# Hot

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=540

[Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md)

**Page:** 541

---

## [Behavior of iframes within oneboxes in emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/behavior-of-iframes-within-oneboxes-in-emails/40160)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/behavior-of-iframes-within-oneboxes-in-emails/40160 "2016-02-25T18:45:08Z")

</div>

I’ve developed a small Onebox plugin that embeds an interactive element when certain links are posted. They look like this: This is implemented by inserting an iframe into the onebox: Obviously, this won’t work i…

---

## [Announcing DiscourseConsulting.org](https://meta.discourse.org/t/announcing-discourseconsulting-org/40161)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@sebastianh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sebastianh)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/announcing-discourseconsulting-org/40161 "2016-02-25T14:49:34Z")

</div>

Hi everyone with many years of community management up my sleeve, and recurring consulting gigs for a number of clients that keep centering around facilitating any given type of discourse - with clients, or withing a te…

---

## [Formatting for links to private topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-for-links-to-private-topics/40162)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@bradydowling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bradydowling)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-for-links-to-private-topics/40162 "2016-02-25T15:54:17Z")

</div>

I’m not quite sure what the formatting for a link needs to be in order for Discourse to style it appropriately. I think half the time I post a link, it ends up being posted directly as a link like in this thread. Is the…

---

## [Users are not added to the moderators groups when registering with SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-are-not-added-to-the-moderators-groups-when-registering-with-sso/40165)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 17, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-are-not-added-to-the-moderators-groups-when-registering-with-sso/40165 "2016-05-17T07:31:59Z")

</div>

Steps to reproduce: Have SSO set up. Let a new user sign in, and specify that he is a moderator in the payload. Expected results: The users has exactly the same permissions as if he signed up and was instantly manual…

---

## [Wordpress: how to display discourse after the WP header on a WP-page?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-how-to-display-discourse-after-the-wp-header-on-a-wp-page/40167)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@internetman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/internetman)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-how-to-display-discourse-after-the-wp-header-on-a-wp-page/40167 "2016-02-27T16:25:51Z")

</div>

Hello, and thanks for this great software! I have been searching the support forum and how found many examples of sites which integrate WP and discourse like this: https://community.namati.org/ However, please excuse m…

---

## [Not found when embedding](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-found-when-embedding/40179)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@ajimix](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ajimix)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-found-when-embedding/40179 "2016-02-26T17:20:32Z")

</div>

Hello, I just did a clean install of Discourse and tried to embed it into a page. I followed all the steps in the setup instructions and managed to get the discourse site appear embed in the site (the discourse is confi…

---

## [Unable to upgrade discourse with separate data container](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-upgrade-discourse-with-separate-data-container/40185)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@dlynch158](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dlynch158)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 4, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-upgrade-discourse-with-separate-data-container/40185 "2016-11-04T22:29:47Z")

</div>

Continuing the discussion from Connectivity/Configuration issue with separate data container: I have a working discourse install and I tried to perform an upgrade by going to /admin/upgrade and got the following error: …

---

## [User Experience on Discourse with optional touch-input](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-experience-on-discourse-with-optional-touch-input/40190)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-experience-on-discourse-with-optional-touch-input/40190 "2020-04-01T20:23:45Z")

</div>

Continuing the discussion from here, here, here, and here… All the topics linked above have in common that there are issues with Discourse, generally related to UX, when a using Discourse on a system that has touch, but…

---

## [New vdom rendering missing inbound/outbound CSS classes in gutter](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-vdom-rendering-missing-inbound-outbound-css-classes-in-gutter/40192)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@ccdw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ccdw)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-vdom-rendering-missing-inbound-outbound-css-classes-in-gutter/40192 "2016-02-25T21:45:46Z")

</div>

Continuing the discussion from Right arrow missing from "outgoing" post links: Just noticed that the inbound and outbound classes for the track links are no longer showing. Is there any chance of putting these back? …

---

## [The AV Club tries out a competitor to Disqus with comic results](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-av-club-tries-out-a-competitor-to-disqus-with-comic-results/40195)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@ABillionSuns](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ABillionSuns)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-av-club-tries-out-a-competitor-to-disqus-with-comic-results/40195 "2016-02-25T23:04:33Z")

</div>

Outcome of the experiment here I still think the AV Club would be a good get for Discourse as a conversation platform, but I wonder the extent to which it can handle the brutal load the site would put on it. In any case…

---

## [How to edit a post via api?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-a-post-via-api/40196)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@warblesync](https://meta.discourse.org/u/warblesync)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-a-post-via-api/40196 "2016-02-26T00:13:30Z")

</div>

I have a ruby script that generates the html I want to place in a post. So I need to create the topic and then be able to update it with the new data replacing the old post and the lock so it isn’t editable. Is that po…

---

## [Analytics page views gone down 65% the last to days](https://meta.discourse.org/t/analytics-page-views-gone-down-65-the-last-to-days/40199)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/analytics-page-views-gone-down-65-the-last-to-days/40199 "2016-02-26T19:49:10Z")

</div>

I’m curious - Has anything happened that would cause the page views to go down by 65% in the last two days? My visitor count is still the same, only page views has gone drastically down… This is the first time this h…

---

## [Consider Random Topic backfill as background task?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consider-random-topic-backfill-as-background-task/40210)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consider-random-topic-backfill-as-background-task/40210 "2016-04-13T00:24:40Z")

</div>

Whenever the random topic list backfill is executed page load time is dramatically hit. In this example here an additional 301.9 ms for the single query. If the “random topic” plays any part of a new users experience t…

---

## [Notification received when editing topic title and user mentioned in OP](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-received-when-editing-topic-title-and-user-mentioned-in-op/40211)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-received-when-editing-topic-title-and-user-mentioned-in-op/40211 "2016-03-23T05:14:24Z")

</div>

Steps to reproduce: User A creates topic, and mentions users in first post Mod/Admin changes the topic’s category, without opening the post editor Expected Results: Topic is recategorized Actual Results: Topic is r…

---

## [How to add an Ember js helper?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-an-ember-js-helper/40214)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@pdx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pdx)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-an-ember-js-helper/40214 "2016-02-26T17:30:52Z")

</div>

I’m trying to add an emberjs helper to an existing plugin (discourse-tagging). According to the ember docs, you should place a helper in app/helpers, and name it helper-name.js. It can then be used like this: {{ helper…

---

## [What would be a good way to deal with duplicate posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-be-a-good-way-to-deal-with-duplicate-posts/40215)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-be-a-good-way-to-deal-with-duplicate-posts/40215 "2016-02-26T07:42:06Z")

</div>

On the Discourse forum I use, we see a lot of duplicate posts, and it really is showing on thread about a new feature. There are currently 54 posts on the thread. A staff member on post #17 listed all of the known issue…

---

## [Can not rebuild - Configure app.yml I got this error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-not-rebuild-configure-app-yml-i-got-this-error/40216)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@M\_c\_Tau](https://meta.discourse.org/u/M_c_Tau)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-not-rebuild-configure-app-yml-i-got-this-error/40216 "2016-02-26T17:20:29Z")

</div>

(): Did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 15 column 1 -e LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 YAML syntax error. Please check your /var/discourse/containers/\*.yml config files. I am using TextMate Editor and I…

---

## [Deleting a group makes all it's messages "lost"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-group-makes-all-its-messages-lost/40217)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@carlokok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carlokok)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-group-makes-all-its-messages-lost/40217 "2021-01-15T15:47:10Z")

</div>

When I delete a group it moves it’s messages to be private messages with only the one that sent it, effectively making them “lost”. (In this case I wanted to see what happened), maybe discourse should warn about this, or…

---

## [Cannot delete or rename user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-rename-user/40221)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@RalfJung](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RalfJung)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-rename-user/40221 "2016-02-27T00:45:19Z")

</div>

I have two users in my system that were just recently, accidentally created and block their usernames. I would like to delete them, or at least rename them, so that “real” users can get their names. So I go to the user …

---

## [Disable page rendering stats on every page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-page-rendering-stats-on-every-page/40225)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@decryption](https://meta.discourse.org/u/decryption)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-page-rendering-stats-on-every-page/40225 "2016-02-26T18:27:49Z")

</div>

I just installed Discourse and have these timings pop up on every page - how can I turn them off? Cheers dudes!

---

## [Two new plugin outlets - user\_activity\_bottom and user\_menu\_glyphs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-new-plugin-outlets-user-activity-bottom-and-user-menu-glyphs/40227)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-new-plugin-outlets-user-activity-bottom-and-user-menu-glyphs/40227 "2016-02-28T10:46:38Z")

</div>

In the midst of working on the voting plugin, I had an idea for a way to show users the topics they’ve voted on. To keep with the current UX, I’d like to add another feed at the bottom of the user activity menu. This wou…

---

## [How to quantify the success of your community?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-quantify-the-success-of-your-community/40229)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@kebdarge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kebdarge)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-quantify-the-success-of-your-community/40229 "2016-02-28T18:16:17Z")

</div>

Following a discussion about books on community building I saw this tip and read part of the book. This book seems to put a strong emphasis on data and its analyses as a means of quantifying the success of your communi…

---

## [Some topics don't load on Safari](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-topics-dont-load-on-safari/40232)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-topics-dont-load-on-safari/40232 "2016-02-26T18:16:03Z")

</div>

Some users came across some weird bug on my forum. It seems to happen only on Safari If they go once on this topic : A Normal Lost Phone - Jeux vidéo - iunctis.fr They can’t go a second time on it. On Safari (MAC/iPa…

---

## [Forum slowing to a crawl with 504s](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-slowing-to-a-crawl-with-504s/40236)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@pdx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pdx)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-slowing-to-a-crawl-with-504s/40236 "2016-02-26T22:20:23Z")

</div>

Last night, I started getting messages from users that my forum was slow and that they were seeing “504 gateway timed out” errors. I’ve spent hours debugging but haven’t had much luck finding the cause. What I’ve tried: …

---

## [Youtube scrolling bug](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-scrolling-bug/40237)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@ky\_metro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ky_metro)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-scrolling-bug/40237 "2016-02-26T22:36:25Z")

</div>

Youtube bug in the new virtual DOM. Tested in Firefox and Chrome stable. Repro: Play a Youtube video embedded in a post, and scroll up or down but the post itself is still visible. The URL bar will refresh as another …

---

## [Scheduling jobs from a plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scheduling-jobs-from-a-plugin/40238)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@gsch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gsch)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [June 7, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scheduling-jobs-from-a-plugin/40238 "2023-06-07T19:50:47Z")

</div>

I am trying to set up a job that runs on a scheduled interval from within a plugin. In my plugin.rb I have after\_initialize do module ::Jobs module\_function def count; @count end …

---

## [Alert users of earlier dupe links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-users-of-earlier-dupe-links/40252)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-users-of-earlier-dupe-links/40252 "2016-02-27T07:54:40Z")

</div>

I think a very cool use of the “big blue area superimposed over preview” :tm: would be alerting users that the exact same link appears elsewhere in the topic. For example: Say I am in a long topic … and in post #5 some…

---

## ["Solved" plugin does not show checkboxes on all posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-plugin-does-not-show-checkboxes-on-all-posts/40257)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@jacotec](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jacotec)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-plugin-does-not-show-checkboxes-on-all-posts/40257 "2016-02-28T11:12:01Z")

</div>

Hi, the “solved” plugin is a really useful thing for me, so I’ve installed this on my “Tryout-Server” before getting this into the real world. I’ve created a new test user to talk to me :slight\_smile: and a new topic i…

---

## [Help wanted on plugin controller](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-wanted-on-plugin-controller/40258)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-wanted-on-plugin-controller/40258 "2016-08-05T09:42:05Z")

</div>

We’re building a Sitemap plugin and I’m running into an issue. (Yes there has been a lot of discussion around the need for a sitemap, but Google News totally requires it) Somehow the code in the controller is never exe…

---

## [OAuth-based login: Disable account merging](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oauth-based-login-disable-account-merging/40262)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@RalfJung](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RalfJung)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oauth-based-login-disable-account-merging/40262 "2016-02-27T14:41:41Z")

</div>

I’d like to make a feature request: It would be great if it was possible to disable the automatic merging of accounts when logging in with OAuth that happens right now. Concretely, if I create a local account, and then l…

[Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=539)

[Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=541)
