The FAQ should show when clicking on the magnifying glass.
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The discussion revolves around the FAQ not showing in search results. justin_gordon initially expresses the expectation for the FAQ to appear when clicking the magnifying glass and typing “FAQ.”
codinghorror proposes moving the non-editable FAQ content to a different permanent URL like /community-guidelines and making /FAQ a re-mappable alias to a real Discourse topic. This proposal is later confirmed complete, with /guidelines being a stable URL and the FAQ being customizable by pointing to a wiki topic.
sam suggests that making the FAQ a real topic would make it easier for forum admins to customize and edit, even allowing the community to contribute if made a wiki. codinghorror agrees that the FAQ should be easily editable by admins but disagrees on making it a wiki due to its universal nature.
Ultimately, the goal is to make the FAQ easily editable and searchable, with sam emphasizing the importance of admins being able to customize community-specific content.
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What do you mean here?
Click Magnifying glass and type FAQ. 
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This reminds me though, I want to move this non-editable content to a different permanent URL like /community-guidelines and have /FAQ be a re mappable alias – to a real Discourse topic. I mean, it already is, but we need the alternate permanent URL for what we now call FAQ.
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I just had to reformat the whole FAQ (from the source code) to markdown.
I’d recommend:
- Having the FAQ be in markdown.
- Allowing one to prepend site specific content, and then have the standard discourse good behavior.
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By having it a real topic it would make it much easier for forum admins to go in and customise (you could even make it a wiki and the community could edit it)
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This is fairly universal to communicating with other human beings, it’s not really good wiki material.
I do like that approach for admin quick start guide and “other” faq (and I want to move this to a new URL).
I guess, regardless it should be easily editable by admins. Lot’s of stuff tends to be community specific. Also, being a topic you get search for free.
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This is now complete, so /guidelines is always stable even if /faq is remapped to a topic.
When we speak of “community guidelines” we always reference it internally as /guidelines for this reason. The FAQ can be whatever you want it to be now, just point it to a wiki topic, as noted in the Admin Quick Start Guide.
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