# Latest

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?exclude_tag=api&page=1004

[Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md)

**Page:** 1005

---

## [Looking for the good price for hongkong server?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-the-good-price-for-hongkong-server/193515)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@dew02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dew02)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-the-good-price-for-hongkong-server/193515 "2021-06-11T20:13:48Z")

</div>

i want 8G 10M 1ip. what are you recommand for the server?

---

## [New PWA install interface on Android](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-pwa-install-interface-on-android/182122)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-pwa-install-interface-on-android/182122 "2021-06-12T23:03:51Z")

</div>

Starting on Chrome 90, Discourse admins can add screenshots to the PWA install bottom sheet. You will need to take a few screenshots of interesting pages, upload those a topic and fill then in at /admin/site\_settings/ca…

---

## [Working on a mailman2 to discourse migration script](https://meta.discourse.org/t/working-on-a-mailman2-to-discourse-migration-script/169220)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/working-on-a-mailman2-to-discourse-migration-script/169220 "2021-06-12T22:50:39Z")

</div>

Bonjour, Today I start working on a python script to migrate a mailman2 mailing list (archives and config.pck) using the discourse API only. If anyone is interested, it is happening here and I’ll update this topic with …

---

## [Unread Alerts will not remain read](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-alerts-will-not-remain-read/193531)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@donnay1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/donnay1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-alerts-will-not-remain-read/193531 "2021-06-12T17:02:15Z")

</div>

When I attempt to mark the Notifications as read, they do not change They remain unread.

---

## [Data-Explorer query: Pulling all the raw data?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-query-pulling-all-the-raw-data/193407)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@dinoscool3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dinoscool3)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-query-pulling-all-the-raw-data/193407 "2021-06-12T12:07:39Z")

</div>

Hi All, First off, my apologies because I have absolutely no knowledge of SQL’s query language. I’m trying to get some links with Discourse analytics and PowerBI. We already have some data that’s linked between the for…

---

## [Obfuscating mailto:foo@bar.com when importing mail archives](https://meta.discourse.org/t/obfuscating-mailto-foo-bar-com-when-importing-mail-archives/193584)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/obfuscating-mailto-foo-bar-com-when-importing-mail-archives/193584 "2021-06-12T09:12:36Z")

</div>

Bonjour, After a successful import of mail archives ( mbox ), the content of the messages will display email addresses that would have been obfuscated by Gmane or the mailman2 archive server. This allows bots collecting…

---

## [HOWTO migrate from mailman2 to discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-migrate-from-mailman2-to-discourse/193608)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-migrate-from-mailman2-to-discourse/193608 "2021-06-12T08:26:42Z")

</div>

Bonjour, mailman2discourse is a command line tool to import a mailman2 configuration (as found in the config.pck file) into a discourse category available on PyPI. A user is created for each member of the mailing list a…

---

## [Does notifications work if you add a @mention via editing?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-notifications-work-if-you-add-a-mention-via-editing/54037)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-notifications-work-if-you-add-a-mention-via-editing/54037 "2021-06-12T05:48:39Z")

</div>

Guess I could test this on a live system but what happens if you post a topic and then edit it to include some more @usernames? Does the system send the notifications just to the new username added?

---

## [How to find which user searched specific keyword?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-which-user-searched-specific-keyword/193205)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@th21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/th21)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-which-user-searched-specific-keyword/193205 "2021-06-12T04:19:14Z")

</div>

I noticed some toxic keywords were searched in my forum. Is there a way to find who searched them?

---

## [Uncaught ReferenceError: img is not defined due to broken old theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncaught-referenceerror-img-is-not-defined-due-to-broken-old-theme/193597)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@AntiMetaman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AntiMetaman)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncaught-referenceerror-img-is-not-defined-due-to-broken-old-theme/193597 "2021-06-12T04:03:35Z")

</div>

Hello, I recently upgraded to 2.8 beta. I have zero errors on rebuild. My site functions fine. However, if I go to inspect element, I now see a new jquery error, “Uncaught ReferenceError: img is not defined”. Basically…

---

## [Test failure on HEIC image detection](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-failure-on-heic-image-detection/193585)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-failure-on-heic-image-detection/193585 "2021-06-11T22:13:41Z")

</div>

It seems like my local ImageMagick doesn’t know how to decode HEIC, and this is throwing an error in the test for ImageMagick recognizing that it’s actually a JPEG. $ identify spec/fixtures/images/should\_be\_jpeg.heic i…

---

## [Safari's new privacy features might be bad for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/safaris-new-privacy-features-might-be-bad-for-discourse/193526)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Justin\_Vega](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Justin_Vega)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/safaris-new-privacy-features-might-be-bad-for-discourse/193526 "2021-06-11T18:04:59Z")

</div>

Now that Safari hides IP addresses by default, it would allow for trolls and banned users to create multiple accounts on a Discourse community and wreak absolute havoc, right? Even worse, the whole iCloud+ private relay…

---

## [Default notifications for new users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-notifications-for-new-users/193551)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@bcardarella](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bcardarella)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-notifications-for-new-users/193551 "2021-06-11T16:31:02Z")

</div>

Can I as an admin set the default notification types for a given user or create new users with pre-set notifications for given Topics?

---

## [New lines in the composer's reply placeholder?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-lines-in-the-composers-reply-placeholder/193451)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-lines-in-the-composers-reply-placeholder/193451 "2021-06-11T16:27:30Z")

</div>

Apparently the board for the R language uses a composer placeholder that helpfully includes an example of a \`\`\` code fence. This would also be a helpful hint for our language board, but I couldn’t figure out how they’re…

---

## [Send category summaries to mailing lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-category-summaries-to-mailing-lists/193529)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@bfisher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bfisher)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-category-summaries-to-mailing-lists/193529 "2021-06-11T13:24:48Z")

</div>

My organization has mailing list for various topics, and over time we are hoping to move discussions currently on those lists over to discourse. It would be helpful if I could have a summary of a category to the correspo…

---

## [6 months review: Building a community from scratch with Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/6-months-review-building-a-community-from-scratch-with-discourse/171571)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 29, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/6-months-review-building-a-community-from-scratch-with-discourse/171571 "2020-11-29T04:00:05Z")

</div>

I’d like to share my experience with Discourse on our community project. It started out in May 2020, a few people coming together to build a free and open hospitality exchange platform that aims to substitute the current…

---

## [Discourse broken after upgrade](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-broken-after-upgrade/193206)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Ethernian](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethernian)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-broken-after-upgrade/193206 "2021-06-11T10:43:22Z")

</div>

Hello friends, My discourse installation got broken after the upgrade from 2.5.0-beta3 to 2.8.0-beta1. Issue: click on Hamburger Menu doesn’t open any menu. Thus I can’t start any admin task. There are bug in JS…

---

## [Wrong Error Message for too short replies for Reply-by-Email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-error-message-for-too-short-replies-for-reply-by-email/188702)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@adrelanos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adrelanos)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-error-message-for-too-short-replies-for-reply-by-email/188702 "2021-06-11T09:26:57Z")

</div>

When sending a too short reply such as “testing reply by e-mail”, I am getting an e-mail back: We’re sorry, but your email message to \[“discoursereplies+redacted.org”\] (titled Re: forum thread title didn’t work. Do …

---

## [Reply with debug info to rejected e-mails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-with-debug-info-to-rejected-e-mails/193304)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@adrelanos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adrelanos)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 9, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-with-debug-info-to-rejected-e-mails/193304 "2021-06-09T16:29:20Z")

</div>

In case of issues such as We’re sorry, but your email message to \["discoursereplies+redacted@redacted.orgredacted\] (titled Re:redacted) didn’t work. Here are some things to check: Do you use more than one email add…

---

## [Broken upgrade - forum down, unhelpful error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-upgrade-forum-down-unhelpful-error/193490)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-upgrade-forum-down-unhelpful-error/193490 "2021-06-11T07:23:33Z")

</div>

Just got this while upgrading Discourse: Oops The software powering this discussion forum encountered an unexpected problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Detailed information about the error was logged, and an …

---

## [Badge query request: Received X likes in topic containing specific tag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-query-request-received-x-likes-in-topic-containing-specific-tag/27901)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-query-request-received-x-likes-in-topic-containing-specific-tag/27901 "2015-04-24T15:08:15Z")

</div>

Continuing the discussion from What cool badge queries have you come up with?. Our forum has “Monthly Screenshots” threads. I’d like to reward the people who participate in these with a badge. I don’t know if there’s an…

---

## [IMAP sync stages new user if Group.incoming\_email is not set to Group.email\_username](https://meta.discourse.org/t/imap-sync-stages-new-user-if-group-incoming-email-is-not-set-to-group-email-username/178674)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/imap-sync-stages-new-user-if-group-incoming-email-is-not-set-to-group-email-username/178674 "2021-06-11T01:30:10Z")

</div>

While playing around with IMAP sync a staged user was created for Group.email\_username during import from the IMAP account. Trying to understand what happened I noticed that Group.find\_by\_email does not take Group.email…

---

## [Using Discourse as an authentication provider](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-an-authentication-provider/193461)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@arvindb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arvindb)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-an-authentication-provider/193461 "2021-06-10T23:28:23Z")

</div>

I’m building a custom site with a Discourse forum alongside it. I am implementing an image upload feature, and I’d like to use the existing Discourse forum to authenticate users on my site with their existing credentials…

---

## [Migrate user custom fields to another instance](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-user-custom-fields-to-another-instance/193460)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-user-custom-fields-to-another-instance/193460 "2021-06-10T23:05:25Z")

</div>

Hi, I’m about to embark on a migration of a complex category and associated subcategories from one self-hosted Discourse instance to another. What is the best way to move over data stored in User Customised Fields? I s…

---

## [RSS Feed Stopped Working?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-stopped-working/152044)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Scott\_Hack](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Scott_Hack)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-stopped-working/152044 "2021-06-10T20:53:37Z")

</div>

I was using an RSS feed of latest.rss pushed into MailChimp to send an email 3 times a week to subscribers… But MailChimp is now saying the RSS Feed Link isn’t valid. Anyone else having trouble? I am appending the ?a…

---

## [Discourse does not render on gecko before version 74](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-does-not-render-on-gecko-before-version-74/193241)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@vige](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vige)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-does-not-render-on-gecko-before-version-74/193241 "2021-06-10T20:26:23Z")

</div>

commit 08883cbdd1c39a0c15b97af44ddaefe14acdc21a broke discourse rendering on older gecko releases. Gecko doesn’t support optional chaining operator before version 74. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Jav…

---

## [What’s the biggest hacks that gained growth or traction to your discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-s-the-biggest-hacks-that-gained-growth-or-traction-to-your-discourse/110131)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@JKBaseer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JKBaseer)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-s-the-biggest-hacks-that-gained-growth-or-traction-to-your-discourse/110131 "2021-06-10T18:36:21Z")

</div>

Hey Guys! Instead of just knocking my head on the wall myself. I thought of crowdsource some good ideas if you guys already crossed a stage of initial traction. If you can, could you share some of the best strategies/t…

---

## [Sometimes PDF-files cannot be openend](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sometimes-pdf-files-cannot-be-openend/190919)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Jacob69](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacob69)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sometimes-pdf-files-cannot-be-openend/190919 "2021-06-10T18:33:38Z")

</div>

Hi, We are using Discourse as a knowledge base with a lot of documents. Since yesterday, not all PDF-files can be opened anymore. When clicking the link to download the PDF-file, a new page opens with the notification ‘…

---

## [Default Avatar with WordPress SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-avatar-with-wordpress-sso/193408)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Jessie\_Galapo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jessie_Galapo)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-avatar-with-wordpress-sso/193408 "2021-06-10T14:46:37Z")

</div>

Hello, We have an SSO with Wordpress and every time it creates an account in Discourse, it pulls a default picture from WP. Our developer doesn’t know how to stop Discourse pulling these pictures. Is there a way to do i…

---

## [Mail doesnt work after installation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mail-doesnt-work-after-installation/193273)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@ignatus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ignatus)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mail-doesnt-work-after-installation/193273 "2021-06-10T12:05:45Z")

</div>

so, i have succeded in installing Discourse, on a VPS-server on Hostinger, but the mail doesnt work after installation, and the hostinger support seems to be clueless, they only said i try different ports etc i have d…

[Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?exclude_tag=api&page=1003)

[Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?exclude_tag=api&page=1005)
