Hello and welcome to Kidney Community!
We are really glad you have joined Kidney Community, our fully moderated online forum, for people on their kidney journey. This is your safe space to share experiences, find information, get support and connect with others who understand.
Whether you are here to browse for information or to start or join a chat, everyone is welcome.
Before you start posting, please read the Community Rules. Following these guidelines will ensure we keep this a welcoming community forum where everyone feels safe and heard.
You can chat about any topic, from symptoms and diagnosis to going through treatments, see what others are discussing and join in the conversation or search topics of interest to you and find answers to previously asked questions and topics.
Use the categories and sub-categories for finding topics relevant to you, and if you are starting a new topic, make sure to put the post into a relevant category, using tags so that people can easily find your content to interact with.
Protecting your privacy
We recommend that your username is different to your real name. If you want to change your username, you can do this at any time in your profile settings.
We would also advise against sharing personal information such as your email address or telephone number in public posts.
Our staff moderate Kidney Community 9:00 - 17:00 Monday - Friday.
For more information about how Kidney Community works, key terms and how to get started see further information below.
If you need any help or support with anything, then please contact @Kidney_admin or e-mail kidneycommunity@kidneyresearchuk.org.
Definitions of key words used on Kidney Community
As a new user of Kidney Community, we hope you will find this site easy to navigate and clearly structured. Below are some definitions of the key words used on the forum. We hope this is useful to get you started. If you need any help then just get in touch with our friendly admin team @Kidney_admin or e-mail kidneycommunity@kidneyresearchuk.org.
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Topic: A series of messages grouped together in a meaningful conversation with a title, listed in a category, beginning with an Original Post, and including all replies in chronological order. This is similar to what other platforms might call a ‘thread.’
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Post: An individual message within a topic.
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Original Post (OP): The first post in any topic. It determines the focus of the topic and is associated with the title and tags.
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Category: The primary way of organising topics. For example, ‘Living with kidney disease’ or ‘kidney transplant’.
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Tag: A marker used to describe a topic. Each topic can have multiple tags and users can create new ones.
Topic Lists
Our Kidney Community homepage shows all Latest conversations, but you can filter this list in several ways:
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By category: Click the ‘all categories’ title to see a list of all categories.
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By tag: Click the ‘all tags’ title to see a list of all tags.
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By activity level: Click ‘Top’ to list topics by activity level for a specific time period.
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By new topics: New topics (created in the last two days that you haven’t opened) are marked with a small blue dot.
Taking Part in Conversations
Replying
Press any Reply button to open the editor. You can continue reading or navigate to different topics while composing your reply.
To insert a quote, select the text you wish to quote, then press the Quote button that pops up. Repeat for multiple quotes from different posts or users
If you need any help then just get in touch with our friendly admin team @Kidney_admin or e-mail kidneycommunity@kidneyresearchuk.org.