How do I add social features to my site, such as statuses, follows, additional information boxes on profiles, and relationships between people on the site? and more
To enable user statuses, enable the enable user status site setting.
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.:
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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:
For additional ‘boxes on profiles’, I assume you’re referring to user fields? See:
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…