# Hot **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=784 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 785 --- ## [System posts: - " LEFT THIS MESSAGE X MINS AGO"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807)
**Author:** [@Biscuit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Biscuit)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807 "2017-12-11T20:34:48Z")
What causes this system message to be posted: @USER LEFT THIS MESSAGE X MINS AGO --- ## [Can't open attachments: that page doesn’t exist or is private](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-open-attachments-that-page-doesn-t-exist-or-is-private/75812)
**Author:** [@devang](https://meta.discourse.org/u/devang)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-open-attachments-that-page-doesn-t-exist-or-is-private/75812 "2017-12-11T07:21:16Z")
Hello All, We have been experiencing this issue since last week or so. On clicking an attachment, a new page opens up saying, “That page doesn’t exist or is private.” I am aware that this has been discussed on this foru… --- ## [User Topic Timers for normal users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-topic-timers-for-normal-users/75816)
**Author:** [@adopilot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adopilot)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-topic-timers-for-normal-users/75816 "2017-12-11T09:29:08Z")
Is there a way to allow normal users (non admins) to set their User Topic Timers --- ## [How can I activate user accounts in batch?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-activate-user-accounts-in-batch/75821)
**Author:** [@rornoob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rornoob)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-activate-user-accounts-in-batch/75821 "2017-12-11T13:49:14Z")
We have a site with many user accounts which need to be activated. Is there any way we can activate it all in batch? It’ll take a lot of time to do it from http://\[site-url\]/admin/users/\[id\]/\[name\] Thanks. --- ## [Development in dockerized install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/development-in-dockerized-install/75833)
**Author:** [@AntonS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AntonS)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/development-in-dockerized-install/75833 "2017-12-11T17:31:54Z")
I am using digitalocean one-click app for Discourse. I don’t have a lot of experience with Docker and Discourse, and I couldn’t find any recommended ways for creating theme/plugin inside dockerized environment. As far a… --- ## [Restrict domain name autolinking so M.Sc and B.Sc are not auto linked](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-domain-name-autolinking-so-m-sc-and-b-sc-are-not-auto-linked/75837)
**Author:** [@RonjaS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RonjaS)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2018, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-domain-name-autolinking-so-m-sc-and-b-sc-are-not-auto-linked/75837 "2018-03-06T06:21:52Z")
Hi :slight\_smile: Is it possible to “unlink” a link via something like an escape-sequence? Cause: for example the university graduations M.Sc and B.Sc (master/bachelor of science) are automatically linked. I suspect “.… --- ## [Updating deleted post through API returns Internal Server Error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-deleted-post-through-api-returns-internal-server-error/75839)
**Author:** [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 21, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-deleted-post-through-api-returns-internal-server-error/75839 "2018-05-21T01:02:40Z")
Attempting to update a deleted post through the API returns a 500 error. The error is undefined method 'id' for nil:NilClass. It’s coming from web\_hook.rb. The problem is that when publishing with the All Users API key … --- ## [My fork of Discourse is out of date](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-fork-of-discourse-is-out-of-date/75840)
**Author:** [@leog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leog)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-fork-of-discourse-is-out-of-date/75840 "2017-12-11T21:58:21Z")
Hello. After upgrading to v1.9.0.beta15+135 we are having a problem with the registration of new users. In the logs I could find these two logs while I was trying to register a new user through OAuth2 with the following… --- ## [Log out all users via API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-out-all-users-via-api/75851)
**Author:** [@typeoneerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/typeoneerror)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-out-all-users-via-api/75851 "2017-12-12T16:45:36Z")
I’ve built a Discourse integration for our product that allows SSO with our product to a Discourse install. When a user is signed out on our app, I’m doing an API-backed POST via the log\_out API. Is there a way to log al… --- ## [Urgent Contact email-address doesn't appear on the admin's about page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-contact-email-address-doesnt-appear-on-the-admins-about-page/75861)
**Author:** [@crazyhorse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/crazyhorse)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-contact-email-address-doesnt-appear-on-the-admins-about-page/75861 "2017-12-12T17:39:09Z")
I entered an email address for urgent contacts in the set-up wizard. It doesn’t appear on the about-page, there is a link to my wp-website instead. How do I make the email address appear there? --- ## [2 questions about WP Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-questions-about-wp-discourse/75866)
**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-questions-about-wp-discourse/75866 "2017-12-13T18:05:44Z")
Is there any way to make an SSO link redirect to an URL with an anchor? I’m using Wordpress as a SSO client. http://example.com/?discourse\_sso=1&redirect\_to=http://example.com/welcome#anchor will redirect to http://ex… --- ## [What method is used by Discourse to identify urls in post body](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-method-is-used-by-discourse-to-identify-urls-in-post-body/75876)
**Author:** [@Sudaraka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sudaraka)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-method-is-used-by-discourse-to-identify-urls-in-post-body/75876 "2017-12-12T17:22:27Z")
What method is used by Discourse to identify urls in post body and make it clickable?. I tried going through the codebase. But still no luck. --- ## [Change to using %{inviter\_name} in locale files may have broken email templates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-using-inviter-name-in-locale-files-may-have-broken-email-templates/75882)
**Author:** [@pacharanero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pacharanero)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-using-inviter-name-in-locale-files-may-have-broken-email-templates/75882 "2017-12-13T15:12:40Z")
I’m not entirely sure when I did my last update (so I don’t know when this issue started), but I was contacted by one of our moderators today to say that some of the people she’d invited recently had messaged her to say … --- ## [Discourse 1.9.0.beta16 Release Notes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-9-0-beta16-release-notes/75884)
**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-9-0-beta16-release-notes/75884 "2017-12-12T22:56:52Z")
New features in 1.9.0.beta16 Disable Mentions We’ve heard feedback from different communities that want to limit the notifications that are generated. Previously, there was no way to disable mentions on your community, w… --- ## [Composer appears when the topic is closed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composer-appears-when-the-topic-is-closed/75886)
**Author:** [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composer-appears-when-the-topic-is-closed/75886 "2017-12-20T22:54:34Z")
Hello., I was reading about the new release: Discourse 1.9.0.beta16 Release Notes (:clap:) and I tried to post a new reply there… and found something strange. Try it now… if you press SHIFT + R to open the composer to … --- ## [How to allow users to post right away with no roadblocks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-users-to-post-right-away-with-no-roadblocks/75894)
**Author:** [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-users-to-post-right-away-with-no-roadblocks/75894 "2017-12-13T15:11:30Z")
Hi all. What settings do you set to allow users to post right away with no moderation/approval etc neeed? Our forum involves become a paid member via our main site and then you get access to the forum via SSO. We really… --- ## [This website blank when interface language = eo](https://meta.discourse.org/t/this-website-blank-when-interface-language-eo/75904)
**Author:** [@kazcw1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kazcw1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/this-website-blank-when-interface-language-eo/75904 "2017-12-15T13:43:53Z")
I discovered this on the Rust Users forum and was told this was probably your bug. Sure enough, it’s also reproducible here on meta.discourse, so I’ve copy pasted it from my original post on Rust-Users: In the settings… --- ## [Do you have original customisations?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-have-original-customisations/75905)
**Author:** [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-have-original-customisations/75905 "2018-04-02T16:20:16Z")
I’m seeing more and more uniquely customised Discourse implementations around and it’s fantastic. I’d love to build up a list so that people can see what is possible. If you have customised your community in a way that… --- ## [Mark all topics as solved specific category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-all-topics-as-solved-specific-category/75906)
**Author:** [@jordan1909](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan1909)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-all-topics-as-solved-specific-category/75906 "2017-12-12T21:58:32Z")
We are using the Discourse Solved Plugin on our installation. Recently we have been filtering topics to get to a 100% answered rate (for our purposes). I have set up a script that adds some items to the homepage to disp… --- ## [Help installing Discourse for Developer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-installing-discourse-for-developer/75914)
**Author:** [@EdgarC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EdgarC)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [December 18, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-installing-discourse-for-developer/75914 "2017-12-18T19:45:30Z")
Hello, I was Installing the Discourse Dependencies and packages to my system, but I didn’t know that this will require about 7gigs of my hdd. I’m not sure if the installation is successful because in the process I was g… --- ## [Auto-remember "topic details" open-closed state](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-remember-topic-details-open-closed-state/75916)
**Author:** [@Tumbler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tumbler)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-remember-topic-details-open-closed-state/75916 "2017-12-13T09:17:47Z")
Could not find out how to do this, but what I would like is that the “topic details” box remembers its state when I walk around in the Discourse eco system. Each time I read a topic, I start by opening the “topic det… --- ## [Frequent Posters - click to highest liked post in topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-click-to-highest-liked-post-in-topic/75918)
**Author:** [@Tumbler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tumbler)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-click-to-highest-liked-post-in-topic/75918 "2017-12-14T23:42:49Z")
I detected a fair lot of topics on the subject of voting/QandA/rank per like… but I could not find this proposed implementation. (I might have missed it…) Would this proposed “dual glyph, jump to max liked post in th… --- ## [Mailing list mode sends mail to not approved users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-sends-mail-to-not-approved-users/75921)
**Author:** [@green525](https://meta.discourse.org/u/green525)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-sends-mail-to-not-approved-users/75921 "2017-12-13T08:22:57Z")
We are running v1.9.0.beta16 and have the following settings enabled: login required must approve users default email mailing list mode When a new users registers, (s)he receives a validation mail. After successful va… --- ## [Static page problem](https://meta.discourse.org/t/static-page-problem/75922)
**Author:** [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/static-page-problem/75922 "2017-12-12T23:23:03Z")
Granted, reproducing the issue requires a lot of “ifs” but I suspect it might not be all that rare. Because I am not using an ad blocker, I can’t test static pages, so I am only reporting what someone experienced with th… --- ## [Docker dev database ownership and strange path problems](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-dev-database-ownership-and-strange-path-problems/75926)
**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-dev-database-ownership-and-strange-path-problems/75926 "2018-10-19T17:22:44Z")
There are a couple snags with docker\_dev last I tried. The biggest is that I couldn’t connect to the database without entering the container and editing the postgres config file. I was also unable to get reset\_db to wor… --- ## [24 user max in topic statistics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/24-user-max-in-topic-statistics/75937)
**Author:** [@Sean\_R](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sean_R)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/24-user-max-in-topic-statistics/75937 "2017-12-14T03:00:59Z")
The odd thing is that it seems like no matter how many users are in the conversation, it caps the users count at 24. Appears to be a bug, I cannot think of a statistical reason for it. We want to know how many u… --- ## [Hiding posts with specific category from lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-posts-with-specific-category-from-lists/75949)
**Author:** [@adopilot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adopilot)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-posts-with-specific-category-from-lists/75949 "2017-12-14T00:50:43Z")
Back in 2014 when we start using discoruce there was feature to hide topics whit specific category from top menu . We did setup that by adding ,-category\_name on name of top menu Now it is not working any more. Is … --- ## [Migrate a UseResponse forum to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-useresponse-forum-to-discourse/75956)
**Author:** [@Ivan\_Rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ivan_Rapekas)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-useresponse-forum-to-discourse/75956 "2017-12-13T12:40:27Z")
Hello, I am glad to share files with a guide how to migrate from UseResponse forum engine to Discourse. My case looks very custom, in two words: Old schema: Drupal host www.example.com stores users in local mysql da… --- ## [Dynamic replace string to another](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dynamic-replace-string-to-another/75957)
**Author:** [@jean-michel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jean-michel)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dynamic-replace-string-to-another/75957 "2017-12-13T15:51:58Z")
Hello I just installed Discourse, and now it’s time to migrate from anciant forum. Previous forum had feature I have to add to Discourse. Is it possible ? : When a pattern of string is found into a message, string is… --- ## [Improve Google Login with Multiple Accounts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-google-login-with-multiple-accounts/75964)
**Author:** [@Geoffrey\_Challen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Geoffrey_Challen)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-google-login-with-multiple-accounts/75964 "2018-02-23T21:33:59Z")
First and foremost I love Discourse: thanks for all of your hard work on this project. I’m using Discourse as a private course forum. I create accounts for active students using a script, set course staff as moderators,… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=783) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=785)