A forum is requested from the Request a forum page of the site. You must be signed in with a support forum account: registration is free, and this account becomes the forum owner’s account.
The form fields
- Forum title: the name shown at the top of the forum, 255 characters at most.
- Desired address: lowercase letters without accents, digits and hyphens. The full address of the future forum is shown under the field. Some names are reserved, and an address already taken or already requested is refused.
- Description: one sentence shown under the title, 255 characters at most (optional).
- Directory category: the category the forum will appear in, or “Choose later”.
- Your project: the subject, the intended community and what will keep the forum alive, 30 to 2,000 characters.
To send the request, accept the Founder terms, then click “Send my request”.
Good to know
- Only one request can be open at a time, and at most three requests can be submitted in 24 hours.
- The request stays private: only you and the team can see it.
- Each request is reviewed by hand: no response time is guaranteed.
What happens next is described in Follow your request.