# Feature

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=173&status=open

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## [Expirable user account, feature request](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expirable-user-account-feature-request/47119)

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**Author:** [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expirable-user-account-feature-request/47119 "2016-07-11T19:24:24Z")

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there are users which are inactive over a long period, it’d be a good feature to send them an email and check if they still want to be a user or otherwise delete their account.

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## [Facebook invite?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-invite/47097)

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**Author:** [@Scott\_Grigor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Scott_Grigor)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-invite/47097 "2016-07-11T14:41:24Z")

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Is there any plans for inviting users via Facebook or twitter? Much better to acquire users than email

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## [How much data does Discourse use?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-data-does-discourse-use/47072)

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**Author:** [@Parham\_Bahrami](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Parham_Bahrami)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2016, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-data-does-discourse-use/47072 "2016-07-11T07:33:10Z")

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I am currently on vacation, and the internet here is pretty expensive. As my whole family requires data to do work, I am recharging it frequently. I would like to ask if you guys have any stats on how much data a post o…

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## [Is it possible to personalize bulk-inviting by the name of invitees?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-personalize-bulk-inviting-by-the-name-of-invitees/47023)

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**Author:** [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-personalize-bulk-inviting-by-the-name-of-invitees/47023 "2016-07-09T07:58:40Z")

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e.g. by adding a column to the csv file which make it possible to call people by their name in the invitation?

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## [When changing category watch state, prompt to also change state of all topics in that category at the time of change](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-category-watch-state-prompt-to-also-change-state-of-all-topics-in-that-category-at-the-time-of-change/46767)

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**Author:** [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Replies:** 23\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2016, 7:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-category-watch-state-prompt-to-also-change-state-of-all-topics-in-that-category-at-the-time-of-change/46767 "2016-07-08T07:10:12Z")

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Looking at the Discourse Version 1.6 release topic, I saw this awesome checkmark: This sounds like I should always get that question when changing the category watch state. However, it looks like @sam decided this shou…

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## [Translate email notifications and digests into user preferred locale language](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-email-notifications-and-digests-into-user-preferred-locale-language/45660)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 6, 2016, 10:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-email-notifications-and-digests-into-user-preferred-locale-language/45660 "2016-07-06T10:33:12Z")

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Many of the people in my community who don’t speak English also don’t log in often because they live in parts of the world where Internet access is scarce. So they participate by email. It occurs to me that it would be …

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## [Hide Reply button in emails if you don't have permission](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-reply-button-in-emails-if-you-dont-have-permission/44211)

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**Author:** [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-reply-button-in-emails-if-you-dont-have-permission/44211 "2016-07-05T12:45:28Z")

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Is it possible to suppress the reply button in emails if the user doesn’t have permission to reply. This can be misleading to someone who can’t reply in a category they get emails on.

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## [Force people to register to read?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-register-to-read/46816)

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**Author:** [@Sebastian1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sebastian1)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-register-to-read/46816 "2016-07-05T00:32:03Z")

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Pinterest and some other communities has a feature where visitors can read for x minutes/seconds before there is a popup that require registration to continue reading. Example here: https://nomadforum.io Any plugin lik…

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## [Allow deleting messages that I sent to myself](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-deleting-messages-that-i-sent-to-myself/46824)

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**Author:** [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-deleting-messages-that-i-sent-to-myself/46824 "2016-07-04T23:13:47Z")

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I love the new feature that allows me to send messages to myself. The ability to delete those messages would make this feature even better. Any chance that this could be added too? :wink:

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## [Giving each user a unique discourse powered blog](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-each-user-a-unique-discourse-powered-blog/46731)

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**Author:** [@LastDance](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LastDance)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-each-user-a-unique-discourse-powered-blog/46731 "2016-07-03T08:33:41Z")

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Ive seen elsewhere on the net, people using discourse as a blogging platform. I was wondering if it was possible (or really if anyone has done it), for discourse to actually give each user their own “blog” (a.k.a. a post…

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## [GnuPG Encrypted outgoing topic notification emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gnupg-encrypted-outgoing-topic-notification-emails/46745)

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**Author:** [@frigidaire\_amer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frigidaire_amer)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gnupg-encrypted-outgoing-topic-notification-emails/46745 "2016-07-03T02:09:13Z")

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Hello, We switched our encrypted mailing list to a Discourse forum with no regret. Thanks for the great work! When we switched to Discourse (obviously forcing https usage), we agreed to disable email notifications to p…

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## [Promote Steam Auth to Built-in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/promote-steam-auth-to-built-in/46608)

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**Author:** [@TimeDoctor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TimeDoctor)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2016, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/promote-steam-auth-to-built-in/46608 "2016-06-29T09:22:56Z")

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Is there any reason why Steam isn’t one of the built-in authentication providers? Pros: There are more users for Steam (35 million according to SteamSpy) than GitHub (14 million according to Wikipedia page). There is …

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## [User directory disabled, users list visible in mentions autocomplete](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-disabled-users-list-visible-in-mentions-autocomplete/46571)

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**Author:** [@mferrero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mferrero)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-disabled-users-list-visible-in-mentions-autocomplete/46571 "2016-06-29T08:09:15Z")

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Hello, we are using Discourse for customer care, as described in Is it a security violation to show a directory of users? We have already disabled enable\_user\_directory (thanks for the feature!) When posting a user can…

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## [Like Count in Posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540)

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**Author:** [@wemod](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wemod)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540 "2016-06-28T23:31:39Z")

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Hey! I was wondering what it would take to get a like count displayed next to usernames in posts. It would serve as a sort of karma indicator / contribution counter for our members. A lot of our forum members miss it f…

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## [Avatar Offloading to S3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-offloading-to-s3/46406)

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**Author:** [@jongnam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jongnam)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-offloading-to-s3/46406 "2016-06-28T01:04:56Z")

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I use AWS for hosting a Discsourse along with S3 as image store and CloudFront as CDN. Images are uploaded to S3 bucket, and the users accessed it via CloudFront edges for faster transfer. Meanwhile, in April 2016, S3 r…

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## [Set Notification Level for User for Tags in backend](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-notification-level-for-user-for-tags-in-backend/46416)

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**Author:** [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-notification-level-for-user-for-tags-in-backend/46416 "2016-06-27T15:05:28Z")

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For categories I see there is CategoryUser.set\_notification\_level\_for\_category Is there one for tags?

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## [Snippet completion in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/snippet-completion-in-discourse/46157)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 22, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/snippet-completion-in-discourse/46157 "2016-06-22T01:33:29Z")

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Hey guys, Instead of asking for this feature, let me quickly explain my workflow, and see if you guys can relate to it. I primarily stick to my vim editor because of the powerful snippet plugin, like: https://github.c…

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## [Badge ideas for Topic Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-ideas-for-topic-voting/58483)

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**Author:** [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 24, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-ideas-for-topic-voting/58483 "2016-06-24T07:39:22Z")

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Great plugin. Because everyone loves badges, I’ve put together some basic queries for badges based on voting. (As I’m still finding my way around the DB and the way badges work in Discourse, there may be issues with thes…

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## [Mailing list mode vs. group inboxes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-vs-group-inboxes/46202)

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**Author:** [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 23, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-vs-group-inboxes/46202 "2016-06-23T22:18:02Z")

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When mailing list mode is enabled, some of my users believe that they will also get an email for every new message in a group inbox, which is not what actually happens. I think this is not an unreasonable expectation. W…

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## [Is there a plugin for adding form entry to a topic; or all topics in a category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-plugin-for-adding-form-entry-to-a-topic-or-all-topics-in-a-category/46141)

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**Author:** [@trudat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/trudat)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 21, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-plugin-for-adding-form-entry-to-a-topic-or-all-topics-in-a-category/46141 "2016-06-21T18:40:13Z")

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I am wondering if there is a plugin that can turn a new topic into a structured form, which is set up in the back end by admin. This could be used to turn a blank topic into an incident report, a data collection event, o…

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## [Switch to Monaco Editor from Ace Editor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/switch-to-monaco-editor-from-ace-editor/46099)

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**Author:** [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 21, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/switch-to-monaco-editor-from-ace-editor/46099 "2016-06-21T14:54:14Z")

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Microsoft recently announced the Monaco Editor, that powers Visual Studio Code, is now open-source. It can be added to a webpage, and provides Rich IntelliSense and CSS Validation. It looks like a good fit for the C…

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## [Unlisted categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlisted-categories/46066)

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**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 21, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlisted-categories/46066 "2016-06-21T00:52:06Z")

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By now we’ve dealt with a couple different customers who for various reasons would like to have categories in the thousands. The main scalability problem with regards to categories is the /categories view, e.g. this one: …

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## [User Upload Reporting & Quota](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-upload-reporting-quota/45976)

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**Author:** [@fearlessfrog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fearlessfrog)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 20, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-upload-reporting-quota/45976 "2016-06-20T09:26:40Z")

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We had a recent need to find where our uploads size was increasing quickly, so this feature request breaks down into two ideas: (1) A way to see per user the file upload capacity used, i.e. a per user total uploads in m…

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## [Make emoji suggestions appear continuously](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756)

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**Author:** [@P16](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P16)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [June 17, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756 "2016-06-17T11:51:42Z")

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Some messaging apps have a feature where emojis pop up continuously (based on the keystrokes) between the keyboard and the chat screen. For example, when you type the word coffee on Line, you have a small popup containin…

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## [Consider.it integration in discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consider-it-integration-in-discourse/44303)

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**Author:** [@FelixA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FelixA)\
**Replies:** 25\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consider-it-integration-in-discourse/44303 "2016-06-13T16:38:52Z")

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We need to do a lot of polls on our discourse instance, and at the moment the basic poll functionality discourse itself provides is quite limited. Consider.it is nice because you also have the possibility to slightly ag…

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## [Hide part of post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-part-of-post/45588)

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**Author:** [@shai\_shapira1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shai_shapira1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-part-of-post/45588 "2016-06-13T00:16:44Z")

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hi, there is a way to hide part of post (example username / password) and this information will be shown only to admins / team? i would like to use discourse as support platform which will allow users to find answers f…

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## [Sharing profile information to email users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-profile-information-to-email-users/45503)

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**Author:** [@jedc768](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jedc768)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-profile-information-to-email-users/45503 "2016-06-10T02:46:41Z")

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Our Discourse instance is a private network of ~3k people that we migrated from a giant (unwieldy) Google Group. Because of the Google Groups legacy, we have a lot of users that interact only via email. Right now there…

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## [Solution accepted does not update topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-accepted-does-not-update-topic/43889)

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**Author:** [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-accepted-does-not-update-topic/43889 "2016-05-08T18:04:15Z")

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I’m pretty sure I reported this before, but couldn’t find the topic. It feels wrong when you currently have a topic open and your post gets “accepted” as the solution. The solution indicator is not inserted, it takes a…

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## [Quick language selection when editing templates, etc](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-language-selection-when-editing-templates-etc/42590)

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**Author:** [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 15, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-language-selection-when-editing-templates-etc/42590 "2016-04-15T04:58:12Z")

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When editing texts, templates, etc. (example: /admin/customize/email\_templates) you edit the texts in the language you have set your profile to. But on Discourse instances with multiple languages, it’s would be nice to h…

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## [Re-send all pending invitations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-send-all-pending-invitations/44753)

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**Author:** [@rhyolight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 7, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-send-all-pending-invitations/44753 "2016-06-07T05:34:40Z")

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I just spent 10 minutes clicking the 884 times on the /invited/pending page.

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