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**Author:** [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-upgrade-constantly-fails/259032 "2023-04-03T17:07:30Z")
Help! Upgrade constantly fails We recently upgraded servers on Google Cloud Console. Not sure this is related, but since then we’ve hit lots of 502 errors. It seems that infrequently updates such as for official theme c… --- ## [Exclude staff from statistics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-statistics/259048)
**Author:** [@Helga\_Razinkova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Helga_Razinkova)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-statistics/259048 "2023-03-24T07:28:19Z")
Hi everyone! I’ve checked out another topic where this issue was discussed, but it seems there is no solution yet, right? Maybe I’m missing something and there is a way to exclude staff from the statistics (topics cr… --- ## [Can't change capitalization of letters in a group name](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-capitalization-of-letters-in-a-group-name/259053)
**Author:** [@Julien\_Palard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Julien_Palard)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-capitalization-of-letters-in-a-group-name/259053 "2023-03-23T21:21:46Z")
In a group profile, if I try to change a group name to another name, it works, telling the group name is available, but if I just try to change an uppercase to a lowercase, or another way around, the interface tells me t… --- ## [Group setting to nextcloud](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-setting-to-nextcloud/259064)
**Author:** [@albjeremias](https://meta.discourse.org/u/albjeremias)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-setting-to-nextcloud/259064 "2023-03-22T16:08:16Z")
I am doing this very customized setup with nextcloud and discourse. I’d like to study the possibility to connect discourse group (so all members of the group would have access). Is this possible? How hard is to make a se… --- ## [How Discourse Scaled to $10M ARR With Only 1 Salesperson](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-discourse-scaled-to-10m-arr-with-only-1-salesperson/259066)
**Author:** [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-discourse-scaled-to-10m-arr-with-only-1-salesperson/259066 "2023-07-04T17:40:05Z")
It all began in 2013 with a vision – and a small team of engineers building a product that would disrupt the rapidly stagnating online forum space. While we didn’t specifically call it out at the time, we were going to m… --- ## [I deleted my old forum and made a new one from scratch, but I still get errors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-deleted-my-old-forum-and-made-a-new-one-from-scratch-but-i-still-get-errors/259068)
**Author:** [@danielabc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danielabc)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-deleted-my-old-forum-and-made-a-new-one-from-scratch-but-i-still-get-errors/259068 "2023-03-22T22:27:00Z")
Because of errors that I couldn’t solve, I ended up deleting my forum and making it from scratch, since I don’t have the money to pay someone to help solve the problem, something that made me very sad and frustrated but… --- ## [How to drop requests with an empty user agent?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-drop-requests-with-an-empty-user-agent/259069)
**Author:** [@CubeCoders](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CubeCoders)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-drop-requests-with-an-empty-user-agent/259069 "2023-03-27T11:05:02Z")
I’m getting a lot of bad bots/crawlers hitting my Discourse site with an empty user agent. Normally I’d edit the nginx configuration to do this, but this isn’t accessible when using the Docker installation method. I don’… --- ## [How can I manually verify via the CLI and bypass the Congratulations, you installed Discourse! screen?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-manually-verify-via-the-cli-and-bypass-the-congratulations-you-installed-discourse-screen/259081)
**Author:** [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-manually-verify-via-the-cli-and-bypass-the-congratulations-you-installed-discourse-screen/259081 "2023-03-22T20:45:01Z")
Hello, Recently, we had to shut down the self-hosted instance of our site and move it to Linode. The only issue is that they require manual verification to use SMTP services. I’ve submitted a request to them to unblock… --- ## [Public posts contain secure upload urls for non-secure uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-posts-contain-secure-upload-urls-for-non-secure-uploads/259087)
**Author:** [@Wolftallemo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wolftallemo)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-posts-contain-secure-upload-urls-for-non-secure-uploads/259087 "2023-04-26T15:09:14Z")
A lot of recent posts seem to have uploads with secure upload urls in them despite the uploads themselves not being marked as secure, and a small subset of those uploads also have optimized images with the incorrect acl … --- ## [Are you able to still see TL3 topics that you created when demoted to TL2?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-able-to-still-see-tl3-topics-that-you-created-when-demoted-to-tl2/259105)
**Author:** [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-able-to-still-see-tl3-topics-that-you-created-when-demoted-to-tl2/259105 "2023-03-23T04:28:11Z")
Hello. I would like to know if you can still see longue topics (TL3) when being demoted to TL2 in any shape or way, just to keep your data? (Just wondering) --- ## [Deletion of your personal data](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deletion-of-your-personal-data/259107)
**Author:** [@rajput7707](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rajput7707)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deletion-of-your-personal-data/259107 "2023-03-29T07:38:29Z")
Could you please help me with this.. Your IP address and the name of your Internet service provider, which we only store for security reasons, will be deleted after seven days. Otherwise, we delete your personal data as… --- ## [Posting a response doesn't do anything](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-a-response-doesnt-do-anything/259109)
**Author:** [@ask](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ask)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-a-response-doesnt-do-anything/259109 "2023-03-24T20:05:37Z")
When I try posting a response to a thread nothing happens (since sometime today, on the hosted discourse). The javascript console has a couple of javascript errors. --- ## [Curl reports user created, but it didn't really work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/curl-reports-user-created-but-it-didnt-really-work/259119)
**Author:** [@MikeNolan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MikeNolan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/curl-reports-user-created-but-it-didnt-really-work/259119 "2023-03-23T17:41:05Z")
I’ve been working on a process to import users, and am getting close. I’m getting a response from curl saying it sent an invite, but no email was sent and as far as I can tell no invite was logged in the database. Here… --- ## [No editor preview while editing after upgrading to 3.x](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-editor-preview-while-editing-after-upgrading-to-3-x/259126)
**Author:** [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-editor-preview-while-editing-after-upgrading-to-3-x/259126 "2023-03-23T09:42:59Z")
So the upgrade did not go entirely smoothly. I set the site to read-only, powered down, did a full machine snapshot, powered back up and then tried to upgrade. But the Click here to upgrade link did not do anything. So t… --- ## [Help building plugin that requires overriting ruby controller methods](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-building-plugin-that-requires-overriting-ruby-controller-methods/259129)
**Author:** [@Pabs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pabs)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-building-plugin-that-requires-overriting-ruby-controller-methods/259129 "2023-03-27T12:06:32Z")
Hi there, I’m trying to create a plugin that surfaces a checkbox when creating a topic on the UI, and that basically saves a new attribute in the topics table. Basically I need to get the attribute saved whehter the che… --- ## [Default categories display](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-categories-display/259130)
**Author:** [@micoHuang](https://meta.discourse.org/u/micoHuang)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-categories-display/259130 "2023-03-24T01:54:41Z")
Hello! I would like to know how to let new users/visitors to see some default categories in my own discourse, instead of requiring users to check the preferences. Like this : Instead of : --- ## [Can plugins achieve selective reply visibility within topics, and how can I create one?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-plugins-achieve-selective-reply-visibility-within-topics-and-how-can-i-create-one/259143)
**Author:** [@HuengchI](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HuengchI)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-plugins-achieve-selective-reply-visibility-within-topics-and-how-can-i-create-one/259143 "2023-03-24T08:00:00Z")
Hello community, Discourse is an excellent forum with much functionality. I’m interested in finding out if there’s a way to let users to manually select the audience for their replies to a particular topic. While I am a… --- ## [Exclude users from analytics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-users-from-analytics/259155)
**Author:** [@NoamH](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NoamH)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-users-from-analytics/259155 "2023-03-24T09:36:40Z")
Is it possible to exclude groups like the admin group or specific users from the dashboard reports? --- ## [Add successive empty lines in posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-successive-empty-lines-in-posts/259174)
**Author:** [@Keph](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Keph)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-successive-empty-lines-in-posts/259174 "2023-03-23T15:55:05Z")
I haven’t found any help for our problem so far. In discourse (v2.9.0.beta9) our members cant use blank lines in posts. text (enter) empty (enter) empty(enter) empty (enter) text (enter) Only 1 empty line is displ… --- ## [Safe to upgrade via /admin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/safe-to-upgrade-via-admin/259180)
**Author:** [@JayCee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JayCee)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/safe-to-upgrade-via-admin/259180 "2023-03-23T16:18:54Z")
Is it safe to do version updates via the admin panel of the site? Previously there was an option which you could click to update all which caused our site to crash. I have noticed that now the docker manager is the only… --- ## [Hide all topics in a specific category but show the category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-all-topics-in-a-specific-category-but-show-the-category/259189)
**Author:** [@charles\_mabwa1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charles_mabwa1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-all-topics-in-a-specific-category-but-show-the-category/259189 "2023-03-23T21:04:44Z")
Hello Guys, Here is what i intend to achieve: Hide all topics in a specific category. Show the category description but don’t show the topics Lock the category so no one can tag it. How can I achieve this --- ## [Migrate a forum from vBulletin and other tasks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-forum-from-vbulletin-and-other-tasks/259206)
**Author:** [@AndyBr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndyBr)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-forum-from-vbulletin-and-other-tasks/259206 "2023-03-24T21:03:29Z")
What would you like done? Migrate a vb4 forum to Discourse, including attachments and bbcode, set up a 2nd Discourse instance on a single server, modify or create a theme that looks more like vBulletin or Xenforo or like… --- ## [ArgumentError : Invalid Timezone: US/Pacific-New causes 500 error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/argumenterror-invalid-timezone-us-pacific-new-causes-500-error/259223)
**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/argumenterror-invalid-timezone-us-pacific-new-causes-500-error/259223 "2023-03-24T16:47:29Z")
I have a standard install that I just upgraded that is failing due to a timezone issue. I think that it may be just one user, but I’m not quite sure yet. It was for just one user. When I went to his profile his time zon… --- ## [Inviting people multiple times grants you badges](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inviting-people-multiple-times-grants-you-badges/259229)
**Author:** [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2023, 10:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inviting-people-multiple-times-grants-you-badges/259229 "2023-03-29T10:50:33Z")
A user may invite the same user multiple times to receive invitation-related badges. The invite system is still broken because you can invite the same user multiple times and they will count as multiple users. This is l… --- ## [Preview quoted avatar images flicker in Safari](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preview-quoted-avatar-images-flicker-in-safari/259242)
**Author:** [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preview-quoted-avatar-images-flicker-in-safari/259242 "2023-08-15T02:34:07Z")
Since upgrading to 3.x, if I am replying to a topic, and quote someone so the preview image shows their avatar, in Safari/Mac Ventura, the avatar image flickers every time I type a key. Every time I type a key in the… --- ## [Is it possible to make database changes using postgres rather than rake?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-database-changes-using-postgres-rather-than-rake/259245)
**Author:** [@MikeNolan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MikeNolan)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-database-changes-using-postgres-rather-than-rake/259245 "2023-03-24T14:22:06Z")
I’m just getting started learning ruby, but I’ve been a DBA for over 30 years, the last 20 of them on PostgreSQL. The data structure is complex, but I’ve seen (and probably written) worse. Is it possible to do things l… --- ## [What is the purpose of the "Views" feature?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-views-feature/259251)
**Author:** [@VSCPlays](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VSCPlays)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-views-feature/259251 "2023-03-24T12:27:30Z")
When I found the “Views” feature for your profile, At first, I thought it was for the total amount of views your topic have, but at the developer forums in roblox, I have like 8,600 total views for each topic I have, but… --- ## [Can't login with github](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-login-with-github/259253)
**Author:** [@yolwj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yolwj)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-login-with-github/259253 "2023-03-24T09:24:08Z")
I just followed the guide to set github login: But failed to login: The network request: Just wondering if anything I’d missed? --- ## [Failed upgrade v3.0.1 to v3.0.2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-upgrade-v3-0-1-to-v3-0-2/259255)
**Author:** [@Swarndeep\_Poddar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Swarndeep_Poddar)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-upgrade-v3-0-1-to-v3-0-2/259255 "2023-03-24T17:51:53Z")
Here is the message . I, \[2023-03-23T15:14:16.270826 #1\] INFO – : \> cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c ‘bundle install --deployment --retry 3 --jobs 4 --verbose --without test development’ \[DEPRECATED\] The --dep… --- ## [Really love that my threads are dynamically updated](https://meta.discourse.org/t/really-love-that-my-threads-are-dynamically-updated/259286)
**Author:** [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/really-love-that-my-threads-are-dynamically-updated/259286 "2023-03-24T14:21:08Z")
My workflow is to open threads I need to deal with in new tabs. Sometimes I end up opening the same thread in two different tabs. It’s suuuper helpful that when I respond to the thread on one tab, the other tab is updat… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1616) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1618)