The forum is pretty easy to use, You will see the about link in the top bar with a dropdown, that takes you to the forum guidelines rules, my review site, the old forum (archive) and My YouTube site. It’s a good idea to make time to scan the guidelines.
A few things that will help you with this version of the forum sofware:
- Don’t right-click and open a new tab to read a post, Flarum doesn’t like that and lots of things stop working…just click the links
- On the desktop you have a sidebar that pops out when you move your mouse to the left edge of the screen, this can be pinned and is a super handy way to browse new posts
- We don’t have private messaging, because there is no good system and it’s never “private”. If you want private messages from people, this is how you do it https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com/d/229-private-messaging-important
- To see any new posts on the main page, if you leave the tab open in your browser, just press the 3 arrows in a circle symbol at the top right of the discussion list… you don’t need to refresh the page
- Flarum was made for mobile first, not desktopos and has an amazingly good and rich mobile interface….explore it
Apart from that there are a few discussion areas you want to keep an eye on:
Announcements area of course
New Members Introduce yourself topic in Offleys Coffee Lounge - You will probably make your first post here
Explore your account settings, signature and notification options to make sure they are right for you
Lastly: Imgur, which we used to use for drag and drop images in the forum now no longer allows people in the UK to access Images. This is a pain and quite a backward reaction to the new online UK harm laws, which contain a lot of government overreach. Even I can’t see my old images and a lot of forum images will have disappeared, even those in the knowledgebase sadly.
There is a workaround, which involves forum users uploading images to a sharing service and then embedding/hotlinking them into the forum.
https://freeimage.host/i/KMVTrPa
If you can, we possibleyhave a workaround, using a service called Free Image https://freeimage.host/
It looks like you can upload anonymously, or create a free account. Hopefully someone in the flarum developer community will write dome code for it to allow drag and drop like Imgur.
I created an account and yes it’s totally free, the advantage of creating an account is that you can access your stored images and put them in albums etc.. To make it work in the forum just choose the BB embed code option and the image should hot link like mine, or a thumbnail embed (clickable) if you prefer