# Hot **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1201 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 1202 --- ## [Changing avatar\_url while sso\_overrides\_avatar is set?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-avatar-url-while-sso-overrides-avatar-is-set/158513)
**Author:** [@charl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charl)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-avatar-url-while-sso-overrides-avatar-is-set/158513 "2020-07-22T16:34:01Z")
Is it possible to change avatar\_url per user while sso\_overrides\_avatar is true? I understand it’s possible to set avatar\_url in the login process (and use avatar\_force\_update), but is there any other way I could go abo… --- ## [I want to install using a reverse proxy for Apache](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-install-using-a-reverse-proxy-for-apache/158519)
**Author:** [@Teraterayuki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Teraterayuki)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-install-using-a-reverse-proxy-for-apache/158519 "2021-08-08T12:13:46Z")
I wanted to install using Apache’s reverse proxy and tried to install with a custom port, but it didn’t work. Is there any way to do this? Checking your domain name . . . WARNING: Port 443 of computer does not appear t… --- ## [Unable to unlike post if ownership is transferred to self](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-unlike-post-if-ownership-is-transferred-to-self/158526)
**Author:** [@wesochuck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wesochuck)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-unlike-post-if-ownership-is-transferred-to-self/158526 "2020-08-14T23:45:48Z")
Reproduction steps: Like a post by another user Take ownership of that post You’ll see two like buttons and you won’t be able to unlike the post I’m guessing the logic that doesn’t allow you to like your own posts k… --- ## [/search/query response body changes for unknown reason](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-query-response-body-changes-for-unknown-reason/158536)
**Author:** [@th3coop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/th3coop)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-query-response-body-changes-for-unknown-reason/158536 "2020-07-24T15:32:36Z")
Hey there! We’ve built a feature in our website that queries our hosted Discourse forums and displays information about found topics. It was all working nicely last week when we deployed but it stopped over the weekend… --- ## [User getting notifications for a topic when they shouldn't be](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-getting-notifications-for-a-topic-when-they-shouldnt-be/158540)
**Author:** [@Dylan\_Caudill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dylan_Caudill)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-getting-notifications-for-a-topic-when-they-shouldnt-be/158540 "2020-07-22T21:36:25Z")
A user on our site reached out because they were receiving notifications on a topic that they did not expect to get notifications on. They did not comment on the post or manually set it to watching. Next to the notifica… --- ## [Arrow for 'Hide Details' is unclickable in some Microsoft Edge versions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/arrow-for-hide-details-is-unclickable-in-some-microsoft-edge-versions/158542)
**Author:** [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/arrow-for-hide-details-is-unclickable-in-some-microsoft-edge-versions/158542 "2020-07-22T21:18:08Z")
Users are reporting Microsoft Edge does not allow them to click the down-arrow in a hide details section. It works correctly in the Chromium-based builds of Edge, but not the older EdgeHTML versions. Confirmed for: M… --- ## [SAML Plugin on Self Hosted Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saml-plugin-on-self-hosted-discourse/158544)
**Author:** [@dfuentes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfuentes)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saml-plugin-on-self-hosted-discourse/158544 "2020-07-23T13:18:02Z")
The SAML Authentication Plugin page here indicates that “SAML Authentication is available on Enterprise hosting plans.” Does this mean that I would be unable to use SAML Authentication on my self hosted free version of … --- ## [How to Get Links to Open Up in a New Tab for posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-links-to-open-up-in-a-new-tab-for-posts/158554)
**Author:** [@Laetitia\_Beyegue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Laetitia_Beyegue)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-links-to-open-up-in-a-new-tab-for-posts/158554 "2020-08-19T21:16:43Z")
Hello, I’ve been posting blogs in the DMC bytes category which has links throughout. I am wondering how can I get the links to open up in a new window. One of our team members was able to change a setting that opens up … --- ## [Start multiple email topics at once using gmail aliases](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-multiple-email-topics-at-once-using-gmail-aliases/158565)
**Author:** [@Jazz\_FA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jazz_FA)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-multiple-email-topics-at-once-using-gmail-aliases/158565 "2020-07-25T15:00:28Z")
So I have setup reply by email, and starting a topic via email. The way this is set up is: Pop3 polling email: noreply @ domain . com Each category has its own alias on noreply@domain.com. So category1 @ domain . com, … --- ## [Catagories wont load](https://meta.discourse.org/t/catagories-wont-load/158570)
**Author:** [@rmccown](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rmccown)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/catagories-wont-load/158570 "2020-07-23T02:39:03Z")
Howdy I just upgraded to 2.6.0.beta1 docker version, and now categories wont load initially. I get the following in the dev console. This happens in any of the categories. If I click on the category selector, when… --- ## [Is it possible for admins to follow newly created tags, groups of tags, and categories?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-for-admins-to-follow-newly-created-tags-groups-of-tags-and-categories/158572)
**Author:** [@sunjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sunjam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-for-admins-to-follow-newly-created-tags-groups-of-tags-and-categories/158572 "2020-07-23T02:37:20Z")
As people on our forum create new tags, groupings of tags, categories… is there a way to track these as they are made? Main reason I ask is because these things are just not easy to follow and often they are redundant (… --- ## [Copy pasting nested lists from Word into a post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copy-pasting-nested-lists-from-word-into-a-post/158575)
**Author:** [@AntiMetaman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AntiMetaman)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copy-pasting-nested-lists-from-word-into-a-post/158575 "2020-07-23T14:42:57Z")
I know that markdown, html, bbcode, etc. is accepted. I just wanted to copy paste a document from google docs or microsoft word into a post in Discourse without losing the formatting. Is there a way to do this or a plugi… --- ## [TimeStamp of Tag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timestamp-of-tag/158598)
**Author:** [@Minhaj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Minhaj)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timestamp-of-tag/158598 "2020-07-24T17:40:01Z")
Can we query the timestamp of attaching a tag to a Topic? Like I want to sort the topics on the time when they were tagged with some tag. --- ## [Facebook Container on Firefox detects tracker while reading a topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-container-on-firefox-detects-tracker-while-reading-a-topic/158599)
**Author:** [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-container-on-firefox-detects-tracker-while-reading-a-topic/158599 "2020-07-23T17:17:03Z")
The default configuration for the share links site setting on Discourse includes Facebook: Because of this, Facebook Container shows a warning & disables the button on most Discourse sites by default: How the Con… --- ## [Wordpress admin email address and Discourse admin email address are different](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-admin-email-address-and-discourse-admin-email-address-are-different/158607)
**Author:** [@mobolajimo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mobolajimo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-admin-email-address-and-discourse-admin-email-address-are-different/158607 "2020-07-23T16:32:04Z")
My Wordpress admin email address and Discourse admin email address are different. While making Wordpress my SSO provider, I somehow forgot to change my Discourse admin email address to my Wordpress admin email address. … --- ## [What are the right settings to use S3 bucket (with non-Amazon URL)?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-right-settings-to-use-s3-bucket-with-non-amazon-url/158612)
**Author:** [@pnoeric](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnoeric)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-right-settings-to-use-s3-bucket-with-non-amazon-url/158612 "2020-08-25T00:07:23Z")
So I have an Amazon S3 bucket set up to store my forum assets, and I put it on a custom domain and set up CloudFlare CDN to cache the content. My custom domain is called something like http://forum-storage.com, which po… --- ## [How can I tell how much disk space might would be needed for an auto backup?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-tell-how-much-disk-space-might-would-be-needed-for-an-auto-backup/158613)
**Author:** [@pnoeric](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnoeric)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-tell-how-much-disk-space-might-would-be-needed-for-an-auto-backup/158613 "2020-07-23T12:53:44Z")
My Discourse is set up to automatically back up to Amazon S3. However, I have learned (the hard way) that it needs a lot of disk space on the local machine to prepare the backup. It looks like the software prepares the b… --- ## [Users can't edit their email / verification link doesn't work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cant-edit-their-email-verification-link-doesnt-work/158622)
**Author:** [@dpb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cant-edit-their-email-verification-link-doesnt-work/158622 "2020-07-23T16:24:08Z")
Our users can’t change their email, neither can the admins. The only working way is to hack the change in the database. We have this issue for well over a year now, currently on 2.6.0beta1. behaviour The user changes t… --- ## [Not able to Update Tags using API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-update-tags-using-api/158623)
**Author:** [@Minhaj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Minhaj)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-update-tags-using-api/158623 "2020-07-23T16:57:07Z")
I am sending a PUT request to http://localhost:3000/t/220.json with {"tags":\["bug"\]} to update the tags on my topic with ID 220. I am getting Error 403 {"errors":\["You are not permitted to view the requested resource."… --- ## [How we put people in a category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-put-people-in-a-category/158626)
**Author:** [@Camille\_Augereau](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Camille_Augereau)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-put-people-in-a-category/158626 "2020-07-24T17:06:39Z")
I don’t understand how we put a person in a category. I am French so maybe it’s for that but I read some articles and I don’t get it. I published a topic but nobody can answer. I don’t how to change that, I change the l… --- ## [Category Moderator Improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-improvements/158628)
**Author:** [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 5, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-improvements/158628 "2020-08-05T16:15:54Z")
We recently added lots of long awaited improvements to our Category specific Moderators feature. As of today, they are now able to: Mark topics as solved Edit posts Close topics Archive topics Move posts … --- ## [Options for File Sharing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-for-file-sharing/158632)
**Author:** [@RobOK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobOK)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-for-file-sharing/158632 "2020-07-30T22:07:24Z")
I am considering Discourse for a small, private community where file sharing might be required. I know people can attach a file, but it there any Library function that groups files together? Either inherently or as a plu… --- ## [Server requirements and advice](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642)
**Author:** [@Yariv\_Cohen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yariv_Cohen)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642 "2020-07-30T16:13:07Z")
Hi there and thank you for everything! Unfortunately my budget is limited these days so I need some advice for the first few months with Discourse. I have a VPS (1 core, 2GB ram) and have few Wordpress websites already… --- ## [Site requiring login even though "require log in" is off](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-requiring-login-even-though-require-log-in-is-off/158643)
**Author:** [@davidlieb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidlieb)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-requiring-login-even-though-require-log-in-is-off/158643 "2020-07-23T23:03:47Z")
This is a trial version https://learnit.trydiscourse.com/ Even through I have require log in off, none of the content shows until people log in. --- ## [Can we add og:image size metatag?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-og-image-size-metatag/158654)
**Author:** [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-og-image-size-metatag/158654 "2020-07-24T02:38:35Z")
I want to use square og:image but I can’t select the size from admin panel. I see that FB stretch the image in 3:1 and I want to use a 1:1 to prevent that bad stretching. Thanks for your time. --- ## [What is the best branch of github.com/discourse/discourse？](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-best-branch-of-github-com-discourse-discourse/158656)
**Author:** [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-best-branch-of-github-com-discourse-discourse/158656 "2020-07-24T03:07:29Z")
Recently, I encountered some problems in the default branch “test\_passed”, so I transferred to version stable. While I found that some beautiful features are gone. (Well, not very bad for that, but I’d like to know more… --- ## [Email links truncated](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-links-truncated/158681)
**Author:** [@Andro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andro)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-links-truncated/158681 "2020-07-29T20:07:43Z")
Discourse 2.6.0.beta1. If we make a Onebox youtube link all works fine. But the email corresponding to the post that goes out has a truncated and invalid URL. Why would this occur? Some of our users only use the email in… --- ## [Authenticate with SAML gives hashed username and e-mail](https://meta.discourse.org/t/authenticate-with-saml-gives-hashed-username-and-e-mail/158685)
**Author:** [@ronligt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ronligt)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2023, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/authenticate-with-saml-gives-hashed-username-and-e-mail/158685 "2023-05-03T06:28:22Z")
Hello, I would like to authenticate the users of my installation of Discourse with our University SAML. I’m using the docker version of Discourse with the SAML plugin. I’ve tried to follow the instructions on the GitHu… --- ## [API / anonymize or delete](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-anonymize-or-delete/158704)
**Author:** [@aahoughton](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aahoughton)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-anonymize-or-delete/158704 "2021-08-19T21:17:28Z")
'lo. We’re using hosted discourse with OAuth. We suddenly realized that when we process deletions, we’re neglecting to delete from our discourse instance. I’d like to be able to anonymize an account, OR delete an acco… --- ## [How to change post title color when post is scroll up in top menu bar?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-post-title-color-when-post-is-scroll-up-in-top-menu-bar/158708)
**Author:** [@s123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/s123)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-post-title-color-when-post-is-scroll-up-in-top-menu-bar/158708 "2020-07-24T22:07:28Z")
In Light theme I changed color of top bar to dark blue color. When I scroll post up it show post title color in Black. I would like to change post title color to white. What custom css I should add to make post title col… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1200) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1202)