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## [Change associated Google ID?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-associated-google-id/66148)

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**Author:** [@tomsmyth1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomsmyth1)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-associated-google-id/66148 "2017-09-26T20:42:05Z")

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I signed up on a forum with a personal Google ID and now I want to associate my account with my new work G Suite ID instead because it’s a work-related thing. Is this possible? Admin is willing to work with me but he do…

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## [Vanilla Importer (vanilla.rb) - Error while importing users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vanilla-importer-vanilla-rb-error-while-importing-users/66150)

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**Author:** [@harinayar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/harinayar)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 27, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vanilla-importer-vanilla-rb-error-while-importing-users/66150 "2017-07-27T16:59:13Z")

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Hello, I am trying to migrate from vanilla into discourse. I am trying the import steps outlined here. The import job errors out always while importing users (see screenshot attached). When I rerun the script the error…

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## [Discourse creates new users if dots are present/absent in google email address when logging in using Google](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-creates-new-users-if-dots-are-present-absent-in-google-email-address-when-logging-in-using-google/66151)

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**Author:** [@yadurajiv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yadurajiv)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-creates-new-users-if-dots-are-present-absent-in-google-email-address-when-logging-in-using-google/66151 "2017-07-14T03:38:50Z")

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Google ignores dots in email addresses and if someone who made an account on a discourse forum using an email for example noname@gmail.com and later logged in via gmail where there email id is no.name@gmail.com then disc…

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## [Query to find out who marked the solution as solved](https://meta.discourse.org/t/query-to-find-out-who-marked-the-solution-as-solved/66153)

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**Author:** [@wildrobo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wildrobo)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 17, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/query-to-find-out-who-marked-the-solution-as-solved/66153 "2017-07-17T17:10:24Z")

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I see the “is\_accepted\_answer” name with the “true” value in the post\_custom\_fields. I also see the created\_at and updated\_at field but I am looking for something like an updated\_by field. Where can I find out who mark…

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## [Forum owners don't understand discobot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-owners-dont-understand-discobot/66154)

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**Author:** [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Replies:** 29\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-owners-dont-understand-discobot/66154 "2017-08-30T20:32:02Z")

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Today was the fourth time in a month or so that we got a support ticket from one of our customers, who was convinced that they were hacked or in some way compromised. It turned out that the culprit was Discobot, which is…

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## [Html element whitelisting in plugin not taking effect server side](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-element-whitelisting-in-plugin-not-taking-effect-server-side/66175)

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**Author:** [@Benjamin\_Mosior](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_Mosior)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-element-whitelisting-in-plugin-not-taking-effect-server-side/66175 "2017-07-14T15:27:51Z")

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I’m working with a group that focuses heavily on personal knowledge management (they use Evernote and similar software). Highlighting is important to them, so I’d like to support the \<mark\> html tag in posts through a pl…

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## [Quote with links drops the link](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-with-links-drops-the-link/66178)

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**Author:** [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-with-links-drops-the-link/66178 "2017-07-14T07:55:45Z")

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Just noticed this one. Quoting a section of a post with a link in it drops the link. Example: My second quote should have preserved the link to Telescope.org

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## [\[PAID\] Need help to Install SSL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-help-to-install-ssl/66183)

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**Author:** [@akhil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/akhil)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-help-to-install-ssl/66183 "2017-07-14T10:45:42Z")

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Hello! I need to install SSL on my website. Hosted on: Digital Ocean one click discourse installation. SSL: From Comodo If anyone can help me, Please let me know with your charge. Thanks.

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## [Moving Selected Posts To Existing Topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-selected-posts-to-existing-topic/66201)

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**Author:** [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-selected-posts-to-existing-topic/66201 "2017-07-14T13:58:32Z")

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Hi all, I think I may have found a bug but happy to be told it is by design if that is the case :slight\_smile: I needed to split a topic into two as the content had wandered from the original subject. I created a new …

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## [How to prevent automatic parsing of URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-automatic-parsing-of-urls/66204)

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**Author:** [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-automatic-parsing-of-urls/66204 "2017-07-14T22:26:37Z")

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I’m trying to write an instruction where I want the user to copy paste a URL: This text \> \* Copy paste this url \_some.hostname.com\_ in to the top box Is rendered as: Copy paste this url some.hostname.com in to the …

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## [Runit is running as a process on the host, why?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/runit-is-running-as-a-process-on-the-host-why/66205)

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**Author:** [@c3iq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/c3iq)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/runit-is-running-as-a-process-on-the-host-why/66205 "2017-07-14T15:46:34Z")

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Hello, I’ve just run through the set up for Discourse on a VM that runs another service (MediaWiki) via Apache (a standards thing) on CentOS (another standards thing). After the successful run I end up with Nginx insta…

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## [Changes to the API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-the-api/66208)

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**Author:** [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-the-api/66208 "2017-07-14T17:01:55Z")

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I hope this is in the right category. We were using part of your API to onboard new students. Right in the middle of the most recent signup cycle, it got turned off. No warning. So we disappointed dozens of people and …

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## [Installing/Running Discourse with Nanobox](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-running-discourse-with-nanobox/66214)

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**Author:** [@sdomino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sdomino)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-running-discourse-with-nanobox/66214 "2017-07-14T22:41:22Z")

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DISCLAIMER: Unsupported installs of Discourse are highly discouraged. If you feel like you must proceed please understand that the Discourse team cannot, and should not, provide support for this installation. If you hav…

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## [I want a video to show new users the features of Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-a-video-to-show-new-users-the-features-of-discourse/66221)

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**Author:** [@gooddadmike](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gooddadmike)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-a-video-to-show-new-users-the-features-of-discourse/66221 "2017-07-14T22:36:05Z")

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Y’all have that? I can link to the features page, but people are lazy, right?

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## [How to educate users about oneboxing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-educate-users-about-oneboxing/66231)

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**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-educate-users-about-oneboxing/66231 "2019-09-23T04:43:14Z")

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If new users do the discobot tutorial, one of the most important things they learn is oneboxing. Unfortunately, few users actually embark on that journey and so I am often editing user posts to turn their links into oneb…

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## [Require category selection before writing topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-category-selection-before-writing-topic/66236)

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**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-category-selection-before-writing-topic/66236 "2018-04-12T03:33:24Z")

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When allow uncategorized topics is disabled, I’d like to propose requiring the user to select a category before they are allowed to start writing the body of the post. The use case for this is a site that makes signific…

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## [Why is the node\_modules folder not present in discourse project folder?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-node-modules-folder-not-present-in-discourse-project-folder/66252)

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**Author:** [@He-Man](https://meta.discourse.org/u/He-Man)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 16, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-node-modules-folder-not-present-in-discourse-project-folder/66252 "2017-07-16T00:57:53Z")

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I was going through discourse code, and comparing it with standard emberjs projects. Discourse uses version 2.13 of emberjs. The emberjs directory structure includes node\_modules folder. But the front end part of dis…

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## [Issue with Docker on Digital Ocean plan. Would you like to attempt to recover space by cleaning docker images and containers in the system?(y/N)y docker: 'system' is not a docker command](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-docker-on-digital-ocean-plan-would-you-like-to-attempt-to-recover-space-by-cleaning-docker-images-and-containers-in-the-system-y-n-y-docker-system-is-not-a-docker-command/66253)

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**Author:** [@Ham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ham)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-docker-on-digital-ocean-plan-would-you-like-to-attempt-to-recover-space-by-cleaning-docker-images-and-containers-in-the-system-y-n-y-docker-system-is-not-a-docker-command/66253 "2017-07-15T14:44:29Z")

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Hi. Im trying to rebuild my app and get the following error:’ root@discourse-2gb-nyc3-01:/var/discourse# ./launcher rebuild app Ensuring launcher is up to date Fetching origin remote: Counting objects: 77, done. remote:…

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## [SiteSetting file format update for locale override and hidden params based on Rails.env](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitesetting-file-format-update-for-locale-override-and-hidden-params-based-on-rails-env/66254)

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**Author:** [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 26, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitesetting-file-format-update-for-locale-override-and-hidden-params-based-on-rails-env/66254 "2017-07-26T06:11:40Z")

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I am working on the feature to allow overriding site setting based on the default\_locale. @sam have talked with me that site setting based on environment is misleading. So I’d like to draw some proposals here to see whic…

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## [WhiteList Iframe from facebook not show](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-iframe-from-facebook-not-show/66260)

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**Author:** [@Bank\_Live](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bank_Live)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-iframe-from-facebook-not-show/66260 "2017-09-01T16:14:30Z")

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Normal. I use plugin GitHub - evil-shrike/discourse-whitelist-iframe: Discourse plugin to add urls to Discourse.Markdown.\_validIframes · GitHub I insert \<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=http…

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## [\[PAID\] Discourse Plugin Dev + Server Setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-discourse-plugin-dev-server-setup/66265)

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**Author:** [@kglobal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kglobal)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-discourse-plugin-dev-server-setup/66265 "2017-07-15T18:18:11Z")

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Hello, We need a Discourse platform setup with the following features: Topics started/tags created by moderators/admin only Plugin with custom post entry fields to include: Title Text field A Text field B Locati…

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## [Can I log into multiple instances of discourse simultaneously?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-log-into-multiple-instances-of-discourse-simultaneously/66281)

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**Author:** [@Y2K](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Y2K)\
**Replies:** 36\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-log-into-multiple-instances-of-discourse-simultaneously/66281 "2017-07-22T16:19:06Z")

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Is it possible to have multiple instances of Discourse but that users can log in to all of them with the same ID info? Let’s say that I have a forum for multiple cities, city1.domain.com, city2.domain.com, city3.domain.…

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## [Supporting users with links to specific pages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/supporting-users-with-links-to-specific-pages/66291)

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**Author:** [@sjmscott](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sjmscott)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 18, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/supporting-users-with-links-to-specific-pages/66291 "2017-07-18T17:34:00Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Create a link that will bring a user to their own profile: I spend most of my time as a Discourse Admin educating users. I have many users over the age of 55 who have used Yahoo Groups for…

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## [Staff cannot manually activate invited accounts after 48 hours has elapsed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-cannot-manually-activate-invited-accounts-after-48-hours-has-elapsed/66292)

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**Author:** [@Steve\_Pavlina](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_Pavlina)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-cannot-manually-activate-invited-accounts-after-48-hours-has-elapsed/66292 "2017-07-31T17:01:34Z")

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I had this potential bug come up twice so far. A user registers for my forum (which is private and invite only), gets the activation email, activates their account, logs in, posts for a while, and then takes a break for…

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## [Getyarn link causes .mp4 download](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getyarn-link-causes-mp4-download/66299)

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**Author:** [@LockeCJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LockeCJ)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 28, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getyarn-link-causes-mp4-download/66299 "2019-01-28T12:40:37Z")

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Similar to Posting a link to a getyarn.io clip appears to onbox in the preview, but the actual post causes the browser to download a .mp4 file. More annoyingly, this happens any time the post comes into view, since I a…

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## [Dev environments scripts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dev-environments-scripts/66319)

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**Author:** [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 17, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dev-environments-scripts/66319 "2017-07-17T11:46:18Z")

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I’ve been using the docker scripts bundled with discourse for a while, but I’ve found they don’t work particularly well with my want to often switch between different dev instances (for instance, one running tests-passed,…

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## [How can you change Discourse's default homepage view to a static html landing page?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-you-change-discourses-default-homepage-view-to-a-static-html-landing-page/66323)

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**Author:** [@norandom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/norandom)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-you-change-discourses-default-homepage-view-to-a-static-html-landing-page/66323 "2017-10-16T06:08:35Z")

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Hi, is there a way to set a custom html landing page for the home view? Like http://mydiscourse/ -\> start.html I would like to generate my own start page for my Discourse instance. Best, Marius

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## [Importing old vb(s) into Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-old-vb-s-into-discourse/66337)

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**Author:** [@Sara\_Noel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sara_Noel)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 1, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-old-vb-s-into-discourse/66337 "2019-07-01T04:47:35Z")

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I’m currently working on importing a handful of my smaller topic-related vbulletin forums into a single Discourse. Things are going swimmingly. Seriously. Very happy. The only remaining problem I have is that some of th…

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## [Tags, information on notification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-information-on-notification/66340)

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**Author:** [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 18, 2017, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-information-on-notification/66340 "2017-07-18T08:25:22Z")

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I added category subscribed to by the user to the main page. How to do similarly with the tags? In /tags.json there is no information on notification. {"tags":\[{"id":"forum","text":"forum","count":125},

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## [Disable serve static files](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-serve-static-files/66341)

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**Author:** [@leo.proctor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leo.proctor)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 17, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-serve-static-files/66341 "2017-07-17T22:48:00Z")

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Somehow i want to disable public access to assets. In development by config.serve\_static\_files = false, it serves the purpose. It routes requests to upload controller, where i can authenticate or deny access. While in pr…

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