Site News & Information

We've been busy behind the scenes this year and no doubt things look a little different 😄 Here's what we've been up to: Design Forum homepage display changed to a grid layout We are trying to better display our forum areas. Using Life & Wellbeing as a an example, previously all that was visible was "Lifestyle" and a list of topics across all the sub-categories. Now all 5 sections are viewable on the home page and the clicks required to view discussions have reduced from 2-4 to 1 in most cases. Better navigation, and better "at a glance" display of the areas of discussion. This change has been applied site wide. Forum topic display includes a snippet of the original po…

Thank you to everyone that contributed to Support Forums in our first year. Best wishes to you and yours.

Hi everyone. This month, to help offset some of our costs we have started to enable advertising services in various locations. Most people use adblockers and that's fine. We don't want to ask people to disable those, or restrict access to anything unless they do. With that said, the ads should be non-intrusive and so if you do want to whitelist Support Forums to support us then that would be greatly appreciated. As always, subscribers will not see any adverts. Furthermore we do offer specific advertising opportunities for brands, companies and individuals should you be interested.

Imgur is a very popular image sharing service that now no longer works in the UK. As a UK resident I've noticed some of my posts no longer display their images. Nothing we can do, and if you ask me this is utterly brainless and the digital equivalent to having to show your ID to enter a shop because there's a few copies of playboy at the back... Yet another checkmark in the stupid column for the UK's new online safety act... In any case you can continue to directly upload your files to your posts, as well as use GIF's directly from the post editor. BBC NewsImgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory...The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make…

Support Forums has moved to a more complete community platform that makes it significantly easier to offer a modern, feature rich experience whilst also allowing us to scale for the future. I will continue to tweak over the coming weeks, and if you can't login then a password reset should solve the issue. Any issues let me know.

We’re excited to invite you to join our discord. We have no plans to integrate the website and discord together as we feel that presents privacy and security challenges. There isn’t any inherent risk with Discord itself, but it’s a third-party platform outside of our control and therefore we don’t want to expose your information, account details or messages (especially safe space discussions) to something that we have no control over. Discord provides some really unique features that we think will enhance our community engagement. Each member can decide whether they’d like to join our discord, and indeed it is your choice if you would like to link your website and…

Welcome to visitors old and new. Over the last month I have been working to get the site online and I’m glad to say that it’s mostly there now. The original Support Forums was at one time incredibly active, but over the last 10 years sadly declined as activity dwindled and the the original developer stepped away leaving the site untouched for much of the last decade. As a member of the original community, and as someone who spent some of their formative years on the original forum - I am proud to be relaunching the community. Being totally honest I don’t really know what I’m doing when it comes to trying to build or indeed rebuild a forum from scratch. But this …