Help talk:Forum

Adding recent forum activity
The page says use:

The five most recent Forum posts can be showcased on a wikia's main page, or any other page, by using the tag to display the Forum Activity module.

Tried that; didn't work. Had to use:

– Bruce ( 09:48, June 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * As of 2017 works. – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  18:52, November 24, 2017 (UTC)

I want the these type of forums
I want the board style forums. When i go to Special:Forum, it takes me to another page called discussions. Is there a way to enable these types of forums? Mario Fan Forever (talk) 09:14, January 5, 2017 (UTC)
 * No. Wikia is disabling the threaded Forum over the whole network and replacing it with Discussions. Read the Discussions FAQ -- Cube - shaped   garbage can  09:15, January 5, 2017 (UTC)

Obsolete topics
Is there a way to get rid of obsolete Forum Topics? Either generally (convert all topics to ordinary categories) or individually (remove topics from closed or ancient threads, and if there are no more threads for a given topic delete it). – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  19:04, November 24, 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Dunnoob, as Forum is slowly being replaced by Discussions, adjusting the Forum Topics has not been a priority for Community Central. Some changes are also bad for SEO - we didn't change the redirect for CSS to Topic:CSS because it makes more sense for a user (and for search engines) to redirect users to a help page rather than a Forum listing when users need CSS help. noreplyz  talk 23:03, November 24, 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm no fan of the old Forum Topics (categories should be simpler), but it kind of upsets me if I can't add Topic:CSS to a thread about CSS. The Topic:CSS page can start with a link to Help:Theme Designer, if that helps for CSS searches. How about __NOINDEX__ for external searches? – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  00:22, November 25, 2017 (UTC)
 * You're not making sense to me. Threads can be made under the CSS topic already. Topic:CSS has a link to Help:Theme Designer already. noreplyz  talk 07:06, November 25, 2017 (UTC)
 * The "edit topics" feature on forum threads does not work for Topic:CSS and others, and IIRC I tried also usekin=oasis. – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  09:01, November 25, 2017 (UTC)
 * I was able to add the topic when I tried a few hours ago, using 'Edit Topic'. noreplyz  talk 12:16, November 25, 2017 (UTC)
 * Tested on the same thread: I click on "edit topics" (oasis or monobook, same procedure), type "Topic:CSS", some magic suggests "Help:Theme designer", I ignore it clicking elsewhere, the suggestion goes away with "Topic:CSS" still in the input field, I click "Save", nothing visible happens.
 * However, there are now six "topic changes", your two changes had an effect, my four diffs look like this for the 4th attempt, and from there "older" goes to three other "topic change diffs" without any effect. IOW, if I do not pick one of the suggested texts, but insist on what I typed (Topic:CSS in this case), nothing happens. – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  19:16, November 25, 2017 (UTC)