element, there is a gear icon. Click this and choose "Mark Read". Unfortunately, I don't see a way to do it for the whole forum, so you'll have to "Mark Read" on each category.

In addition, in the Discussions page, threads that have new or unread posts will appear with bold text and light background color. Threads that you have read or participated in with new posts will show a yellow bubble with the number of new posts since you last saw the thread.
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