# Feature

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## [Hide Anonymous Users from Users/Pending Review](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670)

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**Author:** [@KazWolfe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KazWolfe)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 22, 2017, 1:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670 "2017-12-22T13:03:19Z")

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A minor UI issue that is slightly bothering… Anonymous users automatically show up in the “Pending Users” queue after being created, like so: Is there a way to make it so anons don’t appear here? There’s no reason t…

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## [How to get the numbers of users watching/tracking a topic?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-the-numbers-of-users-watching-tracking-a-topic/76570)

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**Author:** [@Sowmay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sowmay)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 21, 2017, 5:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-the-numbers-of-users-watching-tracking-a-topic/76570 "2017-12-21T17:46:15Z")

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Just wondering if it’s possible to calculate that how many users are watching or tracking a particular topic? Also, if it’s possible to get their details (like emails)?

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## [Share a webpage link in mobile app?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-a-webpage-link-in-mobile-app/76559)

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**Author:** [@Ivan\_Rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ivan_Rapekas)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 21, 2017, 2:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-a-webpage-link-in-mobile-app/76559 "2017-12-21T14:33:33Z")

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Before announcing mobile application for our customers I’ve performed some tests. I found that sharing a webpage URL :mega: using app is a tricky action. Native browser has a share button, the application does not. Every…

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## [Archiving post should remove item from all notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-post-should-remove-item-from-all-notifications/38321)

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**Author:** [@carlokok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carlokok)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 21, 2017, 2:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-post-should-remove-item-from-all-notifications/38321 "2017-12-21T02:12:05Z")

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It would be really cool if archiving a post would remove it from the notification list others have. As far as I know archiving pretty much makes it done. But other users still have a notification for it. Usecase: group …

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## [Developer Access](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developer-access/76162)

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**Author:** [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 21, 2017, 1:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developer-access/76162 "2017-12-21T01:49:02Z")

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Hi, I’d like to propose a permissions level called “Developer”. It would give full access to the administrative backend of a Discourse site without giving any access to the categories and discussions that the user does …

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## [Only option shown for Flag \> Flagged Posts -\> Agree is "Agree and Keep post"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-option-shown-for-flag-flagged-posts-agree-is-agree-and-keep-post/76355)

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**Author:** [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 20, 2017, 11:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-option-shown-for-flag-flagged-posts-agree-is-agree-and-keep-post/76355 "2017-12-20T23:32:27Z")

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Does this make sense that the only thing I can do as a moderator is to agree, but keep the post unchanged? Appears on hosted community https://forum.ionicframework.com/

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## [Variable width using the Youtube Onebox, which is currently fixed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/variable-width-using-the-youtube-onebox-which-is-currently-fixed/23319)

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**Author:** [@Moter8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moter8)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 20, 2017, 8:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/variable-width-using-the-youtube-onebox-which-is-currently-fixed/23319 "2017-12-20T20:31:05Z")

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Continuing the discussion from How to embed youtube (and other) videos?: Would be great to be able to set it per video or automatically-wide as the post. I could not find another Plugin that lets me do this. Example po…

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## [Ability to only backup uploaded data](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-only-backup-uploaded-data/76474)

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**Author:** [@kyrias](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kyrias)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 20, 2017, 3:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-only-backup-uploaded-data/76474 "2017-12-20T15:13:18Z")

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To make backup management easier and more consistent with the rest of our infrastructure we’re using an external PostgreSQL instance. This server has automatic backups separately from Discourse’s own, and the server is …

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## [Ability to set a topic reminder for someone else?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-set-a-topic-reminder-for-someone-else/76430)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 20, 2017, 3:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-set-a-topic-reminder-for-someone-else/76430 "2017-12-20T03:55:11Z")

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I just came across a situation where I wanted to be able to set a topic reminder for another moderator and was unable to do so. I realize this is likely to be be abused by delegation happy admins but I still think it mig…

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## [Plugin howto self-announcement](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-howto-self-announcement/76458)

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**Author:** [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 20, 2017, 3:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-howto-self-announcement/76458 "2017-12-20T03:06:00Z")

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One of our customer’s sites gave me an idea earlier that was well-received by the team so I’d like to hear what the community thinks of it. Do you think it’d be pretty cool if plugins automatically injected a “how to u…

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## [Access limitation on working hours](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-limitation-on-working-hours/76350)

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**Author:** [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 19, 2017, 4:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-limitation-on-working-hours/76350 "2017-12-19T16:57:37Z")

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Hi friends, I‘d like to suggest some „business feature“: It should be possible to set up working hours for specific user groups / members, so employees could work from everywhere, but only when they are allowed to. The…

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## [Searching for URLs doesn't work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-for-urls-doesnt-work/75978)

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**Author:** [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 19, 2017, 5:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-for-urls-doesnt-work/75978 "2017-12-19T05:05:42Z")

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This post includes the URL http://example.org/path#anchor Searching for the full URL gives no results: Search results for 'http://example.org/path#anchor' - Discourse Meta Same for the URL without the anchor: Searc…

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## [Locking the Display Name](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locking-the-display-name/71596)

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**Author:** [@arwen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arwen)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 18, 2017, 8:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locking-the-display-name/71596 "2017-12-18T20:13:14Z")

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Hello, I have set up a discourse forum that is connected to an organization. Some of the users are not following the instructions to have the display name in a certain format. (e.g. we want John D versus a nickname like…

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## [Discourse linkback between different discourse instances](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-linkback-between-different-discourse-instances/76257)

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**Author:** [@mofosyne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mofosyne)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 17, 2017, 2:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-linkback-between-different-discourse-instances/76257 "2017-12-17T14:32:56Z")

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What would be interesting is if different discourse instances can inform other discourse instances that a link was used. This is similar to the linkback protocol, but restricted to a whitelist and to discourse instances…

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## [When backup fails, delete the useless backup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-backup-fails-delete-the-useless-backup/66953)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 15, 2017, 1:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-backup-fails-delete-the-useless-backup/66953 "2017-12-15T13:22:21Z")

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If a site backup fails due to disk space when it’s gzipping the backup, the .tar file is left. Discourse can’t see it or use the tar file. On one hand, a decent sysadmin would be alarmed enough at a failed backup and imm…

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## [Missing feature - multi-word and case sensitive tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-feature-multi-word-and-case-sensitive-tags/76090)

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**Author:** [@nesnera](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nesnera)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 15, 2017, 3:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-feature-multi-word-and-case-sensitive-tags/76090 "2017-12-15T03:43:35Z")

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Original plugin “discourse-tagging” starts with description which contains sentence ‘..For example if you were running a music forum, being able to tag a topic as “Hip Hop” and “Electronica” would be useful..’ Unfortuna…

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## [Frequent Posters - click to highest liked post in topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-click-to-highest-liked-post-in-topic/75918)

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**Author:** [@Tumbler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tumbler)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 14, 2017, 11:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-click-to-highest-liked-post-in-topic/75918 "2017-12-14T23:42:49Z")

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I detected a fair lot of topics on the subject of voting/QandA/rank per like… but I could not find this proposed implementation. (I might have missed it…) Would this proposed “dual glyph, jump to max liked post in th…

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## [Outgoing link statistics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outgoing-link-statistics/76050)

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**Author:** [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 14, 2017, 10:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outgoing-link-statistics/76050 "2017-12-14T22:34:33Z")

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When you include a URL in a post it will display the number of clicks it received. Is this number also available somewhere for all links, aggregated by URL?

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## ["Compose" box is not made smaller when screen size changes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-box-is-not-made-smaller-when-screen-size-changes/75994)

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**Author:** [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 13, 2017, 9:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-box-is-not-made-smaller-when-screen-size-changes/75994 "2017-12-13T21:23:47Z")

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I work with a biiiig monitor with Full HD resolution. I enlarged the “Compose” box (Create a new topic, reply to a topic - where I am just typing this) quite a bit. Now I am off for today and back to the 15’’ laptop disp…

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## [Dynamic replace string to another](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dynamic-replace-string-to-another/75957)

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**Author:** [@jean-michel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jean-michel)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 13, 2017, 3:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dynamic-replace-string-to-another/75957 "2017-12-13T15:51:58Z")

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Hello I just installed Discourse, and now it’s time to migrate from anciant forum. Previous forum had feature I have to add to Discourse. Is it possible ? : When a pattern of string is found into a message, string is…

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## [Disqus-like commenting system](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disqus-like-commenting-system/35339)

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**Author:** [@michaellihs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaellihs)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 13, 2017, 12:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disqus-like-commenting-system/35339 "2017-12-13T12:20:47Z")

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We are currently evaluating Discourse as a commenting platform for the TYPO3 community. What we need is a Disqus-like commenting feature for news etc. Although there exists an approach to include Discourse topics below b…

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## [Removing the concept of "slugs" for some languages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-the-concept-of-slugs-for-some-languages/26643)

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**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 13, 2017, 8:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-the-concept-of-slugs-for-some-languages/26643 "2017-12-13T08:12:38Z")

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Discourse is trying to shoehorn the concept of “pretty slugs” to non ascii char set based languages. It may be acceptable to do this transliteration in Norwegen or Turkish, but stuff gets really weird when you do it in K…

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## [Log out all users via API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-out-all-users-via-api/75851)

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**Author:** [@typeoneerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/typeoneerror)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 12, 2017, 4:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-out-all-users-via-api/75851 "2017-12-12T16:45:36Z")

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I’ve built a Discourse integration for our product that allows SSO with our product to a Discourse install. When a user is signed out on our app, I’m doing an API-backed POST via the log\_out API. Is there a way to log al…

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## [Topic setting: make reply-to-post button act as "reply as new topic"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-setting-make-reply-to-post-button-act-as-reply-as-new-topic/64840)

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**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 9, 2017, 9:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-setting-make-reply-to-post-button-act-as-reply-as-new-topic/64840 "2017-12-09T21:37:06Z")

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Here is a scenario that comes up here and there in many communities: you have a topic in which people list different exemplars of a specific type, for example: “books about X”. The main purpose of the topic is to create …

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## [Should losing group membership unlock trust level?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-losing-group-membership-unlock-trust-level/66025)

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**Author:** [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 9, 2017, 3:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-losing-group-membership-unlock-trust-level/66025 "2017-12-09T03:22:20Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Discourse Patreon Integration: I think this should be handled in core, since it’s just default group membership behavior. However it’s very tricky, because for example: User is TL1 User…

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## [New setting for watch/track preference when posting new topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-setting-for-watch-track-preference-when-posting-new-topic/75683)

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**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 8, 2017, 10:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-setting-for-watch-track-preference-when-posting-new-topic/75683 "2017-12-08T22:32:11Z")

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Been meaning to request this feature for years. I don’t need to watch any topic here on meta. As long as it’s tracked, I’ll see it. Every single time I create a new topic, I change it from Watching to Tracking afterwar…

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## [Old unread topic doesn’t show up as unread in tracked category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-unread-topic-doesn-t-show-up-as-unread-in-tracked-category/75681)

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**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 8, 2017, 10:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-unread-topic-doesn-t-show-up-as-unread-in-tracked-category/75681 "2017-12-08T22:26:28Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Watching and tracking implementation for tags and categories: @sam please tell me if I’ve gotten this right. Here’s this topic that was created way back in May 2014: https://meta.discours…

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## [Refresh-after-logout goes to homepage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refresh-after-logout-goes-to-homepage/75523)

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**Author:** [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 8, 2017, 8:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refresh-after-logout-goes-to-homepage/75523 "2017-12-08T08:12:33Z")

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Repro path (Safari, Mac OS): In Tab.A, go to a community URL (e.g. https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-to-meta-discourse-org/1) Open a new tab, Tab.B In Tab.B, log out In Tab.B, log back in (in my case, using Google O…

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## [Digest email to be sent on schedule only](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-to-be-sent-on-schedule-only/75663)

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**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 8, 2017, 4:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-to-be-sent-on-schedule-only/75663 "2017-12-08T04:02:59Z")

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For slower VPS servers and bigger number of community members, sending digest emails may clutter sidekiq jobs queue. Combined with a possibly slow SMTP server and hight user activity at peak hours, this may lead to side…

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## [Use ACE for badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-ace-for-badge-queries/62331)

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**Author:** [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [Décembre 7, 2017, 10:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-ace-for-badge-queries/62331 "2017-12-07T22:37:42Z")

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When editing the query for a badge (if it’s enabled), it’d be great if the editor used was ACE, rather than a plain old textarea. At present I tend to write my queries in a different app and copy-paste them across so tha…

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