Forum Tips and Tricks

Use the Search function

Contrary to popular belief, and prior experiences with those ‘old fashioned’ forums, Discourse provides a really well working search functionality. Please, for the sake of the community,USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION. It’s not that hard, and it provides reliable answers, for which you don’t have to scroll through the entire forum. For those who are visual learners:

The search button is the little looking glass at the top right corner, next to your profile image, and notification bubble.

To get more, and possibly more relevant, answers, please click the “show more” button, which is shown after entering a query. Shown in the picture below:

I know it’s easier to just open a new thread, ask your question, and wait for answers. But with the community growing, there will be more and more questions asked, and more time will have to be spent answering those. We’re absolutely okay with that, and you’re more than welcome to ask question. It will however clutter the forum if some questions have to be answered on 7 different topics, while they’ve been answered several times before. So I’d like to request it once more: please use the search functionalities, and don’t be afraid to read a bit before opening a new topic.

Thanks in advance!

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