# Latest

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## [Importing exported users csv](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-exported-users-csv/72643)

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**Author:** [@testingsoftware](https://meta.discourse.org/u/testingsoftware)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-exported-users-csv/72643 "2017-10-23T23:20:03Z")

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Hi, I see there is an “Export” option that will give me a CVS file with all the users details. I want to change all users trust levels and lock them at level 2. I could do this in the CVS file but then, is there a way…

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## [Groups no longer listed as participating in personal messages?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/groups-no-longer-listed-as-participating-in-personal-messages/72479)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/groups-no-longer-listed-as-participating-in-personal-messages/72479 "2017-10-24T00:29:42Z")

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I just updated to latest and noticed that groups no longer are listed as participants in personal messages they are in. Is this an intentional change? Did it change now or earlier and I didn’t notice it before? It worri…

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## [Discrepancy in posts count (Different count in profile and admin page)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-in-posts-count-different-count-in-profile-and-admin-page/57303)

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**Author:** [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-in-posts-count-different-count-in-profile-and-admin-page/57303 "2017-10-24T07:07:19Z")

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I just noticed this: /admin/users/ usernumber / username doesn’t always indicate the same number for “Posts Created” as /users/ username /activity shows. My stats are all up to date, and the numbers are significantly d…

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## [Improve sidekiq statistics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-sidekiq-statistics/72506)

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**Author:** [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-sidekiq-statistics/72506 "2017-10-24T07:44:55Z")

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Lately I seem to have some problems with sidekiq jobs. As on sidekiq I can not see the logs of failed processes it is always a little mystery to understand what did not work. For example, looking on the dashboard and s…

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## [Avatar Flair (not Badges) for Groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-flair-not-badges-for-groups/48576)

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**Author:** [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Replies:** 61\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-flair-not-badges-for-groups/48576 "2017-10-24T10:12:32Z")

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A customization that people keep asking for is to show a little badge on user avatars based on group membership. This was first done on the Twitter Developers forums: and has since sprung up here on Meta, on Turtle R…

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## [Understand the Dashboard (101 crash course)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646)

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**Author:** [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Emilio_F_Castillo)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646 "2017-10-24T13:37:19Z")

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Is there a CENTRALIZED tutorial or walk-through on the dashboard? What each category means and what the terms mean. In general, it is well done and descriptive, but there a few terms that might come to mean more than one…

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## [JS error when clicking the "Processes" tab](https://meta.discourse.org/t/js-error-when-clicking-the-processes-tab/72243)

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**Author:** [@uwe\_keim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uwe_keim)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/js-error-when-clicking-the-processes-tab/72243 "2017-10-24T14:49:48Z")

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On the /admin/upgrade/ page, when clicking the “Processes” tab, I get the following error in the Google Chrome console: VM176:1 GET https://entwicklergate.de/admin/docker/ps 500 () (anonymous) @ VM176:1 send @ docker-ma…

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## [Let's Encrypt: Azure hostname issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-encrypt-azure-hostname-issue/71972)

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**Author:** [@CyberSathya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CyberSathya)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-encrypt-azure-hostname-issue/71972 "2017-10-14T07:31:00Z")

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I’ve installed Discourse via Docker on a Ubuntu as mentioned in Set up Discourse in the cloud in under 30 minutes. The site works from localhost (ssh & port forward via putty). I’m trying to see if SSL is the reason I’m …

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## [Need help with Sphinx integration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-sphinx-integration/72616)

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**Author:** [@rornoob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rornoob)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-sphinx-integration/72616 "2017-10-24T15:58:23Z")

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We want to transfer our site content to Discourse. For that we’ve setup a test site to check the performance of Discourse and find out that it’s built-in search is returning results very slowly (10 to 30 seconds) after l…

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## [Successful Migration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/successful-migration/72702)

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**Author:** [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/successful-migration/72702 "2017-10-24T17:00:08Z")

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Hi, Over the past week, we’ve migrated our community to Discourse. Our experience so far demonstrates the power of open source: @pfaffman was available to handle the database import on short notice @joebuhlig did a be…

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## [Read time misreporting?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370)

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**Author:** [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370 "2017-10-24T17:47:34Z")

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Just looking at my profile my read time shows as: Without knowing what the 3 refers to I can’t say it’s necessarily wrong, but it doesn’t look right either!

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## [Supported file extensions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/supported-file-extensions/72695)

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**Author:** [@communitygal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/communitygal)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/supported-file-extensions/72695 "2017-10-24T20:14:10Z")

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hi all, We are looking into which files our users may want to share on our instance. Some could be a malware nightmare! Are there any file extensions or uploads that aren’t supported on a hosted plan? Thanks, Emma

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## [Discourse as a front end for existing ASF mailing lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-front-end-for-existing-asf-mailing-lists/23167)

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**Author:** [@NicholasChammas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NicholasChammas)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-front-end-for-existing-asf-mailing-lists/23167 "2017-10-25T08:28:27Z")

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I am interested in introducing Discourse as an alternative interface to the existing user list for the Apache Spark project. Apache Spark, like many other ASF projects, has a few associated mailing lists that are managed…

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## [Inconsistent locale selection in admin and user settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-locale-selection-in-admin-and-user-settings/53773)

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**Author:** [@ibnesayeed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ibnesayeed)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-locale-selection-in-admin-and-user-settings/53773 "2017-10-25T08:29:46Z")

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In the admin section, “default locale” selection combo-box shows names of languages such as “Deutsch” and “English”. However, if the “allow user locale” is enables, the “interface language” selection combo-box shows lang…

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## [Gitlab Plugin for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gitlab-plugin-for-discourse/72592)

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**Author:** [@Amar\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Amar_Kumar)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gitlab-plugin-for-discourse/72592 "2017-10-25T08:58:08Z")

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Hi, I was wondering if there is a plugin for Discourse that allows it to be integrated with Gitlab? The reason I would like this plugin is so that if a user of Gitlab has a question about the tool, they can raise this …

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## [Awarding badges multiple times with custom SQL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/awarding-badges-multiple-times-with-custom-sql/71279)

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**Author:** [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/awarding-badges-multiple-times-with-custom-sql/71279 "2017-10-25T10:12:32Z")

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I have a badge that’s awarded to people who attend one of our regular events. Because it’s not straightforward to grant badges en masse, I’m using custom SQL to grant the badge. What’s not working, though, is receiving t…

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## [Help importing a vbulletin database](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-importing-a-vbulletin-database/72279)

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**Author:** [@cashable](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cashable)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-importing-a-vbulletin-database/72279 "2017-10-25T10:26:58Z")

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What would you like done? I have discourse set up, but I am having major issues getting a vbulletin database moved over. I have tried following the script but just get errors, so I could use some help. When do you need…

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## [\[PAID\] Migrate Existing vB forum to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migrate-existing-vb-forum-to-discourse/72209)

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**Author:** [@OnyxZ32](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OnyxZ32)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migrate-existing-vb-forum-to-discourse/72209 "2017-10-25T10:30:59Z")

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What would you like done? We have a long-running vB 4.0 forum that we’d like to migrate to Discourse. This is a legacy community, so traffic isn’t anything crazy anymore (damn you Facebook!) but stats are: Threads 279,…

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## [Can forum admins access forum users email addresses?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-forum-admins-access-forum-users-email-addresses/72728)

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**Author:** [@vrms](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vrms)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-forum-admins-access-forum-users-email-addresses/72728 "2017-10-25T11:29:31Z")

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can admins of a forum download a list (csv i.e.) of forum members \[username, name, email address\]? if so, what do you get when people log in via github, or google?

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## [Drupal Import script](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drupal-import-script/72736)

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**Author:** [@Vanina\_Yordanova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vanina_Yordanova)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drupal-import-script/72736 "2017-10-25T11:47:18Z")

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I have a Discourse instance running on a webserver. At least for me that was easier than installing local version on my machine. I want to move all topics from a Drupal forum to Discourse. 1)Do I need to add the import…

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## [Getting the DKIM to work with Cloudflare](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752)

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**Author:** [@rohitink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rohitink)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752 "2017-10-25T11:56:54Z")

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Hello, I have successfully installed Discourse. My Primary site is hosted on a cPanel VPS somewhere else. While my forum.mysite.com is hosted on a Linode Cloud VPS. And my DNS is managed by CloudFlare. I have succes…

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## [FTP links not being clickable](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ftp-links-not-being-clickable/72771)

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**Author:** [@alexrcs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexrcs)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ftp-links-not-being-clickable/72771 "2017-10-25T16:47:47Z")

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Some of my users use Discourse share links to resources hosted on one of our FTPs. The links are not clickable for some reason, though. The a tags seem to have their href attributed removed… Is there any way to change …

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## [Show matching tags in search results?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-matching-tags-in-search-results/67530)

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**Author:** [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-matching-tags-in-search-results/67530 "2017-10-25T17:18:35Z")

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I feel like I saw another post or topic about this here recently, but I can’t find it. When I search here for feature, the results include a link to the Contribute \> Feature category. But when I search for pr-welcom…

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## [Differences open-source vs. cloud solution? Will the open-source solution fulfill our requirements?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/differences-open-source-vs-cloud-solution-will-the-open-source-solution-fulfill-our-requirements/72682)

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**Author:** [@markus9876](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markus9876)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/differences-open-source-vs-cloud-solution-will-the-open-source-solution-fulfill-our-requirements/72682 "2017-10-25T17:48:20Z")

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Hi there… we are interested in an open-source solution for a forum to use it as a partner-forum and later also implement a customer-forum. As we offer two different products with two different user groups (stakeholders)…

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## [Install Prometheus plugin + Prometheus on your server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-prometheus-plugin-prometheus-on-your-server/72786)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-prometheus-plugin-prometheus-on-your-server/72786 "2017-10-25T21:11:57Z")

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The new Discourse Prometheus makes Discourse spit out data that Prometheus can consume and then make cool graphs. Check out the description linked above, if you haven’t already. That data doesn’t help much if you don’t …

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## [What information should be modified in dev after a sql dump](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-information-should-be-modified-in-dev-after-a-sql-dump/72787)

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**Author:** [@rodeezy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rodeezy)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 26, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-information-should-be-modified-in-dev-after-a-sql-dump/72787 "2017-10-26T00:15:02Z")

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So I just did a sql dump of our prod db into our dev db so we have some good data to work with. I wanna run a script that changes anything that could mess stuff up for peeps. All I can think of right now are user email…

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## [Flags in Auto-assigned topics can't be handled by other moderators](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flags-in-auto-assigned-topics-cant-be-handled-by-other-moderators/71848)

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**Author:** [@schyllberg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schyllberg)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 26, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flags-in-auto-assigned-topics-cant-be-handled-by-other-moderators/71848 "2017-10-26T07:32:31Z")

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Since the last update, posts that in topics that for tagging reasons gets assigned to a moderator can’t be handled by another moderator. As the assign-function is out of our control, this causes quite a few issues for us…

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## [Building New Topic Lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-new-topic-lists/72772)

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**Author:** [@nbianca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nbianca)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 26, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-new-topic-lists/72772 "2017-10-26T05:43:38Z")

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Hello, For the past few weeks I have been working on a plugin that defines new topic lists (there is going to be a new topic list for each user which is going to contain only user’s favorite categories). I am developing…

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## [Is it possible to set up multiple separated forum instances (customer forum, partner forum)?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-up-multiple-separated-forum-instances-customer-forum-partner-forum/72836)

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**Author:** [@markus9876](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markus9876)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 26, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-set-up-multiple-separated-forum-instances-customer-forum-partner-forum/72836 "2017-10-26T12:17:23Z")

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I read a lot about the multi-site opportunities Discourse but as I am a beginner I do not fully understand it. It does not matter that much as we do not want to start with multiple instances, however if we decide to go w…

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## [Admin rights without granting?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-rights-without-granting/72847)

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**Author:** [@communitygal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/communitygal)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 26, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-rights-without-granting/72847 "2017-10-26T16:25:07Z")

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My coworker has not been granted admin rights but she sees this under the menu. how can I fix this? Thanks, Emma

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