Re: Announcing new forum
Reply #1 –
Portal
We are introducing a new portal front page, which shows you the latest posts together with a section of the latest announcements below. At the top of the front page, you will find a navigation bar that can take you to all the forums sections as well as to your private messages. On the right hand side you will find the links to your accounts/profile settings.
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New Forum organization
Due to the merger, unavoidably, some forums sections became redundant. Section that were rarely used have now been merged with similar sections under new heading. Click the "Forum" link in the upper navigation bar to see all the current forum sections.
We have organized the forum in categories and sections and sub-sections.
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Follow topic and specific forums sections
Below each forum and at the end of each topic you will find a "notify" button. If you enable this you will receive email notifications of new replies.
You can change how you get replies in the account settings. Click "My Account" in the upper right corner --> Account settings. Then hover over "Modify profile" and select "Notifications".
Reply by email
We are also happy to announce that you can now reply to a topic using your email. It works in this way: You go to a forum section you are interested and click “notify”. You will receive an email each time a new posts arrives in that forum section. You can then reply using your registered email and your reply will appear on the forum under the topic you are replying to.
If you do use this feature please remove the quote of the previous post that your email client likely added. Otherwise the quote will appear in the forum too. However be sure to include the key that looks something like "[dceacc6034782277a456839acaa6cdeb-m2937]"; otherwise the post will not be added.
For this feature you work you need to change how you receive notifications to include the whole post and not just a notification of a new post.
Click "My Account" in the upper right corner --> Account settings. Then hover over "Modify profile" and select "Notifications".
We suggest the following settings:
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Note: Starting a new topic by email is not allowed.
Mentions
You can now “mention” other users in your posts, if you want to direct a certain comment at a specific user. You can do this by using the “@” sign followed by the user name; for example write @example_user_name and example_user_name will be notified that you have mentioned him/her.
Post and Member likes
One of the new features that we have added is the ability to like a post or give credit to a user for solving a problem. This way our users can get credit for the time they put into making useful posts.
Hover over a user and you can click "applaud" or "smite":
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Below and to the right of each post you will find the "Like" button:
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Twitter integration
We added to ability to integrated with twitter. @MetSoc-Forums you will find new topics posted with a link to the forum thread. Please use the "follow topic" option to get email notification of new replies to the topics.
Solved topics
You can now mark topics as solved:
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In the list of topics it then appears as:
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RSS feed
You can get an RSS feed for all the forums using:
http://www.metabolomics-forum.com/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;limit=50
If you want an RSS feed for specific forums you need to browse to each specific forum. You will see that for example the XCMS forum has the URL:
http://www.metabolomics-forum.com/index.php?board=8.0
That means that the XCMS forum is board number 8. You can then build your RSS URL like this where I have selected board 8 and 51:
http://metabolomics-forum.com/index.php?action=.xml;sa=news;boards=8,51;limit=5
WYSIWYG editor
Now you can format your post with an intuitive editor instead of using codes.
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