To sign in:
To change your avatar:
To create your personal signature:
You can tell other community members as much or as little about yourself as you want. You can enter a short biography, your location, your interests, or anything else (within community guidelines, of course).
To tell other community members about yourself:
By default, all community users can see this information.
To set your viewing preferences:
To search the Community, enter your search in the search field and click Search. A page of search results is displayed. Browse the search results in the same manner you would a message board.
To perform a more in-depth search, hit enter in the blank search field on the homepage. On the following page, click the Advanced link under the Search field. Here, you can limit your query to a specific board, specific parts of the message (subject vs. body), and other advanced parameters.
Auto-suggest accelerates your search by displaying results as you type search terms. When you see the post or user you're looking for, just click it.
To turn auto-suggest off, click Turn off suggestions in the auto-suggest list.
To turn auto-suggest on, click Turn on suggestions below the search entry area.
Want to limit your search results to accepted solutions? Click the Solved check box under the Metadata filter. Want only the most recent results? Use one for the date filters to see results for a day or a week ago. You can also filter your results by individual authors or members who have the same rank.
Most search filters work together to narrow the possible results. For example, you can search for accepted solutions in the last month. However, the filters for the type of post work a little differently. If you choose Forums and Blogs, you see results from either forums or blogs (not results that are both forum and blog posts).
Active filters appear at the top of the results list. To turn off a filter, click the X to the right of the filter.
You can search for posts and articles at any level of the community. When you type a search term, the system automatically searches at the current level. For example, if you're on the community front page, the system searches the entire community. If you're looking at a forum or GitHub Original Series page, the system searches that forum (and the associated knowledge base, if any) or Original Series.
To search for posts:
You can search for community members by name or by rank. The name you search for must be at least three characters long.
To search for users:
To post a message:
Click Reply to respond to a particular post.
The Reply Message screen is similar to the Post Message screen, with these differences:
Your reply is added to the existing thread. It won't create a new thread.
Yes. You can use macros to create boilerplate text that you can paste into any message. You can create up to 9 macros.
To set up a macro for boilerplate text:
Tip: To add text at the bottom of your posts, you can include that text as part of your signature instead of using a macro.
To add your boilerplate text to a post:
Bookmarks enable you to list community content (boards, articles, topics, or individual posts) on a special page so you can easily find it again.
To bookmark a piece of content:
To view and manage your bookmarks:
Subscriptions let you get email updates whenever new content appears in an area of the community that you're interested in. You can subscribe to a board, a blog article, or any other location in the community. You can also subscribe to a specific post.
To subscribe a piece of content:
To view and manage your subscriptions:
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." It is a way for you to get the latest content from this community, along with many other sites that you visit, all in one place. With an RSS feed reader, you subscribe to web sites, and those sites feed you new content so you can stay up to date.
To use RSS, you need a feed reader, such as Google Reader, MyYahoo, or the Live Bookmarks feature of Firefox. There are many free options. After you have your feed reader set up, you can find RSS feeds in the community by going to a board, blog, thread, or message and selecting Subscribe to RSS Feed from the options menu. There you will see a preview of the feed. Most RSS readers give you a button to click at this point. After you click it, the RSS feed appears in your reader as well as new content from that section of the community whenever it becomes available
No. In order to post a comment you'll need to be signed into the Community.
Some articles display new comments almost immediately. Others don't display new comments until the article author or a moderator approves them.
If your comment doesn't appear immediately, check back in a few minutes. If it still doesn't appear, your comment is most likely in the approval queue.
To share articles with friends, you can use any shared bookmarking, social network, or other tracking service, such as Reddit, Facebook, Google, or Twitter. However, you must have a valid account with the service.
To share an article:
| To | Do this |
|---|---|
| Subscribe to a series | Go to the series page and click Options > Subscribe. |
| Subscribe to an article | Go to the article and click Options > Subscribe. |
| Subscribe to an RSS feed | Go to the series or article and click Options > Subscribe to RSS Feed. Then, save the live bookmark or whatever you usually do to add an RSS feed. |
To insert an image in a post:
An Accepted Solutions is a way for you to choose the reply that best answers a question that you've posted. When you accept a solution, both the question and the solution get special icons and links that take you directly from the question to the answer.
An Accepted Solutions icon also appears on boards and in search results so you can see which messages have solutions.
You can mark a solution as accepted only for questions that you've posted (you started the thread). Community moderators can also mark one of the replies to a message as an accepted solution
To mark a message as a solution, click Accept as Solution on the reply.
If you change your mind or if another reply provides an even better answer, you can revoke the first selection and accept the second reply.
To revoke an accepted solution, click Options > Not the Solution.
You can choose another solution or leave the question unsolved.
Kudos is a content rating system that lets you vote for the messages you think are the most useful or important.
When you give kudos to a message, you are giving a thumbs-up for good content and a pat on the back to its author. Your kudos help to boost the value of certain messages and enhance the reputation of their authors.
Giving kudos is as easy as a single click, but the impact of kudos ripples across the community.
You can give Kudos to any posts in the community except your own.
To give kudos to a message and its author, click Kudos on the message.
If you change your mind about the quality of the message, you can revoke your kudos.
To revoke kudos you've given, click the Kudos button again.
Want to know who thinks a message is good? It's easy to find out which regular community members and community experts have given kudos to a message. Kudos from community experts can carry more weight than those from brand new members. (Community administrators can choose to have kudos granted by experts carry more weight than kudos granted by regular members.)
To see who's given you kudos:
To see who's given you kudos:
Your kudos weight is the number of kudos you give each time you click Kudos!.
If you're new to the community, your kudos weight is probably 1 (each kudo counts as 1). More experienced community members might have a higher kudos weight, so they could give two kudos, ten kudos, or more each time they click.
There are a few reasons why you might not be able to give Kudos to a post.
Sometimes a message gets so many kudos that we run out of space to show the number. When that happens, you'll see a Hot Kudos symbol or icon instead of the kudos count on the kudos badge.
A tag is a single keyword or phrase that describes the topic, theme, or subject of a post. You can add as many tags as you want and so can other community members. For example, in a post about a mouse, you might add these tags: mouse, USB mouse, optical mouse, wireless, DPI.
Be sure to use commas between tags.
To add a tag:
To post your entry:
Posting a comment to a GitHub Original Series article is a lot like replying to a message on a board. If the article is open for comments, you'll see a Comment link or a comment count link at the bottom of the article.
To post your comment:
You can post a comment to an article or to someone else's comment.
You can use simple HTML and quote the article you're commenting on.
Tip: Unless you have special permissions, you can't edit or delete a comment after it's posted, so be sure to preview your comment and spell check first.