# Hot **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1072 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 1073 --- ## [Automatically detect too long paragraphs?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-detect-too-long-paragraphs/130392)
**Author:** [@jrgong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jrgong)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-detect-too-long-paragraphs/130392 "2019-10-07T16:12:13Z")
Hey guys In my forum I have the constant influx of new users who tend to write waaay too long paragraphs. Hard to read and the community gets annoyed. I don’t want my mods to remind new users all the time to use a new … --- ## [How to use prevent overlapping jobs? DistributedMutex?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-prevent-overlapping-jobs-distributedmutex/130393)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Schmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Schmucker)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-prevent-overlapping-jobs-distributedmutex/130393 "2019-10-08T01:47:07Z")
Plugin newbie here. I’m trying to adapt a plugin which takes about an hour to run. Looking at /sidekiq, I see the job is running every 30 minutes. So before the first job is finished, another instance of the same job sta… --- ## [Add introductory text for sign-up](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-introductory-text-for-sign-up/130396)
**Author:** [@BenjaminScholz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenjaminScholz)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-introductory-text-for-sign-up/130396 "2019-10-08T17:09:14Z")
Dear all, We would like to not only add more optional user fields at sign-up for organizations but also a short introductory text at the beginning in which we explain why such additional information would be helpful for… --- ## [Onebox images are usually not clickable](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-images-are-usually-not-clickable/130406)
**Author:** [@jesus2099](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesus2099)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-images-are-usually-not-clickable/130406 "2019-10-14T12:33:52Z")
Hello, I often click the images in those Onebox, think it would open the linked page. But I am often surprised how those images (the left hand square main image) are not clickable, not linked. I mainly used MB Discours… --- ## [Improve Onebox click counting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-onebox-click-counting/130409)
**Author:** [@jtbayly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jtbayly)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-onebox-click-counting/130409 "2020-04-02T18:41:36Z")
If I put a link into my posts, I see how many people have clicked on the link. But if I put the link on one line, and it gets one-boxed, then I never see any count of the clicks. This post describes the issue further: … --- ## [Can I get immediate notifications of flagged posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-get-immediate-notifications-of-flagged-posts/130416)
**Author:** [@Andreina\_Parisi-Amon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andreina_Parisi-Amon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-get-immediate-notifications-of-flagged-posts/130416 "2019-10-12T22:19:10Z")
Hello! As an admin and moderator, I’d like to receive an email as soon as a post is flagged. Unfortunately, the setting for " notify about flags after" is in units of hours and if I try to set it to less than 1 hours (i… --- ## [Looking to switch from Vanilla, and have a few questions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-to-switch-from-vanilla-and-have-a-few-questions/130431)
**Author:** [@lliddell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lliddell)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-to-switch-from-vanilla-and-have-a-few-questions/130431 "2019-10-14T16:35:05Z")
So I work for an elearning company that has already built out a version on Vanilla. My issue is how out dated and minimal a lot of the features are. Even when viewing plugins and testing them, I was having issues and tho… --- ## [Unread/read messages not stored correctly on Android Chrome](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-read-messages-not-stored-correctly-on-android-chrome/130435)
**Author:** [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-read-messages-not-stored-correctly-on-android-chrome/130435 "2019-10-13T21:26:04Z")
Continuing discussion from an older topic where a number of issues were mixed up. DISCLAIMER: As an iPhone user I rely on 2nd hand reports from users that are not professional SW testers. Several user have raised an … --- ## [Plugin produces exceptions when entering topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-produces-exceptions-when-entering-topic/130440)
**Author:** [@ValdikSS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ValdikSS)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-produces-exceptions-when-entering-topic/130440 "2019-10-08T12:45:31Z")
I get the following exception message in the logs when entering some topic on my forum. /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-translator/services/discourse\_translator/microsoft.rb:69:in \`access\_token' /var/www/discourse/… --- ## [Personal Wiki Page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-wiki-page/130441)
**Author:** [@touhidur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/touhidur)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-wiki-page/130441 "2019-10-08T21:17:40Z")
So, TL3+ users can make their personal post wiki that is editable by TL1+ users. If someone makes a post wiki that means that post was most likely more important than others. However, these posts do not appear separate… --- ## [Plugin or theme component for post editor modification?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-or-theme-component-for-post-editor-modification/130446)
**Author:** [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-or-theme-component-for-post-editor-modification/130446 "2019-10-09T11:03:38Z")
Honestly, I have no idea where to post this so feel free to move it if this isn’t the right category. Recently I’ve been interested in improving the user experience in Discourse for adding ruby tags for text in the post… --- ## [How to insert ads after topic content?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-insert-ads-after-topic-content/130452)
**Author:** [@vlvn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vlvn)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-insert-ads-after-topic-content/130452 "2023-06-08T13:15:12Z")
i want to insert my adsense code after the content. help me https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/how-to-find-affiliates-partners-for-your-software-product/341751 --- ## [Advice for starting a community site for housing cooperative](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-for-starting-a-community-site-for-housing-cooperative/130457)
**Author:** [@eugene](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eugene)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-for-starting-a-community-site-for-housing-cooperative/130457 "2019-10-09T09:06:38Z")
Hi, my name is Eugene. I’m a software engineer from Ukraine. I’d like to use Discourse and I am seeking for advice. I am a member of the housing cooperative here in Kyiv. Presently, 240+ neighbors of the building I live… --- ## [GitHub Status Indicators](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-status-indicators/130471)
**Author:** [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-status-indicators/130471 "2023-09-21T23:16:22Z")
:discourse2: Summary GitHub Status Indicators adds status indicators to GitHub oneboxes for issues and pull requests. Live information is provided by https://shields.io. :eyeglasses: Preview Preview on Disc… --- ## [View that contains topics of specific categories?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/view-that-contains-topics-of-specific-categories/130485)
**Author:** [@PDoyon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PDoyon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/view-that-contains-topics-of-specific-categories/130485 "2023-06-17T16:42:08Z")
Hello! Is there a way to build a view that contains topics of only specific categories? I’m only interested in a subset of categories, and I would like to have the topics of those categories to be displayed in a page t… --- ## [Edit tags when replying](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-tags-when-replying/130496)
**Author:** [@surety](https://meta.discourse.org/u/surety)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-tags-when-replying/130496 "2019-10-08T17:20:19Z")
Is there any way to edit topic tags when replying? I couldn’t find a setting for it. When we were using bbpress our moderators could add/edit tags in the same form where they were replying which saved time. Now we have t… --- ## [Improve handling of quote from translated post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-handling-of-quote-from-translated-post/130504)
**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2019, 6:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-handling-of-quote-from-translated-post/130504 "2019-10-09T06:09:19Z")
The translator plugin is really great for multi-lingual communities, and I’m thrilled that you can even quote from the translated version of a post. Unfortunately, when you try to expand the quote, you get the original p… --- ## [Create a brief questionnaire for a new user signing-up in a private forum to help staff with the vetting process?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-brief-questionnaire-for-a-new-user-signing-up-in-a-private-forum-to-help-staff-with-the-vetting-process/130517)
**Author:** [@smileypants707](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smileypants707)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2019, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-brief-questionnaire-for-a-new-user-signing-up-in-a-private-forum-to-help-staff-with-the-vetting-process/130517 "2019-10-12T11:05:57Z")
If the forum is set up to be private, and each new user has to be approved by staff before they have access to the community; is it possible for the sign up process to include a required field to help mods get an underst… --- ## [Watched Word Filtered Post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-word-filtered-post/130519)
**Author:** [@ked](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ked)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-word-filtered-post/130519 "2019-10-15T02:39:37Z")
Upon the Watched Words feature catching a particular post and holding it for review (as shown here), when I hit Reject Post, a. does the User get any sort of notification message? b. does the post get tagged as Delet… --- ## [Deleting posts containing X word](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-posts-containing-x-word/130523)
**Author:** [@justinGP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justinGP)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-posts-containing-x-word/130523 "2019-10-10T17:55:08Z")
Hello, hope everyone is having a good day! My forum recently has a new policy where we’re cutting down on certain types of explicit language and we would like to remove them from view for both users and Google. I used th… --- ## [Edit Limit for Forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-limit-for-forum/130524)
**Author:** [@jousefm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jousefm)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-limit-for-forum/130524 "2019-10-09T22:14:32Z")
Hi guys! Does anyone know how to change the edit limit of the forum? A user has the problem that he performed too many edits and I was wondering if there is a specific function in the backend handling this. Cheers! … --- ## [How to modify Dockerfile?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-modify-dockerfile/130531)
**Author:** [@slackmoehrle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/slackmoehrle)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-modify-dockerfile/130531 "2019-10-09T22:01:21Z")
I have a few other Docker containers and I run steps like this: # Copy the current directory contents into the container at /app COPY html /usr/share/nginx/html/ COPY dim.local.crt /etc/nginx/ssl/ COPY dim.local.key /et… --- ## [Place for total coding beginners to learn how to customise?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/place-for-total-coding-beginners-to-learn-how-to-customise/130555)
**Author:** [@charlie\_spring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charlie_spring)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/place-for-total-coding-beginners-to-learn-how-to-customise/130555 "2019-10-25T11:46:09Z")
I can see the richness of the resources on Meta but usually advice is aimed at people with some basic coding knowledge. Our community (a network of people keen to build a more sustainable food system in our city) is made… --- ## [Mathjax not working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mathjax-not-working/130558)
**Author:** [@AnkitJain](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AnkitJain)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mathjax-not-working/130558 "2019-10-09T12:11:07Z")
I tried to get a fraction with this code: $$\\frac{a}{b}$$ It gives the above text itself. I checked plugin is enabled. --- ## [Limit tag-groups to certain groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-tag-groups-to-certain-groups/130559)
**Author:** [@ad-si](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ad-si)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-tag-groups-to-certain-groups/130559 "2020-11-05T22:30:39Z")
It would be cool if there was a way to limit the usage of tags from a tag group to certain groups. Currently only the settings “public” and “team” are possible. --- ## [Display an Image's alt or title attribute in ligthbox overlay](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-an-images-alt-or-title-attribute-in-ligthbox-overlay/130579)
**Author:** [@ad-si](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ad-si)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-an-images-alt-or-title-attribute-in-ligthbox-overlay/130579 "2019-11-05T10:54:04Z")
Instead of displaying the original filename the lightbox overlay should display the alt tag and/or the title tag of the image. The image name is often not useful at all. (E.g. something like shutterstock\_1073920454325… --- ## [Force\_https not working with GCP Ingress](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-https-not-working-with-gcp-ingress/130593)
**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-https-not-working-with-gcp-ingress/130593 "2019-10-09T23:29:18Z")
I’ve got a kubernetes instance on GCP. Everything seems fine, but somehow force\_https isn’t forcing a redirect and the sill can be retrieved on http://. My solution for now has been to add this stanza to app.yml. -… --- ## [Jump to last post does not jump to correct position and does not hide jump tool after scrolling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/jump-to-last-post-does-not-jump-to-correct-position-and-does-not-hide-jump-tool-after-scrolling/130600)
**Author:** [@Yu\_Gong1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yu_Gong1)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/jump-to-last-post-does-not-jump-to-correct-position-and-does-not-hide-jump-tool-after-scrolling/130600 "2019-11-15T17:30:56Z")
UX bug: Only on mobiles when user uses the “jump scrolling tool” and scrolls to the very end, it does not jump to the last post but the end of page so that the last post is not seen. See image below. Also the box for jum… --- ## [Wildcard tags in searches - finding topics without certain tags?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wildcard-tags-in-searches-finding-topics-without-certain-tags/130633)
**Author:** [@Perry\_Eising](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Perry_Eising)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wildcard-tags-in-searches-finding-topics-without-certain-tags/130633 "2019-10-13T16:45:21Z")
I have the following situation: I have a category containing many topics (900+), all of which have the same tag, say answered, which we use to track posts that have been responded to. Many also contain other tags: depl… --- ## [Is iPage.com a compatible website hosting service?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-ipage-com-a-compatible-website-hosting-service/130648)
**Author:** [@Samivan\_911](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Samivan_911)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-ipage-com-a-compatible-website-hosting-service/130648 "2019-10-10T03:41:56Z")
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