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**Author:** [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/structuring-a-multilingual-community/73225 "2022-01-17T18:12:46Z")
:bookmark: This guide explains different approaches to organizing a Discourse forum for a multilingual community, including pros and cons of each method. :person\_raising\_hand: Required user level: Administrator Disco… --- ## [First Name, Last Name](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-name-last-name/165861)
**Author:** [@agf1997](https://meta.discourse.org/u/agf1997)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-name-last-name/165861 "2022-01-18T09:46:30Z")
We currently require users to add a full name when signing up. Unfortunately, a fair number of users are using their username as the full name, or simply using their first name. Is there a way to require a first name a… --- ## [How to restore from pgdump on local development docker install?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-from-pgdump-on-local-development-docker-install/215083)
**Author:** [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-from-pgdump-on-local-development-docker-install/215083 "2022-01-18T08:17:32Z")
I was previously using the macOS environment, but I got tired of rails code breaking after Discourse updates, so I’m trying the docker setup. Everything worked up to the point where I see the wizard welcome screen, but … --- ## [Upgrade failed PG::UniqueViolation -- could not create unique index "unique\_post\_links\_ccnew"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-pg-uniqueviolation-could-not-create-unique-index-unique-post-links-ccnew/195040)
**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-pg-uniqueviolation-could-not-create-unique-index-unique-post-links-ccnew/195040 "2022-01-18T06:53:31Z")
I’ve got a standard install that is failing to upgrade to 2.8.0.beta2 with this error: PG::UniqueViolation: ERROR: could not create unique index "unique\_post\_links\_ccnew" it’s from I, \[2021-06-25T18:35:47.756688 #1\] … --- ## [Ability to bookmark a specific heading?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-bookmark-a-specific-heading/184502)
**Author:** [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-bookmark-a-specific-heading/184502 "2022-01-18T06:31:53Z")
I think it would be useful to enable bookmarking of a particular heading. I’m using things like… \

The Heading\ to enable my using the Table of Contents theme component. That makes all … --- ## [Documentation on putting my community site in Read Only](https://meta.discourse.org/t/documentation-on-putting-my-community-site-in-read-only/214828)
**Author:** [@Willie\_Turney](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Willie_Turney)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 6:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/documentation-on-putting-my-community-site-in-read-only/214828 "2022-01-18T06:25:43Z")
Hello! I am looking for documentation on how to put my community site in read only. We are planning a migration and need have the site to allow login, but so that users can’t post. I believe it is found in Admin \> Backu… --- ## [Topic/post Stars](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-post-stars/207768)
**Author:** [@Ondrashek06](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ondrashek06)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-post-stars/207768 "2022-01-18T06:16:02Z")
First of all, how would Stars work? Like how YouTube lets the video owner give Hearts to comments, Discourse would let forum staff give Stars to either topics, and/or posts. Stars wouldn’t show up on any topics/posts u… --- ## [Required developer for long term discourse UI/UX design change](https://meta.discourse.org/t/required-developer-for-long-term-discourse-ui-ux-design-change/215180)
**Author:** [@Ashley87](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ashley87)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/required-developer-for-long-term-discourse-ui-ux-design-change/215180 "2022-01-18T06:11:13Z")
What would you like done? Required developer for long term discourse UI/UX design change , change discourse theme as per clients from there figma designs or same When do you need it done? we have many projects going o… --- ## [Cron task to sync local backups to DigitalOcean Spaces](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cron-task-to-sync-local-backups-to-digitalocean-spaces/214998)
**Author:** [@varun21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/varun21)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cron-task-to-sync-local-backups-to-digitalocean-spaces/214998 "2022-01-18T03:20:15Z")
It doesn’t seem I can get backups to DigitalOcean Spaces to work. However the server has the bucket mounted over s3fs with the same credentials. I only need the backups to be stored on Spaces, not uploads etc. Logs say E… --- ## [Botched restore led to Sidekiq job failures](https://meta.discourse.org/t/botched-restore-led-to-sidekiq-job-failures/215104)
**Author:** [@Simsnet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Simsnet)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/botched-restore-led-to-sidekiq-job-failures/215104 "2022-01-18T03:11:04Z")
Backed up my server prior to a mass-delete and a typo occurred (sleep comes first :blush:) so I ran a restore. It quit halfway through the first time I ran it and I was never messaged me a log. I ran the restore a seco… --- ## [Export topic as markdown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-topic-as-markdown/152185)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-topic-as-markdown/152185 "2022-01-18T02:08:20Z")
I found this UI: Topic and Category Export/Import but that does not cover what I was thinking about: A means to export an entire public or DM topic as a single markdown document where the export action is UI-accessible… --- ## [A category of chats/a chat of topics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-category-of-chats-a-chat-of-topics/215159)
**Author:** [@oshyan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oshyan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-category-of-chats-a-chat-of-topics/215159 "2022-01-18T00:31:36Z")
I just ran across this person working on a Discord bot to make every message in a channel into its own thread automatically. I immediately thought “Discourse and integrated chat would be so much better at this”, and so I… --- ## [Migration of a single Google Group to a hosted discourse instance](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-of-a-single-google-group-to-a-hosted-discourse-instance/215125)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Palmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan_Palmer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-of-a-single-google-group-to-a-hosted-discourse-instance/215125 "2022-01-18T00:08:58Z")
What would you like done? Migration of this group https://groups.google.com/a/smartconservationsoftware.org/g/community to an instance of Discourse we have deployed on Azure. When do you need it done? By end of Feb is… --- ## [UI for resending expired invites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ui-for-resending-expired-invites/208803)
**Author:** [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ui-for-resending-expired-invites/208803 "2022-01-17T22:08:57Z")
I bulk invited about 1000 users in our org by email, and foolishly set an expire time on them. About 200 users did not register at the time and are now emailing me to request they be resent. At present, there is no way … --- ## [Feature idea: Parameterized macros (or, "smart replacements")](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-idea-parameterized-macros-or-smart-replacements/210098)
**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-idea-parameterized-macros-or-smart-replacements/210098 "2022-01-17T22:38:33Z")
Is there a way to make site- (or category-?) wide “macros” which would accept parameters? For example, links to Fedora’s Matrix chat rooms are in the form https://matrix.to/#/#social:fedoraproject.org. I’d like people t… --- ## [It should be possible to opt out of link notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/it-should-be-possible-to-opt-out-of-link-notifications/200039)
**Author:** [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/it-should-be-possible-to-opt-out-of-link-notifications/200039 "2022-01-17T22:37:07Z")
Pardon if there is already a feature request for this – my searching only yielded posts merely mentioning of link notifications, but not feature requests to toggle them on/off. You can opt out of like notifications or e… --- ## [Issue with IRI and pasted URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-iri-and-pasted-urls/184886)
**Author:** [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-iri-and-pasted-urls/184886 "2022-01-17T22:27:27Z")
Problem When a topic is created using a pasted URL pointing to an IRI (i.e., with accented characters or foreign scripts), the resulting link anchor shows URL-encoded characters as shown in the screenshot below, where th… --- ## [RFE for Footnote Plugin: allow in code blocks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rfe-for-footnote-plugin-allow-in-code-blocks/211105)
**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rfe-for-footnote-plugin-allow-in-code-blocks/211105 "2022-01-17T22:26:37Z")
It would be nice to be able to do this: Hi! To solve your problems, you need to run these commands: \`\`\`bash:with-footnotes $ sudo mv /etc/whatever.conf /etc/whatever.conf.bak \[^1\] $ sudo whatever genconfig \[^2\] $ sudo… --- ## [Suggestion: a different tag sidebar idea](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-a-different-tag-sidebar-idea/213312)
**Author:** [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-a-different-tag-sidebar-idea/213312 "2022-01-17T22:25:52Z")
Discourse Tag Sidebars is pretty useful, and very flexible. However, it requires a lot of management — an new topic for every tag, plus manually listing each of those in the component settings. What about “Simple Tag Si… --- ## [Natural language processing for date chooser](https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-language-processing-for-date-chooser/199608)
**Author:** [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-language-processing-for-date-chooser/199608 "2022-01-17T22:14:55Z")
Our date picker and conversion is a powerful feature. I’d love to see us make it simpler to add a date/time to a post. A common way this is done is through natural language processing. Apps like Fantastical on iOS have u… --- ## [Handling of broken onebox images from malconfigured sites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-of-broken-onebox-images-from-malconfigured-sites/199079)
**Author:** [@TallTrees](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TallTrees)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-of-broken-onebox-images-from-malconfigured-sites/199079 "2022-01-17T22:14:22Z")
I see quite a lot of misconfigured sites that look to use various methods to block ‘hot’ linking of images, but return links to such images in the embedding data e.g. Checking with http://debug.iframely.com/ I reall… --- ## [Searching users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-users/184439)
**Author:** [@Fraudoctor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fraudoctor)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-users/184439 "2022-01-17T22:11:45Z")
Is there a better way to search users than simply by their user name? Perhaps by name or any other feature that they have chosen to share about themself? I read through some of the post about this from 2018, and did not… --- ## [Improving Discourse Policy for large groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discourse-policy-for-large-groups/205593)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Schmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Schmucker)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discourse-policy-for-large-groups/205593 "2022-01-17T22:10:00Z")
Continuing the conversation from Discourse Policy… The reason is the UI isn’t designed to display that many acceptor avatars. We have 1500 users who have accepted this policy and many avatars don’t show up. --- ## [Is there an "automoderator" feature/plugin within Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-automoderator-feature-plugin-within-discourse/192391)
**Author:** [@DiscourseUser](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DiscourseUser)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-automoderator-feature-plugin-within-discourse/192391 "2022-01-17T22:08:41Z")
Is there an “automoderator” tool /plugin within Discourse that would let you be able to set up rules like the automoderator on reddit? --- ## [Knowledge base as same as Wikiwand?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/knowledge-base-as-same-as-wikiwand/198666)
**Author:** [@neo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/knowledge-base-as-same-as-wikiwand/198666 "2022-01-17T22:05:34Z")
Discourse Documents in this style? Big font large photo easy to read and most important thing is, it makes you like to read on wikiwand. --- ## [Old topic notice](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-topic-notice/188052)
**Author:** [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-topic-notice/188052 "2022-01-17T22:03:36Z")
Hi there, I usually searching a lot in here and sometimes find really old few years old topics what i didn’t realize first time just find any solution for my problem but maybe things changed since then. Specially when a… --- ## [Retroactive auto-tagging of watched words](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retroactive-auto-tagging-of-watched-words/193982)
**Author:** [@nhpackard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nhpackard)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retroactive-auto-tagging-of-watched-words/193982 "2022-01-17T21:42:54Z")
Specifying auto-tag action for watched words is effective for topics created after the specification. It would be very useful to retro-actively auto-tag all past topics as well. This functionality could go in cutomize-\>… --- ## [Show info about topic-timer in topic lists?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-info-about-topic-timer-in-topic-lists/193390)
**Author:** [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-info-about-topic-timer-in-topic-lists/193390 "2022-01-17T21:38:03Z")
There is a display of topic timer(s) below a post… It would be useful to include something similar—if the user has permissions to manipulate topic timers, or course—below the topic in topic listings. (Note that I hav… --- ## [Link topics after they have already been closed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-topics-after-they-have-already-been-closed/193766)
**Author:** [@Konrad\_Sopala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Konrad_Sopala)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-topics-after-they-have-already-been-closed/193766 "2022-01-17T21:30:48Z")
Pretty much what in the subject. As a user I would like to have the ability to link related issues. Items dealing with the same subject, or one has answered the other. There is this kind of feature on Jira, GitHub, Stac… --- ## [Request or idea for a component: topic title or topic flair](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-or-idea-for-a-component-topic-title-or-topic-flair/207704)
**Author:** [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-or-idea-for-a-component-topic-title-or-topic-flair/207704 "2022-01-17T21:28:04Z")
Based on the ealier debate at Topic Title Flair - or something like that? I will here illustrate the topic flair/type feature. Tags are good for grouping the content a post is about. Topic types are good to group the … [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?f=tracked%EB%A5%BC&page=907) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?f=tracked%EB%A5%BC&page=909)