How to guide for users

[ideatank (John)]

Hi everybody

Is there any how-to guide we can pass to our users so to understand the functionality of the discourse forum?

I have hosted it at DO and need to educate people.

Thank you!

[Noah751]

I believe there is a moderation guide on how moderating works, I don’t know about a guide for users.

Moderation guide:

Discourse Moderation Guide

So you’re a moderator on a Discourse forum - congratulations! As a forum moderator, it’s your role to help oversee the forum, ensuring that users and content are in line with your TOS, FAQ, and other published rules/guidelines. Discourse comes with numerous tools to help you accomplish this. Let’s take a look at some common scenarios and see how each can be handled with Discourse. Welcoming New Users Part of keeping a community friendly and helping it grow involves being an example to other…

But otherwise you can use the howto category to learn basic information of discourse and share it with your users.

[dax (Daniela)]

The basic informations are covered by discobot when users create a new account (interactive narratives for new users and advanced users). See Who is Discobot?

[ideatank (John)]

That’s helpful, thank you.

I assume I can copy information from here and add it to my forum; that’s allowed. Correct?

I am asking because that is not allowed in some forums.

(btw, just landed here)

[Noah751]

You can create links from your forum that land to meta’s howto category, like oneboxing.

[schungx (Stephen Chung)]

I suppose the ultimate test of any software is that users don’t need to read a tutorial…

Discourse actually is quite far ahead on this front.