Thereās appears to be no no link to any documentation from the links from https://community.openstreetmap.org/. Thereās an about link (which says who the admins and moderators are) and an FAQ (which seems entirely concerned with etiquette guidelines).
Iāve heard people talk about documentation, so it must exist somewhere, but can the site link to it?
Do You mean New Users Guide?
That just seems to be a link to a thread? That isnāt visible anywhere at https://community.openstreetmap.org/. Where is the searchable documentation? I tried searching that thread for ādraftā (just an example) and found nothing.
It looks like what you need is some sort of official documentation for Discourse, which doesnāt appear to exist (apart from perhaps the Docs section on the meta forum).
Thats a useful link, thanks - and itās searchable!
New user guide topic is linked from the global banner at the top of the forums, you might have discarded it for your user (clicking the X button)
It probably needs to be actually linked somewhere rather than just below (and in a smaller font size than) ārequest a categoryā.
Where do you think it would be best placed? Maybe the /faq page?
That would make sense. Currently that seems to be a copy of the etiquette guidelines rather than an FAQ list.
The way itās been done https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-to-use-this-forum-for-new-users/314 isnāt really a solution to this problem - I just looked for this again and couldnāt find it again. If there can be only one FAQ then it needs to be above the āetiquetteā gubbins, not below.
Participation guidelines and new userās guide are now links by default on the sidebar to increase visibility.
