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**Author:** [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-thrown-when-importing-a-query-in-data-explorer/60351 "2017-04-04T08:38:21Z")
When importing a query in Data Explorer: I am seeing this error pop-up: Sorry, an error has occurred. With descriptive error message in console. Added on my list to fix. :pencil: --- ## [Project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2017](https://meta.discourse.org/t/project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2017/57173)
**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2017/57173 "2017-04-03T21:04:28Z")
Continuing the discussion from List of project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016: Please post your links to any appropriate GSoC ideas here. If you’re not familiar with GSoC, briefly put it’s an event run by Google w… --- ## [Urgent, can't create new Topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-cant-create-new-topics/60231)
**Author:** [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-cant-create-new-topics/60231 "2017-04-03T17:09:14Z")
After updating to latest, I can’t create new Topics in my forum. I got this updates. I did a rebuild from the console (./launcher rebuild app). Everything else, beside creating new topics seems to work! NoMethodErr… --- ## [Stop HTML5 video from autoloading](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360)
**Author:** [@SimeonGriggs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimeonGriggs)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360 "2017-04-03T16:59:28Z")
Continuing the discussion from Twitter (and Dailymotion) video onebox autoplays without user interaction: Pasting a URL directly to a video creates an embedded HTML5 video, which depending on the browser, may start auto… --- ## [Allow for pre-registration of fully activated accounts via API without user interaction](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-pre-registration-of-fully-activated-accounts-via-api-without-user-interaction/60339)
**Author:** [@nordize](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nordize)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-pre-registration-of-fully-activated-accounts-via-api-without-user-interaction/60339 "2017-04-03T16:42:22Z")
Using 1.8.0.beta9. I’m doing: curl -d "api\_key=\&api\_username=system&username=USER&name=USER&email=USER@example.com&password=1fe2fdd3b3939b8755a073557c74c0f5&approved=true&active=true" https://discuss.example.com N… --- ## [Frontend customization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frontend-customization/60362)
**Author:** [@shalz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shalz)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frontend-customization/60362 "2017-04-03T15:53:38Z")
Hi I was able to edit all font sizes and colors. But hard to find where to edit the last-posted-at date color. Can some one help me? --- ## [Outgoing invites give overdramatic "not secure connection, could be compromised" warning](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outgoing-invites-give-overdramatic-not-secure-connection-could-be-compromised-warning/60355)
**Author:** [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outgoing-invites-give-overdramatic-not-secure-connection-could-be-compromised-warning/60355 "2017-04-03T15:24:02Z")
This could be a browser warning, but it seems like it’s coming from Discourse: If this was from Discourse, how about a warning before you send out mass invites that they’ll receive a scary sketchy SSL warning with a … --- ## [Google maps embedding broken in 1.8.0.beta8](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-maps-embedding-broken-in-1-8-0-beta8/60076)
**Author:** [@niemeyer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/niemeyer)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-maps-embedding-broken-in-1-8-0-beta8/60076 "2017-04-03T14:03:48Z")
Looking at the HTML generated, there’s a transparent \ right above the map iframe that is overlaid on top of the map: Removing that div in the debugger makes the map work fine. Confirmed broken in Firefox 52.0 an… --- ## [Honouring iOS "Larger Text" accessibility](https://meta.discourse.org/t/honouring-ios-larger-text-accessibility/60363)
**Author:** [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/honouring-ios-larger-text-accessibility/60363 "2017-04-03T13:21:58Z")
One of our members enquired about magnifying the text on her iPad when using the forum, and I looked into this. It is possible to pinch to zoom, but for something more systematic, I wonder if it’s practical / desirable … --- ## [Discourse and chatbot integrations?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-chatbot-integrations/60372)
**Author:** [@arun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arun)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-chatbot-integrations/60372 "2017-04-03T13:17:15Z")
How about using Discourse on chatbots like bots on Telegram or Facebook Messenger? Are there any plugins that achieve this? --- ## [Anonymous posting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258)
**Author:** [@lsaredux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lsaredux)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258 "2017-04-03T08:54:51Z")
Don’t see how you can post anonymously on the boards. I set up a test/regular member account and do not see anonymous mode or anonymous posting options. Can Admins/Mods see which user posted anonymously too? Also can y… --- ## [Granting a newly created badge with no default badge group causes errors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granting-a-newly-created-badge-with-no-default-badge-group-causes-errors/60346)
**Author:** [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granting-a-newly-created-badge-with-no-default-badge-group-causes-errors/60346 "2017-04-03T06:15:11Z")
--- ## [Granting badge via admin gives false positive err](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granting-badge-via-admin-gives-false-positive-err/60345)
**Author:** [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 6:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granting-badge-via-admin-gives-false-positive-err/60345 "2017-04-03T06:14:26Z")
Using the latest and greatest version: Nothing too unusual… “Imperium42 Staff” with a space, used a 32x32 png from a website. Shows fine. Just this err. --- ## [Sharing to Twitter](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-to-twitter/59716)
**Author:** [@arun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arun)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-to-twitter/59716 "2017-04-03T03:15:52Z")
Does Discourse have some kind of plugin or feature for users to automatically share topics to Twitter? This is purely to increase engagement and enable content discovery. Would be very helpful if people can add their Twi… --- ## [Can I see the original email from a non-member?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-see-the-original-email-from-a-non-member/44963)
**Author:** [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-see-the-original-email-from-a-non-member/44963 "2017-04-03T02:28:00Z")
The discourse I manage are by invite only. When a non-member posts, we get them as a Pending member. In almost all cases, they got an email from the forum via Email Address A which is member address, but replied from E… --- ## [Error Log: "Job exception: undefined method \`closed' for nil:NilClass Did you mean? clone"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-log-job-exception-undefined-method-closed-for-nil-nilclass-did-you-mean-clone/60317)
**Author:** [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-log-job-exception-undefined-method-closed-for-nil-nilclass-did-you-mean-clone/60317 "2017-04-03T01:07:58Z")
This is not exactly an error, because everything seems to work as it should. But I really have a lot (several hundred) of this error in the log files of the latest build: Job exception: undefined method \`closed' for nil… --- ## [Custom user fields: Required field asterisk missing for confirmation field](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-required-field-asterisk-missing-for-confirmation-field/59794)
**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-required-field-asterisk-missing-for-confirmation-field/59794 "2017-04-02T20:51:19Z")
Maybe it’s a bit of an exaggeration to call this a bug, but I guess strictly speaking it is: If you set a confirmation type field as required at sign-up, there is no asterisk next to it like with the other field types wh… --- ## [Error installing with vagrant for developent](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-installing-with-vagrant-for-developent/60309)
**Author:** [@razaq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/razaq)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-installing-with-vagrant-for-developent/60309 "2017-04-02T06:09:35Z")
I installed according to Discourse as Your First Rails App | BlogDiscourse and after cloning the repository with Github for windows and running vagrant up I got this error I am using Virtualbox Version 5.1.18 r114002 … --- ## [How does Discourse cloaking store cloaked data?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-cloaking-store-cloaked-data/60296)
**Author:** [@Saurek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Saurek)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-cloaking-store-cloaked-data/60296 "2017-04-01T20:28:18Z")
Hello! I’ve been very interested in how Discourse uses cloaking to unload off screen content. After looking at the source I didn’t see any client-side DBs being used, is post data stored in a variable while off screen? … --- ## [Routing Error uninitialized constant TestController](https://meta.discourse.org/t/routing-error-uninitialized-constant-testcontroller/60294)
**Author:** [@Sudaraka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sudaraka)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/routing-error-uninitialized-constant-testcontroller/60294 "2017-04-01T18:58:18Z")
Hi i wrote a simple plugin just for education purpose. I need to get a json by calling http://localhost:4000/admin/plugins/test/list url. I wrote the plugin.rb as # name: test-plugin # about: This is intended to be a t… --- ## [Labels as markdown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/labels-as-markdown/60287)
**Author:** [@trudat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/trudat)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/labels-as-markdown/60287 "2017-04-01T18:28:36Z")
Labels are a great general purpose UI element, also pure css: If there was a markdown extension for labels, they could be inserted into posts via the tool bar or markup: \[label style=default\]My cool label\[/label\] An… --- ## [Plugin support for creating groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-support-for-creating-groups/60285)
**Author:** [@wichall](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wichall)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-support-for-creating-groups/60285 "2017-04-01T16:26:13Z")
Hello, I’m totally new to discourse and have tried to get myself stuck in to making a plugin straight away. Starting to work my around, but can anyone tell me what the best method would be for creating a new group withi… --- ## [Material Design on Mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-on-mobile/60199)
**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 7:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-on-mobile/60199 "2017-04-01T07:01:04Z")
Currently attempting to add @rewphus’s excellent material design CSS to one of my sites. After some small modifications, everything is working great except one issue on mobile. Here’s a screenshot of the issue. Notice… --- ## [Send a quote to social media](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-a-quote-to-social-media/60234)
**Author:** [@David\_Baker1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/David_Baker1)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-a-quote-to-social-media/60234 "2017-04-01T05:06:47Z")
As a reader who finds a funny or interesting passage in a topic post I’d like to highlight it and (in addition to reply-to-quote) have a way to send that quote to a social media site to draw others into the topic and to … --- ## [Free hosting to test out Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-hosting-to-test-out-discourse/60250)
**Author:** [@lsaredux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lsaredux)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-hosting-to-test-out-discourse/60250 "2017-04-01T04:11:09Z")
I just want to be able to upload Discourse to a host temporarily so I can test out the software and admin panel. I have a forum project going on and we are thinking about using this software but many of my colleagues are… --- ## [Discobot timeout message broken](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-timeout-message-broken/60265)
**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-timeout-message-broken/60265 "2017-04-01T00:52:20Z")
I guess it’s because of some new variables that were recently added to the text. --- ## [User Profile Views - Extremely High Lately](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-views-extremely-high-lately/48487)
**Author:** [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-views-extremely-high-lately/48487 "2017-03-31T20:01:16Z")
I’m getting a crazy high number of User Profile Views lately - and I’m wondering what it means. It used to be down in the low hundreds - but the past few weeks its been up around 10,000 per day. It seems like someone is… --- ## [Common event system for chatrooms - a specification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/common-event-system-for-chatrooms-a-specification/59245)
**Author:** [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/common-event-system-for-chatrooms-a-specification/59245 "2017-03-31T17:58:44Z")
One of the GSOC ideas on GitHub is creating a “Common Event System for Chatrooms” I like the sound of this idea, so this is an attempt at a more comprehensive description of how it could be implemented. Hopefully this … --- ## [Inconsistency in code for watching first post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-in-code-for-watching-first-post/60223)
**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-in-code-for-watching-first-post/60223 "2017-03-31T17:21:13Z")
After submitting this PR I discovered an inconsistency with watching first post that I am not sure how to resolve. Watching first post exists in two primary locations: the notification level dropdown on category pages,… --- ## [Images in discourse mails not displaying in Outlook](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-in-discourse-mails-not-displaying-in-outlook/59811)
**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-in-discourse-mails-not-displaying-in-outlook/59811 "2017-03-31T17:03:22Z")
Ever since I have more or less been forced to use MS Outlook, I have noticed that it would display images in some HTML mails but not in others. To be more precise: I have turned off the display of web-images which means … [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1694&state=watching) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1696&state=watching)