I suspect I’m going to feel like a fool when someone gives me the obvious answer, but. . . is there somewhere on discuss.python.org that gives a complete overview of how to use discuss.python.org? I looked in the hamburger menu, which has a link to an “About” page, but that seems to be TOS type stuff. There’s a “help” tag, but that’s for questions about Python. The “Welcome to Discourse” category says it offers a “quickstart” but I don’t see it anywhere in there. And I don’t see any other obvious place to look.
What I’m looking for, for instance, is someplace that gives a complete description of what markdown or other formatting can be used (e.g., quotes). But also maybe stuff like how to mark categories as “watched” or the like. I’ve looked for this in the past by googling, and wound up finding isolated bits of information on other sites. I sometimes see people referencing documentation on discourse.org. But is there any kind of internal documentation on this forum that would allow this site to be used in a self-contained way by someone who was totally unfamiliar with it, and that could also serve a reference for those who may have forgotten some particular trick?
It is the pinned post there (I think by default it gets unpinned when you scroll to the end the first time you view it, I changed that in my profile preferences):
Thanks, that is interesting. If that’s all there is, it seems the answer to my question is actually “no”. The info on that page seems quite minimal. It links to a page with info on Markdown, but that doesn’t explain the footnote syntax (which was something I remember having to hunt to find before), or other formatting things, like how to quote from one thread into another. It also doesn’t say much about trust levels or preferences or anything else beyond the most basic functionality. The fact that it gets unpinned by default also seems rather odd.
Anyway, I think it would be nice if the forum had more comprehensive documentation.
Yeah definitely would be nicer to have a full documentation instead of wiki posts.
The closest thing to that I can find is the meta discourse forum Documentation - Discourse Meta
The info on that page seems quite minimal. It links to a page with info on Markdown, but that doesn’t explain the footnote syntax (which was something I remember having to hunt to find before), or other formatting things, like how to quote from one thread into another. It also doesn’t say much about trust levels or preferences or anything else beyond the most basic functionality. The fact that it gets unpinned by default also seems rather odd.