Welcome to our AI-generated Daily Summary topic! (9:00 PM Edition)
This is the topic where a daily summary of meta’s activity is collated by our good friend Bert, and posted here so everyone can get a rundown of some of the top discussions over the past 24 hours.
To account for our global audience, we have three editions (this one, Daily Summary (5am UTC), and Daily Summary (1pm UTC)), which fire at different times of the day so you can get one at a time most convenient to you. All of them cover the last 24 hours (respectively), so the main difference is when they land.
If you’d like to get a ping whenever a new one is posted just set this topic to Watching (and if you change your mind, change it back ).
Feedback is certainly welcome. We’ll be tweaking and refining the idea as we go, so all input is encouraged. We do have a separate topic for that so as to keep this one just for summaries. You can find that here - Daily Summary Feedback
Enjoy!
Small caveat… AI (even GPT-4) does hallucinate, it is unavoidable. Don’t treat everything it says as truth, as there will likely be some lies mixed in. We’ll try to manually correct any if we spot them, but still… keep an eye out.
jidannisuggested that the ‘like’ icon used to represent all emotions is sub-optimal. Firepup650 noted the reactions plugin allows changing the default like icon to any FA icon.
agitated.swansonasked about the roadmap for planned improvements to Discourse Splash, introduced in July 2022. Shauny would like to be able to replace the dots with a custom SVG animation.
In the Hide Lock Badge Icon component, nathanksuggested adding compatibility with the unofficial Discourse Category Headers component. Lilly is open to PRs to improve the component.
In the Voice Recorder component, Arkshineoffered to make a PR to use a third-party library that outputs MP3 for better playback support across devices.
Marek_Wojtaszek has been struggling to install Discourse locally, with ports 443/80 closed. The issue was nginx failing to get Let’s Encrypt certs. Configuring Cloudflare DNS and running acme.sh commands fixed it.
In a WordPress integration, Thomas_Rother is seeing the same issue of 422 errors when the WP Discourse plugin pulls comments. Static caching plugins like WP Rocket can interfere.
HamMan2118reported a bug where private categories are exposed in the edit history when a topic is moved to a public category. The expected behavior is to hide inaccessible source categories from users.
DevTantia got clarification that every post is a post, and a topic is a collection of posts. The first post in a topic could informally be called the OP (original post).
Mudit_Maheshwariasked about the high number of message-bus poll calls with unique client IDs. RGJ explained each client-id represents a browser session, so it indicates concurrent users, which is a good sign.
#sysadmin
Roi is migrating a phpBB3 forum to Discourse but the import container build failed. Commenting out rm -R unicorn in the import template fixed it, likely due to a switch from Ubuntu to Debian.
The experimental “Reader Mode” theme component received more feedback. Arkshine suggested moving the settings panel relative to the timeline controls. keegan requested color options, click-outside-to-close, and other enhancements. Read more
In the Hide Channels from DM Search Input topic, Earnie_Baird asked about preventing public chat channels from appearing as top options when users start new DMs, as it’s noisy and redundant.
In a discussion on improving Discourse’s search, RGJ felt the current search doesn’t live up to expectations compared to other systems. supermathieshared some tips on effective keyword usage, but noted even the Docs search suffers from not being able to order by relevance.
sp-jordan-violet started a discussion on adding conditional user fields to show different fields based on previous responses during user onboarding. pfaffmanpointed out the discourse-authentication-validations plugin does this for the sign up page, but adopting it for user preferences would be non-trivial.
In a discussion on moving topics between Discourse instances, the question of easily migrating relevant uploads came up. pfaffmansuggested pasting the original upload URLs into a post on the destination site, which should download them with the same SHA and “magically” update the links.
In a topic on replying with audio recordings, Hanon_Ondricek noted Meta’s Threads app allows posting voice recordings that get automatically transcribed. Most platforms already allow dictation for accessibility. Jagsterreminded that globally, most people can’t use speech-to-text.
zogstripsuggested using Watched Words to replace text with HTML, but later realized after his morning coffee this doesn’t actually work. He’s going to look into an easy fix.
supermathie, as an “everyday many times a day” user of internal search, shared some feelings and insights on the topic of improving search. His tips are to focus on the most important keywords rather than writing a story.
JammyDodgernoted that most people don’t have the ability to directly edit the daily summary posts to correct hallucinations, as they are HTML rather than Markdown now.
Lilly’s dev install broke suddenly with rake tasks aborting after an update. Removing the calendar plugin fixed the issue.
sam said regarding the daily summary hallucinations, “Hallucinations suck, not if you come across them feel free to edit”. He’s thinking about what can be done there.
mcwumblycommented that separating profile hiding and presence settings is likely only wanted by a small intersection of people using chat who also want to hide presence. It hasn’t been a highly requested feature so far.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again tomorrow!
Small caveat… AI (even GPT-4) does hallucinate, it is unavoidable. Don’t treat everything it says as truth, as there will likely be some lies mixed in. We’ll try to manually correct any if we spot them, but still… keep an eye out.
