For some reason there is two places for threads, the campaign itself,
where it seems from feedback, that those threads are not viewable by
people using the LFG feature.
...and then there is an actual forum with threads for the campaign, which
I have no clue how to access, except from when people post in the forum
(I get there using notifications' direct link to the post made).
That seems very much like a bug to me, though I could be wrong,
I am relatively new to Roll20.com ...not RP at all.
Here's the breakdown and why we have them:
* On the public forums, there is a LFG subforum. This is a holdover from before we had the LFG Search feature, but some people still prefer it so we keep it around. If you don't want to use it you can just ignore it. No one will talk about your campaigns on there unless you specifically start a discussion on there about them.
* If you list your campaign in the LFG system (using the toggle on the Campaign Details page), then your LFG listing also gets a forum. This is for people who aren't in your campaign but want to join it to let you know that they want to join, and also to ask questions. You can also do things like post stickies outlining the requirements for the game or special rules for character creation, that sort of thing, so people are aware of them before they join the campaign.
* All campaigns have a private forum on the Campaign Details page (regardless of if they are accepting public player applications or not). This is intended for use by people actually in your campaign to talk about the campaign out of game. Some people use this to post things like schedules and talk OOC. Others use it to do play-by-post between game sessions. But the key here is that only people who are actually in your campaign can read or post in it.
In summary, I think it's obvious why there's a separate LFG forum from the regular campaign forum (obviously you don't want anyone to be able to read or post in your campaign's private forum). Why there are "two" places to discuss LFG, that's a holdover from a long time ago, and there may be a small riot if we tried to get rid of it :-).
Hope that helps!
* If you list your campaign in the LFG system (using the toggle on the Campaign Details page), then your LFG listing also gets a forum. This is for people who aren't in your campaign but want to join it to let you know that they want to join, and also to ask questions. You can also do things like post stickies outlining the requirements for the game or special rules for character creation, that sort of thing, so people are aware of them before they join the campaign.
* All campaigns have a private forum on the Campaign Details page (regardless of if they are accepting public player applications or not). This is intended for use by people actually in your campaign to talk about the campaign out of game. Some people use this to post things like schedules and talk OOC. Others use it to do play-by-post between game sessions. But the key here is that only people who are actually in your campaign can read or post in it.
...it is these two forums that I have problems with, as by default you post in the private one, and I have no idea
how to access the public one, unless someone posted in it, and then I can go there using the button from the notification.
(that is if it's my campaign)
Click on the "Looking for Players (List in LFG)" link on the Campaign Details page. It will pop up a new window, there is a link in the top-right that says "View Listing". You can click on that to view your LFG listing, which also has that forum.
Yup, that works, ...but it is far from logical or intuitive to access the public forum that way,Riley D. said:
Click on the "Looking for Players (List in LFG)" link on the Campaign Details page. It will pop up a new window, there is a link in the top-right that says "View Listing". You can click on that to view your LFG listing, which also has that forum.