# When you started your first Discourse community, what did you find hard to do?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-you-started-your-first-discourse-community-what-did-you-find-hard-to-do/180684
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-you-started-your-first-discourse-community-what-did-you-find-hard-to-do/180684 "2021-02-22T07:34:20Z")
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### Author: ![RichardC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richardc/32/216860_2.png) [@RichardC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RichardC)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-you-started-your-first-discourse-community-what-did-you-find-hard-to-do/180684/40 "2021-04-14T14:39:17Z")

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I never saw all of this in one place, so here’s my partial checklist to personalize a new Discourse install

Menu / About

- edit the tabs: About, FAQ, Terms of Service, and Privacy

Menu / Admin / Customize / Text

- Edit the recommended texts
- Then search for `blog.discourse` You’ll see a lot of links you might want to change

Most of those links point to the following guides that you might want to copy over onto your site:

- New User Guide [Understanding Discourse for new users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-user-guide/96331)
- Moderation Guide [Discourse Moderation Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116)
- Nomenclature Guide [Understanding user interface elements in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interface-nomenclature-guide/103351)
- Badges [Understanding Discourse Trust Levels](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/)
- Building [Building a Discourse Community](https://blog.discourse.org/2014/08/building-a-discourse-community)
- Tips [Discourse New User Tips and Tricks](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/12/discourse-new-user-tips-and-tricks/)

You can also search for `meta.discourse` but most of those references are not visible to most users

Menu / Admin / Customize / Email /

- Welcome Staff also points to the Moderation Guide

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