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## [Site keeps stopping since upgrade](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-keeps-stopping-since-upgrade/261173)

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**Author:** [@M0VSE](https://meta.discourse.org/u/M0VSE)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-keeps-stopping-since-upgrade/261173 "2023-04-10T11:48:34Z")

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I have a site that has been running really well for 18 months+ I noticed that it was running on Debian buster so upgraded to bullseye and Discourse to 3.1.0.beta3. Since then, each morning, I noticed that the site is d…

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## [I cant see bulk actions in my discourse installation after selecting items](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-see-bulk-actions-in-my-discourse-installation-after-selecting-items/261184)

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**Author:** [@Yogesh\_g](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yogesh_g)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-see-bulk-actions-in-my-discourse-installation-after-selecting-items/261184 "2023-04-11T17:35:33Z")

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I cant see bulk actions in my discourse installation after selecting items. like Continuing the discussion from How can I bulk-delete topics?:

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## [Custom data migration from WordPress to discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-data-migration-from-wordpress-to-discourse/261185)

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**Author:** [@muhammad\_ghufran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/muhammad_ghufran)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-data-migration-from-wordpress-to-discourse/261185 "2023-04-18T18:28:42Z")

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I have used discourse script and migrated phpbb data to discourse, now i have moved my site to WordPress and I need to migrate some user data, I have made custom user fields in discourse, and used this hook “wpdc\_sso\_par…

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## [Youtube video render error in embedded replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-video-render-error-in-embedded-replies/261193)

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**Author:** [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-video-render-error-in-embedded-replies/261193 "2023-04-11T09:25:37Z")

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Hello, I’ve noticed the youtube videos not renders correctly in embedded replies only the video thumbnail appears and clicking on it redirect to youtube. The top of the page js.broken\_decorator\_alert shows and this erro…

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## [Splash screen stuck until hard refresh](https://meta.discourse.org/t/splash-screen-stuck-until-hard-refresh/261206)

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**Author:** [@yanokwa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yanokwa)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/splash-screen-stuck-until-hard-refresh/261206 "2023-04-14T21:53:28Z")

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I occasionally see forums that I run show a splash screen that never stops loading. It seems to happen after rebuilds or if I haven’t visited the forum for a long time. It doesn’t seem associated with different browsers…

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## [Is it possible to implement like and dislike functionality at the topic level using the topic-list-item component in Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-implement-like-and-dislike-functionality-at-the-topic-level-using-the-topic-list-item-component-in-discourse/261213)

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**Author:** [@sevadev-ramchandra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sevadev-ramchandra)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-implement-like-and-dislike-functionality-at-the-topic-level-using-the-topic-list-item-component-in-discourse/261213 "2023-04-10T18:36:54Z")

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I have modified the topic-list-item component in Discourse to include the ability to like topics. However, I am struggling to implement the toggleLike functionality and also find that the liked property of the topic obje…

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## [Need assistance with massive amounts of spam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-assistance-with-massive-amounts-of-spam/261220)

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**Author:** [@Brendan\_J](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brendan_J)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-assistance-with-massive-amounts-of-spam/261220 "2023-06-10T11:01:34Z")

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This has been a headache to battle, here’s a bit of background information. I run a community that has a tremendous amount of hype built around it. We have well over a million people tracking our project, and we’ve set …

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## [Help with multilingual use](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-multilingual-use/261238)

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**Author:** [@EchoBilisim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EchoBilisim)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-multilingual-use/261238 "2023-04-11T05:44:42Z")

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Hello, I’m using discourse in a project, but I want to have multiple languages in the system. For example, when the English language is selected, only English topics will appear. When Turkish is selected, Turkish topics,…

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## [Accidentally installed ruby-railties](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accidentally-installed-ruby-railties/261247)

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**Author:** [@AtlasGames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AtlasGames)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accidentally-installed-ruby-railties/261247 "2023-04-10T22:23:20Z")

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I messed up. I was trying to manually change a user’s password, and ended up installing ruby-railties instead. I need someone more experienced than me to tell me if I should just leave it alone, or if it’s a big problem …

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## [Troll member keeps flagging everyone's posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troll-member-keeps-flagging-everyones-posts/261252)

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**Author:** [@danielabc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danielabc)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troll-member-keeps-flagging-everyones-posts/261252 "2023-04-11T22:40:42Z")

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What to do to contain this kind of thing? Is there a chance I can take only the signaling from him?

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## [The chat message box is off-screen partially making it harder to chat than it should](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-chat-message-box-is-off-screen-partially-making-it-harder-to-chat-than-it-should/261264)

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**Author:** [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-chat-message-box-is-off-screen-partially-making-it-harder-to-chat-than-it-should/261264 "2023-07-13T08:34:12Z")

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When I try to chat here, It simply will not properly display the message to type content at the bottom. This is happening on an iPad Mini 5th gen, running DiscourseHub. Update: On the chat portion on the forum, the…

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## [Mini\_scheduler execute Job every monday at 4am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mini-scheduler-execute-job-every-monday-at-4am-utc/261277)

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**Author:** [@AhmedLoud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AhmedLoud)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mini-scheduler-execute-job-every-monday-at-4am-utc/261277 "2023-04-11T06:03:23Z")

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I am wondering how to use the mini\_scheduler gem to create a Job that will run every Monday at a specific time. I found the option every 1.week on the Discourse code base but I am not sure when this will be triggered.

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## [sidebarMod: Add/Remove Sidebar Links and Sections](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebarmod-add-remove-sidebar-links-and-sections/261279)

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**Author:** [@shyguy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shyguy)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebarmod-add-remove-sidebar-links-and-sections/261279 "2023-08-02T14:38:56Z")

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sidebarMod here’s my script for modding the sidebar (first mentioned in the custom sidebar sections topic). it uses promises and MutationObserver to watch the sidebar for changes (e.g. from expanding or collapsing) and …

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## [Need a second pair of eyes (sidebar indentation)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-second-pair-of-eyes-sidebar-indentation/261298)

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**Author:** [@sterretje](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sterretje)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-second-pair-of-eyes-sidebar-indentation/261298 "2023-04-11T09:04:48Z")

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Hello As an excercise I’m trying to indent the rows under e.g. Community, Categories, Tags and so on. I created a component for it and it works. What I would like to know is if This is the correct approach? This has …

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## [Index or search published pages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/index-or-search-published-pages/261301)

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**Author:** [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/index-or-search-published-pages/261301 "2023-04-11T10:28:44Z")

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It seems to me that published pages cannot be searched. When I’m looking up a published page, e.g., by slug or keyword, I would like to see it appearing in the search results. Also, entering /pub/in the search field may…

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## [Automatically changing ownership of first post to a specific user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-changing-ownership-of-first-post-to-a-specific-user/261302)

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**Author:** [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-changing-ownership-of-first-post-to-a-specific-user/261302 "2023-04-14T16:42:04Z")

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What would be the best/simplest way to obtain this: when a user creates a topic in a specific category, the topic belongs to a specific user (e.g., @system). We already have auto-wiki, but this would be different. I tho…

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## [Theme-error-suffix](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-error-suffix/261308)

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**Author:** [@anon48433008](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon48433008)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-error-suffix/261308 "2023-04-11T21:37:34Z")

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I did search, zero results This is a single occurrence related to a single post, I sent a blog post from 2019 to my discourse site, partly as I just got that ability to function yesterday and that blog post just got a n…

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## [User cards for anonymous visitors immediately dissappear with "500 Internal Server Error" in \`card.json?include\_post\_count\_for\`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cards-for-anonymous-visitors-immediately-dissappear-with-500-internal-server-error-in-card-json-include-post-count-for/261309)

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**Author:** [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cards-for-anonymous-visitors-immediately-dissappear-with-500-internal-server-error-in-card-json-include-post-count-for/261309 "2023-04-18T18:23:29Z")

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Hi there, I’m not sure for how long this has been happening, and I can only reproduce it on my self-hosted Discourse instance, which I just updated to the latest version as of now. When an anonymous visitors clicks on a…

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## [Email notification defaults](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-defaults/261311)

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**Author:** [@Anna\_at\_Skuid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anna_at_Skuid)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-defaults/261311 "2023-04-11T16:17:37Z")

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Where can I find the email notification defaults for users? I’m trying to figure out what the default settings for email notifications are for community users / specific categories. Context: I moved some old posts from …

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## [How to make a user card?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-a-user-card/261321)

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**Author:** [@EchoBilisim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EchoBilisim)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-a-user-card/261321 "2023-04-11T15:16:46Z")

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Hello, the user card on the official site is different, ours is different, why is it like this? screenshot:

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## [Is it possible to embed a Power BI report inside the topic?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-embed-a-power-bi-report-inside-the-topic/261335)

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**Author:** [@Olga\_Averchenko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Olga_Averchenko)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-embed-a-power-bi-report-inside-the-topic/261335 "2023-04-11T16:18:44Z")

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Is it possible to embed a Power BI report inside the topic? Do I need some plugin for this?

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## [Did you customize Discobot for your community?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-you-customize-discobot-for-your-community/261336)

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**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [May 7, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-you-customize-discobot-for-your-community/261336 "2023-05-07T14:41:10Z")

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Following this post: On my French unicycling forum, I renamed it “Monobot” (unicycle is monocycle in French). I changed the avatar as well and recently chose a new one: Did you customize Discobot for your community…

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## [Prevent users from changing their Full Names](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337)

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**Author:** [@AriesFR](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AriesFR)\
**Replies:** 23\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337 "2023-05-02T16:30:56Z")

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Hi all, On the forum we manage, although we give a lot of leeway on the username, we required (in the terms of use) that the users provide their full names and do not change them except to reflect legal name changes. We…

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## [Timezone issues (asked by PlatformIO devs)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timezone-issues-asked-by-platformio-devs/261340)

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**Author:** [@dizcza](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dizcza)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timezone-issues-asked-by-platformio-devs/261340 "2023-04-12T02:39:51Z")

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I cannot change my timezone from Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv on platformio. They referred to you for a fix. The error I’m getting is “An error occurred: Timezone ‘Europe/Kyiv’ is not a valid timezone.” Please be awa…

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## [Prevent Reply to Post showing as a Reply to topic?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-reply-to-post-showing-as-a-reply-to-topic/261352)

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**Author:** [@giphymarker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/giphymarker)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-reply-to-post-showing-as-a-reply-to-topic/261352 "2023-04-12T19:33:16Z")

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Hey everyone! I just set up my first Discourse forum woot woot! When someone replies to a post, it also shows up essentially as it’s own post. Is there a way to change this so the post replies are only visible by expa…

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## [Default close the sidebar tabs?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-close-the-sidebar-tabs/261356)

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**Author:** [@giphymarker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/giphymarker)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-close-the-sidebar-tabs/261356 "2023-04-12T16:10:29Z")

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Is there a way to have the sidebar tabs minimized/rolled up by default? A lot of our users will be new to discourse and I think this will make it less overwhelming for them

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## [Is there any way to make "create topic" a stand-alone page?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-make-create-topic-a-stand-alone-page/261372)

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**Author:** [@Walmink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Walmink)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-make-create-topic-a-stand-alone-page/261372 "2023-04-11T22:45:00Z")

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I’ve searched this forum and google and I’ve searched for components, but didn’t find an answer, so… here’s my question :slight\_smile: Does anyone know if there is an option/component/approach to have the “new topic” bu…

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## [The liquorice badge is a very funny badge](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-liquorice-badge-is-a-very-funny-badge/261390)

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**Author:** [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [June 26, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-liquorice-badge-is-a-very-funny-badge/261390 "2023-06-26T19:21:08Z")

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Hello. What is this badge? (It appears to be a custom badge, manually awarded by staff.) I think this badge is slowly making its way to more people. (22 days ago, 2 people got it) https://meta.discourse.org/badges/128/…

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## [Error while trying to add Paytm Oauth using discourse-oauth2-basic plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-while-trying-to-add-paytm-oauth-using-discourse-oauth2-basic-plugin/261407)

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**Author:** [@Shubham\_Dahibhate](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shubham_Dahibhate)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2023, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-while-trying-to-add-paytm-oauth-using-discourse-oauth2-basic-plugin/261407 "2023-10-18T05:34:58Z")

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Hi Guys, I’m trying to add Paytm OAuth to my Discourse forum using the discourse-oauth2-basic plugin, but I’m having trouble getting it to work. I followed the instructions in the plugin’s readme file, but when I try to…

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## [Some requests fail with 504](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-requests-fail-with-504/261431)

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**Author:** [@ibahnasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ibahnasy)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-requests-fail-with-504/261431 "2023-04-18T11:42:34Z")

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I upgrade from version 2.9 to the latest current version and the process went well however some avatars are not showing up.

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