Start a New Forum Topic
- Scroll down to use the text editor to start a topic (aka thread). Give it a descriptive title and some tags.
- Write your topic in the edit pane. You have basic text editing buttons (bold, italicize, link, blockquote, strikethrough) and buttons to insert unordered and ordered lists.
- Inserting an image: click the img button on the text editor if you would like to link to the URL of an image on another website. If you’d like to upload an image, see Attaching Files to a Forum Topic, below.
- Optional: check the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” box.
- Click the Submit button.
Attach Files to a Forum Topic
Scroll down to the Attachments section below the text editor. Click the Browse button and select a file on your computer. You can attach up to four files to a topic or reply, but you must attach them one at a time using the “Add another file” link.
Allowed attachment file types (max size 5000KB):
- Images (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .ico)
- Documents (.pdf, .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx, .odt, .xls, .xlsx, .psd
- Audio (.mp3, .m4a, .ogg, .wav)
- Video: in the interest of saving bandwidth on EnviroDIY, please upload your videos to video hosting services like YouTube and Vimeo and share links in the body of your topic.
Edit Topic After Posting
Navigate to your post and click the Edit button near the right side of the bar that shows the post date and time.
Reply to a Topic
Scroll down to the bottom of the topic to find the text editor for replies. You can add attachments and choose to receive email notifications of follow-up replies.
Subscribe to a Topic
You can choose to receive email notifications about forum activity. There are two ways to subscribe:
- Subscribe to the entire forum: to receive email notification of all activity on the forum, navigate to the forum and click Subscribe.
- Subscribe to an individual topic (aka thread): if you’d rather just receive email notifications for a single topic, navigate to the beginning of the thread and click Subscribe.
Favorite a Topic
If you’d like to keep track of your favorite forum topics, click on Favorite (next to Subscribe). Then when you go to your profile page, you can click Forums and Favorites and see all of your favorite topics in one place.
Heather Brooks
