# Contribute

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## [Uncategorized showing up on mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncategorized-showing-up-on-mobile/186839)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [April 29, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncategorized-showing-up-on-mobile/186839 "2021-04-29T12:33:15Z")

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I’ve got a site that has allow uncategorized topics disabled, yet uncategorized shows to a logged out (oh, or logged in as admin) user on Android mobile. I just did a rebuild. Theme components don’t explain it. The probl…

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## [Failed to bootstrap due to out of memory killer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-due-to-out-of-memory-killer/188141)

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**Author:** [@devnull](https://meta.discourse.org/u/devnull)\
**Replies:** 35\
**Last updated:** [April 29, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-due-to-out-of-memory-killer/188141 "2021-04-29T03:56:54Z")

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Hey guys, I want to update my Discoruse with ./launcher rebuild app. It was working fine for about one year. I’m updating if it’s neccessary all 2-4 weeks. I’m on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS \*\*\*@\*\*\*:~# lsb\_release -a No LSB mo…

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## [What dialect of Spanish is expected to be contributed?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-dialect-of-spanish-is-expected-to-be-contributed/187981)

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**Author:** [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 29, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-dialect-of-spanish-is-expected-to-be-contributed/187981 "2021-04-29T01:35:57Z")

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Por alguna razón, este software de foro hace una distinción entre inglés estadounidense e inglés británico, a pesar de que hay muy pocas diferencias entre ellos de todos modos (aparte de las cosas de “-or” → “-our”, pero eso es tan minúsculo que...

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## [Cleaning up our font system](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaning-up-our-font-system/75396)

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**Author:** [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [April 29, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaning-up-our-font-system/75396 "2021-04-29T00:30:31Z")

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Continuing the discussion from We need a "large fonts" and "small fonts" theme to ship with Discourse: I did a quick audit of where we currently stand with font definitions across Discourse, and well… we have 50+ unique…

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## [Discourse sidebar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sidebar/188452)

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**Author:** [@hamamiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hamamiz)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 28, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sidebar/188452 "2021-04-28T22:20:49Z")

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Hi team - was wondering if there is a way to add a sidebar with the top topics (highest number of replies maybe). thanks for the help!

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## [Some ideas about groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-ideas-about-groups/188385)

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**Author:** [@ufukayyildiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ufukayyildiz)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 28, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-ideas-about-groups/188385 "2021-04-28T20:06:03Z")

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Hi, Below features can be nice? Approve feature for groups. Admin or moderators approve a joining request for a group. Auto notification after added to a group by admin. Integration between costum fields and gr…

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## [Events system could use some love for long term events](https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-system-could-use-some-love-for-long-term-events/188364)

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**Author:** [@Jim\_Starkweather](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jim_Starkweather)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 28, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-system-could-use-some-love-for-long-term-events/188364 "2021-04-28T14:53:04Z")

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I realize this is a unique situation, but my site holds long term (up to a year) group builds and while I will use the event system for these it does make for a very interesting view in the “upcoming events” area. T…

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## [If backup to s3 upload fails, backup is stored locally but ignores the backup limit](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-backup-to-s3-upload-fails-backup-is-stored-locally-but-ignores-the-backup-limit/188231)

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**Author:** [@markersocial](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markersocial)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 28, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-backup-to-s3-upload-fails-backup-is-stored-locally-but-ignores-the-backup-limit/188231 "2021-04-28T14:43:43Z")

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Multipart upload backups to Scaleway S3 aren’t working for me still. Backup Upload to S3 Fails on scaleway (multipart upload) The problem is, if the upload fails, the backup remains stored locally like when doing normal…

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## [Access User Fields for custom components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-user-fields-for-custom-components/188305)

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**Author:** [@bguan2020](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bguan2020)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-user-fields-for-custom-components/188305 "2021-04-27T22:03:55Z")

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I’m using a custom header component to add external links on the header. I also have a user field that is a link to their profile on a separate website(each users’ profile link is unique). Is there any way I can access t…

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## [Unable to change "system" avatar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-change-system-avatar/187172)

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**Author:** [@rodypl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rodypl)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-change-system-avatar/187172 "2021-04-27T20:49:11Z")

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I’ve been trying to change the avatar of my “system” user, but it’s not changing it. It lets me upload the new avatar, it even lets me select it, but after clicking “Save Changes”, it doesn’t update it. I think this is a…

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## ["Welcome Message" is really an \*activation message\*](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-message-is-really-an-activation-message/187639)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-message-is-really-an-activation-message/187639 "2021-04-27T12:58:49Z")

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Not quite sure where to put this… Continuing the discussion from New signups not receiving welcome email: Thinking this was a new forum that wasn’t sending mail, I helpfully recommended: (Which seemed helpful, if a …

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## [Add S3 Bucket Policy: Automatically Delete Incomplete Multipart Upload Parts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-s3-bucket-policy-automatically-delete-incomplete-multipart-upload-parts/188232)

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**Author:** [@markersocial](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markersocial)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-s3-bucket-policy-automatically-delete-incomplete-multipart-upload-parts/188232 "2021-04-27T05:11:49Z")

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I think it would be good if Discourse set a s3 bucket policy to automatically delete incomplete multipart upload parts from the bucket in the case of the upload failing or not completing within a certain amount of time. …

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## [Need a call to action after adding 2FA on a 2FA-required site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-call-to-action-after-adding-2fa-on-a-2fa-required-site/188168)

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**Author:** [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-call-to-action-after-adding-2fa-on-a-2fa-required-site/188168 "2021-04-27T01:53:30Z")

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I just signed up on a site that requires 2FA for accounts. Immediately after creating my account I’m forced to this screen: It’s obvious that I needed to add at least one authenticator to continue, however after addi…

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## [Trouble with \`tests/test\_helper\`?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-tests-test-helper/188185)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 26, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-tests-test-helper/188185 "2021-04-26T18:43:56Z")

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I don’t understand this, but it looks like a bug. I’m trying to do a bootstrap on this site. No non-standard plugins. I just moved assets from one bucket to another and it’s all working. I was doing one more rebuild to a…

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## [Post composer becomes full screen when scrolling down on mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-composer-becomes-full-screen-when-scrolling-down-on-mobile/187908)

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**Author:** [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [April 26, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-composer-becomes-full-screen-when-scrolling-down-on-mobile/187908 "2021-04-26T13:23:54Z")

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For the last handful of days, there as been a bug on mobile (at least latest iOS) when composing a post where the post composer becomes unexpectedly full screen. Steps to reproduce: Open a topic and start a reply. Typ…

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## [Insert date/time change](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-date-time-change/188009)

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**Author:** [@Slowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slowhand)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 26, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-date-time-change/188009 "2021-04-26T13:15:00Z")

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Starting yesterday, I believe, the “Insert date/time” has changed. I can no longer click on the “time” and insert the preferred time, now I get a drop-down menu and have to scroll to the correct numbers. This is very…

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## [Auto born title from split first characters from content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-born-title-from-split-first-characters-from-content/187965)

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**Author:** [@thaidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thaidb)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-born-title-from-split-first-characters-from-content/187965 "2021-04-24T03:32:56Z")

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Do discourse have feature auto split content when create a topic become title of topic? Example: First 100 characters auto become title of this topic

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## [Rename tag not working as expected](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-tag-not-working-as-expected/184950)

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**Author:** [@Momin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Momin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-tag-not-working-as-expected/184950 "2021-04-23T18:00:25Z")

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When I’m editing the next tag the prepopulated tag is the last tag that I edited earlier. Let me explain I have two tags: wanda-vision, wonder-woman I edited the first tag wanda-vision → WandaVision Now I’m edit…

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## [Ability for staff to apply per-topic time outs to specific users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-for-staff-to-apply-per-topic-time-outs-to-specific-users/187813)

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**Author:** [@Thomas\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_G)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-for-staff-to-apply-per-topic-time-outs-to-specific-users/187813 "2021-04-23T13:39:09Z")

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One of the worse nightmares of a moderator is when a topic gets heated and users go way off topic, not corresponding to the main post. There are different ways to handle this situation but it always become unfair to the …

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## [Watched words tab no longer available to moderators](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-tab-no-longer-available-to-moderators/187783)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-tab-no-longer-available-to-moderators/187783 "2021-04-23T13:23:01Z")

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I have a moderator who is no longer able to access watched words. Apparently it was under logs before and moderators could modify watched words. Has this changed? I don’t see it in the notes, though there was mention of…

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## [New review status: Assigned to \<Moderator\>](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-review-status-assigned-to-moderator/187887)

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**Author:** [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-review-status-assigned-to-moderator/187887 "2021-04-23T12:43:19Z")

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Our Discourse site SWI-Prolog needs very little moderator interaction. Recently a flag was created and I was working on it but could not claim the flag to take it out of the queue. As such a few hours later another admi…

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## [Custom notification schedule on the weekends](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-notification-schedule-on-the-weekends/187768)

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**Author:** [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-notification-schedule-on-the-weekends/187768 "2021-04-22T14:28:55Z")

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Is it possible to completely turn off notifications on the weekends? We’d like staff to be able to do this, but at present it seems like it’s only possible to restrict it to a 30 min window. This is OK, but will still m…

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## [Redirecting invited users to a topic in a restricted category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-invited-users-to-a-topic-in-a-restricted-category/187763)

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**Author:** [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-invited-users-to-a-topic-in-a-restricted-category/187763 "2021-04-22T13:20:24Z")

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This is a small thing but I just tried to set up an invite link which would: Add users to a specific group Redirect them to a topic in a category that is only visible to that group This isn’t possible because topics i…

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## [Suggestion for some kind of enhanced paid support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-for-some-kind-of-enhanced-paid-support/187882)

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**Author:** [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-for-some-kind-of-enhanced-paid-support/187882 "2021-04-23T09:46:05Z")

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I’m mindful that we are using a self-hosted system (for various stupid internal political reasons) but that I’m posting quite a few bug reports and ui suggestions on this forum. I absolutely love Discourse so far and our…

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## [User Selectable Specific Category - Default Main Page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525)

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**Author:** [@TopQuark](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TopQuark)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525 "2021-04-23T06:46:40Z")

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The feature to have Categories as the front page is now available. In a community where users are only interested in a certain category and don’t care about the rest, is there a way to set this up in Discourse? Or poss…

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## [Strange message when error 500 is encountered](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-message-when-error-500-is-encountered/187458)

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**Author:** [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2021, 4:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-message-when-error-500-is-encountered/187458 "2021-04-23T04:32:26Z")

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Currently a discourse forum I use is down, but I am obviously not here to report that. I am here because the message shown is quite confusing. I am confused as to how a user is expected to be able to do this if the f…

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## [Re-opening the review queue doesn't update the list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-opening-the-review-queue-doesnt-update-the-list/187559)

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**Author:** [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-opening-the-review-queue-doesnt-update-the-list/187559 "2021-04-21T03:35:16Z")

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If I am looking at the review queue, then I would expect clicking the link in the menu to refresh the list: But it doesn’t appear to do anything at all from that page. I tried this after I got a confusing error and …

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## [Optimize images before uploading?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150)

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**Author:** [@shiningdracon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiningdracon)\
**Replies:** 56\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150 "2021-04-22T21:37:53Z")

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Is it possible to pre-resize an image BEFORE uploading to server? So people can simply drag and drop large photos, no need to resize them manually? I did some search, seems it is possible using HTML5:

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## [Randomly get one person waiting for approval?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-get-one-person-waiting-for-approval/187688)

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**Author:** [@silvacarl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/silvacarl)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-get-one-person-waiting-for-approval/187688 "2021-04-22T16:48:10Z")

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for some reason, we randomly get one person waiting for approval. when we go to check it, there is nothing to approve. i am not sure if this is a bug, or just some setting not correct?

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## [Text overlay with small display for non-english languages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/text-overlay-with-small-display-for-non-english-languages/186332)

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**Author:** [@mstm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mstm)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/text-overlay-with-small-display-for-non-english-languages/186332 "2021-04-22T02:54:19Z")

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