# Latest

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=2&status=archived

[אחרונות](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [קטגוריות](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [תגיות](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md)

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## [Mailing-list-like sign-up process](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-like-sign-up-process/15779)

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**Author:** [@obvio171](https://meta.discourse.org/u/obvio171)\
**תשובות:** 12\
**עדכון אחרון:** [27 באוקטובר,‏ 2018,‏ 5:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-like-sign-up-process/15779 "2018-10-27T17:02:40Z")

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I want to start a Discourse forum for a software project that’s just starting, and I want to do it before there’s a mailing list and everyone is on it and all hope is lost that I’ll move them over to a forum. Current si…

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## [Advanced search with tags is bugged](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advanced-search-with-tags-is-bugged/98214)

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**Author:** [@plentymarkets\_david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/plentymarkets_david)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [27 בספטמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advanced-search-with-tags-is-bugged/98214 "2018-09-27T19:49:01Z")

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Hi guys It seems that the advanced search with tags is bugged since our latest update to 2.1.1 dirty. Search by category: https://forum.plentymarkets.com/search?expanded=true&q=%23changelog%20%20order%3Alikes Sorting…

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## [Global Backgrounds](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-backgrounds/32325)

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**Author:** [@KazWolfe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KazWolfe)\
**תשובות:** 12\
**עדכון אחרון:** [24 בספטמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-backgrounds/32325 "2018-09-24T23:03:21Z")

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Can Discourse sites one day get the ability to have built-in background images? There’s already something like this on a per-category basis, but there isn’t a global setting. CSS “works” but can get annoying and has a n…

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## [Hide login status](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-login-status/34490)

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**Author:** [@MPW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MPW)\
**תשובות:** 18\
**עדכון אחרון:** [20 בספטמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-login-status/34490 "2018-09-20T21:27:07Z")

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Hello, I just registered, as we’re using Discourse here too and wanted to ask for this feature: Is there a way to hide your login status? So that others can’t see, that you’re online? Some users requested this to safe…

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## [Feature Request - Pre-moderation of messages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-pre-moderation-of-messages/14681)

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**Author:** [@Mischief](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mischief)\
**תשובות:** 8\
**עדכון אחרון:** [28 בספטמבר,‏ 2015,‏ 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-pre-moderation-of-messages/14681 "2015-09-28T08:13:59Z")

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How do I set up pre-moderation of messages? Just in way of explanation, the forum that I would like to be using discourse for will be discussing issues which have privacy implications and therefore we are wanting to pre…

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## [Statistics regarding registrations (native versus external)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/statistics-regarding-registrations-native-versus-external/14442)

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**Author:** [@AdamCapriola](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamCapriola)\
**תשובות:** 3\
**עדכון אחרון:** [14 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/statistics-regarding-registrations-native-versus-external/14442 "2018-08-14T10:21:33Z")

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It would be nice to know which users register through one of the external options (Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) versus creating an account natively through Discourse. If I knew very few people were using the e…

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## [Managing unread counts in conjunction with email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-unread-counts-in-conjunction-with-email/15667)

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**Author:** [@jhogendorn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jhogendorn)\
**תשובות:** 5\
**עדכון אחרון:** [8 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 11:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-unread-counts-in-conjunction-with-email/15667 "2018-08-08T11:45:36Z")

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I use our instance of discourse mostly through email as a mailing list. But when I hop onto the site, it shows me this huge long list of things I ‘havent seen’, even though ostensibly I have. I propose a tracking image …

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## [On categories descriptions and pinned topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-categories-descriptions-and-pinned-topics/28141)

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**Author:** [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)\
**תשובות:** 5\
**עדכון אחרון:** [2 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 6:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-categories-descriptions-and-pinned-topics/28141 "2018-08-02T06:40:21Z")

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Hi guys. I encounter two .. let’s say downsides, that I think are related: 1. Rules Both Discourse instances I manage have a very short set of rules, about 150 chars. So I display this pinned topic on the home, so anyon…

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## [Public moderation logs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-moderation-logs/20035)

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**Author:** [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**תשובות:** 12\
**עדכון אחרון:** [1 באוגוסט,‏ 2018,‏ 4:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-moderation-logs/20035 "2018-08-01T04:32:08Z")

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I am now an active moderator at the Sponge(Powered?) Forums, and I’ve noticed a missing feature in Discourse: public moderation logs. There have been issues in the past in related communities with forum moderator transp…

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## [User-specific top menu ordering/default homepage view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-top-menu-ordering-default-homepage-view/33144)

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**Author:** [@tcn33](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tcn33)\
**תשובות:** 6\
**עדכון אחרון:** [27 ביולי,‏ 2018,‏ 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-top-menu-ordering-default-homepage-view/33144 "2018-07-27T19:11:42Z")

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Some users on my forum have requested the option to set their own default view - i.e to use Categories instead of the forum default Latest. As far as I’m aware this is set by the leftmost item in the top menu. I haven’t…

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## [Mobile view with touch capabilities on laptop](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-view-with-touch-capabilities-on-laptop/33705)

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**Author:** [@Gratouille](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gratouille)\
**תשובות:** 3\
**עדכון אחרון:** [18 ביולי,‏ 2018,‏ 6:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-view-with-touch-capabilities-on-laptop/33705 "2018-07-18T06:59:03Z")

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Hi there, I’m on a laptop with touch capabilities. In the hamburger-menu, I don’t have the “shortcuts” link, because this one is displayed when return !Discourse.Mobile.mobileView && !this.capabilities.touch; But what…

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## [Deleted posts from Akismet do not notify user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-from-akismet-do-not-notify-user/28589)

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**Author:** [@kjain](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kjain)\
**תשובות:** 3\
**עדכון אחרון:** [26 במאי,‏ 2015,‏ 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-from-akismet-do-not-notify-user/28589 "2015-05-26T15:26:35Z")

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We have a discourse hosting at the following domain: discuss.analyticsvidhya.com and we have been using Discourse for about 4 months now. Here is a problem our users have faced, which is leaving a bad experience: If a …

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## [Can we have have one post with two different language](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-have-have-one-post-with-two-different-language/33360)

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**Author:** [@benoir126](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benoir126)\
**תשובות:** 14\
**עדכון אחרון:** [10 ביולי,‏ 2018,‏ 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-have-have-one-post-with-two-different-language/33360 "2018-07-10T21:09:36Z")

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Hello, I want to know if we can create a new post with two different language ?

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## [Linking to portions of a post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-portions-of-a-post/14022)

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**Author:** [@thristhart](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thristhart)\
**תשובות:** 12\
**עדכון אחרון:** [9 ביולי,‏ 2018,‏ 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-portions-of-a-post/14022 "2018-07-09T17:50:49Z")

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Is there any way to link to a specific subportion of a large post? At first I attempted to specify an HTML name for an element and reference it \[like so\](#name). However, discourse (rightly) automatically strips name and…

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## [Support for wildcards in word censoring](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-wildcards-in-word-censoring/26866)

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**Author:** [@tonninseteli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tonninseteli)\
**תשובות:** 15\
**עדכון אחרון:** [9 ביולי,‏ 2018,‏ 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-wildcards-in-word-censoring/26866 "2018-07-09T16:06:45Z")

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I don’t know if anyone actually uses this for other than fun but due to inflection it would be nice to be able to use wildcards when adding censored words.

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## [Editing tags shouldn't bump the topic's timestamp](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-tags-shouldnt-bump-the-topics-timestamp/34871)

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**Author:** [@jsick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jsick)\
**תשובות:** 10\
**עדכון אחרון:** [1 ביולי,‏ 2018,‏ 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-tags-shouldnt-bump-the-topics-timestamp/34871 "2018-07-01T10:43:12Z")

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In my Discourse forum I’d like to refactor the set of tags we use (we’re using discourse-tagging). Early on I allowed our project staff free reign in creating new tags since there’s no way to pre-populate a fixed tag voc…

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## [Completely automatic updates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-automatic-updates/33666)

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**Author:** [@dmills](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmills)\
**תשובות:** 13\
**עדכון אחרון:** [27 ביוני,‏ 2018,‏ 8:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-automatic-updates/33666 "2018-06-27T08:46:11Z")

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Hi guys, Just wanted to put this out there: I’d like for Discourse to automatically update itself when a new version is avaialble. The current two-click upgrade is impressive, but I really just blindly click the button…

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## [Any sub-reddit like feature?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-sub-reddit-like-feature/19852)

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**Author:** [@Pahlevi\_Fikri\_Auliya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pahlevi_Fikri_Auliya)\
**תשובות:** 13\
**עדכון אחרון:** [26 ביוני,‏ 2018,‏ 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-sub-reddit-like-feature/19852 "2018-06-26T21:25:25Z")

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I plan to put Discourse inside iframe on a “problem-solving” community website. The idea is: for each problem there will be Discourse iframe (the main frame is for problem description page). The iframe is set to display …

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## [Introducing GitHub Issues to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-github-issues-to-discourse/46671)

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**Author:** [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**תשובות:** 10\
**עדכון אחרון:** [6 ביולי,‏ 2016,‏ 3:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-github-issues-to-discourse/46671 "2016-07-06T03:33:22Z")

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:warning: This tool is no longer maintained. Check out Discourse Code Review instead. The Discourse Team and I are pleased to announce our Import GitHub Issues into Discourse tool. The idea behind it is fairly simple,…

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## [User invite process improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-invite-process-improvements/19560)

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**Author:** [@fysics](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fysics)\
**תשובות:** 26\
**עדכון אחרון:** [26 ביוני,‏ 2018,‏ 6:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-invite-process-improvements/19560 "2018-06-26T06:56:27Z")

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Continuing the discussion from “There was a problem sending another activation email” …: Are there any plans to alter this process? It seems a bit dysfunctional. (The nature of my community is invite-only, so I’m using…

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## [Pending users notification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-users-notification/35399)

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**Author:** [@thomasschmit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thomasschmit)\
**תשובות:** 10\
**עדכון אחרון:** [11 ביוני,‏ 2018,‏ 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-users-notification/35399 "2018-06-11T14:28:31Z")

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A pending users notification is currently sent every 9 hours and this period can’t be modified. It can be quickly annoying when you want to contact a user before accepting him. Consequently, it would be great to create …

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## [Low-bandwidth "lite" version](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-lite-version/32448)

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**Author:** [@mr8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr8)\
**תשובות:** 4\
**עדכון אחרון:** [26 באוגוסט,‏ 2015,‏ 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-lite-version/32448 "2015-08-26T18:47:27Z")

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So a couple of my users are complaining that my site loads slowly when they’re on a slower connection or have bad reception and/or uses too much “data” on their mobile devices. My site loads fast for me so I don’t really…

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## [Posts/Topics Deleted via Approval Queue should be logged](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-topics-deleted-via-approval-queue-should-be-logged/34933)

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**Author:** [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**תשובות:** 4\
**עדכון אחרון:** [1 ביוני,‏ 2018,‏ 4:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-topics-deleted-via-approval-queue-should-be-logged/34933 "2018-06-01T16:37:23Z")

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This has happened twice today already for me, but it seems Needs Approved Posts/Topics are not logged in the Staff Actions. Here is what happens (the best I can tell) User signs up and creates a post (that is spam) Po…

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## [User-Created Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653)

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**Author:** [@codekitchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codekitchen)\
**תשובות:** 11\
**עדכון אחרון:** [21 במאי,‏ 2018,‏ 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653 "2018-05-21T00:03:59Z")

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I’d love to be able to give everybody the ability to create new categories, even if they aren’t an admin. This is for a company private internal Discourse instance, so we don’t really need to worry about spam or untruste…

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## [Can we make it more obvious that a topic is solved?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-it-more-obvious-that-a-topic-is-solved/58378)

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**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**תשובות:** 11\
**עדכון אחרון:** [16 באפריל,‏ 2018,‏ 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-it-more-obvious-that-a-topic-is-solved/58378 "2018-04-16T16:40:47Z")

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For very long instances of Post # 1 in a topic, it’s not immediately obvious it’s already been solved without scrolling down. As a result it would be nice if the notification could be moved to above the content in the po…

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## [Link existing forum topic to new WordPress post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-existing-forum-topic-to-new-wordpress-post/24268)

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**Author:** [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**תשובות:** 27\
**עדכון אחרון:** [15 באפריל,‏ 2018,‏ 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-existing-forum-topic-to-new-wordpress-post/24268 "2018-04-15T16:08:59Z")

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After migrating from bbPress to Discourse I realised there’s one thing I miss about our old “forum for comments” integration (besides that, everything works way better). Quite frequently, big news would be shared on the…

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## [Topic lists - per row css classes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-lists-per-row-css-classes/24410)

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**Author:** [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**תשובות:** 1\
**עדכון אחרון:** [31 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-lists-per-row-css-classes/24410 "2018-03-31T03:30:23Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Consistent new indicator: This will help allow custom additional custom styling where currently it requires template modification.

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## [Hierarchical Categories?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hierarchical-categories/11809)

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**Author:** [@jgordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jgordon)\
**תשובות:** 11\
**עדכון אחרון:** [12 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hierarchical-categories/11809 "2018-03-12T21:10:11Z")

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We have a use case that if implemented today would require the use of many sub-categories. That sounds a bit kludgey to me so I’m wondering where I can get more info on the planned feature: hierarchical categories - and…

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## [Feature allowing a Private Category to be seen, but topics remain hidden](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-allowing-a-private-category-to-be-seen-but-topics-remain-hidden/21429)

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**Author:** [@E20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/E20)\
**תשובות:** 9\
**עדכון אחרון:** [7 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-allowing-a-private-category-to-be-seen-but-topics-remain-hidden/21429 "2018-03-07T15:40:05Z")

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Hello, We have setup a brilliant new forum for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London E20. We love the software and I am pioneering many local organisations to run through it as ‘private’ sub-groups. I want to make them…

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## [Exploring ServiceWorkers for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-serviceworkers-for-discourse/32422)

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**Author:** [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**תשובות:** 24\
**עדכון אחרון:** [22 בפברואר,‏ 2018,‏ 9:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-serviceworkers-for-discourse/32422 "2018-02-22T21:54:51Z")

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ServiceWorkers are a new “web platform” feature that seem to be maturing about now. Here’s two good overviews of what they can do: Using ServiceWorker in Chrome today - JakeArchibald.com Using Service Workers - Web APIs …

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