Welcome to Discourse, which marks the launch of Media Spy 2.0
As you’ll see there are some significant changes to how the site works in comparison to the old forums - below is a list of some of the big changes
Out are Threads and Forums, in come Topics and Categories
Lets keep this simple and get it out of the way early: Threads are now Topics and Categories are now Forums
Markdown is the new language du jour
Markdown is used to compose posts, you’ll see two panes when writing a message - one with just text on the left and the formatted version on the right, while the editor has some basic functions there are lots more that you can use, there is a handy reference guide here
Polls
Polls are possible, just make sure you start the topic with “Poll:” and make the list at the top of the first post and the system will do the rest!
Attaching images and other attachments
Simply drag attachments into the post editor and they will upload and be automatically inserted into your post
Likes
You can now like posts, a bit like Facebook - don’t abuse it though
Flags
Using Flags is the way to report posts to staff that you don’t think are appropriate
Pinned Topics
You can clear pinned topics (for yourself) by reading it
Brilliant. Really nifty having a preview next to where you’re typing. Also being able to highlight the text of a post and having the option to quote it directly, rather than having to quote an entire comment.
It’s an interesting change, but hopefully one which is for the better
Woohoo!
Let’s see how this goes. I’d hope Tapatalk support comes soon (from them of course) because its great getting notifications and being able to watch all your forums at once.
Was surprised to see the change happen so quickly
(I’m happy to finally have the username I prefer haha [was previously Nicholaz])
I’m a member of multiple forums so its just fantastic being able to login in with one account (via Tapatalk) and then be able to quickly switch between forums, instead of having to go to each URL.
I think topics should have been started when the need arose, as opposed to creating a whole heap of dummy topics. As far as I know, Discourse does not reward users for post count, only on achieving set Badge requirements.
But I guess this is how the community is handling the change from the old software to Discourse.
Hi David, thank you. Do you mean “unneeded posts” instead of topics.? As for the dummy threads or topics I am sorry and ask admin to fix my initial trials. Have a lovely day, David.
