# Contribute **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/208.md?page=644 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 645 --- ## ['title' being used in digest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/title-being-used-in-digest/16943)
**Author:** [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/title-being-used-in-digest/16943 "2014-12-20T14:53:04Z")
lib/email/message\_builder.rb uses the forum’s SiteSetting title as the email sender. def site\_alias\_email(source) "#{SiteSetting.title} \<#{source}\>" end We have some customers using characters in the title that are n… --- ## [Optional Redirect on Creation of New Category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optional-redirect-on-creation-of-new-category/23005)
**Author:** [@iamstrained](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamstrained)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optional-redirect-on-creation-of-new-category/23005 "2014-12-20T14:40:52Z")
So, loving the software - my first dive into a RoR package as an admin and it’s looking like I didn’t give the language it’s due. My kudos on all the hard work so far. On creation of new categories, Discourse automatic… --- ## [Improving Debate, Filtering Trolls, and The Long Now Foundation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-debate-filtering-trolls-and-the-long-now-foundation/22862)
**Author:** [@canadaduane](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canadaduane)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-debate-filtering-trolls-and-the-long-now-foundation/22862 "2014-12-19T11:55:01Z")
Has anyone heard of the Long Now Foundation Debate format? It was mentioned recently in an article about gamergate and steelmanning. I would love, love, love to see this implemented in Discourse as a technological assist… --- ## [Unable to access meta topics on android](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-access-meta-topics-on-android/23178)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 18, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-access-meta-topics-on-android/23178 "2014-12-18T05:30:09Z")
For the last few days I’ve been unable to access topics on meta using my android 4.2.2 device. Standard chrome browser. I can visit the home page and browse categories, but once I click through to a topic I just get a wh… --- ## [Poll: Who needs "create only" category type](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-who-needs-create-only-category-type/23140)
**Author:** [@gingerman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerman)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-who-needs-create-only-category-type/23140 "2014-12-17T04:38:39Z")
Yes I need. No. I dont need. If you think about it, it solves lot many usecases like to contact list of moderators / admins without private message helpdesk for customers in SAAS / any organization talk to your CEO /… --- ## [Cannot make text bold in the middle of a word with asterisks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183)
**Author:** [@JazzyJosh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JazzyJosh)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183 "2014-12-17T02:40:33Z")
That’s Numberwang --- ## [Storing how often users share posts & topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-how-often-users-share-posts-topics/23160)
**Author:** [@nikdavis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nikdavis)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-how-often-users-share-posts-topics/23160 "2014-12-17T01:47:19Z")
I think it would be valuable to store how often posts are shared, as well as how often users share overall. It would also be interesting to see through what medium they shared (e.g. twitter, etc). So far as I could tell … --- ## [Removing the break tag between Category Images and Category Name](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-the-break-tag-between-category-images-and-category-name/23051)
**Author:** [@strager](https://meta.discourse.org/u/strager)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-the-break-tag-between-category-images-and-category-name/23051 "2014-12-15T14:40:18Z")
This looks like something that needs to be done in code, but I figured I’d post here and see if anyone has a solution we aren’t considering. We have a Category page with images assigned to them. We would like to remove … --- ## [New Posts - Pending Approval](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-posts-pending-approval/23139)
**Author:** [@gingerman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerman)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-posts-pending-approval/23139 "2014-12-15T05:13:12Z")
There is a need in our college instance to approve the posts / moderate from students Is this feature already present ? I could see the below conversations but I am not able to find in the application. Any idea when it… --- ## [Support for auto generating English language url in non-English topics in topic titles like t/how-to-update-to-discourse-1-0](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-auto-generating-english-language-url-in-non-english-topics-in-topic-titles-like-t-how-to-update-to-discourse-1-0/23088)
**Author:** [@Denis\_Didkovsky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Denis_Didkovsky)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-auto-generating-english-language-url-in-non-english-topics-in-topic-titles-like-t-how-to-update-to-discourse-1-0/23088 "2014-12-12T19:00:22Z")
For non-English forums support for auto generating English language url like t/how-to-update-to-discourse-1-0 isneeded via plugin or core func. --- ## [Topic failed to load - suggestions for improvement](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-failed-to-load-suggestions-for-improvement/23020)
**Author:** [@strager](https://meta.discourse.org/u/strager)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2014, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-failed-to-load-suggestions-for-improvement/23020 "2014-12-12T07:33:19Z")
Hi guys, I was having some local connection issues when I came across the “Topic failed to load” screen for the first time. I have some suggestions on how to improve this to make the screen even more helpful… Take w… --- ## [Is there a plugin or option for users to mark "helpful" posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-plugin-or-option-for-users-to-mark-helpful-posts/22914)
**Author:** [@strager](https://meta.discourse.org/u/strager)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-plugin-or-option-for-users-to-mark-helpful-posts/22914 "2015-06-11T10:30:38Z")
Just wondering if anyone knows of a plugin (or an option) that could be used to mark a post as “helpful” or an “accepted solution” - similar to what is done on http://community.wd.com/ - This would be very good for commu… --- ## [Exporting Staff Action logs exports Screened IPs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exporting-staff-action-logs-exports-screened-ips/22779)
**Author:** [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exporting-staff-action-logs-exports-screened-ips/22779 "2014-12-12T03:44:42Z")
I’m at: /admin/logs/staff\_action\_logs and clicking Export, in hopes of seeing who was deleted from our community. (I can’t scroll down far enough, because the list is cut off). the export i get is the Screened IPs list… --- ## [Emails are not threaded in Outlook 2013](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emails-are-not-threaded-in-outlook-2013/16501)
**Author:** [@domenic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/domenic)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emails-are-not-threaded-in-outlook-2013/16501 "2014-12-11T00:34:32Z")
When turning on emails for every post to a forum, the emails do not thread correctly, at least in Outlook 2013. It looks like there’s an attempt to make it work, based on the In-Reply-To headers, but somehow it’s still n… --- ## [Yelp Style Highlight Top Members and Content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/yelp-style-highlight-top-members-and-content/22996)
**Author:** [@CharlesWil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CharlesWil)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/yelp-style-highlight-top-members-and-content/22996 "2014-12-10T22:03:00Z")
something like home page that highlights members and content the same way yelp does would be a good features. Just some emphasis what the community is about! :smile: Apart from the domain of your site and titles of post… --- ## [Category-specific title and text length settings for mailing list categories vs discussion categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-title-and-text-length-settings-for-mailing-list-categories-vs-discussion-categories/23011)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-title-and-text-length-settings-for-mailing-list-categories-vs-discussion-categories/23011 "2014-12-09T21:00:09Z")
I am in the process of switching over a community from mailing lists to discourse, and am coming across the issue that mailing list users like to send one word (or even one letter) emails to their mailing lists, and I do… --- ## [Segment Newsletter Emails By Forum Users Post in Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/segment-newsletter-emails-by-forum-users-post-in-categories/22992)
**Author:** [@CharlesWil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CharlesWil)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/segment-newsletter-emails-by-forum-users-post-in-categories/22992 "2014-12-09T11:53:43Z")
I like to do Segment Forum users Email Newsletters by categories they’ve posted in for amazon affiliate marketing i.e if 100 users posted in “Water color painting Category” i.e if 200 users posted in “Oil Painting … --- ## [International language support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/international-language-support/22969)
**Author:** [@sandeepberi81](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sandeepberi81)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/international-language-support/22969 "2014-12-09T00:11:29Z")
Hi forum members, On the Discourse website, it states that translations are available for 17 languages and counting. Users can switch to the language of their choice as a preference. In our scenario, we would not like … --- ## [Users are encouraged to post to categories they have no write access to](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-are-encouraged-to-post-to-categories-they-have-no-write-access-to/22894)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-are-encouraged-to-post-to-categories-they-have-no-write-access-to/22894 "2014-12-06T21:36:45Z")
This is a UX bug, methinks, that will cause some confusion on a new forum I am launching next week. See screenshot below - this is for a category where “everyone” is only allowed to see and not post or reply. There is … --- ## [Make share input field readonly](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-share-input-field-readonly/18973)
**Author:** [@Lid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lid)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2014, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-share-input-field-readonly/18973 "2014-12-06T07:40:05Z")
There is no reason why it should be editable this is a copy only field. current behavior is less forgiven for keyboarders (hit shift+s twice by accident) Solution: Add readonly attribute to field. Add css ad… --- ## [Docker Manager as Gem](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-manager-as-gem/22881)
**Author:** [@kuchaev\_iv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kuchaev_iv)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-manager-as-gem/22881 "2014-12-05T17:08:38Z")
Is there any chance to see Docker Manager as a Gem to have a possibility to use it with other Rails apps? Thanks! --- ## [Disable profile page and provide our own?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-profile-page-and-provide-our-own/22671)
**Author:** [@Del\_Boy\_Trotter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Del_Boy_Trotter)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-profile-page-and-provide-our-own/22671 "2014-12-05T10:10:50Z")
Integrating with Discourse we want to be able to provide our own profile page so the user only has one across our parts of the site and Discourse. Ideally we would provide our own and pull in the Discourse stuff to rend… --- ## [Please allow changing markdown link style](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842)
**Author:** [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842 "2014-12-05T03:49:33Z")
Hi there, I don’t like the way the Discourse topic editor creates links in Markdown: \[Example\]\[1\] \[1\]: http://example.com On a long post, this makes it harder to change the link, because you have to scroll around l… --- ## [Add a "New Private Message" button to the inbox](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-new-private-message-button-to-the-inbox/22388)
**Author:** [@rumpelsepp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rumpelsepp)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-new-private-message-button-to-the-inbox/22388 "2014-12-03T12:33:48Z")
I often use private messages on my discourse board. It annoys me that there is no “New Private Message” button on my “Messages” (/users/rumpelsepp/private-messages) page. If I want to send a message to several users I al… --- ## [Youtube Onebox revisited](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-onebox-revisited/22764)
**Author:** [@sperok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sperok)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2014, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-onebox-revisited/22764 "2014-12-03T09:24:50Z")
AFAIK the current onebox implementation works with urls of the form: YouTube This form of the URL accepts limited player parameters while alternate forms offer a much bigger parameter list that can come in very handy (b… --- ## [Mods/admins to change topic URL slug (just like in WordPress)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731 "2014-12-02T01:23:19Z")
Currently, for our Russian forum, all the topic titles are getting transliterated to a weird English notation of Russian words before being used in URLs. It looks strange and does not read well. Additionally, for many t… --- ## [Migration from vBulletin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-from-vbulletin/18590)
**Author:** [@cyc0](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cyc0)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-from-vbulletin/18590 "2014-11-28T13:57:44Z")
I’m super keen to migrate a forum running on vBulletin to Discourse. Has anyone done it successfully yet? thanks steve --- ## [Unable to login using Facebook](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-using-facebook/22556)
**Author:** [@eliasripley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eliasripley)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-using-facebook/22556 "2014-11-27T09:49:36Z")
Hello, new to Discourse, just visiting the Meta to leave a request for the community. Thought I’d let you know that I was unable to login properly using FB on Chrome. (Login button cleared the sign-in form and reset page… --- ## [Embed discourse top 3 topics in Chrome Extension popup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discourse-top-3-topics-in-chrome-extension-popup/22506)
**Author:** [@wsbchk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wsbchk)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discourse-top-3-topics-in-chrome-extension-popup/22506 "2014-11-27T02:28:31Z")
I tried to embed a disqus forum in my Chrome extension but they prevent embedding from a different domain (none in this case, as its an extension) than the forum is registered with. Does disourse allow such embedding? --- ## [Disallowing "uncategorized" entries still offers uncategorized as default category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallowing-uncategorized-entries-still-offers-uncategorized-as-default-category/17142)
**Author:** [@leichtgewicht](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leichtgewicht)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallowing-uncategorized-entries-still-offers-uncategorized-as-default-category/17142 "2014-11-27T02:17:24Z")
When I disallow uncategorised topics by disabling the flag in the backend It still shows the “uncategorized” category when I edit a topic: and allows me to post that topic. Is that supposed to be that way? [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/208.md?page=643) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/208.md?page=645)