General

General holds the handful of settings that describe the board as a whole.

Configuration

• Name: the board's name, and what the browser tab, the page titles and the social preview cards say.
• Base URL: the address the board is reached at, used wherever an absolute URL is unavoidable, meaning the links inside notification emails and XMPP messages, as well as the canonical and preview-image URLs in the page head. Getting it wrong doesn't break the board, however it does break the links in the messages the board sends out, and those are the links nobody ever tests.
• Topics per page and Posts per page: how long a forum listing and a topic get before they're paged. Both default to 10.
• Admin log retention (days): how long entries in Logs are kept before a nightly job deletes them. Defaults to 30.
• Show File → Quit menu: adds a Quit entry to the File menu pointing at the Link underneath it, which is there for boards that live inside something else and want a way back out. The link is required once the checkbox is on.

Documentation pages

The four tabs at the bottom are the About, Contact, Privacy Policy and Terms pages. Each of them has a checkbox that turns it on and a text area holding its content, which is Markdown, and a page that is enabled while empty is rejected instead of published blank.

An enabled page appears in the Help menu, and Terms, Privacy Policy and Contact additionally appear in the footer. A disabled page leaves the menus and returns a 404, and nobody gets to read a policy you took down by digging the URL out of their history.

The page itself: Administration → General