Community Forum
The Community Forum is a platform-wide discussion hub at /community. Discuss, showcase your work, ask for help, request templates, share tips, and participate in design challenges.
Categories
General Discussion
Talk about anything OpenCharts-related
Showcase
Show off your best flowcharts and projects
Help & Questions
Get help from the community
Feature Requests
Suggest new features and improvements
Templates
Share and request templates
Tips & Tricks
Share workflows and productivity hacks
Challenges
Community design challenges
Post Types
Discussion
General conversation threads on any topic.
Showcase
Share your work with an embedded interactive project preview.
Help Request
Ask a question — mark a reply as the accepted answer when solved.
Template Request
Request a specific template. Others can fulfill it.
Tip
Share a productivity tip. Long tips get a reading progress bar.
Challenge
Design challenges with deadlines. Fork, remix, and submit.
Voting & Reactions
Voting
Reddit-style upvote/downvote. Click once to vote, click again to undo, click the opposite to flip. Milestone celebrations at 10, 25, 50, 100, and 500 votes!
Reactions
Platform-themed emoji reactions on posts and replies:
Replies & Threads
Replies support one level of nesting — you can reply to a post or reply to another reply. Each reply has its own vote score, reactions, and moderation controls.
Embedded Previews & Remix
Interactive Preview
Showcase posts embed a miniature read-only React Flow canvas showing your linked project. Hover to zoom, click to open the full editor.
Fork & Remix
Use This copies the project to your workspace. Remix copies it and auto-creates a showcase post linked to the original.
Moderation
Report
Flag inappropriate content
Pin
Moderators can pin important posts
Lock
Prevent new replies on a thread
Ban
Temporary or permanent user bans
Special Features
Flow of the Week
The top showcase posts from the past 7 days are featured in a rotating card stack on the forum homepage.
Author Spotlight
Hover over any author name to see a preview card with their post count, template count, and forum stats.
Author Flair Badges
Earn badges like Template Creator, Helpful, and Prolific based on your forum contributions. Displayed next to your name.