Your user account page can be confusing. The HCL Software Developer Community (built on Discourse) is a very rich platform with lots of configurability. So let’s help you through it.
There are a variety of tabs:
- Summary gives a variety of statistics about your HCL Software Developer Community journey so far.
- Activity gives more direct access to posts or replies you’ve made.
- Notifications provides a full-page filterable set of notifications you have received.
- Message provides access to in-app messages (not chat messages) you have received.
- Invites gives access to invites.
- Badges shows all the badges you’ve earned. These might be automatically granted (e.g. First Mention) or manually granted (e.g. HCL Ambassador for a specific year).
- Preferences allows you to configure you preferred settings.
Preferences
There are a lot of configurable settings in the HCL Software Developer Community, grouped into tabs.
So let’s walk through the tabs:
- Account allows you to manage basic user settings and export your data.
- Security allows you to manage logon options, see recently used devices and apps.
- Profile allows you to provide information about yourself.
- Emails allows you to manage email preferences.
- Notification allows you to manage notification settings.
- Tracking handles settings for tracking activity on posts. You can also configure watching, tracking, or muting based on categories or tags.
- Users allows you to manage ignoring or muting users and configuring who can contact you through the app.
- Interface allows you to manage theme settings, text size and other UI settings.
- Navigation allows you to handle settings for when there are unread topics in a category.
- Chat handles chat settings.