friendica
/
friendica
mirror of https://git.friendi.ca/friendica/friendica.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

Updated Friendica forums and community pages (markdown)

master
MartinFarrent 2012-03-30 05:52:04 -07:00
parent a4dd3af339
commit 9a200e963b
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

4
Friendica-forums-and-community-pages.md

@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ There are two main ways of posting to groups/forums on Friendica - assuming you
> 2) You can mention the forum in a public post from your stream by typing @myforum. Everyone you know will then see it, but it will also go to the forum and be seen by other forum members who aren't necessarily among your personal contacts. (Note that @-mentions in comments don’t redirect threads to forums. Only thread initiators can trigger cross posting.)
So it depends on how many people outside the forum you think should see the post. For instance, if you wanted your post to a _Politics_ forum to be read by everyone you know, you would issue a public post and mention @politics. You might occasionally also do this if you felt the Politics forum needed to become better known in your community. This can be good practice - as long as it's not overdone.
So it depends on how many people outside the forum you think should see the post. For instance, if you wanted your post to a _Politics_ forum to be read by everyone you know, you would issue a public post and mention @politics. You might occasionally also do this if you felt the _Politics_ forum needed to become better known in your community. This can be good practice - as long as it's not overdone.
Conversely, if the post were only intended for the forum, you would simply go to _Politics_ and post wall-to-wall. The latter option wouldn't hide the post from the world (anyone could go to the forum page). But it would avoid clutter in your friends' streams if you knew that most of them weren't interested in the specific topic.
**Keeping your stream lean**
If you join a forum and it suddenly grows _big _and clutters up your stream, there's a solution. Just edit your contact settings for that forum and set it to _Ignore._ You will still be able to post to the forum by @-mention or wall-to-wall, and you can read everything by visiting the forum's own page. But forum threads will then no longer automatically show up in your general network stream.
If you join a forum and it suddenly grows very big and clutters up your stream, there's a solution. Just edit your contact settings for that forum and set it to _Ignore._ You will still be able to post to the forum by @-mention or wall-to-wall, and you can read everything by visiting the forum's own page. But forum threads will then no longer automatically show up in your general network stream.
**Diaspora members**