All Pressbooks users, including network and institutional managers, are invited to join and participate in our Pressbooks Community forum. The forum is designed as a space of conversation and mutual aid, and we expect participants to be respectful, welcoming, and kind to others. Please read our FAQ before participating in forum conversations.

Sign Up for the Forum

The Pressbooks Community forum is hosted at https://pressbooks.community. You can read posts without an account, but must create a free account in order to reply or create new topics. To sign up for the forum:

1. Visit https://pressbooks.community and click Sign Up 
   
2. Create an account using your email address, or authenticate with an existing Google, GitHub, or Twitter account
   

Participate in the Conversation

The Pressbooks Community Forum has five main categories:

• Pressbooks Product Updates – official updates from the Pressbooks team
• Using Pressbooks – for Pressbooks end users (authors, editors, and others who are publishing books)
• Administering Pressbooks Networks – for network and institutional managers who administer Pressbooks networks
• Installing/Hosting Pressbooks – for people handling DevOps and server management
• Contributing to Pressbooks – for developers, translators, and others contributing to Pressbooks software

You can search the Forum or browse any of the existing categories to see past conversations. When exploring an existing category, you’ll see several ‘subcategories’ as well as a list of uncategorized ‘topics’ or conversation threads already established in that category. If you are logged in to the forum, you can respond to any existing topics, or create a ‘New Topic’ if what you’d like to discuss is not already represented in the forum.

To reply to an existing thread:

1. Click the relevant category from the Pressbooks Community homepage (for example, ‘Administering Pressbooks Networks‘)
   

   

2. Click the title of a subcategory of interest to see a list of all the related topics for that category (for example ‘Network Manager Resources’)
   

   

3. Click the title of the topic that you’d like to read and reply to from the list in this particuarl category/subcategory (for example ‘Book Announcements‘)
   

   

4. Once you have read the topic, click on the ‘Reply‘ button below an individual response to respond directly to a reply, or the blue ‘Reply’ button at the bottom of the thread to respond to the original post.
   
   
5. While drafting your reply, you can ‘mention’ other users in the group by using the `@` character before their user name. See Discourse’s Getting Started Guide for more details.
   

   

Create a New Topic

If you have a question or would like to discuss something which doesn’t fit any of the existing topics in the forum, you can create a new topic. To do so:

1. Open the Pressbooks Clients category and click ‘New Topic‘
   
2. Add a title for the new topic and enter any relevant content.
3. Click Create Topic