# Feature **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=85&status=open [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 86 --- ## [Prevent new tag from updating topic currency](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-new-tag-from-updating-topic-currency/195761)
**Author:** [@robbie.morrison](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robbie.morrison)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-new-tag-from-updating-topic-currency/195761 "2022-01-20T21:15:49Z")
At present, adding a new tag to an old topic updates its currency. This seems a bit of an overreaction and it would be useful to be able to disable this functionality. Here is a screenshot example: In this case… --- ## [Feature request: Reorder categories per group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-reorder-categories-per-group/215384)
**Author:** [@4ong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/4ong)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-reorder-categories-per-group/215384 "2022-01-20T19:48:23Z")
Sometimes different categories are valuable for different groups. Context adds different priorities. It seems interesting to be able to reorder categories for groups. So when they go to categories page or filter by ca… --- ## [Browse the Postgres database](https://meta.discourse.org/t/browse-the-postgres-database/215062)
**Author:** [@cokestroke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cokestroke)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/browse-the-postgres-database/215062 "2022-01-20T15:52:06Z")
Hi everyone, Is there a way to browse the database with something like PHPMyAdmin? I can download backups but my MySQL Workbench crashes every time I try to run the script to restore the database. -Clement --- ## [Direct send email to a small group in a closed category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-send-email-to-a-small-group-in-a-closed-category/75167)
**Author:** [@Frank\_Meeuwsen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frank_Meeuwsen)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-send-email-to-a-small-group-in-a-closed-category/75167 "2022-01-20T07:28:08Z")
I searched on this forum and only found this post which is quite similar to my question. But unfortunately not an answer to work upon: We have a growing forum for our app-users. We recently started a closed category f… --- ## [Prompting users to avoid harmful language](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prompting-users-to-avoid-harmful-language/189525)
**Author:** [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prompting-users-to-avoid-harmful-language/189525 "2022-01-19T16:54:22Z")
Does Discourse have anything like this? It would be cool if it did. --- ## [Feature: create default user name from email's user portion when using Google OAuth2/SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-create-default-user-name-from-emails-user-portion-when-using-google-oauth2-sso/178918)
**Author:** [@Godmar\_Back](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Godmar_Back)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-create-default-user-name-from-emails-user-portion-when-using-google-oauth2-sso/178918 "2022-01-18T20:13:05Z")
I hope it’s ok to post random feature requests/suggestions here. I have a Discourse instance set up so that users can authenticate with a Google Apps Hosted Domain (in my case @vt.edu). I have observed that Discourse a… --- ## [Smarter pasting inside URL markup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smarter-pasting-inside-url-markup/205080)
**Author:** [@LeoDavidson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoDavidson)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smarter-pasting-inside-url-markup/205080 "2022-01-18T20:10:15Z")
Suggestion to improve something that keeps causing me trouble. TLDR version: It’d be nice if the smart-pasting code that creates title + link URL markup would check if it was pasting inside existing URL markup and, if i… --- ## [Sticky global notice](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sticky-global-notice/215038)
**Author:** [@shaedrich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shaedrich)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sticky-global-notice/215038 "2022-01-18T17:45:37Z")
we attempted to use your “global notice” feature. However, unfortunately, when you scroll, it disappears. Therefore, we’d like it to be sticky. That in return isn’t accomplishable via custom CSS since position:sticky can… --- ## [More user friendly 'Doodle' polls](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-user-friendly-doodle-polls/184974)
**Author:** [@uffehe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uffehe)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-user-friendly-doodle-polls/184974 "2022-01-18T12:52:41Z")
As @nathank has neatly described in Poll with ability for user to add their own options - #8 by nathank it is possible to create quite complex polls in standard Discourse - including ‘Doodle’ functionality. Unfortunately… --- ## [Suppress warning to post editor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suppress-warning-to-post-editor/209566)
**Author:** [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suppress-warning-to-post-editor/209566 "2022-01-18T12:39:57Z")
Hi again, I just opened a user’s post to code-format the logs he posted & got this: Since it’s not my link, maybe don’t show me that? :smiley: --- ## [Ability to bookmark a specific heading?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-bookmark-a-specific-heading/184502)
**Author:** [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-bookmark-a-specific-heading/184502 "2022-01-18T06:31:53Z")
I think it would be useful to enable bookmarking of a particular heading. I’m using things like… \

The Heading\ to enable my using the Table of Contents theme component. That makes all … --- ## [Topic/post Stars](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-post-stars/207768)
**Author:** [@Ondrashek06](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ondrashek06)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-post-stars/207768 "2022-01-18T06:16:02Z")
First of all, how would Stars work? Like how YouTube lets the video owner give Hearts to comments, Discourse would let forum staff give Stars to either topics, and/or posts. Stars wouldn’t show up on any topics/posts u… --- ## [A category of chats/a chat of topics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-category-of-chats-a-chat-of-topics/215159)
**Author:** [@oshyan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oshyan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-category-of-chats-a-chat-of-topics/215159 "2022-01-18T00:31:36Z")
I just ran across this person working on a Discord bot to make every message in a channel into its own thread automatically. I immediately thought “Discourse and integrated chat would be so much better at this”, and so I… --- ## [UI for resending expired invites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ui-for-resending-expired-invites/208803)
**Author:** [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ui-for-resending-expired-invites/208803 "2022-01-17T22:08:57Z")
I bulk invited about 1000 users in our org by email, and foolishly set an expire time on them. About 200 users did not register at the time and are now emailing me to request they be resent. At present, there is no way … --- ## [Feature idea: Parameterized macros (or, "smart replacements")](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-idea-parameterized-macros-or-smart-replacements/210098)
**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-idea-parameterized-macros-or-smart-replacements/210098 "2022-01-17T22:38:33Z")
Is there a way to make site- (or category-?) wide “macros” which would accept parameters? For example, links to Fedora’s Matrix chat rooms are in the form https://matrix.to/#/#social:fedoraproject.org. I’d like people t… --- ## [It should be possible to opt out of link notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/it-should-be-possible-to-opt-out-of-link-notifications/200039)
**Author:** [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/it-should-be-possible-to-opt-out-of-link-notifications/200039 "2022-01-17T22:37:07Z")
Pardon if there is already a feature request for this – my searching only yielded posts merely mentioning of link notifications, but not feature requests to toggle them on/off. You can opt out of like notifications or e… --- ## [RFE for Footnote Plugin: allow in code blocks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rfe-for-footnote-plugin-allow-in-code-blocks/211105)
**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rfe-for-footnote-plugin-allow-in-code-blocks/211105 "2022-01-17T22:26:37Z")
It would be nice to be able to do this: Hi! To solve your problems, you need to run these commands: \`\`\`bash:with-footnotes $ sudo mv /etc/whatever.conf /etc/whatever.conf.bak \[^1\] $ sudo whatever genconfig \[^2\] $ sudo… --- ## [Suggestion: a different tag sidebar idea](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-a-different-tag-sidebar-idea/213312)
**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-a-different-tag-sidebar-idea/213312 "2022-01-17T22:25:52Z")
Discourse Tag Sidebars is pretty useful, and very flexible. However, it requires a lot of management — an new topic for every tag, plus manually listing each of those in the component settings. What about “Simple Tag Si… --- ## [Natural language processing for date chooser](https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-language-processing-for-date-chooser/199608)
**Author:** [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-language-processing-for-date-chooser/199608 "2022-01-17T22:14:55Z")
Our date picker and conversion is a powerful feature. I’d love to see us make it simpler to add a date/time to a post. A common way this is done is through natural language processing. Apps like Fantastical on iOS have u… --- ## [Handling of broken onebox images from malconfigured sites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-of-broken-onebox-images-from-malconfigured-sites/199079)
**Author:** [@TallTrees](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TallTrees)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-of-broken-onebox-images-from-malconfigured-sites/199079 "2022-01-17T22:14:22Z")
I see quite a lot of misconfigured sites that look to use various methods to block ‘hot’ linking of images, but return links to such images in the embedding data e.g. Checking with http://debug.iframely.com/ I reall… --- ## [Searching users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-users/184439)
**Author:** [@Fraudoctor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fraudoctor)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-users/184439 "2022-01-17T22:11:45Z")
Is there a better way to search users than simply by their user name? Perhaps by name or any other feature that they have chosen to share about themself? I read through some of the post about this from 2018, and did not… --- ## [Is there an "automoderator" feature/plugin within Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-automoderator-feature-plugin-within-discourse/192391)
**Author:** [@DiscourseUser](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DiscourseUser)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-automoderator-feature-plugin-within-discourse/192391 "2022-01-17T22:08:41Z")
Is there an “automoderator” tool /plugin within Discourse that would let you be able to set up rules like the automoderator on reddit? --- ## [Knowledge base as same as Wikiwand?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/knowledge-base-as-same-as-wikiwand/198666)
**Author:** [@neo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/knowledge-base-as-same-as-wikiwand/198666 "2022-01-17T22:05:34Z")
Discourse Documents in this style? Big font large photo easy to read and most important thing is, it makes you like to read on wikiwand. --- ## [Old topic notice](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-topic-notice/188052)
**Author:** [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-topic-notice/188052 "2022-01-17T22:03:36Z")
Hi there, I usually searching a lot in here and sometimes find really old few years old topics what i didn’t realize first time just find any solution for my problem but maybe things changed since then. Specially when a… --- ## [Retroactive auto-tagging of watched words](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retroactive-auto-tagging-of-watched-words/193982)
**Author:** [@nhpackard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nhpackard)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retroactive-auto-tagging-of-watched-words/193982 "2022-01-17T21:42:54Z")
Specifying auto-tag action for watched words is effective for topics created after the specification. It would be very useful to retro-actively auto-tag all past topics as well. This functionality could go in cutomize-\>… --- ## [Show info about topic-timer in topic lists?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-info-about-topic-timer-in-topic-lists/193390)
**Author:** [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-info-about-topic-timer-in-topic-lists/193390 "2022-01-17T21:38:03Z")
There is a display of topic timer(s) below a post… It would be useful to include something similar—if the user has permissions to manipulate topic timers, or course—below the topic in topic listings. (Note that I hav… --- ## [Link topics after they have already been closed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-topics-after-they-have-already-been-closed/193766)
**Author:** [@Konrad\_Sopala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Konrad_Sopala)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-topics-after-they-have-already-been-closed/193766 "2022-01-17T21:30:48Z")
Pretty much what in the subject. As a user I would like to have the ability to link related issues. Items dealing with the same subject, or one has answered the other. There is this kind of feature on Jira, GitHub, Stac… --- ## [Request or idea for a component: topic title or topic flair](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-or-idea-for-a-component-topic-title-or-topic-flair/207704)
**Author:** [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-or-idea-for-a-component-topic-title-or-topic-flair/207704 "2022-01-17T21:28:04Z")
Based on the ealier debate at Topic Title Flair - or something like that? I will here illustrate the topic flair/type feature. Tags are good for grouping the content a post is about. Topic types are good to group the … --- ## [Add colour behind user names which changes to indicate time passed since last log in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-colour-behind-user-names-which-changes-to-indicate-time-passed-since-last-log-in/184561)
**Author:** [@KrisW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KrisW)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-colour-behind-user-names-which-changes-to-indicate-time-passed-since-last-log-in/184561 "2022-01-17T21:19:29Z")
So, of course this is easy to explain but might be enormously difficult to implement. Can the background of user names at the top of each post be changed to indicate how long it has been since they participated? I’d su… --- ## [Support detection of bullet lists with bullets instead of just asterisks/hyphens](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-detection-of-bullet-lists-with-bullets-instead-of-just-asterisks-hyphens/178780)
**Author:** [@adamengst](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adamengst)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-detection-of-bullet-lists-with-bullets-instead-of-just-asterisks-hyphens/178780 "2022-01-17T21:12:58Z")
I’m seeing users create text in Microsoft Word and then paste it into Discourse. For the most part, Discourse ignores Word styles, which is acceptable/understandable. But there’s one place it would be nice to go a little… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=84&status=open) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=86&status=open)