# Hot

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## [Show sub-category name in Category topic list via CSS?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-sub-category-name-in-category-topic-list-via-css/42774)

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**Author:** [@ckshen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ckshen)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-sub-category-name-in-category-topic-list-via-css/42774 "2016-04-18T19:45:41Z")

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Does anyone know if showing sub category names in the Category topic list is possible? Context: I have regional-specific discussions which I group into the ‘Regions’ master category, and then within that I have each dif…

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## [One-time install questions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-questions/42780)

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**Author:** [@henrikbg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/henrikbg)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-questions/42780 "2016-04-19T14:52:37Z")

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I’m considering purchasing the one-time install discourse package. I have a couple questions. I understand that Discourse will setup my forum in the cloud. Does this mean that it will be all functional when they’re do…

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## [Placement of website and location messed up when user has nothing in About Me section](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placement-of-website-and-location-messed-up-when-user-has-nothing-in-about-me-section/42781)

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**Author:** [@Mathgirl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mathgirl)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placement-of-website-and-location-messed-up-when-user-has-nothing-in-about-me-section/42781 "2016-04-19T04:02:47Z")

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Hi, I recently noticed a bug in Discourse. The title explains what the bug is. If it helps, I’m using an iPad mini 2. Repro Steps: 1. Create an account. 2. Add a location and/or a website, but don’t put anything in th…

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## ["Top links" reveals links from PMs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-links-reveals-links-from-pms/42784)

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**Author:** [@henrikbg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/henrikbg)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-links-reveals-links-from-pms/42784 "2016-04-19T16:16:21Z")

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Links from PMs show up in the “Top links” list. Nothing shows up when www.classmarker.com is searched up.

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## [PUT requests to Suspend account using different content-type on 1.5](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-requests-to-suspend-account-using-different-content-type-on-1-5/42789)

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**Author:** [@citadelgrad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/citadelgrad)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/put-requests-to-suspend-account-using-different-content-type-on-1-5/42789 "2017-05-19T20:57:14Z")

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Our site is using Discourse 1.5.1 and I believe our hosting provider upgraded us from 1.4 last week. I have no control over this. It appears that all API responses from Discourse have the content-type of “application/js…

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## [Sparkpost: policy\_rejection](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sparkpost-policy-rejection/42790)

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**Author:** [@auryn\_macmillan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/auryn_macmillan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sparkpost-policy-rejection/42790 "2016-04-19T12:14:40Z")

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So I’ve got a weird problem, wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I might fix. In short, I am one of two admins on my discourse forum. I need to change the email address associated with my account, because I no long…

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## [Finding someone that can customise a Front Page for a discourse pilot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-someone-that-can-customise-a-front-page-for-a-discourse-pilot/42791)

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**Author:** [@edanto](https://meta.discourse.org/u/edanto)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 9, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-someone-that-can-customise-a-front-page-for-a-discourse-pilot/42791 "2016-06-09T04:02:48Z")

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I’m a newcomer to discourse, and am part of a group in Ireland that is looking to set up platform to facilitate volunteer collaboration. We’ve tried Slack, but it doesn’t really scale for us, and while discourse looks g…

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## [Discourse Bosnian translation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bosnian-translation/42798)

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**Author:** [@RuxBux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RuxBux)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bosnian-translation/42798 "2016-04-19T19:31:34Z")

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I have runing discourse, everything is ok but when i switch to my native language im having some problems when viewing discourse! Last night i visited transifex website and joined team to help translate to my native lan…

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## [Best approach to "whitelist" Precedence: bulk mails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804)

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**Author:** [@carlokok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carlokok)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804 "2016-04-20T19:33:58Z")

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Normally I’m fine with the filters discourse has setup to avoid posting data for maillings, however how would I best approach allow discourse to create a post anyway with a “Precedence: bulk” header set for a specific do…

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## [Plugin Controller Method never called](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-controller-method-never-called/42815)

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**Author:** [@EndruK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EndruK)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [June 23, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-controller-method-never-called/42815 "2016-06-23T09:00:02Z")

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I there, I want to create a plugin with new routes and an own server-controller. My problem is that discourse knows that there is the controller and expects the method for the route. But the code in my controller meth…

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## [Stuck in 'Read Only' Mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-in-read-only-mode/42820)

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**Author:** [@StuckInReadOnly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/StuckInReadOnly)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-in-read-only-mode/42820 "2018-12-31T10:02:11Z")

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Hi all, My site is suddenly in ‘read only’ mode, and I don’t know why. chathamhouse.sandbaggernews.com A friend helped me set up Discourse, but unfortunately he’s left town for a Linux conference in Seattle …

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## [Ability to insert close message before closing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-insert-close-message-before-closing/42858)

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**Author:** [@henrikbg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/henrikbg)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-insert-close-message-before-closing/42858 "2016-04-20T12:46:41Z")

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I’ve closed a multitude of topics. It’s a hassle editing the close message after you’ve closed the topic. I propose a way to insert a close message before the topic closes. The advantage of this would be that nobody wou…

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## [Log in a user via the API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-in-a-user-via-the-api/42862)

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**Author:** [@wasimkham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wasimkham)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-in-a-user-via-the-api/42862 "2018-03-19T00:55:45Z")

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I’ve got SSO set up and working with my website. I’m now wondering if it’s possible to log in a user to Discourse automatically, via the API, when someone logs into the website? This is good so that users do not have to…

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## [Sidekiq not launching Jobs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-not-launching-jobs/42863)

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**Author:** [@laktak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/laktak)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 25, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-not-launching-jobs/42863 "2016-04-25T08:25:35Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Old docker image: I noticed that Discourse isn’t creating any backups and apparently it’s not running any jobs (other than the version check) at all: When I click on Trigger it changes…

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## [Editing the login page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-the-login-page/42865)

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**Author:** [@stav\_sitnikov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stav_sitnikov)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-the-login-page/42865 "2016-04-22T02:22:26Z")

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Hello all , I would like to create my own landing page for my discourse , What is the best way to do it ? I would like to have there bootstrap type page . I have seen that i can not edit most of the HTML in the text co…

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## [Login page CSS control](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-page-css-control/42867)

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**Author:** [@stav\_sitnikov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stav_sitnikov)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 9, 2019, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-page-css-control/42867 "2019-01-09T06:34:10Z")

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How can i control what is going on in the space marked in Red in my image ? I am not finding the css class to control only that space . thanks .

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## [Need help finding user info](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-finding-user-info/42870)

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**Author:** [@Ryan\_H](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ryan_H)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-finding-user-info/42870 "2016-05-02T03:25:01Z")

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Can someone point me to the file or helper file that pulls user info? I don’t mind hacking my way through my first Ruby project but just finding the right file is proving to take ages for me. I have a plugin that takes …

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## [Disable stripping emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-stripping-emails/42878)

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**Author:** [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-stripping-emails/42878 "2019-03-03T21:57:57Z")

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I have an automated report that gets sent to a discourse category but I noticed discourse is stripping half of it either maybe because it’s HTML or thinking it’s a signature. I don’t see any option to disable striping s…

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## [Missing Letter profile images](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-letter-profile-images/42879)

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**Author:** [@precessor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/precessor)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-letter-profile-images/42879 "2016-04-22T02:16:35Z")

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Click on any of the Letter images (right here on meta) where a person’s profile pic or Gravatar would be if they has set one up. E.g. Person’s user card loads, but with a broken image icon: “open image in new tab”…

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## [Profile picture being imported - from where?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-picture-being-imported-from-where/42882)

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**Author:** [@Kevin\_McKinney](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kevin_McKinney)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-picture-being-imported-from-where/42882 "2016-04-20T16:12:15Z")

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I’m working on importing from an old forum (Snitz software). There wasn’t a script for that forum, and I’m not a Ruby developer, so I’m hacking something together based on what I can figure out from the other import scri…

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## [TinyTDS for import](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tinytds-for-import/42884)

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**Author:** [@Kevin\_McKinney](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kevin_McKinney)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tinytds-for-import/42884 "2017-04-28T22:05:19Z")

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I’m importing from a Snitz forum, which doesn’t have an existing import script. I’m not a Ruby developer, so I’m hacking things together as I go. Snitz uses an MS SQL Server backend, and when I look up “Ruby MS SQL Serv…

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## [If a person's username starts with a number, is their assigned pic a number or a letter?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-a-persons-username-starts-with-a-number-is-their-assigned-pic-a-number-or-a-letter/42888)

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**Author:** [@LivThePotterhead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LivThePotterhead)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-a-persons-username-starts-with-a-number-is-their-assigned-pic-a-number-or-a-letter/42888 "2016-04-20T15:36:38Z")

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The title says it all. Let’s say there was a person named 55hehetrolol who joined the forum with that username. Would his assigned picture be 5 or h?

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## [Mixing a Category & "Featured" Topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mixing-a-category-featured-topics/42889)

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**Author:** [@Takumo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Takumo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mixing-a-category-featured-topics/42889 "2016-04-22T02:10:11Z")

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Hi All, I’d like to present topics from discourse in a blog-style, to replace a rather unloved blog. I’ve already got an “Announcements” category in which only staff can create new topics. I’d like to also have the op…

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## [GitHub onebox does not skip leading tabs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-onebox-does-not-skip-leading-tabs/42891)

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**Author:** [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-onebox-does-not-skip-leading-tabs/42891 "2016-04-20T20:50:50Z")

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An incorrect rendering (the code uses tabs): A correct rendering (the code uses spaces):

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## [Can't forward an email to a group & preserve the content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-forward-an-email-to-a-group-preserve-the-content/42897)

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**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-forward-an-email-to-a-group-preserve-the-content/42897 "2017-02-10T07:13:45Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Category not accepting "anonymous email" from known users: On a similar note, I tried to forward an email from the user having problems to a different email alias that was mapped to the Gr…

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## [Top Links on user profile have no rel="nofollow"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-links-on-user-profile-have-no-rel-nofollow/42906)

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**Author:** [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-links-on-user-profile-have-no-rel-nofollow/42906 "2016-04-20T21:50:15Z")

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By default Discourse adds rel="nofollow" to links posted by users. There’s no rel="nofollow" on the user’s profile in the Top Links section.

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## [Amazon.fr onebox broken](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazon-fr-onebox-broken/42910)

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**Author:** [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazon-fr-onebox-broken/42910 "2016-04-22T00:30:41Z")

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Hi everyone ! Since a couple of days the amazon onebox does not work. But it seems to concern only amazon.fr, and not amazon.com. Everything worked fine until 2-3 days. I tried whitelisting amazon.fr but it changed not…

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## [Dark theme - unable to see dates in new date selector control](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-unable-to-see-dates-in-new-date-selector-control/42914)

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**Author:** [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-unable-to-see-dates-in-new-date-selector-control/42914 "2016-04-21T18:56:36Z")

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/admin/reports/visits and other report pages /admin/email/preview-digest And when selecting a year:

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## [Admin Report - User-to-User Messages - date range not respected](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-report-user-to-user-messages-date-range-not-respected/42915)

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**Author:** [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-report-user-to-user-messages-date-range-not-respected/42915 "2016-04-21T10:46:10Z")

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For the following URL /admin/reports/user\_to\_user\_private\_messages?category-id=all&end-date=2016-04-21&start-date=2016-04-10 Note start date of 2016-04-10. A graph starting at 2016-03-22 is created:

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## [Missing Mark all as Read for Notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-mark-all-as-read-for-notifications/42919)

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**Author:** [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-mark-all-as-read-for-notifications/42919 "2016-04-27T06:04:38Z")

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Considering the Profile “landing” page is slated to become the Summary soon and this is somewhat edge case, probably not worth worrying about it much. Typically, unless a Notifications link is specifically clicked I lan…

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