Important: New Plugins Added!

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Hi, y’all! We just added a few new plugins to improve the forum that y’all might like!


The first plugin is a Stackoverflow-esque Question and Answer system. When you ask a question, such as “What is causing my microcontroller to blink red?”, you can select any reply as the correct answer to your problem by clicking the checkbox near the reply.

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Here is more information about the plugin: Discourse Solved - plugin - Discourse Meta


The second plugin is a reaction plugin for posts/replies. With any post you can click the smiley face below the post to react to it with an emoji.

Here is more information about the plugin: Discourse Retort - plugin - Discourse Meta


The third plugin allows you to embed math in your post using LaTeX. To show a single line of math inline, type down one dollar sign around the LaTeX math like so $\frac{1}{2}$ which renders \frac{1}{2}. To render multiple lines of math, type down two dollar signs around the math


$$

\int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{1} (xy) dy dx \\

= \int_{0}^{1} (\frac{x}{2}) dx \\

= \frac{1}{4}

$$

which displays

\int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{1} (xy) dy dx \\ = \int_{0}^{1} (\frac{x}{2}) dx \\ = \frac{1}{4}

Here is a good guide to learning LaTeX to use this plugin: Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes - Overleaf, Online LaTeX Editor
Here is more information about the plugin: Discourse Math - plugin - Discourse Meta


The final plugin is bbcode which allows you to format your posts using text only. You can do many things with this plugin. Here are a few of them.


List items:

[list]

* item

* item

[/list]

or

[ol]

[li]this is a list item[/li]

[ol]

or

[ul]

[*] this is an item

[*] this is **an** item

[/ul]

Set text size: [size=7] Text here [/size]

Set font: [font=arial] color [/font]

Text color: [color=#ff0000] Text here [/color] or [color=red] text [/color]

Add background color: [bgcolor=#381] Text here [/bgcolor]

Highlight text: [highlight] Text here [/highlight]

Small text: [small] Text here [/small]

Create bookmark in text: [aname=NAME] Text here [/aname]

Create link to jump to bookmark in text: [jumpto=NAME] Text here [/jumpto]

[center]

Center some text

[/center]

[right]

Right align some text

[/right]

[left]

Left align some text

[/left]

Here is a guide for how to use this plugin. Discourse BBCode - plugin - Discourse Meta


We have also added a plugin to post once a year various stats such as the most liked posts, most viewed posts, etc. Discourse Yearly Review - plugin - Discourse Meta


Thank you all for being a part of this forum and for being a part of the Robomasters North America community!

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