Is asking a question the same as My discussions in FS Community?
My discussions has 27 but when I click, I only see 8. Where is the rest of them?. Also, I do not see my new questions that I have posted in My Disussion.
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Julia Szent-Györgyi has explained this a few times, so I'm linking to one of her previous threads.
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/553083/#Comment_5530831 -
The thread that Áine linked is from late last April, when images (screenshots) were not working at all, so I couldn't illustrate my answer. I'm going to remedy that.
As I wrote, the discrepancy between the "My Discussions" count and what clicking on that link actually shows you is caused by two quirks of the Community software. One is that the My Discussions list only shows threads you've started in the main Categories section. It does not include anything from My Groups.
The other cause is that the My Discussions count (194 currently, for me) includes discussions that you've flagged.
I assume moderator accounts can see something as a result of such flags, but for the rest of us, they're invisible — except for incrementing that counter. (How on Earth a flag counts as a discussion has not been explained.)
To see an actual list of the discussions you've started, you need to come at it from your Community profile, not from the "Quick Links" section. There are two ways to get to your profile page. One is to find one of your Community contributions (thread, comment, doesn't matter), click your name, and choose View Profile from the popup.
The other way is to click your profile icon at the top right of any Community page and click your name on the popup.
Either way, you'll end up on your Community profile page. The right-hand column repeats the same discussion count as the Quick Links menu on other Community pages, but unlike those, on this page the accompanying label/link is Discussions. (Notice the lack of the possessive pronoun.)
Clicking that will populate a list on the left-hand side of the page, below the colorful bits.
The discussions are in reverse chronological order, without regard to their location in the Community; Categories are labeled, Groups are unlabeled. Depending on your activity, it may take an interminable number of iterations of "scroll down, click More Discussions", but eventually, it'll show you every thread you've started. (Mine goes back to 2018.)
(If you decide to count them, you may not get the number you see for both Discussions and My Discussions, because of the flags=discussions quirk.)
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Thanks, Julia. I knew that wasn't the best of your several explanations that I recalled.
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