# Hot

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## [Copyright Statement](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copyright-statement/70119)

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**Author:** [@Seferi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seferi)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 15, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copyright-statement/70119 "2017-09-15T14:43:35Z")

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Hi, I’d like to add a copyright statement to the bottom of the page. Couldn’t find it in the settings. Where can i add it? Thanks in advance.

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## [Is there a way to remove all the deleted/hidden posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-remove-all-the-deleted-hidden-posts/70122)

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**Author:** [@Morfik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Morfik)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-remove-all-the-deleted-hidden-posts/70122 "2021-07-22T13:37:17Z")

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After cleaning my forum’s database, we have a few hundreds of hidden posts that were deleted during this process, and I have two questions about deleting posts in Discourse. Is there a way to delete permanently all the…

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## [Create fully custom header](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-fully-custom-header/70126)

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**Author:** [@ganya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganya)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [February 4, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-fully-custom-header/70126 "2018-02-04T01:48:34Z")

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Hello guys. Is there any way to create fully custom header and do modifications with code. For example i need to move panel from header to list-controls container to make something like this ?

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## [Tagging not working with latest update](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130)

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**Author:** [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130 "2017-09-25T16:20:47Z")

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This might turn into a bug report, but I am open to the possibility of user error: I have just updated to the latest version of Discourse, v1.9.0.beta9 +20. I have the following plugins: …

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## [Notifications \>\> Tags \>\> Tracked / Watched](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-tags-tracked-watched/70131)

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**Author:** [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-tags-tracked-watched/70131 "2018-04-01T16:07:18Z")

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I can’t figure out the exact workflow but it’s happened 3 or 4 times now so I know it’s systemic… Saving a tag in preferences for notifications does not save. Sometimes this happens after I log-in / log-out and somet…

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## [Help! with the Anonymous feature on discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-the-anonymous-feature-on-discourse/70135)

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**Author:** [@ogeh47](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ogeh47)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 9, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-the-anonymous-feature-on-discourse/70135 "2018-03-09T05:29:24Z")

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Hello, everyone, I am new to the discourse platform and I’m currently building a bottom bar navigation that will only be displayed on mobile phones and I cannot seem to get the anonymous feature to work, I want to make a…

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## [8 visits per week in user list?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/8-visits-per-week-in-user-list/70141)

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**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [November 15, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/8-visits-per-week-in-user-list/70141 "2018-11-15T10:01:55Z")

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Does anyone else find it strange that on the user list, somehow it’s the case that people can visit a Discourse forum 8 days per week? I know @codinghorror is superhuman, and I know I’m not a math wizard, but every …

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## [No notification for whispered replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-notification-for-whispered-replies/70158)

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**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 19, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-notification-for-whispered-replies/70158 "2017-09-19T14:24:09Z")

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I don’t seem to be getting any notifications for whispered replies (to my a whispered post of mine). Is that intentional? I do get the blue dot next to the topic title though, because I’m tracking the topic.

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## [Help translators keep the translations up to date](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-translators-keep-the-translations-up-to-date/70160)

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**Author:** [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 19, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-translators-keep-the-translations-up-to-date/70160 "2017-09-19T07:46:57Z")

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I refer in particular to official plugins. They are growing in number and checking the various updates on Github is becoming more challenging. Why don’t choose to put them on Transifex when they are published? In this…

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## [Discourse-narrative-bot locales](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-narrative-bot-locales/70186)

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**Author:** [@karasardelis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/karasardelis)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-narrative-bot-locales/70186 "2021-03-04T15:39:04Z")

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Hi there and congratulation for your great work on Discourse!!! Do you regularly update all locale files from Transifex? I recently finished translating Discourse to Greek language and although most of the translated st…

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## [Emoji picker not loading custom emojis](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-picker-not-loading-custom-emojis/70187)

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**Author:** [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-picker-not-loading-custom-emojis/70187 "2017-09-18T11:57:00Z")

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I can’t access custom emojis either here on meta, or on my own forum. Scrolling to the bottom of the picker doesn’t show any of the custom emojis, and clicking the custom emoji icon on the left gives a javascript error: …

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## [URLs for message to group no longer work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urls-for-message-to-group-no-longer-work/70189)

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**Author:** [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urls-for-message-to-group-no-longer-work/70189 "2017-09-18T15:21:20Z")

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There’s a feature where you can create URLs to pre-compose a message to a user or a group, like this: for users: https://discourse/new-message?username=fefrei for groups: https://discourse/new-message?groupname=Team T…

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## [301 redirects to incorrect domain](https://meta.discourse.org/t/301-redirects-to-incorrect-domain/70196)

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**Author:** [@steve2507](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steve2507)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 16, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/301-redirects-to-incorrect-domain/70196 "2017-09-16T22:42:17Z")

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I udpated my discourse today and noticed that links that redirect, suddenly go to the wrong place. Take for example: https://discuss.xible.io/t/57. That redirects to domain ‘xiblediscourse’ which is the internal hostnam…

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## [New user questionnaire / application?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-questionnaire-application/70199)

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**Author:** [@ivar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ivar)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2017, 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-questionnaire-application/70199 "2017-10-16T07:56:47Z")

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Back in the olden days, BBS systems (at least Telegard) could easily be configured to allow new users to apply to the community. This typically involved a short questionnaire about why you’re applying, what existing user…

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## [Show posting badge right inside the post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-posting-badge-right-inside-the-post/70200)

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**Author:** [@Stefan\_Fairphone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_Fairphone)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-posting-badge-right-inside-the-post/70200 "2017-09-17T09:14:09Z")

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Hi everybody, a user on our forum proposed to show the badge, for example for “nice reply” right inside the respective post. I came up with a quick mock up of how this could look like. I think it would be intuitive to h…

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## [OneBox common document formats](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-common-document-formats/70210)

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**Author:** [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-common-document-formats/70210 "2017-09-17T08:41:47Z")

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When users upload attachments to posts which are not images (for example, common document formats such as PowerPoint, Excel, Word, PDF or equivalents), when these resource URL’s are called up, is it possible to OneBox th…

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## [Move discourse to another partition](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-discourse-to-another-partition/70212)

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**Author:** [@hnaseri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hnaseri)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-discourse-to-another-partition/70212 "2017-09-18T16:43:02Z")

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How can I move my discourse to home partition? Right now all discourse data is in root partition and its growing fast. I am getting close to no space in my root partition. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use…

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## [From \_t cookie how to get the current user id?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/from--t-cookie-how-to-get-the-current-user-id/70220)

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**Author:** [@vikaskedia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vikaskedia)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/from--t-cookie-how-to-get-the-current-user-id/70220 "2017-09-17T19:33:30Z")

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I am trying to develop an app using the same DB as discourse. Discourse is run from: www.example.com/forums/ The app is run from: www.example.com/app/ Inside /app/ app on server side I have access to \_t token. From…

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## [For API new topics, how do I make a new line? \\n?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/for-api-new-topics-how-do-i-make-a-new-line-n/70221)

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**Author:** [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/for-api-new-topics-how-do-i-make-a-new-line-n/70221 "2017-09-18T01:28:57Z")

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If I’m going to make a new topic with multiple lines in the body, how can I make new lines? test\\n ? test\\ntest EDIT: For API posts, would it consider newline characters? How would I go about this?

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## [How to add Categories/Featured Categories on top of the site?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-categories-featured-categories-on-top-of-the-site/70225)

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**Author:** [@chi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chi)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-categories-featured-categories-on-top-of-the-site/70225 "2017-09-17T19:20:07Z")

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Any idea how to do this on your site eg. FAQ, ADMINS, etc, etc before the forum starts. Also what is it called? Thanks.

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## [Creating discourse user group with code](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-discourse-user-group-with-code/70228)

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**Author:** [@Sudaraka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sudaraka)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 7, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-discourse-user-group-with-code/70228 "2017-10-07T13:34:45Z")

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I need to create a discourse user group with my plugin. I used the below code and its not working. Any idea why its not working ? Thankyou default\_group = Group.new( name: 'Dumy', visibility\_level: Group…

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## [Editing linked Discourse posts/topics without changes being overridden by Wordpress?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-linked-discourse-posts-topics-without-changes-being-overridden-by-wordpress/70243)

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**Author:** [@mike\_b](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mike_b)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-linked-discourse-posts-topics-without-changes-being-overridden-by-wordpress/70243 "2017-10-16T05:49:06Z")

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Hey all! We’re using the WP Discourse Plugin for SSO and to replace the WP Comments with discourse. After publishing a WP post to Discourse, I manually remove any shortcodes from the Discourse post and generally add in…

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## [Editing default user signup field descriptions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-default-user-signup-field-descriptions/70260)

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**Author:** [@mikee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikee)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-default-user-signup-field-descriptions/70260 "2017-09-18T08:46:10Z")

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Hey folks :slight\_smile: I’ve been trying to work out how to edit the required fields and descriptions for when a new user signs up. Right now I can only see that I can add my own custom fields. Is it possible to edit …

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## [Install Discourse on OVH VPS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-on-ovh-vps/70261)

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**Author:** [@GeertClaes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertClaes)\
**Replies:** 21\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-on-ovh-vps/70261 "2017-09-26T14:13:16Z")

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Does anyone have any experience on installing Discourse of the cheapest OVH VPS? I managed to all installation steps from the guide at discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub up until afte…

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## [Set current User in Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-current-user-in-javascript/70263)

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**Author:** [@Imperator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Imperator)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-current-user-in-javascript/70263 "2017-09-18T13:23:54Z")

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Hello, i will use Discourse.User.currentProp(‘username’) or Discourse.User.currentProp(‘id’) in a design Insert in Admin / Customize / CSS/HTML / \</body\> \<scirpt\> alert(Discourse.User.currentProp('username')); \</scrip…

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## [Topic-List-Previews plugin - Browser security warning due to preview images delivered over HTTP not HTTPS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-plugin-browser-security-warning-due-to-preview-images-delivered-over-http-not-https/70264)

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**Author:** [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-plugin-browser-security-warning-due-to-preview-images-delivered-over-http-not-https/70264 "2017-09-18T23:13:11Z")

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NOTE: this is not a Discourse bug, but originates in an unofficial plugin (Topic List Previews) - hopefully @Angus can help. Repro: https://se26.life Page resources, showing image loaded over HTTP (not HTTPS) …

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## [Improve (add) friendly JSON API error messages (at least generic ones)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-add-friendly-json-api-error-messages-at-least-generic-ones/70272)

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**Author:** [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 19, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-add-friendly-json-api-error-messages-at-least-generic-ones/70272 "2017-09-19T01:33:11Z")

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If I POST to /posts and something is wrong, here is what’s returned as an error: only the code shows - no message (not friendly). This is the error when I typo the secret. Here’s another form of error, leaving out…

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## [Effect of changing the WordPress site URL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/effect-of-changing-the-wordpress-site-url/70275)

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**Author:** [@jenkma02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jenkma02)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/effect-of-changing-the-wordpress-site-url/70275 "2017-09-23T00:28:05Z")

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Recently we changed the DNS on our WordPress site to use www.ourdomain.com instead of ourdomain.com. There is a redirect in place so that old links should go to the new www version, but it actually broke the “Show Full…

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## [Discourse always posts in general using API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-posts-in-general-using-api/70276)

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**Author:** [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 5, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-posts-in-general-using-api/70276 "2019-10-05T21:53:48Z")

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Whenever I post via the API, I tested it in Postman and it sends the right things to the right category. However, when I more or less copy+paste the same thing with an http POST (via JavaScript), I get everything right……

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## [\[solved\] How to change the bot Greetings message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-how-to-change-the-bot-greetings-message/70288)

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**Author:** [@aborruso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aborruso)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-how-to-change-the-bot-greetings-message/70288 "2017-09-20T09:42:23Z")

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Hi, I would like to change the bot Greetings message. Is it possible to do it? Thank you

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