Collectives is built on top of Discourse, which is a hugely customisable open-source forum engine allowing for extensive functionality. Discourse is widely used across the web on a wide range of technical sites, such as the official Unity forums.
One of the key features of the Discourse formatting is that it allows for custom (safe) HTML and markdown to be input directly into posts. This is incredibly useful when creating custom promotional material for mixes and events!
Markdown allows for the use of custom formatting within posts, such as creating headers. It’s extremely useful for creating promotional text posts for events and mixes.
It has a wide range of customisable options!
Keep an eye on these blocks!
They will tell you how to format posts within the raw/unedited views.
Lists
For instance, we can create bullet point lists natively within posts.
This is done by preceding any text with a * character.
* For instance, we can created bullet point lists natively within posts.
* This is done by preceding any text with a * character.
We can also make numbered item lists automatically by preceding these with a number in the edit view.
The list will automatically update the number system if we want to add or remove items from the list.
Sub-lists are also possible if required!
1. We can also make numbered item lists automatically by
preceding these with a number in the edit view.
2. The list will automatically update the number system if we
want to add or remove items from the list.
* * Sub-lists are also possible if required!
Titles
Titles can range from Heading 1 (largest) to Heading 6 (smallest).
Heading 1 (Largest)
Heading 2 (Larger)
Heading 3 (Large)
Heading 4 (Small)
Heading 5 (Smaller)
Heading 6 (Smallest)
These can be formatted natively with # symbols preceding the title text.
See the raw text blocks above? We can format text this way by enclosing it in the ` character. We can also format bigger blocks by enclosing the text in ``` (text here) ``` .
We can also hide extra content under a [details] tag, meaning it won’t be shown until a user clicks on it.
[details="This text will show with an expandable option..."]
...but this text will be hidden until a user clicks the triangle icon.
[/details]
This text will show with an expandable option...
…but this text will be hidden until a user clicks the triangle icon.
Quoting posts will provide a link to the source post, as well as a chain that allows you to reference the quote from the source post. This is really useful if you want to link e.g. a song you made to a post about a mix that includes that song!
To manually format a quote, you can use the following layout:
[quote="Collectives, post:7, topic:12, full:true"]
Quoting posts will provide a link to the source post, as well as a chain
that allows you to reference the quote from the source post. This is really
useful if you want to link e.g. a song you made to a post about a mix that
includes that song!
[/quote]
But to make it easier - if you want to quote a post, just highlight the text in the post and hit ‘Quote’.
Block Quotes
Quoted text does not necessarily need to be linked to a post.
For instance, it is possible to display text in a block as seen here.
This is done by preceding your quote with a > character.
Quoted text does not necessarily need to be linked to a post.
> For instance, it is possible to display text in a block as seen here.
This is done by preceding your quote with a > character.
Don’t worry too much about this as the moderation team will often organise/re-categorise stuff to avoid confusions. Users are currently set to be able to make new topics, but keep in mind that any fast-moving discussions are probably better suited to the #general-discussion channel!
Topic owners & moderators can close and open new replies on topics. Keep in mind that moderators and topic owners can override this setting and post replies even if the thread is closed.
What is Discourse?
Keeping the server tidy
Making Polls
Closing & Opening Topics