Forums
Discussions with a long shelf life
Some questions deserve better than a feed. Forums give them a board, a thread, a tag and a search box, so the answer is still there in a year.
Create, post, reply and browse
Every switch on one screen
Boards inside groups, clean links
Throttles, page sizes and admin lists
— discuss —
Start a board. Start a conversation.
— Forum Directory
A forums directory that leads with what matters
Open the directory on the list of boards, or on the discussions with the newest replies. Every card carries a cover, a description, its tags and how busy it is.
— Reply Threading
Threaded replies that keep long arguments readable
Replies nest under the message they answer, as deep as you allow. Every reply quotes what it is responding to, so a fifty-post argument still makes sense to read.
— forum features —
Everything a board needs, on one screen
— Favorites
Save the discussions worth returning to
One click in the thread header saves a discussion. The forum header carries the same button, so a member can follow a whole board instead of a single thread.
— Discussion Tags
Tags that cross every board
Tag a discussion and it joins every other discussion on that subject, whichever board it started in. Members follow the tag instead of hunting through boards.
— Revision Log
Every edit leaves a trail
Turn on revision logging and an edited post says so, right beside the timestamp. Nobody quietly rewrites an answer after the discussion has moved on.
— Search
Search that reaches every board
Every forum, discussion and reply becomes findable, and it feeds the community search too. One query reaches the whole archive.
— Post Formatting
A formatting toolbar for real writing
Bold, italics, lists, quotes, links and code, from a toolbar rather than from memory. The composer also takes photos, video, files, GIFs, emoji and mentions.
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— groups & urls —
Where boards live, and what they’re called
— Group Forums
A discussion board inside any social group
Give any group its own board, sitting as a Discussions tab beside its feed. Members stay inside the group, with its About panel and member list still beside them.
— Forum Permalinks
Every forum URL, named your way
Rename the slug on every kind of forum URL: the board, the discussion, the tag, the reply, the search. Your information architecture, not ours.
— manage —
The controls that keep a busy board civil
— Disallow Editing After
An editing window that keeps threads honest
Members can fix a reply for a few minutes after posting, then it sets. Typos get corrected and nobody rewrites an argument once other people have answered it.
— Throttle Posting Every
A throttle that stops a board being flooded
Put a few seconds between posts and no member, or bot, can flood a discussion. Somebody typing normally never notices. Rapid-fire spam hits a wall.
— Discussions and Replies Per Page
Page sizes tuned for your board’s pace
Choose how many forums, discussions and replies load at a time. Long boards stay fast, and readers page through the rest rather than waiting for all of it.
— Per RSS Page
RSS feeds sized separately from your pages
Feed readers get their own page size, set separately from the site. Subscribers stay current without pulling more from your server than they need.
— Manage Forums
Run every board from one admin screen
Forums, discussions, tags and replies each get their own list, with search, filters and bulk edit. Spam, close or bin a thread without opening it.
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Give your community a place to think out loud
A feed forgets by Thursday. A board still has the answer in it a year later, and search can find it.
Explore more feature modules
Notifications
A reply to your discussion reaches you on the channel you chose, not just when you next visit.
Moderations
Reporting, blocking and a review queue, so a heated thread stays somewhere people want to be.
Media Uploading
Photos, video and files attach to a discussion or a reply, not just to a feed post.