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EarlG

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3. Some forums have moved
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 12:17 PM
Sep 2023

Announcements and Community Help are now at Navigate > Help & Search

Tip: Go to those forums and click the "Subscribe" button at the top. Links to those forums will now appear in your left-column navigation (on all devices except mobile). If you do this with all the forums you like, you can create your own menu.

Finding missing forums: On DU4 there is no Forums & Groups page because the Navigate menu does that job. The lower buttons on the Navigate menu point to DU's new list of forum categories, which have been pared down considerably from the list of categories on DU3. The categories are now:

Issue Forums: Debate-style forums where people can discuss various political issues (eg. Economy, Environment, Gun Control, Religion, etc.)

Culture Forums: Forums for people who are interested in discussing the arts and other typically non-political subjects (eg. History, Science, Photography, Sports, etc.)

Alliance Forums: Safe-space forums for members of various political or cultural groups and their allies to talk about their issues (eg. Asian Group, LGBT, Jewish Group, etc.)

Region Forums: Forums for people who are interested in discussing subjects connected by geographic area (eg. all the state forums, U.S. Territories, United Kingdom, etc.)

Support Forums: Safe-space forums for members who want to give or receive assistance with various personal issues (eg. Addiction & Recovery, Cancer Support, Mental Health Support, etc.)

Help & Search: Site Announcements, DU Community Help, and General Computer Help can be found here. If you are a Main Forum Host or MIRT member, links to those forums also appear here. This page also contains options for searching DU.

https://du4.democraticunderground.com/13204

If you think about the forum you're looking for, it should hopefully be obvious which of those categories it will be in.

Editorials & Other Articles, Video & Multimedia: These forums are due for retirement on DU4. Video & Multimedia is replaced with the new Latest Videos page. Editorials & Other Articles is still under discussion and might not be retired after all. Both forums exist on DU4 but they're not listed right now. You can get to them by visiting the forum on DU3, then change "www" in your address bar to "du4"

Meanwhile, the current listing of forums is not finalized and is still up for debate. Getting the forums finalized is one of the last things we plan to do before launch.

Ask the Administrators: I literally just now realized that I've completely forgotten to include that on DU4 I think the best thing would be to include it on the Contact page. I'll work on that.

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