What is essential content for a new community?

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@simon

Possibly useful, but it could make Discourse seem overly complicated.

Yeah, we might break that down into smaller docs, and have that topic serve as an index; then each sub-topic could be copied and pasted as needed… not the most straightforward process, but would be helpful to allow folks to generate their own doc(s) for their community.

Definitely don’t want every Discourse community to appear as complicated as what it is capable of.

Here’s a really great example of a Discourse community using the FAQ topic to explain how it works for their users:

https://community.namati.org/t/faq-frequently-asked-questions/1467

@simon

If it needs to be copied to a new site, be sure to install the DiscoTOC - automatic table of contents theme component and add a table of contents to the topic.

Good idea, I updated the info box there:

@Discourse

Do you want to add this guide on your site?

Go to https://meta.discourse.org/raw/96331 and copy/paste the text to a topic on your site. Then you need to download the images of this topic and upload them on your topic. You will also want to adapt it to reflect the specific setup of your forum.

Add the table of contents with with the theme component at DiscoTOC - automatic table of contents.