Some useful tricks for the new forum

Managing account information (privacy, avatars, signatures, alerts, notifications etc) - http://www.forumvancouver.com/account/

Hover over your name on the top right area of every page and a drop down menu should pop up where you can manage your settings.​

Statuses and avatars can alternatively be changed on your profile page, see below for more details.​

Managing your privacy settings here (very important) - http://www.forumvancouver.com/account/privacy

Can be accessed as per above, but this is important enough for me to stress on its own.​

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Catch up on the latest forum activity

• What's New - http://www.forumvancouver.com/find-new/threads
  • Shows you forum threads with unread posts
  • How to Access: Under the Forums tab, click "What's New?"
• Recent Activity - http://www.forumvancouver.com/recent-activity/
  • Activity stream for all registered members at Forum Vancouver (except for members that have privacy settings otherwise)
  • How to Access: Under the Members tab, click "Recent Activity"

Triggering alerts without quote showing up

With this new forum system, members get alerted when they are quoted. However, when you're quoting a post that's immediately before yours, they can create a lot of clutter.​

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What you can do is click reply and clear out the text between the quote tags. This creates less clutter but the member is still gets alerted.​

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For example, if you were to quote this post, you would use the following:​

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[quote="Forum Vancouver, post: 3283"][/quote]​

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Page scrolling

For threads with many pages or on the member page.​

Click the arrows between the page numbers ​

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Accessing profile pages

Hover over your name on the top right and click either your picture, name or "Your Profile Page"​

OR click on an avatar in a post to open the contact card, then click the picture, name or "Profile Page"​