Belly, Inc - Site Features and Functionality Explained

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Posting

You don't have to redesign your posts, Belly, Inc gives you ability to copy/paste your other forums' posts since we have bulletin-BBCode conversion.

To rename your topic/discussion's title or edit tag to relevant category, Go to your topic, Click Dropdown Menu on Reply button:

To add links to our website click this "link" icon button and paste in your link:

Sort discussions by filter explained

Profile, Security and Settings

On Belly, Inc you can add avatar by clicking on your profile and cropping of the image is automatic.

In your profile settings, you have ability to customize your notifications & alerts.

Follow/Ignore/Hide

On Belly, Inc you can choose to Follow, Ignore or Hide option for any discussion, tag and category.

For example:

If you want to be notified for celebrities in a specific tag only, you can go to celebrities tag and follow it. (Same applies to discussions/topics)

Flag (Report)

If you find any post or topic inappropriate, spam, abusing or breaking Rules Flag it to report it to the staff.
You can also flag your own post/topic to get staff's attention for tag changes e.g. move topic to from graveyard to relevant tag for updated links.

Mark all discussions as "read"

Dark Mode Added:

Add a Night Mode 🌙 for members.
A new "Night Mode" menu option will appear in the user options. To activate the dark mode go to the avatar next to the notifications icon and select "Night Mode".

A "Day Mode" option has been added as well to make the light appear again!

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How to post images on Belly, Inc

First method

When you upload an image onto an image hosting website such as imagebam.com, imgur.com, it will provide you with a “BBCode” share link, simple ‘copy & paste’ this link into your post.

Second method

Right-click on the image you wish to use and choose “click on copy image address” and paste this into the post, highlight the link in the post and then use the image icon.

As shown below:

📣 Polls - How to add member Polls

Click on “Choose Tags” and select OR search for “Polls” category.
Click on “Add poll”
Make your polls, you can also add images to your poll options

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What Are "Tags"?

Tags are topic categories
You can click on "tags" from the menu to view the traditional forum layout as shown below:

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@ilpalazzo3 @MikeBrooklyn @ppfd @Sodo @stevebeaton10 @TheStarTurtle @tizooka

Belly, Inc introduces the "Solved" tag.

This is to be used within our "Request Deck". This will ultimately show discussion topics that are "solved".

Only mods will be able to add the "solved" tag like so:

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Member Groups & Badges Explained

Foreword:

I have honoured and awarded @Patrons badges for whoever’s signed up for them under our older simplemachines.org forum.
Also we have transferred any Aficionado badges to Patrons member groups.
So anyone who previously had an “Aficionado” badge, this will now be replaced with a ‘Patron’ badge.

Only Moderators can @mention the following “member groups”:

@Mods = All our moderators
@Patrons = People who support our growing community spanning back to 10 years
@Voters = Anyone who’s voted in @stevebeaton10 ’s “celebrity belly of the year” poll will be awarded with this badge. This special badge can only be obtained if you participate in the end of year poll.

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🔓How To Unlock ‘Not safe for work’ (NSWF) Content

Please see this topic here.

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🏁 New Member Registrations/Sign-ups Will Only Open On Weekends (Saturdays & Sundays)

FAQ’s:

⛔ Why were new member registrations/ sign-ups closed?

Previously due to forum spam, we closed new member registrations temporarily.

The idea behind this was to give our moderators a bit of a break. Whilst allowing me to test out spam-prevention extensions. Unfortunately, this is still in my to-do list 😕.

🐢Why is it taking so much time to open new sign-ups?

Every new feature (i.e spam prevention extensions), security updates, and forum upgrades need to be ‘thoroughly tested’ and troubleshooted to ensure there is minimal disruption to the service.
With my full-time job, I had to prioritise what I could commit to ‘realistically’. Hence, I prioritised forum ‘updates & security patches’.

🚀What made you change your mind and open-up new member registrations?

Thanks to @Witchery’s post. We realised it didn’t make sense to keep registrations closed for this long. However it is still important to monitor forum spam. So to compromise, we’ve agreed to open up new registrations on weekends only.