# Support

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## [.../login link force redirect to "latest" view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-link-force-redirect-to-latest-view/59780)

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**Author:** [@Steven\_Tib](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven_Tib)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-link-force-redirect-to-latest-view/59780 "2017-03-29T18:03:04Z")

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Hi all, I’ve just successfully setup SSO between our main app and our new discourse forum, however I’m having a small (but annoying) behavior. From my main app, I’ve set up a link to the forum that forces the user to l…

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## [Problems with Digital Ocean DNS lookups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-digital-ocean-dns-lookups/60025)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-digital-ocean-dns-lookups/60025 "2017-03-29T16:41:16Z")

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This is the first time I remember seeing any problems with Digital Ocean in the couple years I’ve been dealing with them. They use Google’s DNS servers by default, and Google is rate-limiting them. I don’t know whether t…

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## [Major woes upgrading from 1.6.0 to 1.8.0 -- broken site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/major-woes-upgrading-from-1-6-0-to-1-8-0-broken-site/60014)

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**Author:** [@AgustinCordes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AgustinCordes)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/major-woes-upgrading-from-1-6-0-to-1-8-0-broken-site/60014 "2017-03-29T15:24:45Z")

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This is the first major problem I’ve ran into while maintaining two Discourse sites. The (currently) broken forum had two particularities but installation was done by the book. One of these special settings is Spanish lo…

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## [Is there a way to let people sign up to a group?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-people-sign-up-to-a-group/44430)

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**Author:** [@SaintSal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaintSal)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-people-sign-up-to-a-group/44430 "2017-03-29T10:04:59Z")

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I have a bunch of private categories, each of which is seen only by members of a specific group for that category. I’d like a way for them to sign themselves up to those groups. For example, when we run a conference, w…

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## [Rebuilding the app fails due to disk out of space](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-app-fails-due-to-disk-out-of-space/60070)

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**Author:** [@craisp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craisp)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 28, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-app-fails-due-to-disk-out-of-space/60070 "2017-03-28T23:34:50Z")

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I’m facing this issue running sudo ./launcher rebuild app: An error occurred while installing mini\_racer (0.1.9), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that \`gem install mini\_racer -v '0.1.9'\` succeeds before bundling.…

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## [Paste links if you have short topic title length](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024)

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**Author:** [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 28, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024 "2017-03-28T15:09:42Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Start a topic by pasting a link (like Reddit): In our site we have set max topic title length to 60, to prevent users from writing long and meaningless titles or use titles as description …

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## [Forum not being updated on search engines](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-not-being-updated-on-search-engines/59990)

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**Author:** [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 27, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-not-being-updated-on-search-engines/59990 "2017-03-27T22:30:39Z")

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Hi, My forum is hosted on a subdomain and recently has not been updated on google. I made some changes and do check but its been days and its not getting updated. I changed the description even thats not updated its bee…

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## [Facebook Authentication Problems](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-authentication-problems/59984)

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**Author:** [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 27, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-authentication-problems/59984 "2017-03-27T21:35:30Z")

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Hi, I have been getting reports from users being unable to log in using their facebook credentials. Our error logs are filling up a little with authentication errors - hosted solution - GameDev.tv Any known problems a…

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## [Bad post time - Hour early](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bad-post-time-hour-early/59967)

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**Author:** [@Julian\_Somoza](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Julian_Somoza)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 27, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bad-post-time-hour-early/59967 "2017-03-27T17:44:23Z")

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I’m experimenting an issue with the posts time. All the posts have 1 hour early. I change the application.rb time\_zone value from UTC to BRT, but this not solve the problem… Can be the summer time? In my country there’s…

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## [Line 481 error for ./discourse-setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-481-error-for-discourse-setup/59926)

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**Author:** [@Daily\_SHOCK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daily_SHOCK)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 27, 2017, 5:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-481-error-for-discourse-setup/59926 "2017-03-27T05:32:59Z")

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Hey guys, I was prompted with this error when i am trying to run discourse-setup file: root@forum:/var/discourse# ./discourse-setup ./discourse-setup: line 481: syntax error near unexpected token \`else' ./discourse-set…

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## [Moderators cannot show email for a specific user?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-show-email-for-a-specific-user/59913)

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**Author:** [@int19h](https://meta.discourse.org/u/int19h)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 26, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-show-email-for-a-specific-user/59913 "2017-03-26T22:25:34Z")

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It looks like moderators don’t get the button to show one particular user’s email when viewing the admin user page for that user. It’s there for admins, just not moderators. It’s weird because they can still go to the l…

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## [How to set no user/pass for smtp in discourse setup?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-no-user-pass-for-smtp-in-discourse-setup/58900)

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**Author:** [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [March 26, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-no-user-pass-for-smtp-in-discourse-setup/58900 "2017-03-26T18:54:21Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Setting up DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_ADDRESS: 'localhost'?: I’m moving a forum, and wanted to try out the ./discourse-setup script. SMTP is allowed via whitelisting an IP address, so no user/pass is…

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## [Troubles with Push Notifications setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-with-push-notifications-setup/57993)

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**Author:** [@Shrike](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shrike)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [March 26, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-with-push-notifications-setup/57993 "2017-03-26T16:42:06Z")

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I’m trying to get Push Notifications to work but having some issues. I have pretty standard setup and tried to follow the manual: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-push-notifications/46692 installed plugin disco…

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## [Attempting to install Discourse on private Apache Server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempting-to-install-discourse-on-private-apache-server/59586)

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**Author:** [@naupe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/naupe)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 26, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempting-to-install-discourse-on-private-apache-server/59586 "2017-03-26T14:59:55Z")

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Hello Discourse community, I am a part of a game development team, and we’ve been looking for a better, more modern forum platform to our current phpBB forums. And I believe Discourse is it! Unfortunately, our Webhost …

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## [SSO - Two Feature Requests](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-two-feature-requests/59884)

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**Author:** [@Hosker4u](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hosker4u)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 25, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-two-feature-requests/59884 "2017-03-25T20:44:42Z")

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This plug-in works great, it is missing two things in my opinion. 1. Logout both WordPress and Discourse If a user logs out of Discourse they remain logged into WordPress. 2. Transfer new Discourse Registrations to Wo…

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## [User avatar preference spontaneously changing to "Custom picture"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-avatar-preference-spontaneously-changing-to-custom-picture/56977)

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**Author:** [@pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pjv)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [March 25, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-avatar-preference-spontaneously-changing-to-custom-picture/56977 "2017-03-25T18:22:30Z")

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I am currently on v1.8.0.beta4 +283. I just upgraded to beta from stable. The problem I am reporting here was happening also on stable v 1.7.2. I upgraded to the beta channel hoping for a fix, but it’s the same. It was n…

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## [Error: "There are 965 email jobs that failed. Check your app.yml and ensure that the mail server settings are correct."](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-there-are-965-email-jobs-that-failed-check-your-app-yml-and-ensure-that-the-mail-server-settings-are-correct/59879)

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**Author:** [@Knigel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Knigel)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [March 25, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-there-are-965-email-jobs-that-failed-check-your-app-yml-and-ensure-that-the-mail-server-settings-are-correct/59879 "2017-03-25T15:12:42Z")

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Hi there, woke up this morning to some sort of email error. My Discourse seemed to be running fine until this. In Sidekiq, I get many errors such as this: "16 default Jobs::UserEmail {"type"=\>"digest", "user\_id"=\>8…

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## [How to enable a normal user(not admin) to mark a topic as solved](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-enable-a-normal-user-not-admin-to-mark-a-topic-as-solved/59828)

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**Author:** [@Vincent\_Lee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vincent_Lee)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 24, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-enable-a-normal-user-not-admin-to-mark-a-topic-as-solved/59828 "2017-03-24T07:39:40Z")

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How to enable a normal user(not admin) to mark a topic of other’s as solved.

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## [Custom Labels for Leaders?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-labels-for-leaders/59818)

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**Author:** [@JoshTheNerd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JoshTheNerd)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 24, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-labels-for-leaders/59818 "2017-03-24T03:05:57Z")

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Hello, all. This is my first post here, so be nice. :winking\_face\_with\_tongue: Anyways, is there a way to create a custom label for myself if I’m a leader on another forum? I’m not part of the people that set up the BBS…

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## [Schema of internal link meta itemprop url showing http version](https://meta.discourse.org/t/schema-of-internal-link-meta-itemprop-url-showing-http-version/59784)

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**Author:** [@Vikas\_Dangi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vikas_Dangi)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/schema-of-internal-link-meta-itemprop-url-showing-http-version/59784 "2017-03-23T17:57:55Z")

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my forum has installed ssl and all is working fine. But a single problem I am facing is that in the source code the schema internal links has http version of forum. Because of this google first index https version of the…

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## [Problems with INSTALL-cloud.md directions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-install-cloud-md-directions/43314)

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**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Replies:** 49\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-install-cloud-md-directions/43314 "2017-03-23T17:51:32Z")

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I haven’t tried following the INSTALL-cloud.md instructions for a while, and they’ve changed and now there’s this new ./discourse-setup script. Problem is, it doesn’t work, at least on the base Ubuntu image for DigitalOc…

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## [Broken CSS for solution](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-css-for-solution/59761)

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**Author:** [@johno](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johno)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-css-for-solution/59761 "2017-03-23T13:46:17Z")

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Hi there, I am running Discourse version v1.8.0.beta8 +16 with Solved plugin 0.1, but the CSS seems to be broken. The icon is not green a the text is not aligned. Any tips?

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## [Show Total Topics/Replies in /categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-total-topics-replies-in-categories/36207)

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**Author:** [@mei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mei)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-total-topics-replies-in-categories/36207 "2017-03-23T11:59:36Z")

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Instead of showing daily and weekly counts of topics in each category (in the /categories view), is it possible to show the total topics AND replies? I feel like this is the standard with most other forum software (altho…

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## [User API key instead of Admin API key?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-key-instead-of-admin-api-key/59713)

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**Author:** [@jamescobalt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamescobalt)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-key-instead-of-admin-api-key/59713 "2017-03-23T02:41:03Z")

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When entering a user API key and the username associated with that key, I get the “You are connected to Discourse!” message. When I go into a Wordpress post, I see the list of Discourse categories I can publish to. Howev…

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## [Changes in omni auth strategies/custom auth plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-in-omni-auth-strategies-custom-auth-plugin/59630)

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**Author:** [@carlokok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carlokok)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-in-omni-auth-strategies-custom-auth-plugin/59630 "2017-03-21T19:29:23Z")

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We’ve had a custom OAuth2 based authentication which looks like: require 'auth/oauth2\_authenticator' require 'omniauth-oauth2' class OmniAuth::Strategies::RoOauth \< OmniAuth::Strategies::OAuth2 SITE\_URL = '\*\*\*\*\*\*' …

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## [External links in new tab](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-links-in-new-tab/59640)

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**Author:** [@arun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arun)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-links-in-new-tab/59640 "2017-03-21T18:17:09Z")

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How do I open all external links in a new tab? External links on my current Discourse setup open on the same page. Could do with some help. Thanks!

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## [No Topics Under 'Top' Category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-topics-under-top-category/59622)

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**Author:** [@TimothyDonaghue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TimothyDonaghue)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-topics-under-top-category/59622 "2017-03-21T15:45:56Z")

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I migrated my previous forum to a Discourse forum yesterday. At the moment, no topics appear under the ‘Top’ category. Does it require a certain amount of time to calculate the top topics?

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## [Structure and Functionality for Public and Private Forums](https://meta.discourse.org/t/structure-and-functionality-for-public-and-private-forums/59566)

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**Author:** [@cklester](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cklester)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/structure-and-functionality-for-public-and-private-forums/59566 "2017-03-21T14:26:31Z")

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Let’s imagine I’m setting up a site for readers that will allow its members to create reading groups. I have my own login system (via Laravel’s Auth system), so I’ll need Discourse to recognize that (which I think is pos…

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## [User Preferences | Date of Birth](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-preferences-date-of-birth/59615)

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**Author:** [@Vladimir\_Atanov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vladimir_Atanov)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-preferences-date-of-birth/59615 "2017-03-21T14:06:34Z")

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Hi there! Within this forum we have ability to manage date\_of\_birth. But in this view app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/preferences.hbs we don’t have this ability. Could you explain how to add date\_of\_birth…

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## [G Suite/google cloud](https://meta.discourse.org/t/g-suite-google-cloud/59585)

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**Author:** [@travisdeeth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/travisdeeth)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/g-suite-google-cloud/59585 "2017-03-21T00:32:38Z")

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I am attempting to configure Discourse which is running through google cloud to use SMTP through G Suite. I am editing the “discourse.conf” found in “/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/config” to contain the following i…

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