Discussions

Use the Discussions tab to engage with project members, exchange ideas, and resolve issues. You can create topics, reply to messages, and manage discussions effectively. Each topic has its own subject, making it easy to navigate between multiple topics.

Creating New Topic

To create a new topic, follow these steps:

1. Open your project and go to the Discussions tab.
2. Click New Topic.
3. Name the topic.
4. Select the target language related to this topic, or leave it unspecified if the topic applies to all target languages.
5. (Optional) Add a description which will be displayed as the initial message in the topic. You can use either plain text or Markdown.
6. (Optional) Click Preview to see how your initial message will be displayed after sending. This is especially useful if you styled your message with Markdown.
7. Click Create Topic.

Viewing and Filtering Topics

Once you open the Discussions tab, you can view and filter project topics using the Open or Closed pages.

• The Open page displays all ongoing topics.
• The Closed page displays completed or archived topics.

Each topic is displayed with the following details:

• Subject
• Profile picture, full name, and username of the author
• Date created
• Number of replies
• Last reply time

To filter the displayed topics, click and use the available options:

• Languages: All, particular language.
• Author: All, particular author.

To search for a particular topic by its title, type your search phrase in the Search in topics field.

To sort topics, click Sort by and select one of the available options:

• Newest
• Oldest
• Most commented
• Least commented

Managing Topics

Once you open a topic, you can perform the following actions as a topic author or a project member with manager permissions:

• Mute/Unmute - click Mute in the upper-right corner to mute the topic. Click the same button to unmute when needed.
• Edit subject - click in the upper-right corner > select Change subject.
• Close topic - click in the upper-right corner > select Close. Closed topics move to the Closed page, and a label appears at the bottom of all replies, indicating who closed the topic and when. You can reopen it by clicking Reopen from the same menu.
• Delete topic - click in the upper-right corner > select Delete.

Participating and Replying in Discussions

Once you open a topic, you can see the following details:

• Title – the subject of the discussion.
• Opened Date – the date when the topic was created.
• Topic Language – the language used in the discussion.
• Number of Messages – the total count of replies in the topic.

The topic author in a discussion is labeled as Author. This label helps participants easily recognize who started the discussion, which can be useful for directing replies, following up on questions, or understanding the context of the original post.

Below the initial message, you can view other users’ replies. To contribute to the discussion, enter your reply in the text field.

Use ”@” followed by a username to direct your message to a specific person. Before sending your message, you can click Preview to see how it will be displayed after sending. This is especially useful if you styled your message with Markdown.

To quote another user’s reply in your message, click the three dots on the reply and select Quote reply.

Editing and Deleting Replies

Topic participants can edit and delete their own replies as needed. Project members with manager permissions can edit and delete both their own replies as well as replies of other topic participants.

To edit a reply in a topic, follow these steps:

1. Click on the needed reply and select Edit.
2. Make the necessary changes to the reply and click Save to save changes.
3. (Optional) As with replying, you can preview your edited changes with the Preview before saving the changes.

To delete a reply in a topic, follow these steps:

1. Click on the needed reply and select Delete.
2. Confirm the deletion by clicking Delete in the appeared modal.

Notifications

You will automatically receive notifications about updates in discussions if you are the author of the topic or have added at least one reply.

In addition to muting individual topics, you can manage global notification settings for discussions.

To adjust these settings, go to Account Settings > Notifications tab > Global notification settings and modify the following option:

• Discussions: Receive notifications for new topics created or mentions in discussions.

You can enable or disable these notifications and select your preferred notification channel (email or in-app).

Read more about the Notification Settings.