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## [HTML/RTF pasting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913)

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**Author:** [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Replies:** 74\
**Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913 "2020-03-09T06:13:27Z")

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Is there an option, plugin, planned featured, or any hope for being able to paste HTML/RTF into Discourse? I’m asking – because my community has asked me repeatedly – for the ability to paste content from Google Docs, e…

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## [Access-Control-Allow-Origin on SSO url by external ID](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-control-allow-origin-on-sso-url-by-external-id/55915)

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**Author:** [@Rojoss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rojoss)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 17, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-control-allow-origin-on-sso-url-by-external-id/55915 "2017-01-17T17:18:57Z")

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In our Unity WebGL game we’d like to get data from the forum. When I do a request to the forum from the game I get the following error. XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://forum.curvefever.io/users/by-external/1.json. No…

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## [Importing SMF 2 to discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-smf-2-to-discourse/55919)

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**Author:** [@Miro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Miro)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 17, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-smf-2-to-discourse/55919 "2017-01-17T19:19:11Z")

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Trying to import posts from SMF getting error in each\_strongly\_connected\_component\_from’: stack level too deep creating groups 2 / 2 (100.0%) creating users 19 / 0 ( Inf%) creating posts //usr/local/l…

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## [Left clicking permalink for renamed category does not work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/left-clicking-permalink-for-renamed-category-does-not-work/55924)

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**Author:** [@ryantm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryantm)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 11, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/left-clicking-permalink-for-renamed-category-does-not-work/55924 "2019-01-11T15:25:01Z")

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Left clicking a permalink that you have linked to from a post does not work. Steps to reproduce from new development vagrant instance running latest master branch: Make a post that has a link the lounge category (/c/l…

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## [Onebox Click-Count is not autorefreshed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-click-count-is-not-autorefreshed/55925)

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**Author:** [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-click-count-is-not-autorefreshed/55925 "2017-01-18T02:24:49Z")

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Only a small bug: The Onebox Click counter is not updated automatically. You need to reload to see the clicks that you or others have done.

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## [Global Replace across database](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-replace-across-database/55930)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-replace-across-database/55930 "2017-01-18T16:39:16Z")

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On a new importer, I included a wonder feature that includes a link to the post on the original site so that it’s easy to see what the post looked like on the old system to make it easier to find problems. It’s great. B…

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## [Formatting the WP excerpt for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-the-wp-excerpt-for-discourse/55940)

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**Author:** [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-the-wp-excerpt-for-discourse/55940 "2017-01-18T16:50:10Z")

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We use the Discourse-WP plugin and currently the {excerpt} is being displayed with no line breaks. Here is an example: WP Building Skills Of An Online Community Team | FeverBee Discourse https://experts.feverbee.com/t…

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## [Github onebox does not point to individual commits in PR links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-onebox-does-not-point-to-individual-commits-in-pr-links/55946)

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**Author:** [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 22, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-onebox-does-not-point-to-individual-commits-in-pr-links/55946 "2017-06-22T19:48:56Z")

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https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4662/commits/706b4f6b9faf1f820a294e83f82b0b5a5dba0475 https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4662/commits/706b4f6b9faf1f820a294e83f82b0b5a5dba0475 https://github.com/dis…

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## [Add column on the left with custom html](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-column-on-the-left-with-custom-html/55951)

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**Author:** [@norandom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/norandom)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-column-on-the-left-with-custom-html/55951 "2017-01-18T09:52:55Z")

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Hi, would someone be kind enough to share a custom CSS / HTML that adds a column on the left? I have found some examples with header links. I’d like a column on the left to be present everywhere, so that the navigation…

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## [Something seems to have gone wrong with my update](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-seems-to-have-gone-wrong-with-my-update/55952)

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**Author:** [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-seems-to-have-gone-wrong-with-my-update/55952 "2017-01-18T10:40:55Z")

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Something seems to have failed with my update to 1.7.x (https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/). Nothing is showing up and I’m getting errors like: I’m wondering if the update failed part way through. Any suggestions o…

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## [How Regenerate droped table post\_search\_data?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-regenerate-droped-table-post-search-data/55953)

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**Author:** [@veer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/veer)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-regenerate-droped-table-post-search-data/55953 "2017-01-20T10:26:52Z")

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By mistake i delete the table post\_search\_data in discourse data, How this table can be regenerated ? As this table depend upon the table posts, there might be a way to regenrate it, please help.

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## [502 Bad Gateway, suddenly](https://meta.discourse.org/t/502-bad-gateway-suddenly/55956)

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**Author:** [@Vereos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vereos)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [January 25, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/502-bad-gateway-suddenly/55956 "2017-01-25T15:38:01Z")

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Hello there. Yesterday my Discourse forum was working fine: it’s more than one year that runs successfully on a Digital Ocean machine and I never had problems. Before going to sleep yesterday, I checked my forum and al…

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## [Connecting telegram bot to discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connecting-telegram-bot-to-discourse/55962)

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**Author:** [@Alavi1412](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alavi1412)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connecting-telegram-bot-to-discourse/55962 "2021-03-06T18:07:46Z")

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I have written a telegram bot : @padporsbot In our country telegram messenger is using the most. We have a discourse website.So we created a bot with following features: You can sign up in website without even openi…

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## [Oneboxing of PDFs and other attachments](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-of-pdfs-and-other-attachments/55972)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-of-pdfs-and-other-attachments/55972 "2017-12-28T00:41:41Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Custom visualization for specific attachment types: Putting this out there as a feature request. I’d love to see the ability to onebox PDFs and other attachments along the lines of google …

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## [Better error pages?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-error-pages/55973)

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**Author:** [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [February 14, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-error-pages/55973 "2022-02-14T01:12:30Z")

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I think it’s time for some more complaint driven development! Complaint: A disproportionate amount of posts here on meta are people whose discourse installs are broken. Tired old Solution: We generally ask them to disa…

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## [Building Discourse Mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-discourse-mobile/55977)

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**Author:** [@n120](https://meta.discourse.org/u/n120)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-discourse-mobile/55977 "2017-01-18T17:16:25Z")

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I’ve been having trouble building Discourse Mobile on Windows 10. I’ve been running into the same issue as documented here: https://github.com/discourse/DiscourseMobile/issues/21. I was curious if anyone could please pro…

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## [Sending invite link to FB messenger automatically logins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-invite-link-to-fb-messenger-automatically-logins/55981)

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**Author:** [@amaral\_miguel2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amaral_miguel2)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 29, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-invite-link-to-fb-messenger-automatically-logins/55981 "2017-01-29T12:06:42Z")

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Action : Create invite via profile page, choose create link, copy link, paste into facebook messenger conversation. Expected behavior : After the link is clicked and some confirmation is given by the invitee, an account…

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## [Migrated Servers, Unable to Send E-mails From Discourse on New Server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrated-servers-unable-to-send-e-mails-from-discourse-on-new-server/55995)

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**Author:** [@ivanrlio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ivanrlio)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrated-servers-unable-to-send-e-mails-from-discourse-on-new-server/55995 "2017-01-19T18:30:26Z")

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Hi there, I recently migrated servers on Digital Ocean (downgraded), except that on the new server, the Discourse installation is not sending out e-mails, e.g. Requesting a New Password, New User Sign Ups. I feel like …

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## [Have mailing list mode respect monitoring level](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-mailing-list-mode-respect-monitoring-level/55996)

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**Author:** [@awlogan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awlogan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-mailing-list-mode-respect-monitoring-level/55996 "2017-01-19T00:55:48Z")

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Hello, We’re setting up Discourse for our product forums, and want to make sure that certain people monitor certain sub-forums in their product area. We really like mailing list mode, but it requires us to filter on the…

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## [SVG Logo Upload Support?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/svg-logo-upload-support/56006)

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**Author:** [@Blackglade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blackglade)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 28, 2021, 7:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/svg-logo-upload-support/56006 "2021-09-28T07:53:13Z")

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Hi, So upon running the wizard, instead of using a normal jpeg/png for the logo, I tried to upload an SVG file in place (for primary and compact logo versions) and it didn’t work. Is there anyway there could potentially …

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## [Trouble getting a top level page to Ember](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-getting-a-top-level-page-to-ember/56007)

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**Author:** [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [January 27, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-getting-a-top-level-page-to-ember/56007 "2017-01-27T19:57:25Z")

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I’ve had fairly good experiences using plugin-outlets, but I wanted to improve my Discourse plugin dev chops. So I decided I’d try to see if I could put together Ruby and Ember code by following this (that seems to be m…

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## [Installed Discourse. Need help understanding code structure](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installed-discourse-need-help-understanding-code-structure/56011)

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**Author:** [@puneetgupta123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/puneetgupta123)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installed-discourse-need-help-understanding-code-structure/56011 "2017-01-19T19:04:53Z")

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Forgive me, if this is a really juvenile question. There are routes defined in both ruby on Rails and ember. How the routing is working? Similarly, The views in Ruby on Rail defines the html code and similarly template…

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## [Pasting animated gif inserts as static gif](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013)

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**Author:** [@sirtet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sirtet)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [March 16, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013 "2022-03-16T17:39:33Z")

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Copy-pasting in chrome results in drag’n drop win 10 explorer \>\> chrome results in the animated gif… In XenForo, i have no problems copy-pasting those gif’s… There’s a closed support thread, so i open a bug-thread…

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## [Replace hook in container is ignored when updating using docker\_manager](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-hook-in-container-is-ignored-when-updating-using-docker-manager/56014)

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**Author:** [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-hook-in-container-is-ignored-when-updating-using-docker-manager/56014 "2017-01-19T18:01:24Z")

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Hello, I have the following hook in my discourse yml container config: hooks: after\_code: - replace: global: true filename: /var/www/discourse/app/controllers/users\_controller.rb from: /^.…

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## [Suddenly all CDN links are https rather than http, what happened?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suddenly-all-cdn-links-are-https-rather-than-http-what-happened/56015)

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**Author:** [@snakeninny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/snakeninny)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [February 8, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suddenly-all-cdn-links-are-https-rather-than-http-what-happened/56015 "2017-02-08T18:05:06Z")

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Hi, I have no idea when this happened but I guess it was after some upgrade, all uploaded images were no longer http but https. I’ve talked to my CDN ISP but they said it was discourse that made the change. Is that so?…

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## [Completely Edit Welcome Message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022)

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**Author:** [@Blackglade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blackglade)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [January 28, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022 "2020-01-28T20:07:10Z")

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Upon a new member registering for Discourse, they are sent a message by the system (or whatever account you specify) introducing them to the community. Upon some investigation, it seems I can’t edit the entire message, o…

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## [Multiple Tags search query takes too long ? - big forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-tags-search-query-takes-too-long-big-forum/56023)

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**Author:** [@veer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/veer)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-tags-search-query-takes-too-long-big-forum/56023 "2017-04-07T16:19:15Z")

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Its a very big forum, around 0.5 million topics and 10 thousands tags, which are on each topic, 3-4 in number. Multiple tags search query takes very very long time, how to fix this ?

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## [Not quite dev, not quite production](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-quite-dev-not-quite-production/56026)

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**Author:** [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-quite-dev-not-quite-production/56026 "2017-01-19T18:10:36Z")

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I have a VM installation with Ubuntu 16.04 docker standalone per: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub I use this as a sandbox to try various things out rather than experimenting around…

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## [Restarted VPS, forums no longer working due to CloudFlare](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restarted-vps-forums-no-longer-working-due-to-cloudflare/56029)

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**Author:** [@CobaltSparkz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CobaltSparkz)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restarted-vps-forums-no-longer-working-due-to-cloudflare/56029 "2017-01-20T14:32:32Z")

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Hey there! Installed Discourse around 6 months back, was working perfectly. All updated via the admin panel, awesome. Have done two VPS restarts before, no issues. Now, I just restarted my VPS, went to my forums and n…

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## [YouTube posts no longer working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-posts-no-longer-working/56030)

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**Author:** [@Slowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slowhand)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-posts-no-longer-working/56030 "2017-01-20T12:27:26Z")

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This morning (January 19), I attempted to post some YouTube videos and, while they look ok in the Preview Pane, error when the post is added. Here’s a link to a post from last week that works and right underneath it is …

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