# Latest **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1051 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 1052 --- ## [How to decorate a post before it's cooked?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-decorate-a-post-before-its-cooked/182052)
**Author:** [@Heddson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heddson)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-decorate-a-post-before-its-cooked/182052 "2021-03-05T10:21:37Z")
I’m writing a theme component and would like to decorate/change the posts just before they’re cooked. How can I get ahold of the uncooked post/text (for the post that’s about to be cooked/shown)? I read the “Developer’s… --- ## [Data Explorer - % of active members by month](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-of-active-members-by-month/182022)
**Author:** [@Konrad\_Sopala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Konrad_Sopala)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-of-active-members-by-month/182022 "2021-03-05T08:03:23Z")
Hey there to everyone playing and exploring Data Explorer plugin! Thanks for helping with all the previous questions @michebs . I’ve got one more regarding data explorer queries. Has someone ever created a query that f… --- ## [BAD CSRF Response When Trying to Delete User by API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bad-csrf-response-when-trying-to-delete-user-by-api/87887)
**Author:** [@ATPJD](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ATPJD)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bad-csrf-response-when-trying-to-delete-user-by-api/87887 "2018-08-01T18:52:15Z")
I am trying to delete a user by API following the docs. We use SSO, which seems to make the API require a cookie header coming from SSO authentication. I got past that, and as long as I supply the cookie, other types of… --- ## [Feature to Reward "Great Topics"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-to-reward-great-topics/125769)
**Author:** [@Mikael\_Baggström](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mikael_Baggstr%C3%B6m)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-to-reward-great-topics/125769 "2021-03-05T03:53:58Z")
Is there any way for me as an admin to reward great and well written topics? Basically I would love to be able to “flag” topics in a positive way, and in any way possible by doing so reward the post itself and/or the me… --- ## [Moderation rights based on authentication method](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-rights-based-on-authentication-method/182132)
**Author:** [@Wall-E](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wall-E)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-rights-based-on-authentication-method/182132 "2021-03-05T02:00:25Z")
Is there a way for moderators to use a certain authentication method, and when using a different authentication method, they do not have their moderation rights (they become just regular users), while still mapping to t… --- ## [Ways to style a post?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ways-to-style-a-post/182134)
**Author:** [@MrDavis97](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MrDavis97)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ways-to-style-a-post/182134 "2021-03-05T01:34:18Z")
I’m editing the FAQ of my site and I’m wondering to what extent the composer can be used to style it beyond what’s in the bbcode plug-in. For example, what if I wanted my FAQ to be “accordion style,” where below each he… --- ## [Dismissed "new" topics still show blue dots in Categories view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissed-new-topics-still-show-blue-dots-in-categories-view/181596)
**Author:** [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissed-new-topics-still-show-blue-dots-in-categories-view/181596 "2021-03-05T01:05:12Z")
Recently, dismissing new topics hasn’t been fully dismissing them, as they still show the blue “new” dot in the Categories view. I’ve seen this consistently on community.wanikani.com, and I just reproduced here as well. … --- ## [Registration process with 2 e-mail addresses](https://meta.discourse.org/t/registration-process-with-2-e-mail-addresses/182107)
**Author:** [@bd8670](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bd8670)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/registration-process-with-2-e-mail-addresses/182107 "2021-03-04T21:42:33Z")
Looking to set-up a closed/private discourse-site. Registration process should be as follows: step 1: go to forum-site and click on “ask for an invite” step 2: wannabe-user has to enter 2 e-mail-addresses n° 1 (= ve… --- ## [Issue with FAQ link on edge case subfolder setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-faq-link-on-edge-case-subfolder-setup/181798)
**Author:** [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-faq-link-on-edge-case-subfolder-setup/181798 "2021-03-04T22:28:34Z")
First, this is an edge case very specific to my setup, with the /f subfolder. Discourse link on hamburger menu points to /faq, without the subfolder, because /faq startsWith /f. Considering this quote: I guess we cou… --- ## [How to make sure all emails are off unless used for activation or password reset](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-sure-all-emails-are-off-unless-used-for-activation-or-password-reset/161251)
**Author:** [@Garrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Garrick)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-sure-all-emails-are-off-unless-used-for-activation-or-password-reset/161251 "2021-03-04T21:41:15Z")
Im having trouble with emails recently. Before I was posting and only when i did @ trust level then they would get email notifications. Lately (within this month or last) somethings gone insane where when i post in categ… --- ## [Add category badge to parent category on categories page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-category-badge-to-parent-category-on-categories-page/181694)
**Author:** [@Pandabear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pandabear)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-category-badge-to-parent-category-on-categories-page/181694 "2021-03-04T20:53:45Z")
Hello, I have observed that in my forum users only publish in the subcategories, for example in the image, The music category is missing the square and the letters have another color, it does not seem like a link, O… --- ## [My discourse speed is very slow](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-discourse-speed-is-very-slow/181735)
**Author:** [@ahmed\_khan1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_khan1)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-discourse-speed-is-very-slow/181735 "2021-03-04T20:41:44Z")
our website was so slow we migrated it to a server our website with 4 core CPUs, 8GB Ram, and 8GB of swap memory our website still so slow. i can’t find a way to optimize my site --- ## [Automatically unsubscribe users from Digest emails who constantly do not open it](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-unsubscribe-users-from-digest-emails-who-constantly-do-not-open-it/182017)
**Author:** [@Terrapop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Terrapop)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-unsubscribe-users-from-digest-emails-who-constantly-do-not-open-it/182017 "2021-03-04T19:01:06Z")
Our community is growing, so do the number of weekly digests sent out each week and thus the costs for Sendgrid. I assume that only a fraction really reading the digests, thus we’re probably sending out a lot of emails … --- ## [Is anyone here using their Discourse instance as their entire website?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-here-using-their-discourse-instance-as-their-entire-website/168580)
**Author:** [@debryc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/debryc)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-here-using-their-discourse-instance-as-their-entire-website/168580 "2021-03-04T18:50:38Z")
In order to simplify our technology stack, I’m wondering if we shouldn’t be hosting a website and a forum separately, but rather reconfiguring Discourse to be both our website and our forum together. I see this is how P… --- ## [Add an extra call from our API upon registration, login, logout, forgot password](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-extra-call-from-our-api-upon-registration-login-logout-forgot-password/182073)
**Author:** [@Cyan\_Suntay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cyan_Suntay)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-extra-call-from-our-api-upon-registration-login-logout-forgot-password/182073 "2021-03-04T17:52:22Z")
how to add an extra call to our API upon registration,login,logout,forgot password without using SSO example: for registration upon saving in registration in Discourse it will trigger a post request to our API and save … --- ## [🇵🇱 Dictionary of Polish translations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slownik-polskich-tlumaczen/157055)
**Author:** [@fenio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fenio)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slownik-polskich-tlumaczen/157055 "2021-03-04T17:27:50Z")
Is there anyone here who is a coordinator/reviewer for Polish translations? I would like to discuss the glossary used in translations. https://www.transifex.com/discourse/discourse-org/glossary/pl\_PL/?page=10 How sh... --- ## [RSS Plugin not pulling certain URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-plugin-not-pulling-certain-urls/184118)
**Author:** [@natlockshin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/natlockshin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-plugin-not-pulling-certain-urls/184118 "2021-03-04T17:18:19Z")
I am using the Discourse RSS Polling plugin to pull Podcast RSS feeds into my forum. For a number of feeds this is working well however for rss.art19.com URLs including https://rss.art19.com/techmeme-ridehome I have no… --- ## [Is it safe to choose y for "Would you like to attempt to recover space by cleaning docker images and containers in the system?"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-safe-to-choose-y-for-would-you-like-to-attempt-to-recover-space-by-cleaning-docker-images-and-containers-in-the-system/181865)
**Author:** [@th21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/th21)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-safe-to-choose-y-for-would-you-like-to-attempt-to-recover-space-by-cleaning-docker-images-and-containers-in-the-system/181865 "2021-03-04T17:05:18Z")
Is it safe to choose y in this option? I run into a situation that I can view the main page of my site but if I try to access from any other incognito windows or other device/browser, will run into a DNS\_PROBE\_FINISHED\_… --- ## [iOS messaging issues with modified material theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-messaging-issues-with-modified-material-theme/182034)
**Author:** [@VinzBrkrt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VinzBrkrt)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-messaging-issues-with-modified-material-theme/182034 "2021-03-04T16:18:45Z")
Hey guys. I’m not a dev so please be gentle with me. We’re running a discourse forum with a modified version of the discourse material theme.. On iOS mobile devices we’re encountering the problem that when users want to … --- ## [Discourse-narrative-bot locales](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-narrative-bot-locales/70186)
**Author:** [@karasardelis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/karasardelis)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-narrative-bot-locales/70186 "2021-03-04T15:39:04Z")
Hi there and congratulation for your great work on Discourse!!! Do you regularly update all locale files from Transifex? I recently finished translating Discourse to Greek language and although most of the translated st… --- ## [Bootsnap::CompileCache::PermissionError](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootsnap-permissionerror/181002)
**Author:** [@marek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marek)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootsnap-permissionerror/181002 "2021-03-04T15:25:55Z")
Hello, everyone. I have fresh installment of Discourse in Docker. So the problem is that after container rebuild, container is up and I can access app page. However, I get 502 as response. In logs or when I try accessin… --- ## [How does the Discourse team do usability testing?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-the-discourse-team-do-usability-testing/181856)
**Author:** [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-the-discourse-team-do-usability-testing/181856 "2021-03-04T15:23:46Z")
I came across this excellent article on how to do low-fi usability testing by @codinghorror. Usability testing (and user testing in general) is something I’d really like to improve, so I appreciate hearing examples of ho… --- ## [New page, setting for admins to change the default sorting from activity to published date](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-page-setting-for-admins-to-change-the-default-sorting-from-activity-to-published-date/182019)
**Author:** [@Terrapop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Terrapop)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-page-setting-for-admins-to-change-the-default-sorting-from-activity-to-published-date/182019 "2021-03-04T12:40:14Z")
Currently, the new page is sorted by last activity. I know there are merits for it, but for some communities and users sorting by the published date of the topics makes a lot more sense. It would be great, if Discourse… --- ## [Data Explorer query for % of topics solved by specific users group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-query-for-of-topics-solved-by-specific-users-group/180880)
**Author:** [@Konrad\_Sopala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Konrad_Sopala)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 11:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-query-for-of-topics-solved-by-specific-users-group/180880 "2021-03-04T11:20:24Z")
Hey there everyone playing with Data Explorer! (Bear with me @michebs :smiley: - I will only have two more questions, I hope other will benefit as well) Has anyone ever created a Data Explorer query for % of topics sol… --- ## [The backup has failed. .tar permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-backup-has-failed-tar-permissions/181990)
**Author:** [@ahmed\_khan1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_khan1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-backup-has-failed-tar-permissions/181990 "2021-03-04T09:15:47Z")
I can’t backup discourse I tried multiple time but the same error occur again and again here is the log \[2021-03-04 08:24:58\] Finalizing backup... \[2021-03-04 08:24:58\] Creating archive: how-to-discuss-2021-03-0… --- ## [Backup failed with permission denied](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923)
**Author:** [@spongeleopard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spongeleopard)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 8:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923 "2021-03-04T08:02:04Z")
I’ve been using Discourse successfully for a while now, but backups have all of a sudden stopped working. Relevant line from the log is below. Not sure what would have caused this permission error to start happening fro… --- ## [Can we ask general questions about the software in #support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-ask-general-questions-about-the-software-in-support/181956)
**Author:** [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-ask-general-questions-about-the-software-in-support/181956 "2021-03-04T01:00:53Z")
I have some questions about the software, but Support seems to be more of actual help inquiries, whereas mine are not really me asking for help on anything, just questions about the software. I also have it understood t… --- ## [How to get an RSS feed for either a complex search or a category-and-tag combination](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-an-rss-feed-for-either-a-complex-search-or-a-category-and-tag-combination/181952)
**Author:** [@SeanOSullivan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SeanOSullivan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-an-rss-feed-for-either-a-complex-search-or-a-category-and-tag-combination/181952 "2021-03-04T00:24:48Z")
Hi everyone .. new to the forum here, pretty new to Discourse. Fabulous product, working to configure it for a reasonably complex use case, as follows. Discourse will underpin a central forum across multiple wider commu… --- ## [Any way to set orientation in manifest.webmanifest to portrait?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-set-orientation-in-manifest-webmanifest-to-portrait/181948)
**Author:** [@MrDavis97](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MrDavis97)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-set-orientation-in-manifest-webmanifest-to-portrait/181948 "2021-03-04T00:21:08Z")
I tried to edit the metadata\_controller.rb file, but with ./launcher rebuild app it just reset to having the setting for this field empty (as in the user can choose). So, is there any way I can force portrait mode with P… --- ## [Amazon links are failing to onebox](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazon-links-are-failing-to-onebox/181942)
**Author:** [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/amazon-links-are-failing-to-onebox/181942 "2021-03-03T23:58:03Z")
Amazon links are failing to onebox with a 503 error. This was reported on a customer’s site. I’m able to reproduce the issue on Meta and on our sandbox site: https://try.discourse.org/t/amazon-onebox-tests/1406. I’ve tes… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1050) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1052)