# Hot

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## [How to setup on a local network?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-setup-on-a-local-network/129220)

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**Author:** [@Dan\_A](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dan_A)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-setup-on-a-local-network/129220 "2019-09-24T08:15:57Z")

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I want to setup discourse on a local network to access it from inside and, possibly, from the outside(the internet). So the first issue is “how do I make it work when I have to use a domain name?” I set up docker on my…

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## [Category moderator powers?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-powers/129229)

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**Author:** [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-powers/129229 "2020-08-05T16:19:52Z")

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Hello, What powers does a category moderator have? Thanks

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## [Being able to like/unlike posts at will (GDPR complience)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/being-able-to-like-unlike-posts-at-will-gdpr-complience/129234)

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**Author:** [@xan2622](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xan2622)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/being-able-to-like-unlike-posts-at-will-gdpr-complience/129234 "2019-09-22T19:12:36Z")

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Hello. This topic being closed, I couldn’t post a reply in time. In the link (above), Jeff Atwood said that people could… grief people by liking and un-liking forever. You could also get mad at someone and rage-unlik…

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## [Why does it take so long for a topic to become deleted?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-it-take-so-long-for-a-topic-to-become-deleted/129235)

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**Author:** [@tdekoekkoek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tdekoekkoek)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 10, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-it-take-so-long-for-a-topic-to-become-deleted/129235 "2023-05-10T15:49:36Z")

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I deleted a topic over an hour ago. It still shows up in the API and as a slug in the URL. I just want it permanently removed.

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## [HELP! How do I see invoices for a deleted forum?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-how-do-i-see-invoices-for-a-deleted-forum/129236)

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**Author:** [@MisterMiyagi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MisterMiyagi)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-how-do-i-see-invoices-for-a-deleted-forum/129236 "2019-09-22T23:42:00Z")

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For part of 2018 I had a Discourse forum and absolutely LOVED it. Sadly, I couldn’t get enough members from me Facebook to transition so I begrudgingly cancelled it. However now I need access to my billing history but ha…

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## [Get New Members automatically added to Mailchimp](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-new-members-automatically-added-to-mailchimp/129237)

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**Author:** [@Mikael\_Baggström](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mikael_Baggstr%C3%B6m)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-new-members-automatically-added-to-mailchimp/129237 "2019-09-24T09:05:46Z")

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I want every new member to automatically be added to my Mailchimp list. I have Zapier, and Discourse is an available app, but the only trigger event I can find is “new post”. Not “account creation” as I would like. Anyo…

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## [Welcome message at the top](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-message-at-the-top/129246)

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**Author:** [@jfbourdeau](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jfbourdeau)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-message-at-the-top/129246 "2019-09-23T13:09:15Z")

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How to we customize / where, the Welcome message at the top that people can CLick so it goes away. I would like, when people come to the discourse forum for for the 1st time and are not logged or registered, to have som…

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## [Liked and like\_count attribute on Topic is misleading](https://meta.discourse.org/t/liked-and-like-count-attribute-on-topic-is-misleading/129247)

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**Author:** [@MojoK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MojoK)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/liked-and-like-count-attribute-on-topic-is-misleading/129247 "2019-09-22T19:20:17Z")

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Currently when fetching a list of topics, the liked and like\_count attributes returned reflect the state of a likes that occurred in any or in all of the posts in that topic, not just the original post. Someone liking t…

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## [Some js.composer.error.XXX keys need pluralization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-js-composer-error-xxx-keys-need-pluralization/129269)

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**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-js-composer-error-xxx-keys-need-pluralization/129269 "2019-09-23T05:31:05Z")

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Here are a few translation keys that need pluralization: js.composer.error.title\_too\_short js.composer.error.title\_too\_long js.composer.error.post\_length js.composer.error.tags\_missing

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## ["Let's start the discussion!" messages need pluralization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-start-the-discussion-messages-need-pluralization/129270)

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**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-start-the-discussion-messages-need-pluralization/129270 "2019-09-24T18:46:36Z")

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I can see a few of them: js.too\_few\_topics\_and\_posts\_notice js.too\_few\_topics\_notice js.too\_few\_posts\_notice All of them have 3 to 5 placeholders for numbers, and each one needs pluralization. Having 4 variations for …

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## [Not able to login on Latest with LDAP](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-login-on-latest-with-ldap/129282)

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**Author:** [@Iceman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Iceman)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 1, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-login-on-latest-with-ldap/129282 "2019-10-01T14:54:58Z")

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Hi guys, Sorry to be bothering here with this issue, recently I updated our Discourse installation to latest. We are using the LDAP plugin (GitHub - jonmbake/discourse-ldap-auth: Discourse plugin to enable LDAP/Active D…

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## [Did anyone try to embed Datatables into Topic Body?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-anyone-try-to-embed-datatables-into-topic-body/129299)

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**Author:** [@Raghu\_Nandan\_Avula](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Raghu_Nandan_Avula)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-anyone-try-to-embed-datatables-into-topic-body/129299 "2021-06-30T08:26:13Z")

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Hello Community, Did anyone try to embed Data tables into Topic Body ? Any plugin or theme ? Thanks,

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## [Error 500 on show group administrator message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-500-on-show-group-administrator-message/129326)

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**Author:** [@\_random](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_random)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-500-on-show-group-administrator-message/129326 "2019-09-30T10:56:36Z")

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Go to https://example.com/g/администраторы or english https://example.com/g/administrators and click message return error: Ошибка: 500 Internal Server Error

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## [What is supposed to happen to a user's badges once banned or anonymized?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-to-a-users-badges-once-banned-or-anonymized/129345)

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**Author:** [@Jumanji](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jumanji)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-to-a-users-badges-once-banned-or-anonymized/129345 "2019-09-25T03:55:24Z")

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I’m running a custom install. Can you please tell me what is supposed to happen to awarded badges when a member is banned permanently? In our case, the account is still visible on our website, along with that user’s t…

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## [Error while rebuilding discourse docker image with New Relic plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-while-rebuilding-discourse-docker-image-with-new-relic-plugin/129358)

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**Author:** [@shubham9411](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shubham9411)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-while-rebuilding-discourse-docker-image-with-new-relic-plugin/129358 "2019-09-25T14:44:59Z")

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We upgraded Discourse docker to master and tried to rebuild the docker images for the latest updates and now we are getting an error for wrong constant name. Checkout the stacktrace below: 1: rails\_multisite (2.0.7) fr…

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## [Getting a 500 response when accessing Categories Index route](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-a-500-response-when-accessing-categories-index-route/129363)

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**Author:** [@Gopiraj\_Dorairaj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gopiraj_Dorairaj)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-a-500-response-when-accessing-categories-index-route/129363 "2019-09-25T01:13:45Z")

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This issue happen’s when after i leave my session idle for a min and refresh. Not sure why the client ip is having a port value. Is there some config i am missing Below is the log Processing by CategoriesController#in…

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## [List topics in a category during a time period](https://meta.discourse.org/t/list-topics-in-a-category-during-a-time-period/129385)

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**Author:** [@ariznaf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ariznaf)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/list-topics-in-a-category-during-a-time-period/129385 "2019-09-24T15:27:52Z")

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Is there a way to list all posts in a given category during a time frame? For example, all posts created in General between 1/1/2019 and 5/1/2019? Thank you for your help

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## [Best way to recover from backups with plugins?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-recover-from-backups-with-plugins/129395)

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**Author:** [@ariznaf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ariznaf)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-recover-from-backups-with-plugins/129395 "2019-09-30T20:05:28Z")

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We have recently upgraded to discourse from vbulletin. We are yet learning how to use discourse and its tools. One of my concerns is disaster recovery. We have automatic snapshots that we keep for long time. We make …

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## [Notifications not being triggered for group members in a private message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-not-being-triggered-for-group-members-in-a-private-message/129399)

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**Author:** [@danjw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danjw)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-not-being-triggered-for-group-members-in-a-private-message/129399 "2019-09-30T10:15:07Z")

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A little background on our specific setup and use case (almost all of our interaction with Discourse is via the API). We create a group with say 10 members in it. Our system automatically creates a private message betw…

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## [Bringing up topic bumping again... We want to edit all the old photobucket images and change them to uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bringing-up-topic-bumping-again-we-want-to-edit-all-the-old-photobucket-images-and-change-them-to-uploads/129406)

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**Author:** [@Aaron\_Newcomer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_Newcomer)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 28, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bringing-up-topic-bumping-again-we-want-to-edit-all-the-old-photobucket-images-and-change-them-to-uploads/129406 "2019-09-28T20:01:45Z")

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We want to manually edit a lot of old topics (that still have good information and search traffic) but have the dreaded photobucket images now (mainly topics that were migrated from an old forum software) by uploading im…

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## [Why Pro plan don't have Sitemap?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-pro-plan-dont-have-sitemap/129420)

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**Author:** [@hiccup](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hiccup)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-pro-plan-dont-have-sitemap/129420 "2019-09-25T12:26:41Z")

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Hi In fact I do not understand why the Pro plan does not have sitemap plugin It’s not fair to pay $ 300 to start a small site I don’t understand why? Sorry I don’t write English well

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## [Quicker update of smtp config than launcher rebuild?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quicker-update-of-smtp-config-than-launcher-rebuild/129425)

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**Author:** [@nordize](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nordize)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 12, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quicker-update-of-smtp-config-than-launcher-rebuild/129425 "2021-05-12T06:03:29Z")

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Is there a quicker procedure to update the smtp server details (just the smtp address for example) than running ./launcher rebuild app ?

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## [Is there any way to extract a URL to a post from Discourse backend DB?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-extract-a-url-to-a-post-from-discourse-backend-db/129426)

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**Author:** [@olegbc1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/olegbc1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-extract-a-url-to-a-post-from-discourse-backend-db/129426 "2019-09-25T03:35:13Z")

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I need to build a report of posts made by a specific group of people so I pull a list of those from posts table, joined by users and topics. This gives me a nice view of the content for each post, its author, which topic…

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## [Anyone know how the support is for Communiteq?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-know-how-the-support-is-for-communiteq/129431)

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**Author:** [@Tom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-know-how-the-support-is-for-communiteq/129431 "2019-09-25T05:31:33Z")

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I am looking to do a managed forum and wanted to know what the SLAs or support timelines are for Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting)? I assume since they charge more they would respond within 1 day and not 1+ day as …

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## [Recommended way to preserve changes to server.en.yml?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-way-to-preserve-changes-to-server-en-yml/129432)

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**Author:** [@nordize](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nordize)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-way-to-preserve-changes-to-server-en-yml/129432 "2019-09-25T21:58:28Z")

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Suppose i want to make some changes to some of the template strings in server.en.yml and I want them to persist across rebuilds (when I do ./launcher rebuild app). What is the recommended way to do that? I can add a sed …

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## [Uploading new \`logo\` then \`logo small\` shows inconsistent settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-new-logo-then-logo-small-shows-inconsistent-settings/129446)

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**Author:** [@JezPez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JezPez)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-new-logo-then-logo-small-shows-inconsistent-settings/129446 "2019-09-25T03:09:11Z")

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Hi, I have been having an intermittent issue regarding settings persisting, then appearing to be reverted some hours later on their own. I’ve managed to reproduce it clearly when I tried to update our logos for our self…

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## [How to display {{navigation-bar}} on users page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-display-navigation-bar-on-users-page/129469)

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**Author:** [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-display-navigation-bar-on-users-page/129469 "2019-09-26T16:28:41Z")

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Right now, I am working on a theme component requiring {{navigation-bar}} on the /u route. The goal is to add a navigation bar to the users page, so that the user can navigate to and from latest and categories while sti…

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## [SSO, old disabled accounts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-old-disabled-accounts/129471)

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**Author:** [@kenshin79it](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kenshin79it)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-old-disabled-accounts/129471 "2019-09-25T16:05:25Z")

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The server hosting our Discourse instance crashed and burned, and we have a only a pretty old Discourse backup. The instance, which we restored, uses SSO with Drupal. Question: between the time of the last backup and n…

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## [Is there a way to stop user opening poll after closing?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-user-opening-poll-after-closing/129507)

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**Author:** [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-user-opening-poll-after-closing/129507 "2019-09-25T22:44:01Z")

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Hello, I want a poll on a topic closed without the user opening it again. Thanks

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## [How to make a topic filter based on current user group and topic location](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-a-topic-filter-based-on-current-user-group-and-topic-location/129512)

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**Author:** [@Oliver\_Walker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Oliver_Walker)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 27, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-a-topic-filter-based-on-current-user-group-and-topic-location/129512 "2019-09-27T17:28:07Z")

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Hi, I’m working on a plugin that filters all topics based on where the topic was posted from and what group the user viewing the topic is in. The use case here is having a support team in different countries handling qu…

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