# Latest **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1677&state=watching [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 1678 --- ## [Native theme support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/native-theme-support/47494)
**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/native-theme-support/47494 "2017-04-12T15:01:56Z")
At the moment Discourse supports 3 mechanisms for amending the “theme” of a Discourse instance: Plugins Plugins can amend both backend and frontend code. They are the most advanced level of customisation. Advantages: … --- ## [Disabling mailing list mode does not update user settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-mailing-list-mode-does-not-update-user-settings/63277)
**Author:** [@jnns](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jnns)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-mailing-list-mode-does-not-update-user-settings/63277 "2017-05-25T11:55:06Z")
If a user enabled mailing list mode in their user settings and an admin disables mailing list mode per admin settings, this change seems not to have an effect on the user notification settings (which are still set to “ma… --- ## [Importing bbPress into Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-bbpress-into-discourse/12719)
**Author:** [@dkobia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dkobia)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-bbpress-into-discourse/12719 "2017-05-25T11:25:54Z")
I forked GitHub - waynegraham/discourse-import-bbpress: bbPress importer for Discourse · GitHub which offered support for only bbPress as a standalone. The bbPress standalone has been deprecated for some time now so Wayn… --- ## [How to recategorize a plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-recategorize-a-plugin/62909)
**Author:** [@jamescobalt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamescobalt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-recategorize-a-plugin/62909 "2017-05-17T22:47:59Z")
There’s a plugin that hasn’t been updated by its author in years and no longer works. It’s a wiki post but changing the category that way doesn’t hold after saving. Confusing. Do we need to flag a mod down to make the ch… --- ## [How to change stats display on 'about' page?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-stats-display-on-about-page/63298)
**Author:** [@MakaryGo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MakaryGo)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-stats-display-on-about-page/63298 "2017-05-25T06:57:43Z")
Hi there. I’d like to show exact stats on our ‘about’ page, that is not ‘3.2k’ but exact number. How can I achieve this? --- ## [Search - Excluding keywords](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-excluding-keywords/63332)
**Author:** [@Paul\_Turpie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_Turpie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-excluding-keywords/63332 "2017-05-25T03:30:24Z")
Is it possible to exclude keywords from a search? I recently wanted to recent search for posts about Microsoft Project on an IT Forum for schools that uses discourse. However, searching for “project” brought back lots o… --- ## [Is there a poll feature?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-poll-feature/63300)
**Author:** [@Andrea\_Roberts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrea_Roberts)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-poll-feature/63300 "2017-05-24T18:13:48Z")
Hi All, Is there a feature to create polls/surveys within Discourse? Thanks, --- ## [Duplicate Solved Notification?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-solved-notification/63321)
**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-solved-notification/63321 "2017-05-24T23:11:42Z")
Putting in Contribute \> Bug, but I don’t have a repro so feel free to move to Support if that is the case. Just got 2 notifications that a post of mine was marked as solved. I’ve seen it before if the post that was ma… --- ## [Onebox user agent](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-user-agent/61498)
**Author:** [@kevinranks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kevinranks)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-user-agent/61498 "2017-05-24T16:21:00Z")
It appears that when onebox fetches a url to grab opengraph data, it sends a user agent string of “Ruby”. Can this be updated to provide a more useful user agent that identifies the crawler properly? --- ## [Quoting a post with a link triggers "duplicate link" education message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-a-link-triggers-duplicate-link-education-message/62690)
**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-a-link-triggers-duplicate-link-education-message/62690 "2017-05-24T18:08:52Z")
It looks like when you quote a post that contains a link this triggers the js.composer.duplicate\_link message: I suppose links in quotes should be excluded? Also, there seems to be a typo in the default version of th… --- ## [Possible to run DFP and Adsense simultaneously?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-run-dfp-and-adsense-simultaneously/63174)
**Author:** [@ked](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ked)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-run-dfp-and-adsense-simultaneously/63174 "2017-05-24T18:04:02Z")
I’m interested in running DFP in one or two of the ad locations, and either Adsense (or for that matter Amazon) code in other locations. Could this present problems? Is anyone currently doing it (example site?). --- ## [All spammer topics that require approval not removed when 'deleted'](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-spammer-topics-that-require-approval-not-removed-when-deleted/63294)
**Author:** [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-spammer-topics-that-require-approval-not-removed-when-deleted/63294 "2017-05-24T16:55:04Z")
In the forum.com/queued-posts list. When you click on the needs approval link to see list of topics requiring approval, when you delete one (and ban ip and delete account and all posts) they are removed from the DB but … --- ## [Changing the invite URL?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-invite-url/63268)
**Author:** [@naupe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/naupe)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-invite-url/63268 "2017-05-24T10:43:14Z")
So, I just got Discourse up and running (I’m hosting Discourse on a personal machine of mine), and people on my development team are able to access and join the forum … well, they can join but only after I instruct them … --- ## [Not receiving Activation Email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-activation-email/62630)
**Author:** [@naupe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/naupe)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-activation-email/62630 "2017-05-24T09:06:10Z")
Hello Discourse community, This is a continuation from this thread: Attempting to install Discourse on private Apache Server - #5 by naupe Well, I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 from scratch (this time without Apache) and… --- ## [Discourse admins - how addicted are you?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admins-how-addicted-are-you/62872)
**Author:** [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admins-how-addicted-are-you/62872 "2017-05-24T07:14:11Z")
This is the surest sign of good software: Running a forum is an absolute pleasure with Discourse. How much time do you spend using your forum(s)? --- ## [Finally Got Discourse Running](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finally-got-discourse-running/62667)
**Author:** [@sulliops](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sulliops)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finally-got-discourse-running/62667 "2017-05-24T05:56:13Z")
I was finally able to get a DigitalOcean droplet up and running thanks to @pfaffman and GitHub for Education for a total of $60 in free credit to get me started. My new forum honestly has no reason to exist, but now that… --- ## [My site is down with a weird SSL notification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-site-is-down-with-a-weird-ssl-notification/63246)
**Author:** [@Yassine\_Yousfi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yassine_Yousfi)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-site-is-down-with-a-weird-ssl-notification/63246 "2017-05-24T03:37:34Z")
My website has been running for a long time now, and suddenly today, after checking the traffic analytics noticed that it’s been down for the whole day. tried getting into the website and I get this error: "Your connect… --- ## [Vagrant installation requires wget](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-installation-requires-wget/63225)
**Author:** [@GlitchMr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GlitchMr)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-installation-requires-wget/63225 "2017-05-23T23:07:29Z")
Without wget, Vagrant tries to download Discourse using some other way than wget (curl, perhaps?), and that for some reason doesn’t work (on Arch Linux, I wonder if it’s any different on other operating systems). Without… --- ## [Mybb import skips importing posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-import-skips-importing-posts/62908)
**Author:** [@smaffulli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smaffulli)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-import-skips-importing-posts/62908 "2017-05-23T20:58:31Z")
hello folks, I’m trying to understand why the import script from mybb is failing to do its job on many posts. I’m trying to import from a forum that has around 190,000 posts. The import scripts imports some of them but m… --- ## [Bug in download counter](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-in-download-counter/63230)
**Author:** [@wiliamjoaquim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wiliamjoaquim)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-in-download-counter/63230 "2017-05-23T20:10:35Z")
I want to contribute with the error that I found, it may not be a mistake! When a member creates a topic that contains a file, it displays a counter of how many times this file has been downloaded. But when I edit the … --- ## [Need to import content from Telligent's Community Server (2008)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-import-content-from-telligents-community-server-2008/63226)
**Author:** [@paully21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paully21)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-import-content-from-telligents-community-server-2008/63226 "2017-05-23T19:48:57Z")
We have an existing community however the members have been complaining about the community’s platform for years. I have recommended Discourse but they are reluctant to lose all the information in the old forum. The old… --- ## [Attachment / Upload email links now throw 404 if not logged in (SSO)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attachment-upload-email-links-now-throw-404-if-not-logged-in-sso/55719)
**Author:** [@wesochuck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wesochuck)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attachment-upload-email-links-now-throw-404-if-not-logged-in-sso/55719 "2017-05-23T19:01:02Z")
I’ve been getting user complaints since our upgrade to v1.8.0.beta1 +3 last week, so this seems to be due to a recent change (sorry we don’t have an older environment for me verify). We are an environment that requires … --- ## [How are you using your Voting category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-you-using-your-voting-category/61737)
**Author:** [@Vocino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vocino)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-you-using-your-voting-category/61737 "2017-05-23T18:00:37Z")
Fellow forum admins, if you’re using the feature voting system, I would love to learn how you’re using it. Right now my workflow is as follows: Users post features in a category called Suggestions where they’re voted … --- ## [No setup wizard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-setup-wizard/62999)
**Author:** [@toorop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/toorop)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-setup-wizard/62999 "2017-05-23T16:38:51Z")
Hi, I’ve just finished my first intallation of discourse but when i go to https://myboard/ there is no setup wizard. If i try /admin or /finish-installation/register i got “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.” … --- ## [Wizard not showing up for new installs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-not-showing-up-for-new-installs/63158)
**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-not-showing-up-for-new-installs/63158 "2017-05-23T15:20:23Z")
Not sure if this is a bug or a change of UX. It used to be that if there were no admin users, a new install would show the :tada: on the new install. On two installs I did today, I just got /latest. --- ## [Ability to require tags on new posts and ban certain tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-require-tags-on-new-posts-and-ban-certain-tags/63197)
**Author:** [@looeee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/looeee)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-require-tags-on-new-posts-and-ban-certain-tags/63197 "2017-05-23T14:57:45Z")
We’ve recently started using discourse for three.js and we have decided to go for a minimum number if categories and use tags for filtering posts. The problem is getting users to use useful tags. It would be helpful if … --- ## [Adding WebRTC support to Discourse with JSCommunicator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-webrtc-support-to-discourse-with-jscommunicator/63199)
**Author:** [@pocock](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pocock)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-webrtc-support-to-discourse-with-jscommunicator/63199 "2017-05-23T14:54:53Z")
It would appear quite easy for a community to get a powerful alternative to Skype if they have WebRTC in Discourse. JSCommunicator is a high-level JavaScript API to the WebRTC stack. It includes HTML and CSS fragments … --- ## [Globally disable the educational advices after a user has reached a certain level](https://meta.discourse.org/t/globally-disable-the-educational-advices-after-a-user-has-reached-a-certain-level/63146)
**Author:** [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/globally-disable-the-educational-advices-after-a-user-has-reached-a-certain-level/63146 "2017-05-22T18:53:58Z")
The educational messages that appears on the right when you open a new topic are very useful for new users but they have become intrusive for power users. Please, note that I’m not talking about those kind of educationa… --- ## [WP + Discourse SSO Continuity Issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-sso-continuity-issue/62897)
**Author:** [@Muiran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muiran)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-sso-continuity-issue/62897 "2017-05-23T09:28:11Z")
How do I configuration WP + Discourse SSO so that there is only a single way to register or sign-on? My intention is a paid membership community, with WordPress public and forum viewable only to membership. My WP + Disco… --- ## [Overwatch Hero Icons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overwatch-hero-icons/51365)
**Author:** [@DanielMarquard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DanielMarquard)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overwatch-hero-icons/51365 "2017-05-23T07:55:31Z")
This plugin for Discourse formats Overwatch hero names in posts. It tries to intelligently match hero names in users’ posts, including those that are horribly misspelled, correcting their spelling, adding accent marks an… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1676&state=watching) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1678&state=watching)