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## [Android app - frequent loss of authorization for connected sites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-app-frequent-loss-of-authorization-for-connected-sites/75996)

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**Author:** [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [January 15, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-app-frequent-loss-of-authorization-for-connected-sites/75996 "2020-01-15T00:18:30Z")

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Occasionally, my Android app will forget about the authorization it holds for my Discourse sites and I’ll have to reauthorize it. Here’s the list of the dates I’ve had to reauthorize it on meta: Approved: Jul 22 Approv…

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## [\[PAID\] Integrate NeonCRM with Discourse through OAuth2 plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-integrate-neoncrm-with-discourse-through-oauth2-plugin/138620)

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**Author:** [@Denis\_Heraud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Denis_Heraud)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-integrate-neoncrm-with-discourse-through-oauth2-plugin/138620 "2020-01-14T23:46:45Z")

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We need to make OAuth2 work between our NeonCRM database and Discourse so that our members can use their NeonCRM login info, and so that we can grab their NeonCRM account info into Discourse every time they log in. Our …

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## [Install PWA link always shown to members](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-pwa-link-always-shown-to-members/138609)

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**Author:** [@Damian\_Boon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Damian_Boon)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-pwa-link-always-shown-to-members/138609 "2020-01-14T23:20:35Z")

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What triggers the link “Do you want to install xxx on this device” We want this to show for all members on mobile devices until its installed. As of now some members don’t see the link and some do

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## [Prompt subscription to groups for non members](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prompt-subscription-to-groups-for-non-members/138557)

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**Author:** [@Fausto\_Dassenno](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fausto_Dassenno)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prompt-subscription-to-groups-for-non-members/138557 "2020-01-14T22:20:52Z")

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Hi, I designed an integration between my WP blog and a Discourse installation. I then want to have multiple private categories. In order to do so I created private groups and used those to manage access to the categories…

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## [Dragging the timeline handle to the end brings you to the bottom of the page, not the bottom of the discussion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dragging-the-timeline-handle-to-the-end-brings-you-to-the-bottom-of-the-page-not-the-bottom-of-the-discussion/137899)

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**Author:** [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dragging-the-timeline-handle-to-the-end-brings-you-to-the-bottom-of-the-page-not-the-bottom-of-the-discussion/137899 "2020-01-14T20:58:56Z")

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When dragging the timeline handle to the end, you jump to the bottom of the page. If your viewport is short, this means you may skip past the last post entirely and land on suggested topics or a footer. When dragged t…

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## [How to escape a colon in Data Explorer?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-escape-a-colon-in-data-explorer/138542)

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**Author:** [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-escape-a-colon-in-data-explorer/138542 "2020-01-14T18:14:22Z")

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In Data Explorer, I’m trying to cast a date using TO\_CHAR(p.created\_at, 'HH:MI:SS DD/MM/YY') but the parser thinks that :MI is a parameter. Is there a way to escape the colon? I’ve tried \\: but it doesn’t work. :: makes …

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## [I cannot see any topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cannot-see-any-topics/138570)

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**Author:** [@rukruuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rukruuk)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cannot-see-any-topics/138570 "2020-01-14T17:21:43Z")

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I’m a member of a private discourse chat and I suddenly see nothing in the latest posts. What does that mean?

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## [Looking for a Discourse expert to migrate my forums](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-a-discourse-expert-to-migrate-my-forums/138329)

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**Author:** [@medicalschoolhq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/medicalschoolhq)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-a-discourse-expert-to-migrate-my-forums/138329 "2020-01-14T17:08:33Z")

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What would you like done? I have my forums at https://medicalschoolhq.net/forums which were migrated from phpBB a few years ago to bbPress with all the proper redirects in place. I’m looking to switch my community to D…

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## [Error Restoring Backup on Migration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-restoring-backup-on-migration/128849)

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**Author:** [@usulrasolas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/usulrasolas)\
**Replies:** 40\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-restoring-backup-on-migration/128849 "2020-01-14T14:09:22Z")

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Due to hardware upgrades and critical staff loss, one of the sites I help has to change from an instance running v2.4.0.beta2 +431 to 2.4.0.beta4. When I attempt to restore the backup to the new server, I get an error t…

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## [How to import posts in CSV format?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-import-posts-in-csv-format/77107)

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**Author:** [@Hamza\_Ahmed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hamza_Ahmed)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-import-posts-in-csv-format/77107 "2020-01-14T12:17:04Z")

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Can I import new posts using CSV format? any importer plugin or something? Thanks

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## [What content do you cross-post to your complimentary social network accounts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-content-do-you-cross-post-to-your-complimentary-social-network-accounts/138516)

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**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-content-do-you-cross-post-to-your-complimentary-social-network-accounts/138516 "2020-01-14T03:48:24Z")

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Does your Discourse forum have a complementary account in a social network? poll If so, may you please share your ideas about what content do you cross-post to social networks. Screenshots demonstrating your cross-posti…

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## [Header content is missing due to CSP](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-content-is-missing-due-to-csp/138511)

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**Author:** [@Bank\_Live](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bank_Live)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-content-is-missing-due-to-csp/138511 "2020-01-14T03:38:56Z")

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Last night I used the command ./launcher rebuild app --skip-prereqs, causing some of my posts to disappear. :cold\_sweat: I use 2.4.0.beta9 I’m not sure about the usage of this Topic List Previews plugin or not. @me…

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## [Japanese period (small circle) is used instead of English period](https://meta.discourse.org/t/japanese-period-small-circle-is-used-instead-of-english-period/127647)

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**Author:** [@nujabes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nujabes)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/japanese-period-small-circle-is-used-instead-of-english-period/127647 "2020-01-14T02:32:56Z")

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These days, Japanese period (small circle) is used instead of English period for numbers more than 1,000. My discourse is v2.4.0.beta2 How can I fix this?

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## [OpenGraph Image not being picked up correctly](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opengraph-image-not-being-picked-up-correctly/138420)

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**Author:** [@RaviJayagopal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RaviJayagopal)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opengraph-image-not-being-picked-up-correctly/138420 "2020-01-14T02:01:04Z")

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Facebook is picking up the forum logo as the OG image, not the main image at the top of the body of my post. I’ve tried debug/scrape via Facebook og developer debug tool. Nothing changed. Sorry if this is a duplicate…

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## [Code for receiving emails via Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/code-for-receiving-emails-via-discourse-api/96894)

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**Author:** [@sudoman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudoman)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/code-for-receiving-emails-via-discourse-api/96894 "2020-01-13T22:57:59Z")

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Hello Discourse, Is there a preexisting code base out there for pushing emails to Discourse's incoming email API? Thanks, Andrew

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## [Can a Weekly Digest be sent out on a specific day to all members?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-a-weekly-digest-be-sent-out-on-a-specific-day-to-all-members/138493)

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**Author:** [@drbarnard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/drbarnard)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-a-weekly-digest-be-sent-out-on-a-specific-day-to-all-members/138493 "2020-01-13T22:31:29Z")

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I’ve been a member of a Discourse community for a couple years now and am setting up a community for my employer. I’m lining up weekly AMAs and want all members to get a weekly digest every Monday night to see who is doi…

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## [Very slow Docker image download](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-slow-docker-image-download/138491)

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**Author:** [@sudoman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudoman)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-slow-docker-image-download/138491 "2020-01-13T21:42:17Z")

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When recently running ./launcher rebuild app, two Docker images were scheduled to download. One of them took a while, but another is taking a very long time (\> 20 minutes). Our vm has plenty of bandwidth. When checking n…

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## [Hosting the pictures on external storage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-the-pictures-on-external-storage/138477)

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**Author:** [@Jay91](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jay91)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-the-pictures-on-external-storage/138477 "2020-01-13T18:44:11Z")

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Is there any way we can host the pictures in our forums on external storage like google drive?

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## [Why isn't the Discourse API fully documented?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-the-discourse-api-fully-documented/138265)

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**Author:** [@samamorgan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/samamorgan)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-the-discourse-api-fully-documented/138265 "2020-01-13T17:53:55Z")

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I don’t understand why full documentation for all API endpoints doesn’t exist. The original documentation was released to the public on December 2014, and here we are 6 years later and the documentation is still half-bak…

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## [Add secondary url / embed into Wordpress](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-secondary-url-embed-into-wordpress/138404)

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**Author:** [@dbdkat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dbdkat)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-secondary-url-embed-into-wordpress/138404 "2020-01-13T15:54:39Z")

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Hi, I’m new to Discourse and am a bit confused about how to embed it into a wordpress site. We were using github and had a subdomain dedicated to our Discourse, but we’re switching to Wordpress and it’s unclear if the s…

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## [Search query times out for big sites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-query-times-out-for-big-sites/138267)

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**Author:** [@Eduardo\_Poleo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Eduardo_Poleo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-query-times-out-for-big-sites/138267 "2020-01-13T15:41:25Z")

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Hey guys, We’re started seeing timeouts regularly on our /search query, we’ve benchmarked some search terms and some queries might take up to 2mins to complete. We found this post but were wondering if they are any ad…

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## [What's with the "Death by Coconut" posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-with-the-death-by-coconut-posts/138455)

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**Author:** [@meatnordrink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meatnordrink)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-with-the-death-by-coconut-posts/138455 "2020-01-13T15:28:48Z")

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I’m the admin for a Discourse forum, and I get all these posts for approval that are exactly the same - the Wikipedia “Death by Coconut” entry. Is the user prompted to post this somewhere in orientation? And am I suppos…

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## [Discobot translation missing error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-translation-missing-error/64429)

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**Author:** [@jidetheblogger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidetheblogger)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [August 25, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-translation-missing-error/64429 "2017-08-25T01:50:12Z")

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New users seeing this : translation missing: en.discourse\_narrative\_bot.new\_user\_narrative.hello.message If you’d like to learn more, select below and bookmark this private message. If you do, there may be a :gift: i…

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## [Import Category class in a component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-category-class-in-a-component/138406)

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**Author:** [@rogerco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rogerco)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-category-class-in-a-component/138406 "2020-01-13T10:54:23Z")

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Developing a component with the code in the Header section using \<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8.26"\> where I have lines like parentCat = Discourse.Category.findById(get(category, "parent\_catego…

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## [How do you set Topic/Post Views with API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-set-topic-post-views-with-api/138395)

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**Author:** [@paultaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paultaylor)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-set-topic-post-views-with-api/138395 "2020-01-13T09:28:06Z")

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How do you set Topic/Post Views with API, I dont see it.

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## [Sidekiq failing to render after rack gem upgrade](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-failing-to-render-after-rack-gem-upgrade/138429)

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**Author:** [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-failing-to-render-after-rack-gem-upgrade/138429 "2020-01-13T07:08:59Z")

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Description: Sidekiq fails to load on upgrading to commit 9e399b42b96f115a8367c368862d62aeecfac680 of Discourse. This is running on a 2 container setup (web and DB, from ./discourse-setup 2container). Buggy behavior: …

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## [Share public links to specific posts in private forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-public-links-to-specific-posts-in-private-forum/138409)

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**Author:** [@anaqreon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anaqreon)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-public-links-to-specific-posts-in-private-forum/138409 "2020-01-13T04:22:41Z")

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I’m sure this has been asked before but my searching failed to find an answer. Is it possible to share public links to select posts in an otherwise private forum that requires authentication to view content?

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## [When to upgrade docker (and how)?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-to-upgrade-docker-and-how/86989)

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**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-to-upgrade-docker-and-how/86989 "2020-01-12T23:41:22Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Docker using a lot of CPU: I had made a mental not that I’ll eventuall need to allow my instance to upgrade docker again, after downgrading because of that bug, but I’m not sure when I sh…

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## [Sidekiq heartbeat test failed, restarting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-heartbeat-test-failed-restarting/137496)

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**Author:** [@arrowcircle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arrowcircle)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-heartbeat-test-failed-restarting/137496 "2020-01-12T23:09:39Z")

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Hi! I found strange error in my admin page, that sidekiq is not running. I opened logs and found hundreds errors like: /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/logster-2.5.1/lib/logster/logger.rb:112:in \`report…

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## [Sidekiq fails to start after Zeitwerk on docker dev](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-fails-to-start-after-zeitwerk-on-docker-dev/130031)

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**Author:** [@averi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/averi)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-fails-to-start-after-zeitwerk-on-docker-dev/130031 "2020-01-12T22:51:26Z")

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We recently upgraded to 2.4.0.beta5 from 2.4.0.beta4 and sidekiq fails to start with the following traceback: \> $ bundle exec sidekiq -C config/sidekiq.yml \> uninitialized constant SiteSetting::SiteSettingExtension \> /d…

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