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## [How to check locale files for errors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-check-locale-files-for-errors/96527)

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**Author:** [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-check-locale-files-for-errors/96527 "2023-06-11T19:20:49Z")

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Have you ever wondered why a translated string isn’t used by Discourse? Is Discourse showing wrong numbers and dates when a locale other than English is used? Are you seeing “Invalid Format” errors in some parts of Disco…

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## [If you click a mailto: link, does it work for you?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-you-click-a-mailto-link-does-it-work-for-you/96564)

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**Author:** [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-you-click-a-mailto-link-does-it-work-for-you/96564 "2018-09-07T09:04:21Z")

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I’d like to collect some quick data since @jomaxro brought this up. Please click or tap the below link (it is not a malicious link in any way, don’t worry) mailto:name@example.com .. and indicate in the poll below wha…

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## [\[PAID\] Successful 3d Arts Studio Needs help with Various Small/Large Discourse Projects](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-successful-3d-arts-studio-needs-help-with-various-small-large-discourse-projects/96568)

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**Author:** [@keith1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/keith1)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-successful-3d-arts-studio-needs-help-with-various-small-large-discourse-projects/96568 "2018-09-10T18:52:20Z")

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What would you like done? I have a few different projects for our discourse community that I’d LOVE to hire someone to help with. If you’re interested in any of the individual projects below, or all of them, please reac…

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## [Interacting with Discobot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interacting-with-discobot/96574)

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**Author:** [@permacultureProgram](https://meta.discourse.org/u/permacultureProgram)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interacting-with-discobot/96574 "2018-09-07T02:10:04Z")

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I’m testing out a new Discourse instance I installed and as part of that process, I am going through the @discobot tutorial. One thing that @discobot requests is that the user flag one of @discobot's posts. However, I wa…

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## [New user created, but not logged in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-created-but-not-logged-in/96578)

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**Author:** [@Jason\_Howe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jason_Howe)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-created-but-not-logged-in/96578 "2018-09-07T16:49:52Z")

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I’m working on configuring SSO for my site. I have the endpoint set, and the endpoint is succesfully creating, hashing and signing the payload. When the browser redirects back to the /session/sso\_login endpoint, the us…

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## [Top Categories on User Summary](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-categories-on-user-summary/96582)

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**Author:** [@Nichalas\_Petranek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nichalas_Petranek)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-categories-on-user-summary/96582 "2018-09-07T04:27:00Z")

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One thing I have never noticed until now was that the user summary shows the top 5 categories and displays the # of topics and replies for each one. I’m not entirely sure how long it’s been around, but I can say that I l…

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## [Topics carry automatic close settings when moved to another category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601)

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**Author:** [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601 "2018-09-07T13:23:07Z")

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Yesterday we found out that user System had closed a topic in a circumstance where it shouldn’t have done anything. After discarding the idea of our server reaching singularity, we found what the actual problem was. A bu…

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## [Liked variable showing null](https://meta.discourse.org/t/liked-variable-showing-null/96603)

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**Author:** [@Edwin\_Mhoy\_Silva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Edwin_Mhoy_Silva)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/liked-variable-showing-null/96603 "2018-09-07T08:40:47Z")

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I have made a method which changes the color of the like button to red, when it has been liked. The method changes the color, based on if the variable “Liked” from topics is TRUE or FALSE. My problem is that this varia…

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## [Something like saved answers exists?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-like-saved-answers-exists/96606)

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**Author:** [@Daniel\_Nevoigt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daniel_Nevoigt)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-like-saved-answers-exists/96606 "2018-09-07T08:59:42Z")

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Hey Discourse Community, I am woundering if something exists inside Discourse that lets me save and later chose often used answers. So that I don´t have to write them again and again. Something build in or an additional…

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## [Continuing the thread Incorrect link in the rss feed for a subfolder installation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/continuing-the-thread-incorrect-link-in-the-rss-feed-for-a-subfolder-installation/96627)

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**Author:** [@UnivacTwo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UnivacTwo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/continuing-the-thread-incorrect-link-in-the-rss-feed-for-a-subfolder-installation/96627 "2018-09-07T14:04:11Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Incorrect link in the rss feed for a subfolder installation: Dear @neil, I still found duplicate subfolder. here is a link: there are incorect urls in the link provided. Please edit my…

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## [Creating new topic by API - how do you know which topic ID to use?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-new-topic-by-api-how-do-you-know-which-topic-id-to-use/96633)

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**Author:** [@lazar\_gilbert](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lazar_gilbert)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-new-topic-by-api-how-do-you-know-which-topic-id-to-use/96633 "2018-09-07T14:22:39Z")

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The api (Discourse API Docs) states that new topics must specify a topic\_id integer, but how do I know the correct integer to use? For example if I put 1,there already exists a topic with that integer. I could pick a ra…

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## [Automatically fill category with topics? "Best of" category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-fill-category-with-topics-best-of-category/96646)

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**Author:** [@rbrlortie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rbrlortie)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 11, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-fill-category-with-topics-best-of-category/96646 "2018-09-11T06:34:24Z")

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Hi, We would like to have a category on our Discoure instance that is filled with the best answered topics. Is it possible to flag a topic and have it appear in that category? Perhaps using tags? Can a topic have multi…

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## [Intermitent Rendering Error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermitent-rendering-error/96648)

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**Author:** [@Jose\_C\_Gomez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jose_C_Gomez)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermitent-rendering-error/96648 "2018-09-07T16:55:28Z")

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Hi All, I’m having an issue that I can’t pin point and its driving me crazy. Some of my users including me are getting an intermitent invalid load state on the site. Console shows this error when it happens. Site l…

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## [Breadcrumb nav style; less button more input?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-nav-style-less-button-more-input/96655)

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**Author:** [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [October 2, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-nav-style-less-button-more-input/96655 "2018-10-02T00:37:20Z")

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At the moment our breadcrumb nav dropdowns are styled as buttons… when we have category + subcategoy + tags our top bar can start feeling pretty heavy and gray (especially on mobile). This is also a bit inconsistent of …

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## [Accessing model out of load order](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-model-out-of-load-order/96661)

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**Author:** [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 12, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-model-out-of-load-order/96661 "2018-09-12T13:43:28Z")

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Hey all, I’m trying to work through an issue in the user-private-messages controller in a theme. Here’s what I’m trying to do. In the user/messages template, add content if there are fewer than 5 private messages in t…

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## [Help! Making two different channels in my discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-making-two-different-channels-in-my-discourse/96672)

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**Author:** [@milena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/milena)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-making-two-different-channels-in-my-discourse/96672 "2018-09-07T21:04:28Z")

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Hi everyone! I’m new here. actually I’m working with a company that owns a discourse chat but they asked me to split the way the users can enter to the page. One for just suscribers (they doesn’t pay but are part of our…

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## [What is the impact to the message when I "Archive" it?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-impact-to-the-message-when-i-archive-it/96676)

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**Author:** [@Thomas\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_G)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-impact-to-the-message-when-i-archive-it/96676 "2018-09-07T19:30:02Z")

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Hello discourse community, I have been working on making a profile tutorial for my community and came up with the following question: What’s the impact to the message when I Archive it? I know the consequences when a m…

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## [WHMCS login integration with discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whmcs-login-integration-with-discourse/96678)

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**Author:** [@Arta\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arta_S)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whmcs-login-integration-with-discourse/96678 "2018-09-07T19:38:53Z")

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What would you like done? A hook/module in order for existing WHMCS users to login to discourse without having to register (login with their username (email address) and password from whmcs). WHMCS users must get assign…

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## [Make pinned topic stay at top of a category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-pinned-topic-stay-at-top-of-a-category/96684)

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**Author:** [@cori\_online](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cori_online)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-pinned-topic-stay-at-top-of-a-category/96684 "2019-11-28T20:50:01Z")

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Hi! Is there a way to make pinned topic stay at the top of a category? Thanks!

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## [Have Data Explorer Show number of results?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-data-explorer-show-number-of-results/96687)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [November 3, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-data-explorer-show-number-of-results/96687 "2020-11-03T07:02:46Z")

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Data explorer returns only a certain number (500?) of items in the web interface. Too see them all you need to download them and look at them some other way (i.e., download a csv and open it in a spreadsheet). It would …

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## [Discourse Version 2.3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-3/96690)

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**Author:** [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-3/96690 "2019-06-18T01:20:54Z")

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Focus :white\_check\_mark: add user Ignore feature (TL2+) that rolls up into shadow moderator PMs when multiple people ignore the same user @Tarek\_Khalil :white\_check\_mark: post annotations by staff, including automat…

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## [Supporting multiple SSO secrets with Discourse as provider](https://meta.discourse.org/t/supporting-multiple-sso-secrets-with-discourse-as-provider/96693)

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**Author:** [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/supporting-multiple-sso-secrets-with-discourse-as-provider/96693 "2018-10-18T07:30:24Z")

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It would be nice to allow the Discourse SSO provider to allow multiple secrets. Use cases (yeah, I know the first two are kind of the same): allow use of a testing setup of an auth-proxy against a production Discourse…

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## [Adjust styling of the post editor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adjust-styling-of-the-post-editor/96702)

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**Author:** [@jord8on](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jord8on)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 4, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adjust-styling-of-the-post-editor/96702 "2018-12-04T01:59:02Z")

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Continuing the discussion from WYSIWYG Plugin (again): Hey @P16 - How did you do this? We are interested in doing something similar!

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## [Can't delete accounts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-accounts/96712)

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**Author:** [@JanJoost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JanJoost)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-accounts/96712 "2019-01-12T19:20:06Z")

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Hi everyone, I can’t seem to delete accounts. Every time I try to delete an account I get a message saying that accounts can only be deleted when there are no posts linked with the account anymore: (Message is in Dutch…

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## [\[2.1.0b6\] New topic button is moving behind burger on click](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-1-0b6-new-topic-button-is-moving-behind-burger-on-click/96719)

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**Author:** [@warlof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/warlof)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-1-0b6-new-topic-button-is-moving-behind-burger-on-click/96719 "2018-10-14T03:51:06Z")

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Hello great team, Since I’ve updated my installation to 2.1.0b6, I noticed a display bug on the category page as an administrator. When I’m clicking on the burger menu near to New topic button, the button is moving beh…

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## [Customization of Discobot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customization-of-discobot/96720)

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**Author:** [@Marvin\_Wattiau](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marvin_Wattiau)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2018, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customization-of-discobot/96720 "2018-09-09T09:10:48Z")

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Hi guys, I have a little question about discobot, i searched a way to create a discourse bot who replied to a keyword with a pre-recorded answer. Example : @Bot bonus answer a message defined randomly. Could be poss…

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## [Issues uploading in custom wizard plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-uploading-in-custom-wizard-plugin/96721)

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**Author:** [@jameshahnii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jameshahnii)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-uploading-in-custom-wizard-plugin/96721 "2018-09-09T13:24:18Z")

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Morning y’all, I’m at the end of my third night in the last 5 trying to figure out how to allow for PDF uploads in the Custom Wizard plugin. I asked for help over in the plugins category days ago, but never heard from an…

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## [Meta attribute theme-color uses the default header background color, not the active one](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-attribute-theme-color-uses-the-default-header-background-color-not-the-active-one/96727)

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**Author:** [@gkln](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gkln)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 11, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-attribute-theme-color-uses-the-default-header-background-color-not-the-active-one/96727 "2018-09-11T15:05:42Z")

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Hi, When users select another theme in their settings, the meta attribute theme-color is still set to the header\_background property of the default theme. It should be set to the value of the active theme instead. Than…

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## [Forbid posting a topic with the exact same title & body](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forbid-posting-a-topic-with-the-exact-same-title-body/96731)

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**Author:** [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forbid-posting-a-topic-with-the-exact-same-title-body/96731 "2018-09-10T06:24:22Z")

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Some topics of our community are like this ones: That’s the Slack Integration Is there a way to forbid the exact piece of text in the title to be used on the body of the topic? So we can force users to explain bett…

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## [SparkPost is asking me to verify domain ownership](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sparkpost-is-asking-me-to-verify-domain-ownership/96736)

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**Author:** [@CharlesD](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CharlesD)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sparkpost-is-asking-me-to-verify-domain-ownership/96736 "2018-09-09T07:01:34Z")

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SparkPost is asking me to verify ownership and have NO idea how to upload the txt and how to create a subdomain within Discourse , where are the www folder where I can upload the txt. I’m used to Apache, Nginx, Vbullet…

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