Your individual settings (username, email address, options, and more)!

[mschwartz]

Everyone has a profile page that others can see if they click on your name next to a post or on the users page. This is what mine looks like (in a tablet):

As you can see, it shows my avatar (my photo), that I'm an administrator and resident, and my email address - emails are hidden to everyone on the site by default for security reasons.

When you look at anyone's profile page, you may not see all this information - I see a lot more since I'm administrator. I want to assure everyone that I am focused on preventing a privacy breach.

In your tablet and desktop browsers, you will see this on the "home" screen (Categories screen):

On the left side, you have buttons for "Categories", "Unread Topics/Posts", "Recent Topics/Posts", "Tags" (we don't use tags yet), "Popular Topics/Posts", "Users", and "Groups (Administrators, Global Moderators, SCPD Residents). The software has a variety of ways to view content and information that we all contribute over time.

I clicked on my avatar, the icon in the upper right corner (see settings in above screen shot) and this menu opens up:

You can set your status (your status shows up next to your name/avatar in topics, posts, user page, profile page, and so on. You can bookmark any topic (and maybe posts? I haven't tried it out yet) and then see your bookmarks here.

IMPORTANT - you can edit your profile
I urge everyone to at least look at the Edit Profile page. Everyone has a unique profile, as I mentioned earlier. The Edit Profile page is how you can set up your profile for when others see your profile page.

This is what my "Edit Profile" page looks like (in the desktop browser so you can see the whole thing):

These are things you can edit:

Full Name - this is displayed next to your avatar. If you leave it blank, your username is displayed instead. My thinking is we want to show our real names, as we're a community and we do want to get to know one another.

Website - if you have your own website, you can put the URL to it here.

Location - I put Sun City Palm Desert, but you can put anything you want (The land of Oz or whatever you like).

Birthday - this is not necessary, but there are some site functions that may take advantage of knowing your birthday - like wishing you a happy birthday on that date.

Group Title - as you can see, I can choose from the 3 groups I am in. I selected two and you can see below my name near the top the two "badges" showing these two groups.

About me - you can write a short bio here so people can get an idea of who you are. When I meet people, I often ask them what they did before they retired and the answer is always interesting to me.

Signature - this text appears at the bottom of your posts. It's typically informative or a famous quote.

You can also upload a photo to be your avatar. All you need to do is click on the circular image (my photo in this case) and you will be prompted to upload a photo and crop and center it so it's to your liking.

When you are happy with your changes, click on the blue "Save Changes" button or your edits won't be saved.

In the toolbar/menu on the left, you can see more information about the user. Again, I'm administrator so I see more than you might. Global Moderators have additional options as well.

We're always looking for more moderators - the more the better!

I'll do a separate topic for your settings page.