# Latest

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1516

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## [Fake iPhone Review Day?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fake-iphone-review-day/94908)

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**Author:** [@jameshahnii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jameshahnii)\
**תשובות:** 2\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fake-iphone-review-day/94908 "2018-08-16T18:58:46Z")

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What’s with the flood of fake reviews on the Discourse iPhone app today? Just started my trial and it ain’t a good look.

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## ["unanswered" button no longer works](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unanswered-button-no-longer-works/53484)

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**Author:** [@Jessica\_CockroachDB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jessica_CockroachDB)\
**תשובות:** 6\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unanswered-button-no-longer-works/53484 "2018-08-16T15:24:00Z")

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Hi there, I use the “unanswered” button on my forum (), and it has stopped working. I noticed the glitch on November 18, which is when I switched the forum’s “home” view to “categories with featured topics”. “Latest” an…

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## [Keeping rails/dev up to date](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keeping-rails-dev-up-to-date/94832)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**תשובות:** 5\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keeping-rails-dev-up-to-date/94832 "2018-08-16T15:20:21Z")

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TL;DR Perhaps: Should do git pull in .rbenv and ruby-build if they exist already and then this script can be used to update stuff? Or is there something more obvious that I should be doing? The long, sad story I jus…

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## [User Fields to validate users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-fields-to-validate-users/94878)

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**Author:** [@Kyle\_Risi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kyle_Risi)\
**תשובות:** 2\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-fields-to-validate-users/94878 "2018-08-16T14:59:40Z")

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Hi Guys, We are keen to ensure our users can begin engaging with content on our community as soon as possible after signup, however, we also need to ensure users are also validated. We are using a ‘user field’ on the s…

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## [Staff group members to watch all topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-group-members-to-watch-all-topics/94787)

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**Author:** [@stanislaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stanislaw)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-group-members-to-watch-all-topics/94787 "2018-08-16T14:27:50Z")

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Hi, is it possible to set somewhere staff members to watch all topics so that any reply on existing topics or creating new topic email notification was sent to staff members?

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## [Adding jsonb columns for custom fields](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-jsonb-columns-for-custom-fields/93418)

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**Author:** [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)\
**תשובות:** 17\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-jsonb-columns-for-custom-fields/93418 "2018-08-16T14:07:30Z")

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Often times when developing plugins, I’ve had to use the CustomField or PluginRowStore tables to store arbitrary data related to the plugin (for example, retort stores a string representation of reactions to a particular…

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## [Notification menu - unnecessary white space](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-menu-unnecessary-white-space/94810)

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**Author:** [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)\
**תשובות:** 10\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-menu-unnecessary-white-space/94810 "2018-08-16T12:46:12Z")

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There is a UI bug in which there is unnecessary white space under the log out button/bottom of the notification menu. When you close it and open it again then it goes away, so it appears this happens on the inital reques…

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## [Mobile: Tag field shown on top of editor preview](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-tag-field-shown-on-top-of-editor-preview/94847)

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**Author:** [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 5:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-tag-field-shown-on-top-of-editor-preview/94847 "2018-08-16T05:18:29Z")

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I discovered another visual bug on mobile where the tag field is displayed over the editor preview. I’m using Chrome (web app version of my site) on Samsung Galaxy S8+. I can also repro on Meta:

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## [How to fix user avatar?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-user-avatar/94675)

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**Author:** [@Ivan\_Rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ivan_Rapekas)\
**תשובות:** 15\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-user-avatar/94675 "2018-08-16T01:53:52Z")

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Hi, one forum member asked me what happened with her avatar based on gravatar. It became default: First we tried to apply new gravatar picture and clean browser cache - nothing changes, then upload custom picture - i…

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## [Installation Error when rebuilding with Discourse Official Plugins (Discourse v2.0.3)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-error-when-rebuilding-with-discourse-official-plugins-discourse-v2-0-3/94739)

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**Author:** [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)\
**תשובות:** 7\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 12:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-error-when-rebuilding-with-discourse-official-plugins-discourse-v2-0-3/94739 "2018-08-16T00:36:12Z")

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Hi, I am having trouble installing discourse at the moment and because of plugins. If I install discourse with the only docker\_manager.git, it works fine. But if with plugins such as Discourse Solved then I get a blank …

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## [How to install ImageMagick 7 in Ubuntu for Development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-imagemagick-7-in-ubuntu-for-development/94833)

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**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**תשובות:** 0\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-imagemagick-7-in-ubuntu-for-development/94833 "2018-08-15T23:05:14Z")

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In case anyone is devloping in Ubuntu, you can not get the correct version of ImageMagick from an apt repo at the moment. This means a few integration tests will regularly fail on local. To get version 7 we have a very…

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## [Sanity check on DiscourseApi error handling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sanity-check-on-discourseapi-error-handling/94753)

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**Author:** [@typeoneerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/typeoneerror)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 6:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sanity-check-on-discourseapi-error-handling/94753 "2018-08-15T18:34:38Z")

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I was having a bit of a hard time getting “errors” responses out of the discourse\_api. I made a quick PR to address this. I’m hoping someone might put some eyeballs on this as a quick sanity check. Is there a way to do w…

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## [Why is my dev server not showing me uploaded images in Topics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-my-dev-server-not-showing-me-uploaded-images-in-topics/94491)

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**Author:** [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**תשובות:** 9\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-my-dev-server-not-showing-me-uploaded-images-in-topics/94491 "2018-08-15T16:29:12Z")

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I’ve just made up 2 dev servers in the cloud in 24 hours (don’t worry, wasn’t focusing the whole time :wink: ) I decided to see if a bigger server would improve performance with a dev install, so the current one is a 4 …

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## [How to send PM to staff group members?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-send-pm-to-staff-group-members/94788)

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**Author:** [@stanislaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stanislaw)\
**תשובות:** 4\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-send-pm-to-staff-group-members/94788 "2018-08-15T12:30:19Z")

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I can’t find how simple user can send PM to staff members (alternative for private topics)

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## [How would change the order of the username and Full Name, as in this forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-would-change-the-order-of-the-username-and-full-name-as-in-this-forum/94775)

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**Author:** [@pat1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pat1)\
**תשובות:** 2\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-would-change-the-order-of-the-username-and-full-name-as-in-this-forum/94775 "2018-08-15T11:36:27Z")

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Hey all, I would like for the users first name to appear before the username when viewing a post, as it does here in on the … discourse discourse. Is there a setting somewhere to configure this? Thanks!

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## [Reserved usernames wildcard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reserved-usernames-wildcard/41968)

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**Author:** [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\
**תשובות:** 17\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reserved-usernames-wildcard/41968 "2018-08-15T08:47:22Z")

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Hmm I did a search on Google and the forum before asking this, but I can’t find it – Moderators have a prefix before their name. So i42-StaffName. For reserved usernames, can I type i42-\* to block all instances of this …

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## [Usernames suddenly have 1 appended to end](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-suddenly-have-1-appended-to-end/94774)

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**Author:** [@JamesNorth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesNorth)\
**תשובות:** 3\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-suddenly-have-1-appended-to-end/94774 "2018-08-15T07:39:36Z")

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Hi folks, I tried searching for this one … but can’t find anything explaining it. I’ve just done an update to one of my Discourse forums just now and almost everyone’s username now has a 1 appended to it. I can’t uneq…

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## [New modeling mechanism](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-modeling-mechanism/94770)

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**Author:** [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\
**תשובות:** 0\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-modeling-mechanism/94770 "2018-08-15T05:04:45Z")

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Maybe this material will be useful. After all, in any product, there are constant talks about improving and better understanding of the interaction models themselves.

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## [Intermittent collaboration wins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-collaboration-wins/94769)

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**Author:** [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**תשובות:** 0\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 4:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-collaboration-wins/94769 "2018-08-15T04:46:56Z")

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Very interesting study But here’s where the researchers found something completely new. Groups that interacted only intermittently preserved the best of both worlds (rather than succumbing to the worst). Even though …

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## [Silenced users shouldn't be able to edit posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547)

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**Author:** [@nawthor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nawthor)\
**תשובות:** 3\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 4:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547 "2018-08-15T04:30:35Z")

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I think silenced users shouldn’t be able to edit their posts. We’ve recently had silenced users go back and edit their recent posts to complain about being silenced, defeating part of the point of silencing them in the f…

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## [סגור נושאים באופן אוטומטי מיד](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topics-immediately/55495)

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**Author:** [@jgujgu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jgujgu)\
**תשובות:** 5\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 4:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topics-immediately/55495 "2018-08-15T04:29:52Z")

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האם אפשרות הסגירה האוטומטית מקבלת רק מספר חיובי לשעות? זה הגיוני, אבל יש קטגוריה של (עבודות) שבה אני מקווה שאנשים יוכלו רק לפרסם נושאים, בלי תגובות. ניסיתי להזין...

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## [Digest email settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-settings/94760)

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**Author:** [@Tango](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tango)\
**תשובות:** 2\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 1:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-settings/94760 "2018-08-15T01:42:35Z")

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Hello, Is it possible to limit contents of this email to specific categories (say a top level category & all of its sub categories)? Or alternatively Disable this feature? Thanks in advance Todd

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## [Assigning Votes to existing ideas](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assigning-votes-to-existing-ideas/94711)

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**Author:** [@Kyle\_Risi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kyle_Risi)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assigning-votes-to-existing-ideas/94711 "2018-08-15T00:51:24Z")

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Hi everyone, We have recently moved our community to discourse from our previous one and have a number of existing ideas that we want to copy over, these ideas already had a number of votes that were previously cast. M…

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## [How to balance confidentiality with openness in Discourse configuration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-balance-confidentiality-with-openness-in-discourse-configuration/11740)

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**Author:** [@lamp515](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lamp515)\
**תשובות:** 6\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 12:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-balance-confidentiality-with-openness-in-discourse-configuration/11740 "2018-08-15T00:07:56Z")

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This is my first post here, though I’ve been reading for several months. For 15 years I’ve run a little forum in a walled garden. Our community of about 400 subscribers is for parents of children with a certain medical…

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## [Infinite scroll not working in "Latest" on Mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scroll-not-working-in-latest-on-mobile/93741)

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**Author:** [@Mr.X\_Mr.X](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mr.X_Mr.X)\
**תשובות:** 14\
**עדכון אחרון:** [14 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scroll-not-working-in-latest-on-mobile/93741 "2018-08-14T23:23:32Z")

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I have a standard v2.1.0 beta 2 install and the “Latest” section on Mobile only shows a certain number of topics (the number set by the admin at the categories topics field). After those topics (our discourse default is…

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## [How dificult would it be to add KaTeX?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-dificult-would-it-be-to-add-katex/253654)

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**Author:** [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)\
**תשובות:** 8\
**עדכון אחרון:** [14 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-dificult-would-it-be-to-add-katex/253654 "2018-08-14T23:12:20Z")

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I wonder how dificult it would be to add KaTeX and whether smoebody is considering this. It seems that their code is maturing fast. It would have an added benefit in our case to have the same rendering as Khan Academy o…

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## [Display number likes on latest, category pages?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-number-likes-on-latest-category-pages/94751)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [14 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-number-likes-on-latest-category-pages/94751 "2018-08-14T21:56:57Z")

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A client saw an old screenshot showing the number of likes on a category and/or latest page. I’ve searched and searched and don’t see a way to do that. Am I missing something obvious?

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## [Plugins no more supported by Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-no-more-supported-by-discourse/94723)

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**Author:** [@john3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john3)\
**תשובות:** 2\
**עדכון אחרון:** [14 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-no-more-supported-by-discourse/94723 "2018-08-14T16:18:25Z")

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Hi, Recently I had a problem with discourse installation, as last time I installed discourse from scratch was version 1.3.1, and later just kept updating it. So some plugins I guess are no more supported by official dis…

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## [Watching first post notification for users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-first-post-notification-for-users/94523)

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**Author:** [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [13 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 5:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-first-post-notification-for-users/94523 "2018-08-13T05:41:24Z")

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Scenario 1: A user makes really good topics and I want to be alerted to new ones they post (e.g. we have a math wiz on our forum who makes really informative tutorials) Scenario 2: A problematic user needs ~50% of his t…

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## [הוספות לרקע בנושא Graceful](https://meta.discourse.org/t/background-additions-to-graceful-theme/314567)

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**Author:** [@tmoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tmoko)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [14 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/background-additions-to-graceful-theme/314567 "2018-08-14T14:25:45Z")

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אני רוצה לשתף כמה שיפורים ששימחו אותי (אשמח לנסות להגיש PR אם תחשוב שאולי יהיו טובים כברירת מחדל) ללא אפשרות רקע: ב- common.scss: body { background-color: $primary-very-low; …

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