# Hot **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=696 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 697 --- ## [Can i change the default upload folder?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464)
**Author:** [@laocoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/laocoi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464 "2017-04-23T15:54:25Z")
I want to change the default upload folder to an another folder on VPS. Anyone know how to do that? --- ## [Badges bug - canot automatically issued to the user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-bug-canot-automatically-issued-to-the-user/61467)
**Author:** [@sdd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sdd)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-bug-canot-automatically-issued-to-the-user/61467 "2017-04-23T21:51:03Z")
If the category – Security – Not have \[everyone\] will this category all post about badges not automatically issued to the user. --- ## [Group all lightbox elements in a discussion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-all-lightbox-elements-in-a-discussion/61468)
**Author:** [@designbygio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/designbygio)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-all-lightbox-elements-in-a-discussion/61468 "2017-04-24T10:33:11Z")
I need to group all the .lightbox elements in a discussion. Does someone has any idea where i should call lightbox.js in order to get fired when all the discussion is ready, not each individual post? So far i figured o… --- ## [\`/srv/status\` monitoring endpoint doesn't catch some service unavailability issues - one example free space](https://meta.discourse.org/t/srv-status-monitoring-endpoint-doesnt-catch-some-service-unavailability-issues-one-example-free-space/61470)
**Author:** [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/srv-status-monitoring-endpoint-doesnt-catch-some-service-unavailability-issues-one-example-free-space/61470 "2017-04-26T02:18:39Z")
Situation An existing site monitored by the /srv/status endpoint today had a free space issue (i.e. there was none). The monitoring endpoint /srv/status continued to return “200 OK” whilst a Homepage request / normal us… --- ## [Is there a way to post as an arbitrary user when creating a new post/topic using the Discourse API?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-post-as-an-arbitrary-user-when-creating-a-new-post-topic-using-the-discourse-api/61477)
**Author:** [@john-lynch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john-lynch)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-post-as-an-arbitrary-user-when-creating-a-new-post-topic-using-the-discourse-api/61477 "2017-05-11T03:17:25Z")
My friends and I were heavy users of Google Spaces. When Google announced that they were shutting Spaces down, I successfully scraped the site to pull down all our topic/post data in an ad-hoc JSON format. I also started… --- ## [Clarification around tag subscriptions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clarification-around-tag-subscriptions/61480)
**Author:** [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clarification-around-tag-subscriptions/61480 "2017-07-09T20:22:51Z")
I started looking into implementing this feature and found some oddities related to how the combination of Slack subscriptions for categories and tags work. I submitted a PR for one issue, but can see some additional on… --- ## [How to regenerate the cooked column from the raw](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-regenerate-the-cooked-column-from-the-raw/61484)
**Author:** [@veer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/veer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-regenerate-the-cooked-column-from-the-raw/61484 "2017-04-24T06:24:03Z")
I updated and inserted some photos in my discourse forum, now i need to regenerate the posts.cooked row from the posts.raw. How can i tweak discourse to regenerate this data ? --- ## [Discourse running great on forum with a few hundred users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-running-great-on-forum-with-a-few-hundred-users/61490)
**Author:** [@Saurek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Saurek)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-running-great-on-forum-with-a-few-hundred-users/61490 "2017-04-24T10:57:49Z")
Hey! I just wanted to thank the Discourse & Ember team for their great work. My little forum is performing great and my community loves all the features Discourse offers! :tada: We make bots and hacks for World of Warcr… --- ## [Onebox user agent](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-user-agent/61498)
**Author:** [@kevinranks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kevinranks)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-user-agent/61498 "2017-05-24T16:21:00Z")
It appears that when onebox fetches a url to grab opengraph data, it sends a user agent string of “Ruby”. Can this be updated to provide a more useful user agent that identifies the crawler properly? --- ## [‐ being rendered as hyphen in preview](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hyphen-being-rendered-as-hyphen-in-preview/61499)
**Author:** [@burke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/burke)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hyphen-being-rendered-as-hyphen-in-preview/61499 "2017-04-24T16:13:12Z")
This is a (sub-)trivial issue, but I stumbled upon the fact that then non-entity ‐ behaves differently in the post preview than in Discourse. In a draft post: check out this ‐ Seen in the preview: check out th… --- ## [Returning to a search via back](https://meta.discourse.org/t/returning-to-a-search-via-back/61503)
**Author:** [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/returning-to-a-search-via-back/61503 "2017-08-12T20:07:03Z")
A user asked about this today. If you’ve used search to get a list of posts, scroll down then click on one of them, if you then use the back function in the browser it always returns you to the top of the search results… --- ## [Hiding or encrypting SMTP password required in app.yml](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-or-encrypting-smtp-password-required-in-app-yml/61505)
**Author:** [@tmelano](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tmelano)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-or-encrypting-smtp-password-required-in-app-yml/61505 "2017-04-26T21:47:30Z")
My group at work is testing discourse. There have been concerns raised about the requirement in the yml file for a typed password to access an smtp server. How secure is this? Is there an alternative in which the stmp… --- ## [Period Forum Stats - Weekly/Monthly etc](https://meta.discourse.org/t/period-forum-stats-weekly-monthly-etc/61511)
**Author:** [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/period-forum-stats-weekly-monthly-etc/61511 "2017-10-13T15:09:59Z")
Continuing the discussion from Visualised traffic statistics: Rather than just having the start & end date - Would it possible to get another filter on the timeframe i.e. day, week, month, year That way we could pull s… --- ## [How to use Discourse regexes with watched words?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-discourse-regexes-with-watched-words/61522)
**Author:** [@rizka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rizka)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-discourse-regexes-with-watched-words/61522 "2019-05-30T01:43:11Z")
I’ve worked on censoring the most vulgar swear words with regular expressions today. Why regexes? Well, in Finnish and other Uralic languages like Hungarian and Estonian words are inflected. A single swear word could hav… --- ## [Probably a bug relative to the close button on banner topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/probably-a-bug-relative-to-the-close-button-on-banner-topic/61532)
**Author:** [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/probably-a-bug-relative-to-the-close-button-on-banner-topic/61532 "2017-04-25T00:58:36Z")
Continuing the discussion from The close button was displayed on the left side, how to return it to the right?: I have upgraded my test site (only plugins and no site customization) 3 or 4 days ago and I see that I hav… --- ## [Missing images on About page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-on-about-page/61533)
**Author:** [@thamaranth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thamaranth)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-on-about-page/61533 "2017-04-25T00:41:13Z")
Hey folks. I just wanted to let you know that some of the screenshots on your about page on github are broken. The pictures go to missing links. --- ## [More detailed response for API /post\_actions failures](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-detailed-response-for-api-post-actions-failures/61536)
**Author:** [@kennym](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kennym)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-detailed-response-for-api-post-actions-failures/61536 "2017-04-25T18:07:12Z")
TL;DR; I want to submit a PR for POST /post\_actions to be more verbose to an API user in order to reduce time debugging. As of now it only returns a 403 when a user couldn’t act upon a post. Please read the rest of the p… --- ## [Duplicate request when changing notification level](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-request-when-changing-notification-level/61543)
**Author:** [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-request-when-changing-notification-level/61543 "2017-05-17T02:30:57Z")
When you want to change your notification level for a topic, ember is sending duplicate api requests. --- ## [\[PAID\] Connect Fastspring with Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-connect-fastspring-with-discourse/61547)
**Author:** [@anon36484860](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36484860)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-connect-fastspring-with-discourse/61547 "2017-04-25T08:01:25Z")
What would you like done? The goal is to add every customer of a successful purchase on fastspring to a specific group based on the emailof the customer. If there is no account for the email address yet, it has to be c… --- ## [Is there a way to moderate post attachments?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-moderate-post-attachments/61555)
**Author:** [@patrickbajao](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickbajao)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-moderate-post-attachments/61555 "2017-05-04T12:41:42Z")
Hi, I’m looking for a way to moderate attachments of posts. It’s helpful whenever I need to remove an attachment from a post temporarily (i.e. users claimed that it violates copyright) and bring it back when needed (i.e… --- ## [Moving over Facebook Group (not an import question)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-over-facebook-group-not-an-import-question/61566)
**Author:** [@dau](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dau)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-over-facebook-group-not-an-import-question/61566 "2017-04-26T04:34:39Z")
EDIT: Someone just helped me tag this community-management, which I’ve just found to have a TON of answers to my questions. So I’ll delete this topic in a couple hours, unless someone has a suggestion specifically rela… --- ## [🇪🇸 Traducción para Theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/es-traduccion-para-theme/61567)
**Author:** [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/es-traduccion-para-theme/61567 "2018-04-03T13:09:36Z")
Las palabras en ingles se definieron en el debate: A better word for "Themes"? … Pero en español? Qué nombre le ponemos? Plantilla? Tema? Diseño? O simplemente “theme” (y todos sabemos qué es?) --- ## [Update the title tag on search page only?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-the-title-tag-on-search-page-only/61575)
**Author:** [@egreene](https://meta.discourse.org/u/egreene)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-the-title-tag-on-search-page-only/61575 "2017-04-26T19:02:55Z")
Hello I am looking for a way to update the title tag of the search page only. I appreciate the way Discourse automatically generates title tags, however, by default the title tag is the same for both the home page and t… --- ## [Readable full access site, SSO login to POST](https://meta.discourse.org/t/readable-full-access-site-sso-login-to-post/61583)
**Author:** [@growthcommunity](https://meta.discourse.org/u/growthcommunity)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/readable-full-access-site-sso-login-to-post/61583 "2018-04-05T11:21:08Z")
We’d like to permit visitors to be able to read content without having to go through SSO to read. Currently at https://community.outdoorsy.co/ we reroute visitors to our login page. It’s too much friction to sign in with… --- ## [Generic import-from-URL feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-import-from-url-feature/61593)
**Author:** [@trudat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/trudat)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-import-from-url-feature/61593 "2017-04-25T19:43:52Z")
Posting this feature / plugin idea in hopes that it already exists somewhere. The feature would allow a user to import the complete contents of a web page to a new topic using a URL. The real value of the feature would … --- ## [User cannot delete his own topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cannot-delete-his-own-topic/61596)
**Author:** [@Alex\_Reguyal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Reguyal)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cannot-delete-his-own-topic/61596 "2017-04-25T19:57:48Z")
I created a Trust Level 1, and this user cannot delete the topics that he created himself. It appears that non-staff users can only delete their replies, but not the topics that they created. Is this by design? --- ## [How to install the bootsnap gem?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-the-bootsnap-gem/61600)
**Author:** [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-the-bootsnap-gem/61600 "2017-04-27T19:58:42Z")
@sam I managed to install the snappy gem by executing apt install libsnappy-dev, but I’m not sure what’s missing in order to install the bootsnap gem on my Ubuntu 16.10 machine. What’s the trick to get this working? … --- ## [Changing timestamp impossible on mobile UI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-timestamp-impossible-on-mobile-ui/61602)
**Author:** [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-timestamp-impossible-on-mobile-ui/61602 "2017-05-04T13:21:14Z")
The (admin) change timestamp dialog was unusable on mobile devices as the button is hidden behind the date drop-down. I mitigated this on my forum using the following CSS, which right-aligns buttons in the footer of mod… --- ## [Not getting email for registeration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-getting-email-for-registeration/61605)
**Author:** [@JoyalV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JoyalV)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-getting-email-for-registeration/61605 "2017-04-25T22:28:21Z")
I am using Zoho and I put the following information: smtp.zoho.com 587 noreply@domain.com password And when I go to register page, it doesn’t send anything --- ## [White screen after deleting custom emoji](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-screen-after-deleting-custom-emoji/61608)
**Author:** [@Kel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kel)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-screen-after-deleting-custom-emoji/61608 "2017-05-05T11:12:59Z")
Hi everyone, I have a problem with a Discourse install where the screen is completely blank after I deleted a custom emoji from the admin panel. I have tried running ./launcher rebuild app and it didn’t work, I’m still… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=695) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=697)