Quick Tips

This is a topic where the admins will post some little things about our site that may be of help. Everyone is welcome to post a reply covering something about navigating Discourse. Any discussion about a particular subtopic will be consolidated into a more complete reference.

To kick this off -

Your identification

If you squeeze all of the stuff that you used to have on your signature line into the Name field (in your Preferences / Profile entry):

then it will appear on top of every one of your postings:

(even if you don’t do this, your Nonsuch model, location, etc. is available on your “card” which people can see by clicking gon your profile picture, but this is quicker)

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To start a new topic via email:

When you start a topic via email, you have to use a unique email address to direct it to the desired category. The email addresses for our popular categories are:
nonsuch+general@discoursemail.com
nonsuch+q-a@discoursemail.com
nonsuch+upgrades@discoursemail.com
nonsuch+engine@discoursemail.com

Now that we have over 15 years of our Google postings loaded into Discourse, the AI auto-match function is possibly more useful. When creating a topic, after typing in a couple of words, you are going to get a short list of likely matches.

It is probably worth it to open these in a new tab (the right click in Windows) and see if they are relevant.

Thanks Jon! Very helpful!