# Latest **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1613 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 1614 --- ## [Discourse-cakeday/client.en.yml contains an empty translation string](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-cakeday-client-en-yml-contains-an-empty-translation-string/74729)
**Author:** [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-cakeday-client-en-yml-contains-an-empty-translation-string/74729 "2017-12-04T13:31:57Z")
Hi, yesterday @neil pushed the Cakeday files to Transifex for translation. Thank you very much! One empty string is being called for (an impossible) translation in the client file, see number 6 at https://www.transifex.… --- ## [Unique characters in password - good or bad?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-characters-in-password-good-or-bad/75305)
**Author:** [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-characters-in-password-good-or-bad/75305 "2017-12-04T12:38:02Z")
When using Discourse as a private repository of sensitive/confidential information, we care about password security. My question is: is enforcing unique characters in passwords a good practice or bad? The Internet seem… --- ## [Wrong hours number in the message saying "You've reached your likes today"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-hours-number-in-the-message-saying-youve-reached-your-likes-today/75324)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-hours-number-in-the-message-saying-youve-reached-your-likes-today/75324 "2017-12-04T12:12:45Z")
Today at Discourse Meta I encountered this limit for the very first time in last 3 years. Seems like the number is incorrect: Just a minor non-priority fix. --- ## [Does it make any sense to colocate your own hardware for running a single Discourse instance?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-it-make-any-sense-to-colocate-your-own-hardware-for-running-a-single-discourse-instance/75310)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-it-make-any-sense-to-colocate-your-own-hardware-for-running-a-single-discourse-instance/75310 "2017-12-04T06:51:43Z")
Are there any preconditions for running a single Discourse instance on your own hardware (colocation), rather than renting a VPS (e.g. Digital Ocean) or a dedicated server (e.g. Softlayer or Hetzner)? I’ve never had an … --- ## [\[PAID\] 100USD bounty to fix mumble plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-100usd-bounty-to-fix-mumble-plugin/73904)
**Author:** [@adorfer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adorfer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-100usd-bounty-to-fix-mumble-plugin/73904 "2017-12-04T01:31:01Z")
Issue: Fix not compatible with latest discourse · Issue #4 · nunof07/discourse-mumble · GitHub in order to run GitHub - nunof07/discourse-mumble: Mumble Viewer plugin for Discourse · GitHub with current discourse (and… --- ## [Voting Feature / Poll](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voting-feature-poll/75292)
**Author:** [@jousefm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jousefm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voting-feature-poll/75292 "2017-12-03T23:28:02Z")
Hi guys! Is there a voting feature implemented where users can vote multiple times (like a counter) as well as adding their own issue to the vote application? Thanks a lot and cheers! --- ## [Self-Censorship on Facebook (Paper)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-censorship-on-facebook-paper/75277)
**Author:** [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-censorship-on-facebook-paper/75277 "2017-12-03T13:29:53Z")
Interesting paper.. https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM13/paper/viewFile/6093/6350 Abstract We report results from an exploratory analysis examining “last-minute” self-censorship, or content that is filtere… --- ## [Leverage browser caching for logo](https://meta.discourse.org/t/leverage-browser-caching-for-logo/75256)
**Author:** [@dfriestedt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfriestedt)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/leverage-browser-caching-for-logo/75256 "2017-12-03T10:38:55Z")
I’m running a pagespeed test on my site, discuss.endurancelab.fit. One result indicates the logo is not cached. Is there something I can do to cache the logo, or should I forget this? https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.co… --- ## [Top should have open / closed / all selectable filter](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-should-have-open-closed-all-selectable-filter/75228)
**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-should-have-open-closed-all-selectable-filter/75228 "2017-12-02T22:15:15Z")
For certain categories looking at “top” and “open” is way more interesting than looking at boring “top” with both open and close. For example: https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature/l/top/all?status=open this is a wond… --- ## [Prevent Slack from unfurling anything for login-required sites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-slack-from-unfurling-anything-for-login-required-sites/75233)
**Author:** [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-slack-from-unfurling-anything-for-login-required-sites/75233 "2017-12-02T21:25:18Z")
Our Discourse instance is private and we use the discourse-slackdoor plugin to allow Slack to unfurl the contents of posts that are shared in our private Slack. But Slack still tries to do it’s own unfurling of the link… --- ## [SSO avatar sync not working due to incorrect HTTP HEAD response](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatar-sync-not-working-due-to-incorrect-http-head-response/74979)
**Author:** [@Dany](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dany)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatar-sync-not-working-due-to-incorrect-http-head-response/74979 "2017-12-01T12:47:57Z")
My main website is connected to my discourse application with SSO activated. Evrything work fine but the avatar syncing between website discourse. I read all the thread about this and didn’t find any solution. I have … --- ## [Restrict width of the composer when the preview is hidden?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-width-of-the-composer-when-the-preview-is-hidden/75198)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://meta.discourse.org/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-width-of-the-composer-when-the-preview-is-hidden/75198 "2017-12-02T20:22:07Z")
Since you’re focused on improvements to the composer, here’s some feedback on the ‘hide preview’ view in particular. I have always found this view to be unusable because of the more than doubled line length. I made a… --- ## [How to remove someone from a Message?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518)
**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518 "2017-12-02T20:10:33Z")
I know it’s possible to add people to a Message topic, but how does one remove a user? --- ## [Backup has failed. pg\_dump: server version: 9.6.3; pg\_dump version: 9.5.10](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-has-failed-pg-dump-server-version-9-6-3-pg-dump-version-9-5-10/75235)
**Author:** [@michaeltcoelho](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeltcoelho)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-has-failed-pg-dump-server-version-9-6-3-pg-dump-version-9-5-10/75235 "2017-12-02T16:54:42Z")
Hi folks! I’m getting notified by discourse’s system user about that my backup has failed. On the doc it says that Discourse accepts Postgres 9.3+ versions and i’m using 9.6.3. \[2017-12-02 03:32:09\] \[STARTED\] \[2017-12-… --- ## [Allow some users to Schedule Publishing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-some-users-to-schedule-publishing/75229)
**Author:** [@ZackFea](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ZackFea)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 11:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-some-users-to-schedule-publishing/75229 "2017-12-02T11:06:24Z")
As a admin I am able to create an unlisted topic and schedule the publishing using the topic timer. This is awesome feature and I would like to allow a specific group of users to do this. As there no group based permis… --- ## [The use of categories, tags as the home page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-use-of-categories-tags-as-the-home-page/75230)
**Author:** [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-use-of-categories-tags-as-the-home-page/75230 "2017-12-02T10:24:07Z")
I saw the following subject: Just how bad is it to have 750 categories Looked code. Is it enough to make changes to the following items? app/models/user\_option.rb def homepage case homepage\_id when 1 then "l… --- ## [Show "updated topics above this line" in the topic list?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-updated-topics-above-this-line-in-the-topic-list/48641)
**Author:** [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-updated-topics-above-this-line-in-the-topic-list/48641 "2017-12-02T10:12:47Z")
One thing that Slack does, is highlight the position of where you last read when you re-enter a conversation: We recently migrated a very large (4 million post) vBulletin site, and some of the users struggle with the… --- ## [Improving discovery of the badge title feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-the-badge-title-feature/27372)
**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-the-badge-title-feature/27372 "2017-12-02T10:11:14Z")
I’d like to suggest some simple UX changes to increase the discoverability of badge titles. Badges used to be a big deal on my old forum. Users would be proud of their newly earned “Contributor” badge, and would sometim… --- ## [Upload progress bar should use the "grippie" area](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-progress-bar-should-use-the-grippie-area/75047)
**Author:** [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-progress-bar-should-use-the-grippie-area/75047 "2017-11-29T22:42:12Z")
Regarding to the upload process, I would suggest a very cool UX feature: It would be very nice & shiny, if the current state will be (also) shown as progress bar in the “grippie” area :wink: What do you think? --- ## [User preference: Latest vs categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-preference-latest-vs-categories/44033)
**Author:** [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 9:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-preference-latest-vs-categories/44033 "2017-12-02T09:26:21Z")
I’ve seen several discussions on one vs the other as the homepage. Is there a reason not to make this a user preference? --- ## [Which branch of Discourse is used internally?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-branch-of-discourse-is-used-internally/75181)
**Author:** [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-branch-of-discourse-is-used-internally/75181 "2017-12-02T05:18:49Z")
This question is somewhat following on from the new “Weekly Summaries” (which I think are a great idea!): Weekly Discourse Summary? - #37 by jomaxro. These summaries are going to be about the beta releases, while the def… --- ## [No warning before destroying draft when composer is minimized](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-warning-before-destroying-draft-when-composer-is-minimized/75046)
**Author:** [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-warning-before-destroying-draft-when-composer-is-minimized/75046 "2017-11-30T01:30:33Z")
not sure if this has anything to do with the new composer, but it seems that drafts (both posts and topics) are not saved anymore if I press the close button here: --- ## [Understanding email in functionality](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097)
**Author:** [@Neil\_Brooks2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neil_Brooks2)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097 "2017-12-01T23:02:22Z")
HI, I notice that its possible to turn on the facility for people to send an email to a specific email address which in turn will post their reply as a new topic or perhaps a response to a topic. Does this person need … --- ## [Badges on the avatar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-on-the-avatar/73702)
**Author:** [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-on-the-avatar/73702 "2017-12-01T19:44:21Z")
Has anyone ever implemented a plugin where the badges total (per gold/silver/bronze) category were visible on the user avatar (a la Stack Overflow)? I know there was a lot of discussion on this topic several years ago… --- ## [Weekly Discourse Summary?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weekly-discourse-summary/74881)
**Author:** [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weekly-discourse-summary/74881 "2017-12-01T19:19:35Z")
Hi, it is exciting to see all the developments in Discourse each day. I wonder if anyone else feels overwhelmed by the challenge of keeping up with all that is changing? If so, I wonder if the team might consider - now o… --- ## [Colour Scheme - can't select light theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/colour-scheme-cant-select-light-theme/74971)
**Author:** [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/colour-scheme-cant-select-light-theme/74971 "2017-12-01T19:03:39Z")
With the new composer rolled into tests-passed I was just looking at colour schemes and found that selecting the light theme exhibits some strange behaviour: Customize \> Themes \> New By default the scheme appears as: … --- ## [New users via API if allow new unchecked](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-users-via-api-if-allow-new-unchecked/75103)
**Author:** [@Martyr2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Martyr2)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-users-via-api-if-allow-new-unchecked/75103 "2017-12-01T18:36:40Z")
Hello, I was attempting to setup a new user via the API when I received an error back saying that our hosted version of discourse does “not allow new users at this time”. I discovered that the “allow new registrations” c… --- ## [Paying for content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paying-for-content/71441)
**Author:** [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paying-for-content/71441 "2017-12-01T18:02:46Z")
I’m curious – to do what? --- ## [Some transifex mistakes?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-transifex-mistakes/75161)
**Author:** [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-transifex-mistakes/75161 "2017-12-01T16:39:00Z")
Hello Team, in transifex, I think there is a problem with this key: user.destroy\_reasons.same\_ip\_address It said: Is it ok that “1%i p\_address%” ? :thinking: Can you check it? Other key with problems: js.post.ac… --- ## [Discourse 1.9.0.beta15 Release Notes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-9-0-beta15-release-notes/75171)
**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-9-0-beta15-release-notes/75171 "2017-12-01T14:52:38Z")
While we have always posted detailed release notes for major version along with a blog post highlighting major features, we don’t generally talk about our 10+ beta releases leading up to the major release. After hearing … [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1612) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1614)