# Support

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## [Changing domain name](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-domain-name/194018)

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**Author:** [@Sachin\_Kumar\_J](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sachin_Kumar_J)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-domain-name/194018 "2021-06-16T07:33:14Z")

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Hello I have subscribed to discourse and my trial period has ended and the site is now saying to change to my custom domain and that trydiscourse domain has expired my question is that if i change my domain name will i b…

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## [Since 2.8.0beta2 update some users can't get to preferences (etc)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/since-2-8-0beta2-update-some-users-cant-get-to-preferences-etc/193952)

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**Author:** [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/since-2-8-0beta2-update-some-users-cant-get-to-preferences-etc/193952 "2021-06-16T03:30:00Z")

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Earlier this week I updated from 2.7.0.beta2 to 2.8.0.beta2. Since then my regular account (but not my admin account) cannot get to any of my /u/ pages. I get a 404 error instead. This happens on desktop (Firefox 84 and …

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## [Event organizing in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/event-organizing-in-discourse/28147)

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**Author:** [@georgiano](https://meta.discourse.org/u/georgiano)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 1, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/event-organizing-in-discourse/28147 "2018-10-01T22:34:45Z")

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Is there a way to organize events in discourse like facebook events? Where you can see not only number of interested attendees(this probably can be managed using polls) but also their names or usernames.

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## [How to know Discourse user is unapproved in Wordpress?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-know-discourse-user-is-unapproved-in-wordpress/193228)

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**Author:** [@Himanshu\_Singh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Himanshu_Singh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-know-discourse-user-is-unapproved-in-wordpress/193228 "2021-06-15T14:52:46Z")

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I want to create a user automatically in Discourse when new registration happens in WordPress but I don’t want to give them access before they complete an application form. I am able to use sync on login and must approv…

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## [How to auto-login user in application web view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-auto-login-user-in-application-web-view/193879)

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**Author:** [@machinekoder](https://meta.discourse.org/u/machinekoder)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-auto-login-user-in-application-web-view/193879 "2021-06-15T13:44:49Z")

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We are planning to integrate discourse into our desktop application, for users to discuss UI features. For this purpose, the user shall never need to log in “by hand”, but instead already be authenticated in the web view…

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## [How to list the links under a post like this?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-list-the-links-under-a-post-like-this/193859)

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**Author:** [@neo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-list-the-links-under-a-post-like-this/193859 "2021-06-15T11:27:00Z")

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Hi, I have done some search, but still have no clue, how can i put the links under a post like this. Actually i’d like to link both topics with same discussed things together, thus it would be convenient for users to rea…

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## [Convert existing votes to likes?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-existing-votes-to-likes/193513)

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**Author:** [@KatA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KatA)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-existing-votes-to-likes/193513 "2021-06-15T10:00:12Z")

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Our little forum ended up launching while I was away on unplanned leave and due to, let’s say, a miscommunication, voting was enabled on multiple categories (such as General Discussion) at launch. Having returned from l…

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## [Error message when editing posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-message-when-editing-posts/193692)

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**Author:** [@Wingtip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wingtip)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 9:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-message-when-editing-posts/193692 "2021-06-15T09:33:28Z")

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Our users are intermittently but frequently seeing “That post was edited by another user and your changes can no longer be saved.” when editing a post. After clicking OK and submitting again it goes through. Running 2.8.…

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## [Confidentiality of Posts, Public/private/onlyForAdmins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confidentiality-of-posts-public-private-onlyforadmins/193864)

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**Author:** [@rayane\_chahine\_Ben\_z](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rayane_chahine_Ben_z)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confidentiality-of-posts-public-private-onlyforadmins/193864 "2021-06-15T08:59:11Z")

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Hi, I am working in a French cooperative and we are incorporating a discourse Forum in our website, the thing is we would like to know if there is a possibilité to publish posts but only for a certain type of users. I w…

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## [Reading occasional "New" topics - return return to place in list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reading-occasional-new-topics-return-return-to-place-in-list/193609)

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**Author:** [@philip\_rhoades](https://meta.discourse.org/u/philip_rhoades)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reading-occasional-new-topics-return-return-to-place-in-list/193609 "2021-06-15T05:43:15Z")

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People, I currently have 29 Discourse sites that I scan every day. Some of these sites have high volumes of posts. For reading the high volume sites on my Android phone, when scanning down a list of hundreds of topics…

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## [Category badges missing completely](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-badges-missing-completely/193807)

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**Author:** [@theSuess](https://meta.discourse.org/u/theSuess)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-badges-missing-completely/193807 "2021-06-14T18:45:51Z")

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On our discourse instance since quite some time ago, the category badge for the uncategorized category has gone missing. At first I thought it was the same issue as this bug: …but in our case the issue persists across…

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## [SSO and Screened IPs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-and-screened-ips/172638)

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**Author:** [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-and-screened-ips/172638 "2021-06-14T18:07:48Z")

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We are using SSO for login and account creation. There’s no other way to login or signing up on our forum. However, the list of screened IPs has dozens of IP addresses which are being added automatically on a daily basi…

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## [Download Posts .......?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/download-posts/193773)

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**Author:** [@SchweizerSchoggi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SchweizerSchoggi)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/download-posts/193773 "2021-06-14T17:03:57Z")

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Our customers would also like at some point to download all the questions and posts of a Category … This might be a silly request as I think this is NOT possible. But before I go and answer them: is this possible???

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## [Private room/category for specific User group?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-room-category-for-specific-user-group/193774)

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**Author:** [@SchweizerSchoggi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SchweizerSchoggi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-room-category-for-specific-user-group/193774 "2021-06-14T14:57:06Z")

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The customers would like to have kind of a private room or category just for a specific user group. Currently I do have two user groups, let’s call them Doctors and Authors. Is it possible to have kind of a private roo…

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## [Amazon link preview works here but not on my forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazon-link-preview-works-here-but-not-on-my-forum/187142)

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**Author:** [@mstm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mstm)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazon-link-preview-works-here-but-not-on-my-forum/187142 "2021-06-14T11:18:47Z")

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Hello everyone, I don’t understand why I don’t see the preview of the amazon links. Here it works perfectly but in my forum that I updated today ( 9581d71372 ) it doesn’t. Can it be cloudflare’s fault?

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## [Delayed columndropper issues](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delayed-columndropper-issues/98339)

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**Author:** [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 8:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delayed-columndropper-issues/98339 "2021-06-14T08:48:18Z")

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We’ve ran into a few fights with the delayed column dropping mechanism lately. These are rare issues but they cause a lot of pain, relatively speaking. The question is : is there any way to manually force the columndrop…

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## [How to use '+' sign for tags?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-sign-for-tags/193374)

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**Author:** [@hopo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hopo)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-sign-for-tags/193374 "2021-06-14T05:12:28Z")

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I want to add ‘c++’ tag but ‘+’ sign is not permitted. I found that c++ tag on the Stackoverflow. Which tag is not permitted for tag in discourse? And it is possible to use ‘c++’ tag in discourse? Thank you

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## [If you want to edit this theme, out of luck?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-you-want-to-edit-this-theme-out-of-luck/193635)

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**Author:** [@anon48433008](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon48433008)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-you-want-to-edit-this-theme-out-of-luck/193635 "2021-06-13T22:23:57Z")

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I tried to search and found a bit , I wanted to try fakebook again and quickly remembered why I hadn’t before, ad conflicts I need to make adjustments for it to work with native ads and other small incidentals An…

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## [Multi-site upgrade leaves \_some\_ sites unavailable](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multi-site-upgrade-leaves-some-sites-unavailable/193509)

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**Author:** [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multi-site-upgrade-leaves-some-sites-unavailable/193509 "2021-06-13T21:10:55Z")

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With the recent upgrade frenzy, leading to 2.8.0.beta2, something strange happened that I’m currently investigating. The effect is that on a multi-site install, some but not all secondary sites do not respond anymore. Th…

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## [Font changed after updating](https://meta.discourse.org/t/font-changed-after-updating/193496)

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**Author:** [@Yariv\_Cohen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yariv_Cohen)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/font-changed-after-updating/193496 "2021-06-13T20:00:50Z")

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Hi I updated my discourse a week ago. Unfortunately, after updating, all my discourse Arial font changed to different one. I tried to understand why it happened even rebuild discourse image again but nothing helped. Can…

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## [Need help configuring CDN](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-configuring-cdn/193417)

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**Author:** [@koen360](https://meta.discourse.org/u/koen360)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-configuring-cdn/193417 "2021-06-13T19:29:55Z")

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Well, made the jump and went to migrate my uploads. Just to share from my newbie journey some suggestions and questions that may help some others or serve as feedback. Where setting up S3 bucket is well documented, the C…

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## [Customize Discobot User](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-discobot-user/63233)

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**Author:** [@apautler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/apautler)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-discobot-user/63233 "2021-06-13T19:11:14Z")

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Is it possible to customize the ‘discobot’ user or change what user sends the default greetings, etc. messages. We’d like these sorts of messages to be sent from a different user or customize the discobot user, so it has…

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## [500 Server Error after Upgrade to 2.8.0.beta2 due to third party broken plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-server-error-after-upgrade-to-2-8-0-beta2-due-to-third-party-broken-plugin/193682)

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**Author:** [@CJtheSiteWizard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CJtheSiteWizard)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-server-error-after-upgrade-to-2-8-0-beta2-due-to-third-party-broken-plugin/193682 "2021-06-13T16:12:45Z")

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Hi! After upgrading to 2.8.0.beta2 last night, I’m unable to access Site Settings. I get a 500 server error. It seems like everything else is working okay–including all the other tabs in admin (customize/plugins/backups…

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## [Ability to \_NOT\_ show ads to anonymous visitors?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-not-show-ads-to-anonymous-visitors/193669)

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**Author:** [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-not-show-ads-to-anonymous-visitors/193669 "2021-06-13T13:16:02Z")

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In the official House Ads plugin, would it be possible to add a “don’t show ads to anonymous visitors” preference? Use case… My community is set up that anyone can join/create-an-account. So I have a banner that encour…

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## [Looking for the good price for hongkong server?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-the-good-price-for-hongkong-server/193515)

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**Author:** [@dew02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dew02)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-the-good-price-for-hongkong-server/193515 "2021-06-11T20:13:48Z")

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i want 8G 10M 1ip. what are you recommand for the server?

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## [Working on a mailman2 to discourse migration script](https://meta.discourse.org/t/working-on-a-mailman2-to-discourse-migration-script/169220)

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**Author:** [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/working-on-a-mailman2-to-discourse-migration-script/169220 "2021-06-12T22:50:39Z")

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Bonjour, Today I start working on a python script to migrate a mailman2 mailing list (archives and config.pck) using the discourse API only. If anyone is interested, it is happening here and I’ll update this topic with …

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## [Unread Alerts will not remain read](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-alerts-will-not-remain-read/193531)

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**Author:** [@donnay1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/donnay1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-alerts-will-not-remain-read/193531 "2021-06-12T17:02:15Z")

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When I attempt to mark the Notifications as read, they do not change They remain unread.

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## [Obfuscating mailto:foo@bar.com when importing mail archives](https://meta.discourse.org/t/obfuscating-mailto-foo-bar-com-when-importing-mail-archives/193584)

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**Author:** [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/obfuscating-mailto-foo-bar-com-when-importing-mail-archives/193584 "2021-06-12T09:12:36Z")

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Bonjour, After a successful import of mail archives ( mbox ), the content of the messages will display email addresses that would have been obfuscated by Gmane or the mailman2 archive server. This allows bots collecting…

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## [HOWTO migrate from mailman2 to discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-migrate-from-mailman2-to-discourse/193608)

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**Author:** [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-migrate-from-mailman2-to-discourse/193608 "2021-06-12T08:26:42Z")

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Bonjour, mailman2discourse is a command line tool to import a mailman2 configuration (as found in the config.pck file) into a discourse category available on PyPI. A user is created for each member of the mailing list a…

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## [How to find which user searched specific keyword?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-which-user-searched-specific-keyword/193205)

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**Author:** [@th21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/th21)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-which-user-searched-specific-keyword/193205 "2021-06-12T04:19:14Z")

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I noticed some toxic keywords were searched in my forum. Is there a way to find who searched them?

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