Forum rules will be linked above each forum.

User forums will have the general user forum rules (with the option to add their own), and official forums will have specific forum rules.

Each forum is placed in a category.
There are official forums and user forums. User forum owners choose which category their forum belongs in.

If you are logged in you can collapse these categories if you don’t use them, and your settings will be saved.

Click [ - ] to collapse a category. Click [ + ] to expand it.

To view all forums under a category, click on the name of the category. All users will be able to create their own categories.

The main forum page has a filter box.

This allows you to search all forums by title or description.
Simply type in your search terms and hit filter.
For example, if you type in "cat," it will display all forums with the word "cat" in them.

You are now able to sort the forums by Most Active, Most Recent, and by Name

All users can subscribe to forums.

The forums that you are subscribed to are shown at the top of each category. Next come the official forums, and then user forums.

Everything that you subscribe to now has an alternate background color to make finding it easy.

To subscribe to a forum you must first visit the forum you wish to subscribe to. Then click Subscribe to Forum on the top right side of the page.

You will then be asked which Category you would like it to appear under.
You can select any Official Category or any previous Category you have made.
You may also create a New Category by typing in a new name.

When you are on the main Forums page you can select to Show Only Subscriptions which will filter all the forums to only display the ones you are subscribed to.

Please note that only Nexopia Plus members are able to create User Forums.

Once you have found a forum that looks interesting you can click on it and view the threads.

Here is a typical forum header.

There are links to the Forum Rule and Forum Guide (this guide) at the top of every forum.

You can create a new thread by clicking Create New Thread.

Each forum can be personalized (change the category it appears in) by clicking Personalize Category.

Clicking Withdraw From Forum will unsubscribe you from that forum and it will go back to it's default category.

Clicking Mark All As Read makes the forum think that you have looked at all the threads so that they don't appear to have new posts.

Each forum has different columns.

First we have the title of the forum. From this screenshot we can tell that it is the Health and Fitness forum found in the Sports category.

The second column has the author of the thread. In this example the users meds, NeLLeN, Dexx, and .Silverrose. have created threads.

The third and fourth columns indicate how many people have replied to a thread and how many people have actually read the thread.

Our last column explains who made the last post in that thread and at what time. This is useful to see how old the thread is.

Each thread is colour coded depending on its status:

The number of users in the forum is also displayed in the legend.
For privacy reasons we have decided not to actually say who is in the forum.

Each thread is made up of Posts. Each post is in chronological order, starting with the oldest post at the top of the page and the newest post at the bottom.

You can see that this thread is about creatine and it is in the Health and Fitness forum in the Sports category.

By clicking Subscribe you can be updated about everytime someone makes a new post. This shows up in your Subscriptions page which is located on the top menu.

Alternately, you can set your Preferences to automatically subscribe you to the forum if you make a post.

Here is a what a post normally looks like. Everything in red is an explanation of a feature.

If you want to make a post of your own either hit Reply in the thread or go to the last (or current if it's one) page of the thread and scroll to the bottom.

You will be presented with this box and you may type in a reply.

Along the top of this box are different formatting options. For a better explanation of forum code and how it works click here.

You can also add smilies to a post by clicking on them at the right hand side. You can scroll through different pages by hitting Prev and Next.

An alternate way to post is to hit ALT+S. Some find this faster than clicking on Post