# Latest **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?ascending=true&page=11 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 12 --- ## [Cannot filter by subcategory without visiting parent category first](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-filter-by-subcategory-without-visiting-parent-category-first/18535)
**Author:** [@davemaxwell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davemaxwell)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-filter-by-subcategory-without-visiting-parent-category-first/18535 "2014-08-06T15:33:38Z")
This is not a deal breaker as there are ways around it, but it is an annoyance. If you are on any of the latest/new/unread pages (category page as well, but I ignored that since the dropdown is kinda redundant there … --- ## [Dates are not localized in the no-JS version](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dates-are-not-localized-in-the-no-js-version/15272)
**Author:** [@CamilleRoux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CamilleRoux)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dates-are-not-localized-in-the-no-js-version/15272 "2014-08-06T21:37:01Z")
Hi, Dates are not localized in the no-JS version. Here is an exemple in French: (Date is still in English) --- ## [Discourse Skin for MediaWiki](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-skin-for-mediawiki/18504)
**Author:** [@the\_machinist\_](https://meta.discourse.org/u/the_machinist_)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-skin-for-mediawiki/18504 "2014-08-07T23:20:06Z")
I created a skin for MediaWiki that follows the Discourse theme. You can find the project page and source by following these links: https://github.com/themachinist/DiscourseSkin --- ## [Guidance about category creation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-about-category-creation/18540)
**Author:** [@joshfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshfrank)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-about-category-creation/18540 "2014-08-08T03:40:06Z")
I’m setting up a new Discourse community and wondering about how to create categories. In particular, I’m nervous about making categories that are narrow enough to be meaningful, without making them so narrow that there … --- ## [Ability to unroll context when in-reply-to indicator is suppressed?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-unroll-context-when-in-reply-to-indicator-is-suppressed/18166)
**Author:** [@anon73329944](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon73329944)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-unroll-context-when-in-reply-to-indicator-is-suppressed/18166 "2014-08-09T18:34:49Z")
Context unrolling is a very nice feature, allowing one to browse the whole chain of discussion without navigating too far away from the place we were in. However, if the in-reply-to indicator is suppressed, either becaus… --- ## [Missing e in the logo](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-e-in-the-logo/18675)
**Author:** [@Webinsane](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Webinsane)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-e-in-the-logo/18675 "2014-08-10T00:45:49Z")
I think e is missing a piece at the end: --- ## [Are BBS and Forum two different things?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-bbs-and-forum-two-different-things/18690)
**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-bbs-and-forum-two-different-things/18690 "2014-08-10T16:16:06Z")
Continuing the discussion from What is wrong with PHPBB?. I wouldn’t touch most “definition debates” with a ten foot pole, but since this one pertains to “what is Discourse, really?” I figured it might be worthwhile and… --- ## [Global notification, like Disqus](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-notification-like-disqus/18702)
**Author:** [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-notification-like-disqus/18702 "2014-08-10T16:41:07Z")
You probably thought of this already, I trust there is even a topic created. But I couldn’t find it. Now, I now Disqus ain’t exactly open source, but I think Wordpress do offer a global login. If it’s all opt-in, for th… --- ## [Paid: Need a developer for Alternative Medicine forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-a-developer-for-alternative-medicine-forum/18660)
**Author:** [@I\_Am\_gR00T](https://meta.discourse.org/u/I_Am_gR00T)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-a-developer-for-alternative-medicine-forum/18660 "2014-08-11T17:44:12Z")
I\_Am\_gR00T, I have been fooling around with discourse the last few months in an effort to create a forum for my alternative medicine community. We currently have two functioning businesses, one of them a Cannabis Priva… --- ## [Paid: Social groups for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-social-groups-for-discourse/14260)
**Author:** [@Stefan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-social-groups-for-discourse/14260 "2014-08-11T21:12:19Z")
Hello! I’m interested in having a social group functionality for Discourse that needs to work like this: every member can open a new group or join an existing group; a group can be public (everybody can read and member… --- ## [Is Discourse suitable for use for a question and answer type page?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-suitable-for-use-for-a-question-and-answer-type-page/17772)
**Author:** [@leisuretronics](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leisuretronics)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2014, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-suitable-for-use-for-a-question-and-answer-type-page/17772 "2014-08-12T07:39:07Z")
I’m looking for a platform that I can use to power a Q&A section of a website. I’m already planning on using Discourse for comments throughout the site but I’ve also read on Quora (http://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-open-… --- ## [An option to hide your username/avatar in the toolbar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-option-to-hide-your-username-avatar-in-the-toolbar/18813)
**Author:** [@rubydoob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rubydoob)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-option-to-hide-your-username-avatar-in-the-toolbar/18813 "2014-08-14T01:22:44Z")
What do you guys think of giving users the option to hide their username/avatar from the top toolbar. For privacy reasons you might not want that visible all the time. --- ## [Email: mail headers should have tags in them](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-mail-headers-should-have-tags-in-them/18934)
**Author:** [@apoelstra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/apoelstra)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-mail-headers-should-have-tags-in-them/18934 "2014-08-16T22:30:08Z")
It’d be great if discourse emails had an extra header with discussion tags in them (even just a comma-separated list would be fine). This makes automated filtering and sorting a lot easier and would give discourse an edg… --- ## [Option to notify with sound](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-notify-with-sound/18996)
**Author:** [@stu1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stu1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-notify-with-sound/18996 "2014-08-18T16:13:57Z")
I would like to be notified with an audio signal (that the user can turn off) when I get a notification if I have discourse open. This would enable me to come back to the tab when I needed to repond rather than just che… --- ## [\[Paid\] Installation and customization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-installation-and-customization/19014)
**Author:** [@Igor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Igor)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-installation-and-customization/19014 "2014-08-18T18:38:34Z")
Hello! I would use Discourse, but do not have much knowledge in programming and html or css configuration. Where can I find someone to do this work and also to optimize the design a bit and apply the translation forum to… --- ## [Would separate IP addresses help?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-separate-ip-addresses-help/19003)
**Author:** [@tomosovich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomosovich)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-separate-ip-addresses-help/19003 "2014-08-18T23:34:11Z")
First off, I love the software. Been using it for about a month now and just moved it to its permanent home. I will be installing the main site this week and was wondering if using different ip addresses would smooth th… --- ## [Accessibility: Improve contrast of text styling in default UI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-improve-contrast-of-text-styling-in-default-ui/14632)
**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-improve-contrast-of-text-styling-in-default-ui/14632 "2014-08-19T19:41:56Z")
As a user with less-than-perfect eyesight, I want to be able to read text and links on Discourse with a contrast ratio that allows me to differentiate types of text, so that I can better understand the purpose of that te… --- ## [Double Likes... as a feature!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/double-likes-as-a-feature/19028)
**Author:** [@Matches](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matches)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/double-likes-as-a-feature/19028 "2014-08-19T23:02:59Z")
--- ## [Allow switching of categories in a topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-switching-of-categories-in-a-topic/18999)
**Author:** [@stu1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stu1)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2014, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-switching-of-categories-in-a-topic/18999 "2014-08-20T09:44:07Z")
Currently when I am in a topic, I am limited with what I can do. I can’t create a new topic and I can’t switch to a different category. This forces me to press back or click on the category / header to return to root m… --- ## [Make private group pages visible to only group members](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090)
**Author:** [@michael28](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michael28)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090 "2014-08-20T12:45:08Z")
I’ve set up a private category for a handful of the members of my site to discuss site policy. The users that can access the category are pulled from a user group I’ve set up. I’d like for members of this group to be ab… --- ## [Notification when a moderator or admin deletes your message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-a-moderator-or-admin-deletes-your-message/18875)
**Author:** [@Matches](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matches)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-a-moderator-or-admin-deletes-your-message/18875 "2014-08-20T16:34:20Z")
That way I can know why it’s missing. --- ## [Pre-populating posts with some criteria](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-populating-posts-with-some-criteria/19102)
**Author:** [@Jody](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jody)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-populating-posts-with-some-criteria/19102 "2014-08-20T17:40:05Z")
In our old community (which was largely a transactional support forum) we had the set the blank field for a New Post to contain some basic “fields.” The intent was to find out the OS and software version from a user when… --- ## [Installation nearly installs on Centos 6.5 with Apache/Phusion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-nearly-installs-on-centos-6-5-with-apache-phusion/11985)
**Author:** [@printec](https://meta.discourse.org/u/printec)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-nearly-installs-on-centos-6-5-with-apache-phusion/11985 "2014-08-20T19:36:32Z")
I did a clean install on Centos 6.5 64 bit with following shell commands ran as root: $ ./printec-basic-setup.sh $ ./discourse-install.sh Rather than flood this post with bash commands I have uploaded my script conten… --- ## [Should old topics be deleted from this forum?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-old-topics-be-deleted-from-this-forum/19070)
**Author:** [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-old-topics-be-deleted-from-this-forum/19070 "2014-08-20T21:02:48Z")
This seems worthy of its own discussion topic for the community here to weigh in on in the ‘meta’ sense (continuing the discussion from Notification when a moderator or admin deletes your message): What kind of topics… --- ## [Docker install: Module aufs not found](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-install-module-aufs-not-found/18494)
**Author:** [@cosmo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cosmo)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-install-module-aufs-not-found/18494 "2014-08-21T04:31:45Z")
Hey, Immediately after running the docker install command wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/ | sh I get the following error. “modprobe: FATAL: Module aufs not found.” I’m on digital ocean, 2GB Ram 40GB SSD. I have follow… --- ## [Should search prioritize recent topics over older topics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-prioritize-recent-topics-over-older-topics/19099)
**Author:** [@davemaxwell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davemaxwell)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-prioritize-recent-topics-over-older-topics/19099 "2014-08-22T21:46:20Z")
Can we please please PLEASE get search added as priority number one after V1 is released? The discourse search is frustrating (politest way I can phrase this). I’ve been searching both here and at our instance for thre… --- ## [Is there any reference documentation for post formatting?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197)
**Author:** [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197 "2014-08-23T00:01:20Z")
Is there any documentation on the official reference format Discourse uses for formatting posts? Use Markdown or BBCode to format. I know there’s no official Markdown spec, and the BBCode.org reference documentation … --- ## [User can choose language during registration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-choose-language-during-registration/18894)
**Author:** [@almereyda](https://meta.discourse.org/u/almereyda)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-choose-language-during-registration/18894 "2014-08-24T13:45:55Z")
In multilingual communities, even though everyone writes in English most of the time, it would be nice to have users (optionally?) choose their language during registration, maybe even autodetected by the OS/browser loca… --- ## [Manual trigger to recalculate badges and trust level](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manual-trigger-to-recalculate-badges-and-trust-level/19231)
**Author:** [@rahul286](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahul286)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manual-trigger-to-recalculate-badges-and-trust-level/19231 "2014-08-24T21:23:19Z")
We have moved a very old bbPress forum to Discourse and loving every bit of new forum. :smile: We have thousands of users and posts. And many users have contributed a lot in past 5 years. (old forum was almost 5 year ol… --- ## [I look for an option or a plugin to display who have read each message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-look-for-an-option-or-a-plugin-to-display-who-have-read-each-message/19259)
**Author:** [@stephane\_klein](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephane_klein)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-look-for-an-option-or-a-plugin-to-display-who-have-read-each-message/19259 "2014-08-25T19:12:28Z")
Hi, I look for an option or a plugin to display who have read each message. Context : I use discourse for a small association, and we need to see who have get each information. This feature exist ? Best regards, Sté… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?ascending=true&page=10) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?ascending=true&page=12)