The forum includes a messaging system for members to use. The messages are private, but please note that they can be seen by staff members for moderation purposes (for instance, when they are reported by a member).
and you have to agree with forum rules before use the forum for the 1st time
I’ve seen some hidden FAQ in my time, but that really takes the biscuit and I wonder how many other people know that that is there? It seems I joined on Oct 27 (after multiple clicking around), but there is no email anywhere including deleted items, to invite me to accept TOS. I was never on the ‘old’ forum. I’d say this is a bug or something. (If you’re a member of postcrossing, just click on New Forum and you’re in without ever having to see that.)
As you can see, no FAQ.
I have no memory of accepting anything to join here but I’ll leave it for now. As I said, messages are not private, which doesn’t bother me but might bother some other people who almost certainly are unaware of this.
I’ve clicked on the guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy links. I don’t see any way to “agree.” Does reading them indicate my agreement? Does it take a while to “register” that I’ve read them and will the FAQ link appear after that? I’d really like to see them!! Thanks.
Without going into too much detail, Discourse comes by default with a FAQ but we have customise it for Postcrossing so we have changed it on the menu to “Forum Guidelines” which is more appropriate. However, we only have an easy way to change text on the default language of the forum (US English) and didn’t change it for other languages.
The plot twist in your case is that since you signed up, you have changed your account default interface language from (default) (which is at the very top of the list and is US English) to just English. “Same” language, but not as trivial for us to edit it.