Step 1 - Accepting the Invitation to Join

[jonlewit (Jon Lewit - N26C #115 - Inua - Kingston, NY)]

To become a member of the Nonsuch community site, you have to be invited - that involves clicking on an invitation link and going through a few simple steps.

When you click on the link, you are taken to a web page where enter your chosen username and password, and some basic information:

After you complete the invitation, there will be one more step - you will receive an email with a link back to the site. This is to confirm that you entered a working email address.

You now have a working account. You can login and take a look at:

Step 2 - Finding Your Way Around

Starting with some basics - Discourse has some slightly different jargon. What was a “Conversation” in Google is called a “Topic” here. To start a new discussion on this site you start a new topic, by clicking on New Topic. This first posting starts a Topic with that title that you select (in Google, it was the subject of your email). All replies become a part of that topic’s “thread”. This is new - Topics belong to a Category. That’s the organization - Categories contain topics, which are …

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Step 3 - Setting up Your Profile

Your user profile tells us who you are and lets you make some choices as to how your want the site to look and act. (At the risk of stating the obvious, this will work best if you have two browser tabs open, both on Discourse - one for reading this posting and the second to perform the steps) You can access your user profile by clicking on the icon in the top upper right (it will initially be the first letter of your username or later on the icon that you uploaded).This opens a drop down list.…