# Finding Your Way Around the Community

**The Part You Cannot Get From a Course:** Courses teach you the theory. **Community** is where you find out what actually happened when another operator tried it. The hub puts every board in one list with a running count of what is in it, so you can see where the conversation is before you dive in.

## Boards split the room by subject

**Go Where Your Question Lives:** Each board is one part of the business:

- **Marketing & Growth** for getting people through the door
- **Operations & Processes** for the systems that keep a shift running
- **Menu & Recipes** for costing, product mix, and what to put on the board
- **Financials & Funding** for margins, loans, and the numbers
- **Equipment & Tech** for what to buy and what to avoid
- **Staffing, Hiring & Training** for building a team that stays
- **Wins & Milestones** for the stuff worth celebrating
- **Ideas** for what you wish the platform did

**Or Follow a Topic Instead:** **Trending Tags** cut across every board, so if you care about inventory or budgeting more than you care about which board it was posted in, start there.

## Sort the feed to what you need right now

**Four Different Rooms, One Feed:** The tabs above the thread list change what you are looking at.

- **Latest** for what is happening today
- **Top Rated** for what the room found most useful
- **Unanswered** for questions nobody has helped with yet
- **My Posts** to find your own threads and the replies waiting on you

If you are short on time, **Unanswered** is the highest-value tab in the place. Somebody is stuck on something you solved two years ago.

## Inside a board

**Everything on the Card:** Open a board and each thread shows who wrote it, how many replies it has, and its vote count, so you can tell at a glance which ones the room actually engaged with. Click the title, the preview, or the reply count to open the thread in full; **Reply** takes you there with the reply box already open. Voting works right from the card. Every board has its own **Sort by** control if you want to reorder what you are seeing.

A couple of boards do their own thing. **Wins & Milestones** swaps the standard card for a **Share a Win** layout, because celebrating a zero-overtime month is a different kind of post than asking a question.

**Start Your Own:** Use **New Discussion** at the top of the hub, or **Start New Discussion** from inside any board. Ask the question you have been chewing on.

**Your Feed Is Yours:** If you have blocked someone, their threads do not appear for you anywhere in the community.

## Ready to dig in?

Log in to Boost Academy, open **Community**, and answer one thing in **Unanswered**.

***Access:** All members. Some boards are Academy Plus only.*