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## [Mailing list mirror feature request: multiple mailing lists per category via tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mirror-feature-request-multiple-mailing-lists-per-category-via-tags/213425)

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**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 30, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mirror-feature-request-multiple-mailing-lists-per-category-via-tags/213425 "2021-12-30T20:29:04Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Creating a read-only mailing list mirror: Because categories can’t be deeply nested (which is fine), the above comes with some drawbacks. I would like, instead, to combine several mailing…

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## [Can't pin/unpin topic from the title](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-pin-unpin-topic-from-the-title/213444)

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**Author:** [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 3, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-pin-unpin-topic-from-the-title/213444 "2022-01-03T13:39:08Z")

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Previously (I’m 99% sure) if a topic was pinned and you scrolled down the title would appear in the header (as you can see in image 1) and you could press :pushpin: icon and it would pin/unpin. However it does not allow …

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## [S3 bucket policy current example](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-bucket-policy-current-example/213446)

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**Author:** [@Andro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andro)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 1, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-bucket-policy-current-example/213446 "2022-01-01T09:56:42Z")

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Referring to this topic on how to set up an S3 bucket policy for Discourse: it appears to be out of date, and missing things currently needed, such as Principal information. Is there any more current advice on what t…

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## [Problem with displaying personal messages in Dark](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-with-displaying-personal-messages-in-dark/213460)

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**Author:** [@Alocasia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alocasia)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [January 3, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-with-displaying-personal-messages-in-dark/213460 "2022-01-03T16:28:36Z")

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Hello, my users are experiencing problems with pm’s when using the Dark theme. The text of the sender is invisible. It looks like the text and background are both in black in these text areas. The theme is using the …

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## [500 Internal Server Error when voting on a poll](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-internal-server-error-when-voting-on-a-poll/213480)

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**Author:** [@kuba-orlik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kuba-orlik)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-internal-server-error-when-voting-on-a-poll/213480 "2022-01-07T03:13:54Z")

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When voting on a poll, all users of my instance get a 500 server error. There’s an error in the logs: Message (4 copies reported) ArgumentError (comparison of Integer with nil failed) app/controllers/application\_contr…

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## [Scrolling posts "jumps" back up when reaching end](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-posts-jumps-back-up-when-reaching-end/213512)

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**Author:** [@J4ns323](https://meta.discourse.org/u/J4ns323)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 11, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-posts-jumps-back-up-when-reaching-end/213512 "2022-01-11T05:27:56Z")

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After scrolling down to the bottom of the post, the posts seem to scroll up and down without any user intervention. Its quite hard to explain so I have attached a screen recording of it. Current build: 2.8.0.beta…

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## [Topic voting on behalf of user by moderator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-voting-on-behalf-of-user-by-moderator/213525)

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**Author:** [@guidoleenders](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guidoleenders)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 1, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-voting-on-behalf-of-user-by-moderator/213525 "2022-01-01T15:02:01Z")

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Many idea topics that are open to voting on our forums come from phone calls and less computer-savvy users. For issues, we often create the first few topics on behalf of the users to make them acquainted to Discourse. Wi…

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## [Voice note recording](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voice-note-recording/213538)

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**Author:** [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voice-note-recording/213538 "2023-10-14T09:27:24Z")

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Feature request: Creating a voice note recorder for chat For normal discourse topics, I personally don’t yearn for voice notes, however, with chat, I miss the voice notes that I can do on other platforms. And if impleme…

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## [Accidentally Archived PMs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accidentally-archived-pms/213544)

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**Author:** [@sdpiowa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sdpiowa)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accidentally-archived-pms/213544 "2021-12-31T19:06:31Z")

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Good afternoon, all. We had a weird issue pop up today, though it’s still unclear as to why it happened. While doing some end-of-year archiving on our forums, we got a message from some of our users saying that we had a…

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## [Notification of automatic group membership](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-automatic-group-membership/213547)

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**Author:** [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-automatic-group-membership/213547 "2021-12-31T21:12:35Z")

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If a user is automatically added to or removed from a group, what notification (if any) is sent? This is the setting I mean: Users who register with an email domain that exactly matches one in this list will be automa…

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## ["Bump" selected topics in subcategories to display in the higher-level category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bump-selected-topics-in-subcategories-to-display-in-the-higher-level-category/213549)

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**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bump-selected-topics-in-subcategories-to-display-in-the-higher-level-category/213549 "2021-12-31T21:13:30Z")

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I have an Announcements category, with several subcategories for more specific areas. Some of the more-specific topics might be kind of a firehose of posts, so I’d kind of like ‘No Subcategories’ to be the default list f…

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## [New Wordpress users connecting to existing Discourse users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-wordpress-users-connecting-to-existing-discourse-users/213550)

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**Author:** [@jord8on](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jord8on)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-wordpress-users-connecting-to-existing-discourse-users/213550 "2022-01-07T02:41:38Z")

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tl;dr - When a new WordPress user places an order or signs up, they appear to somehow be overwriting or connecting with existing users in Discourse. Not sure how to troubleshoot. Background: We are using the wp-discou…

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## [Migrating Wordpress Blog (not forum) to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-wordpress-blog-not-forum-to-discourse/213551)

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**Author:** [@MiG](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiG)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 3, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-wordpress-blog-not-forum-to-discourse/213551 "2022-01-03T11:38:17Z")

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We have a long-standing (since 2005!) Wordpress installation with a bunch of posts, but want to move to Discourse forum and format. Is there an easy way to import all the previous Wordpress posts as “topics” in Discours…

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## [More subtle subcategory list option?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-subtle-subcategory-list-option/213556)

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**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-subtle-subcategory-list-option/213556 "2022-01-17T21:01:07Z")

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This is an alternate way of approaching "Bump" selected topics in subcategories to display in the higher-level category?. Basically, I find both of the “Show subcategory list above topics in this category” options to be…

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## [Get external\_id by user for associated accounts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-external-id-by-user-for-associated-accounts/213557)

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**Author:** [@gale](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gale)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-external-id-by-user-for-associated-accounts/213557 "2021-12-31T22:01:24Z")

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I see that there is an endpoint for fetching a user id by their external id (Discourse API Docs) but there doesn’t seem to be any way to perform the inverse operation. The user information object contains associated acco…

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## [Multiselect Custom Fields should display all items in User Directory](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiselect-custom-fields-should-display-all-items-in-user-directory/213560)

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**Author:** [@gale](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gale)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiselect-custom-fields-should-display-all-items-in-user-directory/213560 "2021-12-31T23:08:26Z")

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Currently when visiting the “User List” page, multiselect custom user fields only display the last item from the user’s selected items. Looking at the network response for the user directory page, it seems that the respo…

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## [Link resolution (Onebox) stopped working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-resolution-onebox-stopped-working/213566)

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**Author:** [@ti0](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ti0)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-resolution-onebox-stopped-working/213566 "2022-08-08T12:42:24Z")

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I was able to insert links to other topics and Discourse would automatically load the title for the topic but recently it fails to do this. For example, when I paste a link to another topic I created earlier on Meta: Vid…

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## [Mirroring external videos to discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mirroring-external-videos-to-discourse/213574)

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**Author:** [@hnaseri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hnaseri)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 1, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mirroring-external-videos-to-discourse/213574 "2022-01-01T15:31:44Z")

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In my discourse forum, there are lots of media links to external sources. I’m worried they would be broken in future. Is there a way to pull all those media and change the url to an internal link?

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## [2021: The Year in Review](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2021-the-year-in-review/213580)

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**Author:** [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2021-the-year-in-review/213580 "2022-01-06T06:39:05Z")

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2021's Top Users Most Time Reading User Hours Read …

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## [Replace 'Master' placeholder text for 'Main' in install theme modal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-master-placeholder-text-for-main-in-install-theme-modal/213593)

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**Author:** [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 24, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-master-placeholder-text-for-main-in-install-theme-modal/213593 "2022-07-24T08:13:45Z")

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Just spotted that the placeholder text in the advanced options of the Install Theme modal is still ‘master’ and not ‘main’:

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## [Design suggestion — make search at the top of 404 the default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/design-suggestion-make-search-at-the-top-of-404-the-default/213594)

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**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 1, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/design-suggestion-make-search-at-the-top-of-404-the-default/213594 "2022-01-01T16:31:51Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Can I put the search form at the top of our 404 page?: Pulling this from Support to Contribute \> Feature so it doesn’t get lost…

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## [Connect Discourse with Memberpress?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-with-memberpress/213610)

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**Author:** [@PolitiskAktiv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PolitiskAktiv)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-with-memberpress/213610 "2022-01-02T11:09:44Z")

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Hi. I want to create a Wordpress site with paid memberships. I consider using MemberPress. I have a Discourse forum, which I want the paying memberpress users to grant access to but without they need to both register i…

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## [Request: Granular API scope for "make post wiki"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-granular-api-scope-for-make-post-wiki/213612)

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**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 1, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-granular-api-scope-for-make-post-wiki/213612 "2022-01-01T22:15:55Z")

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I’m making an API-based connector for fedocal to Discourse. My intention is to write calendar-plugin formatted posts. I’d like these posts to be wikified, so that people can correct them, add notes, etc., without having …

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## [Allow automatic group membership based on subdomain](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-automatic-group-membership-based-on-subdomain/213615)

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**Author:** [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 9:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-automatic-group-membership-based-on-subdomain/213615 "2022-08-03T09:48:24Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Automatically add users to group based on part of email domain: Proposal At the minute the group membership setting “Users who register with an email domain that exactly matches one in thi…

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## [How to debug S3 uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-s3-uploads/213616)

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**Author:** [@Andro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andro)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [January 3, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-s3-uploads/213616 "2022-01-03T06:23:26Z")

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For a brief moment I had S3 uploads to a bucket working. Then I followed the several posts here to make sure it is all correct and now all uploads go local. I cant see any clues in the error log. How does one go about d…

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## [Can usernames be numbers instead of Letters?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-usernames-be-numbers-instead-of-letters/213648)

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**Author:** [@Jay91](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jay91)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-usernames-be-numbers-instead-of-letters/213648 "2022-01-07T16:25:16Z")

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Hello Team, Can username be numbers instead of letters? and when user register for the forum, only uses email and password, and the system should give a random number. Why i need to do this? We use Discourse connect t…

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## [Fields overlay text in login](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fields-overlay-text-in-login/213650)

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**Author:** [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fields-overlay-text-in-login/213650 "2022-02-07T19:11:16Z")

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Hello :waving\_hand: On the login modal when signing up the fields overlay the text. Only occurs on mobile. I’m using Chrome

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## [Content after a horizontal line in email replies is stripped?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-after-a-horizontal-line-in-email-replies-is-stripped/213652)

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**Author:** [@sorawee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sorawee)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 5, 2022, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-after-a-horizontal-line-in-email-replies-is-stripped/213652 "2022-01-05T10:04:45Z")

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As the topic name says, it appears content after a horizontal line in email replies is stripped away, even though the horizontal line is in a codeblock. See Difference between \`fail\` and \`fail-check\`? - #3 by sorawee - …

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## [Not receiving email when new user registers](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-email-when-new-user-registers/213668)

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**Author:** [@anaqreon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anaqreon)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 3, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-email-when-new-user-registers/213668 "2022-01-03T13:38:23Z")

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I configured my forum to require approval for new user registrations using the setting “Staff must approve all new user accounts before they are allowed to access the site.” My user account is both and admin and also a m…

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## [Some topics disappear when sorting by Votes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-topics-disappear-when-sorting-by-votes/213669)

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**Author:** [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-topics-disappear-when-sorting-by-votes/213669 "2022-03-05T19:15:28Z")

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Using the Voting plugin, I just realized that a category with 61 topics is showing only 59 when sorting it by Votes. Needless to say, topics disappearing is a nasty bug because then it is more difficult to find them and …

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