How does one mark a thread as read now?
There doesn’t appear to be a ‘Mark all threads as read’ button either.
You can use the “Dismiss New” button which comes up on the New posts page to do something similar I think Kit.
Cheers Mike
Is there an index page like;
was on the old version? I can see random postings but not an obvious home page.
Robin
https://discourse.demu.org.uk is as close as it seems to come to a ‘home page’ It works a bit differently to the old forum. More like Facebook (but without the ads and tracking!).
Having had a rummage around I found;
http://discourse.demu.org.uk/categories
which seems to be closest to a home page, but looks like it will get very messy as the sub sections increase.
Robin
For some reason it changed that by adding an http:// at the front whichmakes it wrong.
I’ll try it with quotes and see if that works
“DEMU”
Have found the edit is now working. Also there is a limit of three consecutive posts!
Anyway no, that didn’t work, still changed it to a link as DEMU instead of d i s c o u r s e / d e m u . o r g . u k / c a t e g o r i e s . Anyone know how to force it back to plain text?
While I’m at it I’ll see it the old table formatting carries over;
[table][tr][td]HTO[/td][td]21Ton coal hopper Parkside[/td][td]3mm[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]MK1 BSK[/td][td]BR Mk1 Brake van cage[/td][td]4mm[/td][/tr]
[/table]
Hmm, recognises the url= bit but not the table bits.
Robin
Discourse probably uses a different sort of formatting than simpleforum did. I suspect it might be closer to a wiki in style, but I’ve not looked into it.
A quick look suggests it should support normal HTML, BBCode and Markdown. The latter doesn’t appear to support tables at all. So you’ll probably need to use HTML for tables.
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Well this is all a bit different and shiny and new isn’t it?
Any chance we can have a Lounge/off-topic area like we used to please? Somewhere to post the music threads and the like.
Andi
That sounds a bit Alarming.
Just created a lounge board, we can add any sub boards as required
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Just tried to do a
PM Sent
reply to a post and I got an error message saying that posts must be a minimum of 20 characters. 
Topic titles must also be a minimum of 5 characters, and it won’t allow topic titles to be consecutive caps. Slightly annoying, means that EMUs can’t be a topic title, nor OHLE.
Will have a dig into the settings at the weekend and see if the min values can easily be calibrated
You can at least use 3 characters for a tag
Just tried creating a Three Counties Area Group section, thougfht I had but when I went back to add a new topic it wasn’t there. I know it is somewhere as it showed up when I tried recreating it, but no idea where I now find it to add the topic for Bassetlaw exhibition. Can anyone else see a Three Counties topic under Area Groups? Any pointers please.
Robin
From my fiddling around on here yesterday it seems that the mice in the servers are running on 14 speed steps instead of 128 and it takes a little while for the database to catch up sometimes.