Forum Tips

I'm new to Drupal-powered forums. Like any web-based forum software, there is a teeny little learning curve. I thought I'd start this thread to capture those tips we find useful. Here's a couple tips to get started:

  1. Controlling where "read more" happens. Unless you specify <!--break--> in your actual text, the forum will break your post at a (seemingly) arbitrary position. <!--break--> gives you a mechanism to control where the "summary" portion ends.
  2. Use the <code/> tag to show programming code. i.e. you would type:


    <code>
    var foo = document.createElement("p");
    foo.appendChild(document.createTextNode("bar"));
    </code>

    and it would render in the forums as:


    var foo = document.createElement("p");
    foo.appendChild(document.createTextNode("bar"));

    Please feel free to add more tips as you come across them.

Comments

I always forget the

I always forget the <--break--> tag the first time through then have to go back and put it in.

I'm looking in to ways to improve the mechanics of the forums (read: make them more like other forums that people like), so suggestions are welcome too.

I'd be open to changing the forum behaviour so that without a <--break--> the whole post just shows up. That functionality (called a "teaser") is best used on sites that put exerpts on the front page.

Excerpts and Quotes

Rob said:
I'd be open to changing the forum behaviour so that without a <!--break--> the whole post just shows up. That functionality (called a "teaser") is best used on sites that put exerpts on the front page.

Btw, maybe you're not aware of this, but new posts in the forums do show up as excerpts on your front page right now. Maybe you want to change this, but for now (low-volume traffic) I think they should show up on the front page too to show activity.

A related tip:

3. Use <cite> tags to quote someone. I'm not entirely sure this is the exact way to do things, but one suggestion: It would be nice if the forums are upgraded to support easy quoting of text.

I didn't mean for it to show

I didn't mean for it to show up on the front page, but it looks okay for now. I think activity levels make a difference like you said.

Point taken on the quoting.

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