Post by Jonathan Beckett on Apr 20, 2022 14:14:44 GMT
After experimenting with both email newsletters and forums over the last few months, it has become clear that trying to build a community spanning multiple online platforms is problematic at best.
In order to simplify things going forwards, we’re going to move news to the forum, and shutter the newsletter.
Why?
To make things easier for newcomers, and to remove duplicated information as much as we can. When somebody wants to find out how to join group flights, the information is in the forum. When somebody wants to find out about upcoming events, that too is in the forum.
What’s happening to Discord?
Nothing. Discord is great at voice communication, and screen sharing. Going forwards, the forum will be the place to visit for news, event information, and support - while Discord will continue to provide the excellent voice and screen sharing features it always has.
How do I find out when the forum is updated?
This is where the forum really comes into it’s own.
Rather than spam everybody with every piece of news, event, or invitation, people can choose to be notified by email on what they want - or just visit the forum, which indicates what has been updated since they last visited (as long as they are logged in).
To receive email notifications about specific discussion boards:
- Visit the discussion board you are interested in receiving notifications from.
- Click the “Actions” drop-down menu at the top of the discussion board.
- Choose “Notification Options”, and then tick the notifications you want.
You can also receive notifications about specific conversations:
- Edit your profile within the forum, and modify the notifications to email you when bookmarked threads are updated.
- Bookmark threads within the various discussion boards via the “Action” dropdown at the top of each discussion.
Once you have bookmarked conversations you will see a new “Bookmarks” menu item at the top of the forum, showing all of your bookmarks.
In order to simplify things going forwards, we’re going to move news to the forum, and shutter the newsletter.
Why?
To make things easier for newcomers, and to remove duplicated information as much as we can. When somebody wants to find out how to join group flights, the information is in the forum. When somebody wants to find out about upcoming events, that too is in the forum.
What’s happening to Discord?
Nothing. Discord is great at voice communication, and screen sharing. Going forwards, the forum will be the place to visit for news, event information, and support - while Discord will continue to provide the excellent voice and screen sharing features it always has.
How do I find out when the forum is updated?
This is where the forum really comes into it’s own.
Rather than spam everybody with every piece of news, event, or invitation, people can choose to be notified by email on what they want - or just visit the forum, which indicates what has been updated since they last visited (as long as they are logged in).
To receive email notifications about specific discussion boards:
- Visit the discussion board you are interested in receiving notifications from.
- Click the “Actions” drop-down menu at the top of the discussion board.
- Choose “Notification Options”, and then tick the notifications you want.
You can also receive notifications about specific conversations:
- Edit your profile within the forum, and modify the notifications to email you when bookmarked threads are updated.
- Bookmark threads within the various discussion boards via the “Action” dropdown at the top of each discussion.
Once you have bookmarked conversations you will see a new “Bookmarks” menu item at the top of the forum, showing all of your bookmarks.