ADDING COMMUNITY TOPICS IMPOSSIBLE ?

[u/whyismynamenothere]

DESKTOP - IS THIS TRUE? Newby mod SO confused. My main topic is Politics, but I want subtopics like abortion, discrimination, economy, I want them searchable and postable. Is this impossible?

[u/Unique-Public-8594]

Community topics have been phased out. 

[u/whyismynamenothere → u/Unique-Public-8594]

Dang, I wish I could have tried them. Wonder why? My next idea will be to manually sort current posts to megathreads. I really want to keep it simple and for now, I'm too baffled to do much else. Thanks for your response!

[u/Unique-Public-8594 → u/whyismynamenothere]

Maybe you mean post flairs?

[u/whyismynamenothere → u/Unique-Public-8594]

No - I keep TRYING to understand what those are and what they would look like and how they would work, but I really don't get it. I think that if I just do a new post labeled "election integrity megathread and just keep adding new posts from me and sorting other's posts to those threads... I'm too tired to explain it better for now.

[u/HistorianCM → u/whyismynamenothere]

You have no way to "sort" posts into other threads.

Think of Flair as a label or category. You can set your subreddit so users can, or must, self select a "Flair" for their posts. People can then choose to only see things with that particular flair. There is even a sidebar widget to help with that.

For example. here are two from one of my subreddits.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/?f=flair_name%3A%22Buy%2FSell%2FTrade%22 - This only shows the Buy/Sell/Trade posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/?f=flair_name%3A%22Question(s)%22%22) - This shows the Questions posts.

[u/whyismynamenothere → u/HistorianCM]

Ah, I see your flare and it makes sense. If I can figure it out, I may use it. But, what's a widget?

[u/HistorianCM → u/whyismynamenothere]

Since your on mobile, you won't really see them, but most people don't use mobile (at lease in my subreddits) so they do see a sidebar on the right that has different configurable elements.

I strongly recommend that you become familiar with the "Mod Tools" area on desktop.

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