Social Features

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To enable user statuses, enable the enable user status site setting.

User Status

With this announcement, we’re making publicly available a new feature that enables you to set a custom status message. After setting, that message will be shown next to your avatar on posts, in chat, on your user card etc.: [Screenshot 2022-09-29 at 23.25.33] You can use it to let everyone know that you’re temporarily unavailable, are on a long vacation, or just to share your mood. You can now test this feature on try.discourse.org How to use it To set custom status, …

For follows, see the following (pun not intended - wait, this has 2 meanings) plugin:

Discourse Follow

IMPORTANT WARNING: This plugin may affect whether laws that regulate social media apply to your forum. Consult legal for advice. Summary Discourse Follow allows users to follow other users, list the latest topics involving them, and receive notifications when they post. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-follow Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Screenshots Followed users posts feed: [follow-fee…

For additional ‘boxes on profiles’, I assume you’re referring to user fields? See:

Creating and configuring custom user fields

This guide explains how to create and configure custom user fields in Discourse, including how to add them to the signup form, user profiles, and user directory. Required user level: Administrator Custom user fields allow you to collect additional information from your users beyond the standard profile fields. These fields can be displayed on user cards, user summary pages, and even retrieved using the Data Explorer plugin. This guide will walk you through th…