Commands and Pages


At the top of each page is a set of buttons:

[Next]
Takes you to the next un-read topic in your hotlist. This is the most commonly-used command.
[Resume]
Takes you back to the topic you were reading most recently. This is useful for returning from side-tracks.
[Hotlist]
Shows the conferences on your hotlist.
[Settings]
Lets you change your personal information, and your hotlist and notify list.
[All Confs]
Shows all conferences.
[Search]
Very flexible search page.
[Users]
Look for users by name or bio.
[Chat]
Integrated realtime chat and private messages.
[Help]
Brings you here into the help system.

[Conference pages] have additional buttons:

[Forgotten/Retired]
Shows the forgotten and retired topics too.
[Change Name]
Changes your default name in that conference.
[Catch Up]
Updates you as if you had read through all the new responses.
[See Recent]
Shows the recent responses in the conference.

[Topic pages] have additional buttons too:

[Forget]/[Remember]
Forgetting a topic makes it disappear for you.
[Freeze]/[Thaw]
Freezing a topic makes it read-only.
[Retire]/[Unretire]
Retire makes a topic invisible to everyone.
[confname]
A link back to the conference page.

[Response pages] also have more buttons:

[Hide]/[Unhide]
A hidden response is not visible in topic-display pages, but clicking on the single-response link shows the text.
[Scribble]
The response gets overwritten with junk, making it permanently unavailable.
[confname.topic]
A link back to the topic page.
[confname]
A link back to the conference page.

Finally, hosts get a [Host] button on the conference page, which lets them change their banner message and user-list; and [Link], [Retitle], and [Kill] buttons on the topic pages, which let them link topics between conferences, change their titles, or delete them; and system administrators get an [Admin] button which lets them do various administrative tasks such as changing the system's appearance, making new conferences, and deleting users.


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