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**Author:** [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rails-girls-summer-of-code-2017-backup-providers/65597 "2017-08-11T21:23:43Z")
We’ve officially kicked off the Rails Girls Summer of Code 2017 with our group, berlin diamonds. They’re going to be working on adding extra backup providers to Discourse. This topic can be used by the teams involved fo… --- ## [Allocate comments](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allocate-comments/67895)
**Author:** [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allocate-comments/67895 "2017-08-11T20:43:15Z")
Hello! There is a small offer. But I think it will be useful to many. Because Saw a lot of topics here. File widgets/post.js.es6 There just add: https://github.com/Toxu-ru/Toxu/blob/master/assets/javascripts/discours… --- ## [New to API, 403 Errors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-to-api-403-errors/67841)
**Author:** [@donlucas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/donlucas)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-to-api-403-errors/67841 "2017-08-11T18:43:42Z")
Trying to add a member to a group and not finding a solution in the meta forums. (using python’s requests module) requests.put('https://my.discourse.com/groups/the\_group/members.json', data='{"username… --- ## [Set installation path](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903)
**Author:** [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903 "2017-08-11T16:41:51Z")
Hi :wave: I hava an EC2 Server powered by AWS Educate. It has 8GiB of space, but I’ve also used an external drive of 25GiB that can be mounted anywhere How can I make Discourse to install on it’s mount point? Thanks :… --- ## [Remove quote of the solution if solved quote length is set to zero](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-quote-of-the-solution-if-solved-quote-length-is-set-to-zero/61106)
**Author:** [@Kovah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kovah)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-quote-of-the-solution-if-solved-quote-length-is-set-to-zero/61106 "2017-08-11T16:20:07Z")
I would prefer to only display a link to the solved post instead of embedding the whole content. Therefore, setting the option “solved quote length” to 0 (zero) should disable the embedded quote and only display the “Sol… --- ## [Dynamic of community with a chat and discourse page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dynamic-of-community-with-a-chat-and-discourse-page/67579)
**Author:** [@awb715](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awb715)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dynamic-of-community-with-a-chat-and-discourse-page/67579 "2017-08-11T13:51:19Z")
Has anyone started building a community from the ground up and used both chat and discourse as primary uses for the users? I want to build a community that uses a chat like gitter/telegram to have correlated channels an… --- ## [The overall optimization. Plugins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-overall-optimization-plugins/67732)
**Author:** [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-overall-optimization-plugins/67732 "2017-08-11T02:33:39Z")
A specific example. There are 2 plug-in. 1. 1/assets/javascripts/discourse/initializers/1.js.es6 import { withPluginApi } from 'discourse/lib/plugin-api'; import RawHtml from 'discourse/widgets/raw-html'; function … --- ## [Remove \`spork-rails\` from Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-spork-rails-from-discourse/67363)
**Author:** [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-spork-rails-from-discourse/67363 "2017-08-11T00:52:47Z")
As part of our efforts to upgrade to Rails 5, we’ll need to deprecate spork-rails which currently locks Rails to \< 5. However, Rails 5 support for the gem is probably never going to land as the last commit made to the ge… --- ## [Troubleshooting steps for blog post not publishing to discourse category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-steps-for-blog-post-not-publishing-to-discourse-category/67778)
**Author:** [@anon29908737](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon29908737)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-steps-for-blog-post-not-publishing-to-discourse-category/67778 "2017-08-10T22:53:23Z")
How do I troubleshoot when my blog post isn’t publishing to Discourse despite the checkbox being checked? --- ## [A little friendlier hidden post message?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-little-friendlier-hidden-post-message/67540)
**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-little-friendlier-hidden-post-message/67540 "2017-08-10T22:34:05Z")
Below is the current default copy that a user receives if their post has been automatically hidden. Hello, This is an automated message from %{site\_name} to let you know that your post was hidden. %{base\_url}%{url} … --- ## [How to run a ruby script inside docker container?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-run-a-ruby-script-inside-docker-container/67838)
**Author:** [@codechef](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codechef)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-run-a-ruby-script-inside-docker-container/67838 "2017-08-10T21:57:04Z")
I have an existing Discourse community with existing users. I added custom user fields that I need to update from an external source. I created and tested a .rb script in a local development environment. I’d now like to … --- ## [Auto-Liking Bug](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-liking-bug/65998)
**Author:** [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-liking-bug/65998 "2017-08-10T21:39:13Z")
If you like a topic, and then you change the ownership of that topic to your account which has already liked the topic, your like is still there! So you can ‘autolike’ your own topics Shouldn’t this be fixed? --- ## [Discobot vs a non-techie](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-vs-a-non-techie/67742)
**Author:** [@Martin\_Cash](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Martin_Cash)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-vs-a-non-techie/67742 "2017-08-10T21:20:30Z")
It looks like during a “start new user” introduction, Discobot asks the user to post a link, after the user failed to provide what Discobot was looking for, Discobot repeated the request so the member could try again. T… --- ## [Download My Posts failed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/download-my-posts-failed/67613)
**Author:** [@moparisthebest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/moparisthebest)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/download-my-posts-failed/67613 "2017-08-10T19:44:06Z")
User informed me they could not download their posts, I tried as well (button in user/activity), I get a message saying “Data export failed” and this is in the logs: Message Job exception: undefined method \`name' for n… --- ## [Notify moderators of unanswered posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-moderators-of-unanswered-posts/67787)
**Author:** [@jj11909](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jj11909)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-moderators-of-unanswered-posts/67787 "2017-08-10T18:39:13Z")
I can’t seem to find an option to notify administrators of unanswered posts. More so, how can I advise moderators that a post has gone X hours without a response? --- ## [What does engaged mean in your community?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-engaged-mean-in-your-community/67751)
**Author:** [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-engaged-mean-in-your-community/67751 "2017-08-10T18:38:43Z")
For those people that track monthly metrics, what constitutes an engaged member? Someone that has made at least one post in the timeframe? Or does a like count as an engagement? --- ## [Discourse yUML](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-yuml/30448)
**Author:** [@sekhat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sekhat)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-yuml/30448 "2017-08-10T10:04:02Z")
discourse-yuml adds yUML support to discourse. From the readme discourse-yuml Add the ability to write yUML class diagrams directly into a discourse post. Installation Docker To install in docker, add the followin… --- ## [OAuth Email missing in data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oauth-email-missing-in-data-explorer/67766)
**Author:** [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oauth-email-missing-in-data-explorer/67766 "2017-08-10T09:30:36Z")
Using this query: SELECT id, username, email FROM users The following is returned All those NULL results are people who have signed up using Google OAuth2 The emails are in the system correctly, I can see them in … --- ## [A new category for community practices](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-category-for-community-practices/67764)
**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-category-for-community-practices/67764 "2017-08-10T08:23:10Z")
We’ve finally taken the leap and moved the now-defunct #community-management tag to its own dedicated Community Building category. We’re looking forward to making community management a more frequently discussed topic … --- ## [User list statistics are simply wrong](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-list-statistics-are-simply-wrong/67646)
**Author:** [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-list-statistics-are-simply-wrong/67646 "2017-08-10T03:55:27Z")
I’m trying to understand how current /users listing works. The numbers are wrong or I have wrong understanding of user list. Maybe somebody can explain it to me. For example if I take default filter here on meta: an… --- ## [SSO Authentication Issue with differently cased emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-authentication-issue-with-differently-cased-emails/67273)
**Author:** [@Martin\_Cash](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Martin_Cash)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-authentication-issue-with-differently-cased-emails/67273 "2017-08-10T03:06:23Z")
Today, I had a case of a member that would be redirected to the “confirm your email address” page every time they signed in to Discourse. They are able to sign in to other assets that use our authentication method just f… --- ## [Show who's the topic's author, optional, per-category, with custom title](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-whos-the-topics-author-optional-per-category-with-custom-title/48673)
**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-whos-the-topics-author-optional-per-category-with-custom-title/48673 "2017-08-10T00:40:04Z")
I have a category where goat-farmers create their personal pages (= topics) about their farms. Those topics quickly become 300+ messages and engage comparatively many participants. For this category only, I’d like to sp… --- ## [A forum without username](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-forum-without-username/67728)
**Author:** [@Stranger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranger)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-forum-without-username/67728 "2017-08-10T00:30:32Z")
I understand user account is necessary to join a forum. Members with good reputation, of course, often have a good name associated with their user name. However, other members may have prejudice against minority of mem… --- ## [Email-in containing \\](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-in-containing-br-b/67342)
**Author:** [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-in-containing-br-b/67342 "2017-08-09T22:46:38Z")
We’ve run into this annoying bug a number of times on discourse.mozilla.org, where users will send an email to Discourse and half of the email will go missing for no apparent reason. The reason is, as it turns out, beca… --- ## [\[Solved\] In plugin: opening the composer without changing the route](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-in-plugin-opening-the-composer-without-changing-the-route/67710)
**Author:** [@jack2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jack2)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-in-plugin-opening-the-composer-without-changing-the-route/67710 "2017-08-09T21:01:00Z")
I would like to open the composer from my plugin. But I cannot use the composing a new pre-filled topic via URL method, because I don’t want to change the route. I’ve tried the method explained here, but it doesn’t seem… --- ## [Mybb.rb imports nothing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-rb-imports-nothing/42070)
**Author:** [@precessor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/precessor)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-rb-imports-nothing/42070 "2017-08-09T18:02:56Z")
I’m running the mybb.rb script as described by @elberet and the script is running and returns successfully, but no changes result. The script contains the correct remote host name, db name, pw, etc. The remote server is… --- ## [Change staff-email adress confirmation message unclear](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-staff-email-adress-confirmation-message-unclear/67708)
**Author:** [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-staff-email-adress-confirmation-message-unclear/67708 "2017-08-09T17:43:48Z")
tl;dr: js.user.change\_email.success should be slightly altered Reproduction path: go to your staff profile change your email address from (original@example.com to changed@example.com), click confirm see this confirmat… --- ## [Feature request: search filter to see messages/topics with timer reminders set](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-search-filter-to-see-messages-topics-with-timer-reminders-set/67718)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-search-filter-to-see-messages-topics-with-timer-reminders-set/67718 "2017-08-09T15:27:24Z")
I was just showing the topic timer reminder feature to a colleague, and she is very impressed by it and would like to start using it to reach out to members via PM and to remind herself to follow up if there is no reply. … --- ## [Discourse's strength might be a weakness to my community idea](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-strength-might-be-a-weakness-to-my-community-idea/67700)
**Author:** [@awb715](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awb715)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-strength-might-be-a-weakness-to-my-community-idea/67700 "2017-08-09T15:23:02Z")
I am planning on making a community for people who are studying for a certain exam. People can ask questions on difficult topics, testing experiences, and career advice for people who have passed the exam or people inte… --- ## [Upgrade failed: null value in column "updated\_at" violates not-null constraint](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-null-value-in-column-updated-at-violates-not-null-constraint/67645)
**Author:** [@tanmaya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tanmaya)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-null-value-in-column-updated-at-violates-not-null-constraint/67645 "2017-08-09T14:26:33Z")
I see below error when trying to to upgrade a discourse forum from 1.8 beta 4 to 1.9 beta5: /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.0.0/exe/rake:27:in \`\' /usr/local/bin/bundle:22:in \`loa… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1651&state=watching) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1653&state=watching)