# Hot

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## [Weekly/Monthly/Yearly Signups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weekly-monthly-yearly-signups/278119)

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**Author:** [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weekly-monthly-yearly-signups/278119 "2024-01-21T01:25:42Z")

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:memo: These queries give a breakdown of how many new user accounts have been created within the timeframe, excluding staged and non-activated accounts. The totals are broken down by number of signups each week/month/ye…

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## [Block RSS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/block-rss/347751)

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**Author:** [@David\_Ghost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/David_Ghost)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/block-rss/347751 "2025-01-19T00:17:06Z")

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Hey, Is there a way to block RSS? I know its can be done with nginx. But how? I tried to search through the search tool but I couldn’t find it.

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## [API Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-categories/376901)

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**Author:** [@itd-john](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itd-john)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 1, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-categories/376901 "2025-08-01T21:01:54Z")

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Is it just me or is all of the documentation either out of date or not accurate? For instance, yet another hurdle with this software is getting a basic API query to work. Here’s the docs I’m referring to and the query th…

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## [Rich Text Editor Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rich-text-editor-plugin/326070)

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**Author:** [@Rohail\_Altaf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rohail_Altaf)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rich-text-editor-plugin/326070 "2025-03-12T23:45:17Z")

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Hello Discourse Developers! We’re looking for an experienced Discourse developer/agency to create a plugin that replaces the default Markdown editor with a WYSIWYG editor, preferably Quill or similar, for our community. …

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## [Discourse AI: Discord Bot Integration Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discord-bot-integration-guide/390391)

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**Author:** [@DevTeVe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DevTeVe)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 4, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discord-bot-integration-guide/390391 "2025-12-04T10:07:23Z")

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Disclaimer: I am not the creator of the integration, I can’t provide support for it beyond a best-effort friendly community help, I am just another user that wanted this setup on their site and didn’t find a clear wa…

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## [Tag\_group\_id values are shown as group\_id in data explorer results](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-group-id-values-are-shown-as-group-id-in-data-explorer-results/372169)

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**Author:** [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-group-id-values-are-shown-as-group-id-in-data-explorer-results/372169 "2025-07-03T03:33:24Z")

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Problem The data explorer has special logic (“Automatic Entity Resolution”) to show links to various objects whenever a column name is user\_id, group\_id, topic\_id, category\_id or badge\_id. However, it also triggers on t…

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## [How to make forum buttons rounded across all themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-forum-buttons-rounded-across-all-themes/316874)

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**Author:** [@Aaron\_Walsh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_Walsh)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [July 19, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-forum-buttons-rounded-across-all-themes/316874 "2024-07-19T16:59:45Z")

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Good evening, I’m trying to make all the buttons on my forum more rounded square. I’ve used the CSS within CSS/HTML: .btn { border-radius: 5px; } This works in the preview tab, but it doesn’t work in the live foru…

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## [Can I manually change a User's Field Entry?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-manually-change-a-users-field-entry/360627)

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**Author:** [@blazyrawr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blazyrawr)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 7, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-manually-change-a-users-field-entry/360627 "2025-05-07T07:19:26Z")

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Is there a way for me as an admin, to manually change a customer’s response to a custom field? Even if the user cant edit it themselves?

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## [Additional groups on /about page are not aligned with the default groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-groups-on-about-page-are-not-aligned-with-the-default-groups/374854)

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**Author:** [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-groups-on-about-page-are-not-aligned-with-the-default-groups/374854 "2025-07-22T19:22:02Z")

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Discourse 3.5.0.beta8-dev (79ff804509). I used to use the Add groups to the /about page theme component before it was merged in to core and I was instructed to remove it. Prior to the merge, my /about page looked like …

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## [The machine-translated button should be shown above the table of content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-machine-translated-button-should-be-shown-above-the-table-of-content/352918)

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**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-machine-translated-button-should-be-shown-above-the-table-of-content/352918 "2025-02-19T01:29:45Z")

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Without table of content: With table of content:

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## [How do I properly configure the AWS SNS topic ARN allowlist?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-properly-configure-the-aws-sns-topic-arn-allowlist/406734)

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**Author:** [@Deenius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Deenius)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 16, 2026, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-properly-configure-the-aws-sns-topic-arn-allowlist/406734 "2026-08-16T10:08:02Z")

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Hi everyone! I need help setting up the AWS SNS topic ARN allowlist. I created a topic and a subscription in AWS SNS. In SES, I added the SNS topic to my domain and email addresses for feedback notifications. Unfortuna…

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## [Where in Discourse can users publicly share PII?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-in-discourse-can-users-publicly-share-pii/391021)

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**Author:** [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 11, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-in-discourse-can-users-publicly-share-pii/391021 "2025-12-11T11:43:09Z")

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:bookmark: This guide identifies all the places where users might publicly or inadvertently share personally identifiable information (PII) through their own actions in Discourse, and how administrators can restrict or …

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## [Direct Api Endpoint For User Impersonation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-api-endpoint-for-user-impersonation/344279)

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**Author:** [@MihirR](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MihirR)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 25, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-api-endpoint-for-user-impersonation/344279 "2024-12-25T08:22:54Z")

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Hey, I was wondering if there’s a direct API endpoint to impersonate a user. I’ve gone through the API docs but didn’t find much on it. I also looked under the networks section, but I’m still not sure. Just wanted to get…

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## [New AI Persona Editor for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-ai-persona-editor-for-discourse/286271)

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**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Replies:** 23\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-ai-persona-editor-for-discourse/286271 "2026-04-13T12:46:20Z")

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We are thrilled to announce the release of a brand new feature in Discourse: the AI Persona Editor. This feature, as part of our AI offerings, allows you to customize and enhance the interaction experience on your Discou…

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## [Some HTML tags are visible on the delete-user button](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-html-tags-are-visible-on-the-delete-user-button/350606)

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**Author:** [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-html-tags-are-visible-on-the-delete-user-button/350606 "2025-02-05T21:04:01Z")

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Running Discourse 3.4.0.beta4-dev (5bc7371192). When deleting a user some HTML tags are visible on the Delete and \<b\>block\</b\> this email and IP address button:

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## [Formatting Data Explorer Table Results](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-data-explorer-table-results/277939)

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**Author:** [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 5, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-data-explorer-table-results/277939 "2023-09-05T23:37:33Z")

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In Discourse, you have the ability to enhance the appearance of your Data Explorer query results. Formatting table results in the Data Explorer can be done by using special syntax in your SQL queries, which allows you…

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## [Rebuild fails with exit 1: ERR\_PNPM\_RECURSIVE\_EXEC\_FIRST\_FAIL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuild-fails-with-exit-1-err-pnpm-recursive-exec-first-fail/351862)

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**Author:** [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuild-fails-with-exit-1-err-pnpm-recursive-exec-first-fail/351862 "2025-03-02T03:27:54Z")

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This is all I found ERR\_PNPM\_RECURSIVE\_EXEC\_FIRST\_FAIL Command was killed with SIGKILL (Forced termination): ember build -prod Ideas?

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## [Hundreds of megabytes of apparently duplicate locale .js files](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hundreds-of-megabytes-of-apparently-duplicate-locale-js-files/360254)

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**Author:** [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hundreds-of-megabytes-of-apparently-duplicate-locale-js-files/360254 "2025-04-03T20:16:31Z")

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With a small forum (500MB backups), my ./launcher rebuild is failing on a 50GB disk due to running out of space. While trying to figure out else to clean up (apt autoremove and ./launcher cleanup didn’t yield anything), …

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## [How to customize colors on horizon theme?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-customize-colors-on-horizon-theme/387353)

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**Author:** [@DevTeVe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DevTeVe)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-customize-colors-on-horizon-theme/387353 "2025-11-01T15:52:47Z")

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I like this theme, but I feel that the dark mode was too dark for me, I wanted to tweak the dark panel a little bit and I was unable do to so… Am I missing something? yes, it was me not doing something right :smiley: yo…

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## [Onebox and Amazon not working (for me)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-amazon-not-working-for-me/345270)

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**Author:** [@LotusJeff](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LotusJeff)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-amazon-not-working-for-me/345270 "2025-01-02T21:58:07Z")

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I am continually getting an error "Sorry, we were unable to generate a preview for this web page because the following oEmbed / OpenGraph tag could not be found: description. " Things I have validated: All the links t…

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## [Staff who can access user info including emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-who-can-access-user-info-including-emails/316055)

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**Author:** [@Jaskaran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jaskaran)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 12, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-who-can-access-user-info-including-emails/316055 "2024-07-12T13:54:19Z")

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i want to have one group on my site which have all the permission a staff has. and addition to this it can user info including emails. Any help would be appreciated

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## [New Topic dialogue: Tag list populated with random tags instead of requirements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-dialogue-tag-list-populated-with-random-tags-instead-of-requirements/290076)

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**Author:** [@Frully](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frully)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 30, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-dialogue-tag-list-populated-with-random-tags-instead-of-requirements/290076 "2023-12-30T10:53:30Z")

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I’m trying to enforce tags in a category - the requirements are easy enough - but for the end users it’s very confusing, because the tag list doesn’t populate with options from the requirements. Forum category: meetings…

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## [Domain confusion... redirects to another](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusion-de-dominios-redirige-a-otro/389860)

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**Author:** [@Nueva\_Musica](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nueva_Musica)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [November 28, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusion-de-dominios-redirige-a-otro/389860 "2025-11-28T22:34:32Z")

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When I try to log in and I give log in it literally redirects me to www.example.com Even the logo has that domain: http://www.example.com/images/discourse-logo-sketch.png I don't understand what I did wrong..

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## [Shortcut Buttons at top of forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-buttons-at-top-of-forum/369741)

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**Author:** [@MAR](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MAR)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-buttons-at-top-of-forum/369741 "2025-06-11T14:22:13Z")

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The buttons that you have on the forum at the top: Discover, Customize, Guides, Our Hosting. Is there a component to enable in a theme to allow that? or is that custom code?

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## [Some category icons not showing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-category-icons-not-showing/362549)

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**Author:** [@Brandon007](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brandon007)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-category-icons-not-showing/362549 "2025-04-19T13:56:18Z")

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Prior to the recent update, I was using the Category Icons component (now removed for this reason). I have custom icons via the sprite svg file. However, I’m noticing some of the default icons I was using in conjunction…

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## [Image layout being reformatted in hidden blocks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-layout-being-reformatted-in-hidden-blocks/339530)

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**Author:** [@Killerdog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Killerdog)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-layout-being-reformatted-in-hidden-blocks/339530 "2024-12-02T12:34:34Z")

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Hey, long-time moderator on a discourse forum and love the platform. However, in a recent update it seems like the formatting has changed for hidden blocks and it’s messed up a “tier list” which I manage on our forum. L…

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## [Translation missing: en.dashboard.problem.discourse\_automation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-en-dashboard-problem-discourse-automation/322164)

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**Author:** [@techwithanirudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techwithanirudh)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 20, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-en-dashboard-problem-discourse-automation/322164 "2024-08-20T15:57:11Z")

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I’m having a Translation missing: en.dashboard.problem.discourse\_automation error on my Dashboard.

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## [Glitchy Scrolling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/glitchy-scrolling/345304)

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**Author:** [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/glitchy-scrolling/345304 "2025-01-06T10:20:11Z")

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Our users have been experiencing an issue while scrolling through a topic. At a certain point, when more posts need to load, a loading spinner appears at the bottom. However, as soon as the new posts load, the page sudde…

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## [How to provide image generator function?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-provide-image-generator-function/306858)

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**Author:** [@eisammy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eisammy)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 6, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-provide-image-generator-function/306858 "2024-05-06T23:50:54Z")

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Can I just provide generator images function with this plugin?

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## [Group owners can not remove ownership, but membership](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-can-not-remove-ownership-but-membership/382433)

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**Author:** [@Steradiant](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steradiant)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 12, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-can-not-remove-ownership-but-membership/382433 "2025-09-12T12:55:35Z")

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Group owners are not shown a button to remove ownership from other owners, but they can remove them as members, thereby rescinding their ownership indirectly. This seems inconsistent and should be adjusted by either a…

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