IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT THIS FORUM
Heigh-ho, everyone. I'm sad to share the news that Wix is discontinuing their forum, which is what powers our forum here on Ear Scouts. As a result, this forum will shut down soon and we are so sad to see it go.
The good news is that as one door closes, another opens. We are very excited to announce that our friends at Discourse, makers of one of the best and most powerful forum platforms on the internet, has given us a new forever home for the forum using their hosted service. The new forum is fast and allows for much better organization and interaction with us and each other. We'll be posting more information soon or you can join our Patreon to become a beta tester. While we are not able to port the existing posts to the new system, we hope you'll continue to share your tips, experiences and fun photos on the new forum so it will feel like home very soon.
Here are a handful of the new features:
Better organization, powerful search and more categories
Find exactly what you are looking for and post things where people can easily find it with more categories and sub-categories. You can see the new list of main categories in the image above, but we'll be adding sub-categories once the forum grows to make information easier to find and share
Direct messaging
Send and receive direct messages from other members once you have posted enough to show that you are not a bot
Sign in with Patreon for bonus features
Ear Scouts Patreon member can use their existing Patreon account to login and get access to special bonus features on the forum including access to the secret hideout forum
Sign in with Google, Apple, Facebook, Discourse and more
Although you can't sign in with your current username and password for our existing forum, Discourse makes it easy to sign in with an account you already have so you have one less thing to keep up with
Create polls, blur spoilers, add tables and more to make fun posts
Discourse's tools for creating your posts are loaded with fun features like polls and cool formatting tools that allow you to hide spoilers, create tables of complex information and more!
Live chat rooms
Discourse forums include live chat features where you can come and hangout in realtime. We even plan to have live chat events from time to time.
Customize the forum the way you want it
Discourse allows you to create your own layout, menus and be specific about the notifications that matter most to you
Reply to posts by email
Don't have time to visit the forum, but want to add a quick response? Just reply to the email notification and your email will become a posted reply.
Badges, emoji and fun flair
You can earn badges that can show up as flair on your profile photo or within your profile itself. There's even a custom emoji section that will allow us to create unique Ear Scouts emoji for use in the forum. Best of all, if you've earned a badge here (like the Founders badge), we'll add it to your profile in the new forum. Just send us a message after you create a new account.
We can't wait to share all of these fun new features with everyone and see what you all will create in this new online hangout for our entire Ear Scouts community. Until then, keep thinking happy thoughts everybody!