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## [Can't create a new topic in a subcategory newly created unless we reload the page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-a-new-topic-in-a-subcategory-newly-created-unless-we-reload-the-page/168694)

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**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-a-new-topic-in-a-subcategory-newly-created-unless-we-reload-the-page/168694 "2020-11-02T15:00:08Z")

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Steps: Create a new subcategory Go in the subcategory page New topic button is greyed out and the notification button has no icon: The issue remains until we reload the entire page, then the buttons work:

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## [Import mbox maps charset=windows-1252 to �](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-mbox-maps-charset-windows-1252-to/168908)

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**Author:** [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-mbox-maps-charset-windows-1252-to/168908 "2020-11-02T13:50:20Z")

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Bonjour, When importing the mbox containing this message windows.txt (3.7 KB) it shows like this: It is likely an encoding problem because it has: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Ot…

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## [Unable to "Delete All Posts" when there are posts that belong to megatopic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-all-posts-when-there-are-posts-that-belong-to-megatopic/131652)

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**Author:** [@RobinTS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobinTS)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-all-posts-when-there-are-posts-that-belong-to-megatopic/131652 "2020-11-02T13:46:45Z")

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I’m experiencing a problem on my community. I’m unable to “delete all posts” of certain users. From what I can tell it’s only happening to older accounts with a lot of posts. Newer accounts don’t face this problem. I’ve…

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## [Icons not showing on theme creator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-not-showing-on-theme-creator/168857)

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**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/icons-not-showing-on-theme-creator/168857 "2020-11-02T10:55:14Z")

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Some icons don’t show on the theme creator: Tested on Chrome and Firefox.

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## [Sidekiq queue growing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-queue-growing/66558)

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**Author:** [@Jose\_C\_Gomez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jose_C_Gomez)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidekiq-queue-growing/66558 "2018-05-16T12:05:00Z")

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I’ve got more than 6K items in my sidekiq queue and growing It appears to be related to the transaltion plugin in I’ve removed the plugin and rebuilt but the queue still has the jobs. Any way to clear the queue of…

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## [Add a column to the topics list with the creation date](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-column-to-the-topics-list-with-the-creation-date/140834)

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**Author:** [@Javier\_Galan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Javier_Galan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-column-to-the-topics-list-with-the-creation-date/140834 "2020-11-02T09:57:28Z")

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Hi, my list with topics shows the following columns. Topic title , authors involved, Replies, Views and activity. Could I get some clues on how to add a new column field with the topic creation date? Thank you!

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## [How To Change Top Color Bar/Theme Color?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-top-color-bar-theme-color/168955)

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**Author:** [@CaptainZac](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CaptainZac)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-top-color-bar-theme-color/168955 "2020-11-02T08:34:52Z")

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How do I change the top bar colore (like the IFC) to any different color. It really can be any color, I just don’t know how to do it. Thanks (example below)

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## [Remote Content, PII and Hotlinking](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remote-content-pii-and-hotlinking/168646)

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**Author:** [@yosignals](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yosignals)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remote-content-pii-and-hotlinking/168646 "2020-11-02T08:29:09Z")

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Hey all, I love the platform, I’m looking for some guidance around controlling remote content locations, Such as I want to forbid untrusted resources from loading, in an example I could use a jpg this one " " isn’t ac…

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## [How to prevent smart dates in the calendar bbcode?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-smart-dates-in-the-calendar-bbcode/168927)

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**Author:** [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-smart-dates-in-the-calendar-bbcode/168927 "2020-11-02T07:08:25Z")

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I would like to be able to show a date as a day of the week. Using dddd works if the date is at least a week away: Saturday (UTC) \[date=2025-11-01 time=18:00:00 timezone="Europe/Madrid" format="dddd"\] But if the date …

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## [Who is this post in response to?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-is-this-post-in-response-to/168910)

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**Author:** [@nildarar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nildarar)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-is-this-post-in-response-to/168910 "2020-11-02T06:40:48Z")

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User A: Creates a topic User B: Posts a reply to the topic User C: Immediately after user B’s response, sends a reply to user B. At this moment, a notification is sent to user A and user B, informing them that they ha…

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## [Error in loading dashboard reports when using moment-jalaali.js](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-in-loading-dashboard-reports-when-using-moment-jalaali-js/168909)

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**Author:** [@nildarar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nildarar)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 6:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-in-loading-dashboard-reports-when-using-moment-jalaali-js/168909 "2020-11-02T06:18:31Z")

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Continuing the discussion from How to properly display jalali dates for Persian language: As mentioned above, we added the moment-jalaali script to the theme and changed the date display formats in the site’s text setti…

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## [Domain names pointing with shared AWS instance](https://meta.discourse.org/t/domain-names-pointing-with-shared-aws-instance/87520)

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**Author:** [@jwtan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jwtan)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/domain-names-pointing-with-shared-aws-instance/87520 "2018-05-16T12:04:32Z")

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Hello, I have my website (Wordpress) and Discourse forum sharing the same AWS instance with the same public ip address. The website has the domain name while Discourse forum has its subdomain. Both domain names point to…

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## [Allow restriction of tags to non-staff groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-restriction-of-tags-to-non-staff-groups/161322)

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**Author:** [@Mark\_Walkom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Walkom)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-restriction-of-tags-to-non-staff-groups/161322 "2020-11-02T01:35:10Z")

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You can currently limit tag groups to the staff group; It’d be nice to be able to limit these to other groups, as we don’t use the Staff group for our own team members.

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## [Can I override app/views/layouts/application.html.erb from a plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-override-app-views-layouts-application-html-erb-from-a-plugin/47267)

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**Author:** [@npflood](https://meta.discourse.org/u/npflood)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-override-app-views-layouts-application-html-erb-from-a-plugin/47267 "2020-11-02T00:14:03Z")

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I have a very specific scenario where I need to load and cache the site header and footer from our primary website. This is fairly trivial to do in ERB: \<!-- My Customization --\> \<% cache("footer\_#{I18n.locale}", expi…

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## [The way to go, with a posted video](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-way-to-go-with-a-posted-video/151761)

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**Author:** [@Wimmm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wimmm)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 29, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-way-to-go-with-a-posted-video/151761 "2020-10-29T21:33:38Z")

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I know Discourse is for conversations, not for multimedia. In the industry that our forum is aimed at, a video is sometimes very useful to explain a case. What is a good way to deal with this? People, and therefore fo…

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## [Handling uploaded videos](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-uploaded-videos/79917)

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**Author:** [@twbartlett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twbartlett)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 29, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-uploaded-videos/79917 "2020-10-29T21:35:02Z")

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We have a client who would like to upload video - but this could be any video and would need transcoding. Discourse is clearly not a video hosting platform - so we were thinking about trying to involved a 3rd party tran…

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## [Live typing feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/live-typing-feature/168943)

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**Author:** [@golfman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/golfman)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/live-typing-feature/168943 "2020-11-01T22:47:21Z")

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Is there anyway to show live typing dots (like iMessage or Facebook messenger) when somebody is typing a reply in a topic? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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## [Is it possible to auto import Twitter discussions?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-auto-import-twitter-discussions/168942)

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**Author:** [@Majed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Majed)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-auto-import-twitter-discussions/168942 "2020-11-01T22:26:38Z")

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I have a very active Twitter account for my community which is getting great discussion on Twitter. As you know Twitter feed will go out of followers attention in view days. Is there any plug-in / tool to import all or…

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## [Best Settings To Have On To Keep The Community Engaged](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-settings-to-have-on-to-keep-the-community-engaged/168807)

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**Author:** [@CaptainZac](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CaptainZac)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-settings-to-have-on-to-keep-the-community-engaged/168807 "2020-11-01T21:56:54Z")

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Like all other admins throughout the discourse community, our main goal is to make sure that the community stays engaged. My community is great, but I want any recommendations possible to make sure that they will stay en…

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## [Confusing about the review settings text](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-about-the-review-settings-text/168654)

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**Author:** [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-about-the-review-settings-text/168654 "2020-11-01T21:34:26Z")

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Source String: Send @%{username} a message Key: post\_action\_types.notify\_user.title File: server.yml %{username} look like a placeholder but never be fill up, how about replace it whth some meaningful word?

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## [What are the "score" and "percent\_rank" fields on the topics table?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-score-and-percent-rank-fields-on-the-topics-table/87597)

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**Author:** [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-score-and-percent-rank-fields-on-the-topics-table/87597 "2018-05-16T06:41:57Z")

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I was exploring some data this evening and came across the score and percent\_rank fields in the topics table. But it wasn’t immediately obvious to me what these fields are, how they are calculated and what they are used…

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## [Question about max consecutive replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-max-consecutive-replies/168913)

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**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-max-consecutive-replies/168913 "2020-11-01T13:40:06Z")

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max consecutive replies is set to 3 and hasn’t been changed. However, I see a topic in my forum where a user posted more than 3 replies in a row: Can you explain why the limit wasn’t applied here? :thinking:

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## [Restoring lost posts from mails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526)

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**Author:** [@gwmngilfen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526 "2018-05-16T01:09:44Z")

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We recently had a catastrophic failure of the hypervisor running or Discourse VM, and had to restore from a previous backup. Huge props to the people who on that, it was trivial to restore the site. My question is about…

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## [Clean up (or validate) Postgres data?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clean-up-or-validate-postgres-data/168668)

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**Author:** [@wincenworks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wincenworks)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clean-up-or-validate-postgres-data/168668 "2020-11-01T00:41:54Z")

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Hi, There’s been some ongoing issues with server stability with my cloud service and it appears one of them interfered with my latest update and has created some broken interface issues. So I attempted to pull a fresh …

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## [Empty search does not return descriptive message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-search-does-not-return-descriptive-message/168699)

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**Author:** [@heyallan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/heyallan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-search-does-not-return-descriptive-message/168699 "2020-10-31T22:34:18Z")

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The Front-End does not allow empty search and displays a helpful message explaining the search term is too short. However, the API endpoint still allows empty search but the response is a JSON object with a NULL value a…

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## [Unlisting topic doesn’t change category’s topic count](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlisting-topic-doesn-t-change-category-s-topic-count/168387)

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**Author:** [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlisting-topic-doesn-t-change-category-s-topic-count/168387 "2020-10-31T22:06:48Z")

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This will become even less of a problem as the total number increases. But I wonder whether topics which are initially unlisted similarly count towards the category total? That could be annoying if embedded Discourse co…

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## [A sandbox construction - community-managed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-sandbox-construction-community-managed/168374)

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**Author:** [@anon89147131](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon89147131)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-sandbox-construction-community-managed/168374 "2020-10-31T21:32:32Z")

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Hi there, I’ve decided to create a community-managed forum which you can operate, for now it’s WIP but if you would like to help set it up just contact support-en@discourse.work, thanks! It’s hosted on a $5 DigitalOc…

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## [Capybaras don't eat real emojis](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capybaras-dont-eat-real-emojis/168361)

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**Author:** [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capybaras-dont-eat-real-emojis/168361 "2020-10-31T20:56:18Z")

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If this is replied to with the actual herb emoji instead of using :herb: the tutorial doesn’t advance anywhere (there is no reply about it being wrong). Seems like something that can trip some beginners in the process…

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## [Change user URL /u/ by @](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-url-u-by/168430)

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**Author:** [@Eduardo\_Braga](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Eduardo_Braga)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-url-u-by/168430 "2020-10-31T20:12:52Z")

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I didn’t find a way to change a user’s URL, but doing a search on Medium, I saw that all user URLs have @ in the user name of their URL. this would highlight the a lot the user name for links on social networks. …

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## [Automating Admin Reports](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automating-admin-reports/168560)

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**Author:** [@holmesjustin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/holmesjustin)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automating-admin-reports/168560 "2020-10-31T19:51:07Z")

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Hello, I am an admin on a Discourse page for a business I work for. One of my responsibilities is to track metrics and record them over time to see how we can improve participation among our users. I would like to have …

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