Who uses Conduit

What Conduit is for

A profile is a user's basic information together with the user's authored or favorited articles. Conduit lets you browse articles, follow users, and join article conversations through comments. The home page brings together tags and articles.

Before you start

Your account determines which feed and profile actions are available. Your Feed appears for an authenticated user. A profile's information and profile actions appear when the profile is available.

Before you start, use this checklist:

Find people and content

Use the home screen to choose a feed or a tag, or select an author's name beside an article to open that author's profile. The home page lists articles pulled from the following feed, the global feed, or a tag.

Prerequisites

• You know whether you want all articles, articles from followed users, or articles under a tag.
• You can select an author's name beside an article to open the profile you want.

Steps

1. Select one destination from the table.

   If you want to…	Select
   Browse all articles	Global Feed
   Browse articles from users you follow	Your Feed
   Browse articles under a subject	the tag you need from the list beneath Popular Tags
   Inspect an author's profile	the author's name beside the article you want to inspect

Result: The selected feed, tag list, or profile opens.

Understand the feed and profile surfaces

The feed surface combines feed choices, subject tags, and the article list. The profile surface combines basic user information with two article-list choices: My Posts and Favorited Posts.

Choose what to do with a profile

A profile gives you two article lists, and your own profile also offers Edit Profile Settings.

Prerequisites

• A profile is open and its information is available.

Steps

1. Select one profile destination from the table.

   If you need to…	Select
   Review the displayed user's authored articles	My Posts
   Review the displayed user's favorited articles	Favorited Posts
   Change your own profile information	Edit Profile Settings

To follow another user, continue to Follow a user.

Result: The selected profile list or profile settings destination opens.

Choose the next content activity

The feed you choose answers a different reading need: the global list shows all available articles, the following list focuses on users you follow, and a tag list narrows articles to a subject.

Prerequisites

• You have opened the home feed or a profile article list.

Steps

1. Choose the content path that matches your goal.

   If you need to…	Continue with
   Read an article	Read an article
   Discuss an article	Comment on an article
   Mark an article as a favorite	Favorite articles
   Follow the article's author	Follow a user

Result: The dedicated article or profile task is ready to continue.

When content is unavailable

The home screen has two tag-list states: it can show Loading tags... while tags are loading, or No tags are here... yet. when the loaded list is empty. A profile also has an error area that appears when profile errors are present.

Continue with the selected activity

After choosing a feed or profile list, continue with the page that owns the next activity:

The article list beneath a feed or profile leads to the relevant article or profile-list activity.