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!

A quick reminder - you can’t reply directly to a Digest Summary email. The digest might include multiple topics, plus it does not show the complete topic thread. You need to click on the “Read More” button (below the summary on the right) to go to the topic thread on the site and reply from there.