Forum
The forum is there for you to talk about anything you think will be of interest to other people in East Hampshire.
We have created three forums for:
- general discussion
- announcements (like births, christenings, marriages, engagements, weddings, deaths and funerals)
- adverts (for sale and wanted)
At the top bar of the forum you will see three options which will remain no matter where you are on the forum:
- show new topics since your last visit
- search forum
- help
Post messages on an existing topic on the forum
You must be registered and logged in to post on the forum.
1. Click on the forum you are interested in
2. Click on the thread you wish to reply to
3. Type your text in the box at the bottom of the thread in the ‘Quick reply’ box
4. Click the ‘Submit quick reply’ button underneath.
You can make your text bold, or underlined, or italic etc by highlighting the text you want to change and then clicking on the relevant button.
Create a new topic on the forum
As above, you must be registered and logged in to post on the forum.
1. Click on the forum you want to add a topic to
2. Click the ‘New topic’ button at the top right of the box where it lists the topic titles
3. Enter your subject title and text in the relevant spaces
4. When you are happy with your post click ‘Submit’ at the bottom of the form.
Subscribe to a topic
If you are particularly interested in a topic you can ‘subscribe’ to it. This means you will get email notifications of any new posts on that topic.
Show new topics since your last visit
Does what it says on the tin. Gives you a list of topics which were started since your last visit, so you can see what people have been talking about most recently, browse and look at threads that interest you.
Search forum
1. Click ‘Search forum’
2.Enter the keyword(s) for the topic you are looking for in the ‘search for’ box.
3. Refine the search
- by entering someone’s username
- by how old you think the post is
- by forum (click on ‘Click to choose forum(s) to search’ to choose between general discussion, announcements and for sale and wanted)
4. Click the ‘Start search’ button at the bottom.
Help
Takes you to this page in the Help section.
