Following forums and forum topics
Follow a forum to receive notifications about the latest updates to the forum. If we are interested in a particular forum thread, we can also follow forum content at topic level.
When you follow a forum, you receive notifications about the latest updates to the forum. Follow a forum topic to keep up-to-date with the progress of a particular discussion.
Anyone can follow a stand-alone forum or forum topic.
- When creating a forum, you automatically follow that forum; you do not have to complete any other steps to follow the forum.
- When we are already following a community, you do not have to follow its forums or forum topics separately. Any updates about community forums are automatically included when we follow the parent community.
To follow forum content, complete one of the following steps:
- To follow a forum:
- Open the forum to follow.
- Click Following Actions > Follow this Forum.
The forum is added to the list of forums that we are following. To view the complete list, click I'm Following on the My Forums tab, and then click Forums.
- To follow a forum topic:
- Open the topic to follow.
- Click Following Actions > Follow this Topic.
The topic is added to the list of topics that we are following. To view the complete list, click I'm Following on the My Forums tab and ensure the Topics tab is selected.
What to do next
To track the forums and forum topics that we are following, click I'm Following on the Home page and then filter by Forums. We can control how to be notified about the forums content that we are following. See Set email notification preferences topic.
If we no longer want to receive notifications about updates to a forum or forum topic, we can stop following it. To stop following a forum, open the forum and click Follow > Stop Following this Forum. To stop following a forum topic, open the topic, and click Follow > Stop Following this Topic.
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