# Feature **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=235&state=muted [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 236 --- ## [Edit message per section for long messages (aka wikipedia)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-message-per-section-for-long-messages-aka-wikipedia/37717)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-message-per-section-for-long-messages-aka-wikipedia/37717 "2016-01-11T01:46:48Z")
Sometimes, our messages are way too long. For example, a first message in the contest topic where the rules are explained, examples and advices are given. Still, we promote “less but longer messages” in our forum, other… --- ## [New Messaging Workflow](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-messaging-workflow/37248)
**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-messaging-workflow/37248 "2016-01-09T20:07:21Z")
We have been lacking decent workflows for dealing with messages. At small scale it is not much of a problem, if you only have 3 messages, you don’t need too much fancy. But as you accumulate messages working with them be… --- ## [Submit Link (Similar to Reddit or Hacker News)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/submit-link-similar-to-reddit-or-hacker-news/20382)
**Author:** [@johnarce](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnarce)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/submit-link-similar-to-reddit-or-hacker-news/20382 "2016-01-08T03:08:05Z")
How about a feature to submit link similar to reddit or hacker news? --- ## [Why? It's very inconvenient to locate right sub-categories when posting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-its-very-inconvenient-to-locate-right-sub-categories-when-posting/37576)
**Author:** [@M\_c\_Tau](https://meta.discourse.org/u/M_c_Tau)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-its-very-inconvenient-to-locate-right-sub-categories-when-posting/37576 "2016-01-07T19:10:46Z")
Hi I think it is so cool and logical when reader feels so clear and logical to find topic in targeted categories because the main categories and sub-categories are classified in 2 different fields. But when member w… --- ## [Prevent content hidden by flags from being viewed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-content-hidden-by-flags-from-being-viewed/31582)
**Author:** [@Liza\_Conrad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Liza_Conrad)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-content-hidden-by-flags-from-being-viewed/31582 "2016-01-07T00:32:52Z")
Is there is a way to customize the feature that allows content hidden by flags to be viewed? For example, in our forum, I’d like to prevent content that has been hidden by flags from being viewed. We would assume that t… --- ## [Add option to name backups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-name-backups/15523)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-name-backups/15523 "2016-01-06T18:33:46Z")
I have been playing with my site and am realizing that I will be making activeuse of the backup/restore system. But I don’t know what each backup is that I am looking at - would be very helpful to see whether it’s an aut… --- ## [Per-topic planned automatic invitations with user targeting options](https://meta.discourse.org/t/per-topic-planned-automatic-invitations-with-user-targeting-options/37510)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/per-topic-planned-automatic-invitations-with-user-targeting-options/37510 "2016-01-06T01:56:45Z")
Have been working very hard on improving engagement in our forum for Ukrainian/Russian goat farmers during last few months. As a result, we see in Google Analytics that the daily session number is growing and has recentl… --- ## [View Multiple Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/view-multiple-categories/37438)
**Author:** [@emericklaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/emericklaw)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2016, 8:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/view-multiple-categories/37438 "2016-01-05T08:32:03Z")
Apologies is this is already a feature, I cannot find any documentation. I would like to be able to view multiple categories. For example visiting https://meta.discourse.org/c/support+dev/ would show me the contents of… --- ## [Ability to add custom message to system emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-add-custom-message-to-system-emails/12430)
**Author:** [@citkane](https://meta.discourse.org/u/citkane)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-add-custom-message-to-system-emails/12430 "2016-01-05T00:07:08Z")
I may have missed this setting, but it would be good to be able to add a custom message to outgoing system email. Especially the system invite from ‘Invite Friends to Reply’ and ‘Invite Friends’. It is a bit harsh on t… --- ## [TL3 Like Distribution, are these fractions hard coded?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl3-like-distribution-are-these-fractions-hard-coded/37180)
**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl3-like-distribution-are-these-fractions-hard-coded/37180 "2016-01-04T21:23:59Z")
Continuing the discussion from What do user trust levels do?: OK, quoted only certain parts of the linked post, but I am curious about the way the like distribution (different users and days) is calculated. I am not a… --- ## [Site text customization needs English versions of the strings as well](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-text-customization-needs-english-versions-of-the-strings-as-well/37368)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-text-customization-needs-english-versions-of-the-strings-as-well/37368 "2016-01-02T06:21:15Z")
It would be useful to show both English and (editable) translated versions of the strings in the site text customization section in admin panel. It is difficult to customize non-English text without seeing the original … --- ## [Discourse will be dropping IE9 support in 2016](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-will-be-dropping-ie9-support-in-2016/31090)
**Author:** [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-will-be-dropping-ie9-support-in-2016/31090 "2016-01-03T08:37:17Z")
I think we’re going to drop IE9 support starting in 2016. Now that Windows 10 is just about out (by the end of July), and Windows Edge / IE12 will officially be released with it, this means our IE support matrix would … --- ## [Moderators cannot view bookmarks on other user's activity pages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349)
**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349 "2016-01-01T04:46:13Z")
Continuing the discussion from Responses, Likes Received, Mentions, and Edits have gone missing from other users Activity pages (viewing as moderator): Didn’t mention it in the last post (sorry), but as a moderator I a… --- ## [What's my score in the global Discource instances database maintained by Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-my-score-in-the-global-discource-instances-database-maintained-by-discourse/37308)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-my-score-in-the-global-discource-instances-database-maintained-by-discourse/37308 "2016-01-01T01:16:34Z")
I know such a database is a piece of private information. However, as the owner of my own Instance, I would be very interested in finding out my position in the global database that you, the Discourse, receive and colle… --- ## [Search: no "Did you mean" feature?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-no-did-you-mean-feature/37319)
**Author:** [@danieln](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danieln)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-no-did-you-mean-feature/37319 "2015-12-31T13:20:32Z")
Am I missing something or is there no spell checking for search queries? For example, when I search for “pustgres” here, I get no matches instead of a helpful “Did you mean ‘postgres’”. Such a feature seems easy to imple… --- ## [New custom field types: forum topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-custom-field-types-forum-topic/37293)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-custom-field-types-forum-topic/37293 "2015-12-31T02:03:37Z")
New custom field type: forum topic To enter value in such a field, let users choose a forum topic, then display a clickable topic title on the user profile page. Use-cases: personal topic page with company / organiza… --- ## [Support \`🙂\` emoji from Unicode 7?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-slight-smile-emoji-from-unicode-7/32959)
**Author:** [@waldyrious](https://meta.discourse.org/u/waldyrious)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-slight-smile-emoji-from-unicode-7/32959 "2015-12-31T00:38:19Z")
Are there plans to support the slight\_smile emoji? It kinda irks me that :) gets translated to :smile:. Here’s what would be ideal, IMO: :) → :slight\_smile: (rendered from the .ai assets added to Twemoji in #67) ;) → … --- ## [Posts on-save processing with regex/replace configurable in admin panel](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-on-save-processing-with-regex-replace-configurable-in-admin-panel/37202)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-on-save-processing-with-regex-replace-configurable-in-admin-panel/37202 "2015-12-29T05:56:43Z")
If often fix minor issues in posts manually going through all of the posts on my forum on a daily basis. It turns out that most of the issues are typical and I could write a regex/rewrite rule to force the fix as soon as… --- ## [Better unfurling of Discourse topics on Slack](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-unfurling-of-discourse-topics-on-slack/37188)
**Author:** [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-unfurling-of-discourse-topics-on-slack/37188 "2015-12-29T02:32:23Z")
Your Discourse topic embeds on Slack just got better! I just pushed a commit that adds label1/data1 and label2/data2 properties (found in Twitter Product card) in Discourse topics. This improves the Discourse topic unf… --- ## [Crowdsourcing Ideas Feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010)
**Author:** [@Tia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tia)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010 "2015-12-28T13:32:06Z")
Howdy, I’m looking for a feature of idea crowdsourcing Something like this: Is it possible to do something similar with Discourse? --- ## [Fulltext should ignore accents](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fulltext-should-ignore-accents/37178)
**Author:** [@johno](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johno)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fulltext-should-ignore-accents/37178 "2015-12-27T20:45:02Z")
Hi there, it is pretty common for search engines (e.g. google) to ignore accents on characters when doing fulltext search. Example: word kôprová omáčka should be matched by query koprova omacka and vice versa. With Post… --- ## [Unsubscribe from emails without login](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unsubscribe-from-emails-without-login/35389)
**Author:** [@thomaspurchas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thomaspurchas)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unsubscribe-from-emails-without-login/35389 "2015-12-27T18:01:57Z")
This has come up before here and here and both threads have been closed. However there is no answer on whether or not unsubscribing from emails without login will be added (unsubbing from email topics is possible, but r… --- ## [Can we use parse.com login feature along with Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-use-parse-com-login-feature-along-with-discourse/37161)
**Author:** [@helloravi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/helloravi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-use-parse-com-login-feature-along-with-discourse/37161 "2015-12-27T00:55:57Z")
I know that Discouse has Signle-Sign-on. I am wondering if we can use the authentication on parse.com as the login system for discourse? Does anybody have experience with that? Here is the documentation of parse authent… --- ## [Should audio and video tags be allowed?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-audio-and-video-tags-be-allowed/12709)
**Author:** [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-audio-and-video-tags-be-allowed/12709 "2015-12-24T20:24:24Z")
I was just going over the html sanitizer whitelist and wasn’t sure what to do about \ and \. It seems that they do, in fact, work, but only if you specify src= in the audio tag, not in source tags. This wor… --- ## [Make TL3 100 days a changeable Setting?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-tl3-100-days-a-changeable-setting/36923)
**Author:** [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 23, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-tl3-100-days-a-changeable-setting/36923 "2015-12-23T01:53:07Z")
Continuing the discussion from Agreeing/Deferring/Disagreeing with Flags: I’m just thinking out loud here, but I’m wondering if it could be done fairly easily if the hard coded “100 days” that the Trust Level 3 require… --- ## [See who marked post as solved?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/see-who-marked-post-as-solved/37013)
**Author:** [@AlexBCodecademy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexBCodecademy)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 22, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/see-who-marked-post-as-solved/37013 "2015-12-22T19:12:54Z")
Is there a way to see who exactly marked the post as “solved”? Thanks! --- ## [Setting up with MSSQL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-with-mssql/37034)
**Author:** [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 22, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-with-mssql/37034 "2015-12-22T02:09:41Z")
Is it possible to setup Discourse using MS SQL Enterprise? --- ## ["Join messages" button for admin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/join-messages-button-for-admin/36960)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/join-messages-button-for-admin/36960 "2015-12-19T13:27:26Z")
I noticed some users put a lot of small messages in a row in the same topic. I suspect different possible reasons: Some don’t understand that there might be multiple “quoted replies” in a single message Others just wr… --- ## [Non admin has access to closed category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851)
**Author:** [@AlexBCodecademy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexBCodecademy)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851 "2015-12-17T21:25:33Z")
So I have a closed category for our forum moderators. A non moderator was able to comment on a thread in our category that’s locked. I looked at the category permissions and confirmed he does not meet any of those, chec… --- ## [Read-only account for sales prospects please?!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-only-account-for-sales-prospects-please/36837)
**Author:** [@mjarvis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mjarvis)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-only-account-for-sales-prospects-please/36837 "2015-12-17T15:56:59Z")
Our discourse forum is only for customers who buy our software. All categories are closed to the public. But we want to entice prospects (close to buying but not yet customers) by giving them a read only account. They wo… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=234&state=muted) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=236&state=muted)