Glitch Basics: How to create a topic on the forum (a.k.a a post)

How to create a forum topic

A part of Glitch basics, a series of tutorials to help you with Glitch!

  1. Open the topic creator by clicking the “New Topic” button.

  1. Create a title. This describes your post in 50 chars or less, like “Why is ‘markdown-it’ not defined” or “Why will my Discord.js bot not connect to Discord?”. The title is the first thing that’s seen before someone decides to read about your problem in depth, so try to summarize your problem in it.
  2. Choose a category. This helps people sort out posts easily. For example, you would use Code Help - Discord for help with a discord bot, or Glitch Feedback to provide feedback on Glitch/its services (like the editor, or this forum). Here is a list of categories that are used frequently:
  • Glitch Help Help with Glitch and it’s services (like the forum, the editor, the website, etc)
  • Code Help - Discord Help with Discord or its API.
  • Coding Help Help with your code (like “why isn’t [something] defined”, or “why is [module] not found”)
  • Glitch Feedback Feedback about Glitch and it’s services (like the forum, the editor, the website, etc)
  • Glitch Tutorials Wanna tell users how to [something]? Post it in Glitch Tutorials!
  • The Gallery Wanna show of your project? Post about it in The Gallery! (don’t post WIP or projects not made with glitch here)
  • Uncategorized Something that does not belong to the any of the categories above or you don’t know what category to post your topic in!
  1. Insert some tags here to help identify your post (like javascript, html, python, etc)
  2. Describe your problem. Instead of just “i have problem, plz help”, give us the error, project name, and maybe even some screenshots.
  3. Click the “Create Topic” button. You can get a answer in up to 24 hours. Sometimes, it can be a few minutes if it is daytime in EST.

Notes:

  • To report malicious projects, email support@glitch.com.
  • Please use the search feature and try to find the answer to your question that way.
  • Please don’t bump old posts, instead make a new topic.
  • If you see spam or something inapporiate, you can flag it by clicking the flag icon. If a post gets enough flags, it will be hidden.
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Isn’t this a bit related to discourse?

Most of it is self explanatory.

Exactly. How are these different than your post other than the fact that edits can be made?

Yea, this sounds like a different sort of post as it explains what each textarea/button is for rather than answer smaller questions

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Some people might not have used a forum before, or have used a forum with different names for buttons. For example a topic was a called a thread in some older forum, and instead of a heart for likes they used a thumbs up. Some forum systems only have tags and not both categories and tags.

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Yea, some forums have features that are not so obvious how to activate, for example in the spigot forum to link a post you have to click the number.

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