# Latest **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=23&status=archived [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 24 --- ## [User Notes on Profile Page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-notes-on-profile-page/12640)
**Author:** [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-notes-on-profile-page/12640 "2014-10-17T21:09:26Z")
Continuing the discussion from Profile Comments: Is this on a road map? Because if it isn’t, I’m fairly certain the devs at SP are likely going to build it. I’m just curious if there are any plans for this (since @codi… --- ## [Is it possible to pin a topic so it also appears in 'top'?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-pin-a-topic-so-it-also-appears-in-top/21150)
**Author:** [@kkershaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kkershaw)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2014, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-pin-a-topic-so-it-also-appears-in-top/21150 "2014-10-16T10:11:02Z")
I’m not sure if I am missing something, or if I am going against an ideology of Discourse, but I was hoping to use ‘top’ as the landing page for a Discourse implementation, and still be able to pin certain topics globall… --- ## [Unable to add invited emails to trust level groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-add-invited-emails-to-trust-level-groups/21080)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-add-invited-emails-to-trust-level-groups/21080 "2014-10-13T20:18:01Z")
On the admin interface, admins are able to manually add users they know they trust to e.g. trust\_level\_2. When inviting new users, admins are able to select groups but not trust levels. This is a problem since those tru… --- ## [Compose preview box is too distracting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-preview-box-is-too-distracting/20964)
**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-preview-box-is-too-distracting/20964 "2014-10-09T18:13:13Z")
As a user, I want to be able to keep my visual focus on the left-side composition text field rather than the preview box, so that I’m not inclined to click in the wrong “pane”. Maybe it’s just me, but I regularly find m… --- ## [Slight mail template change (no link element content)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slight-mail-template-change-no-link-element-content/20960)
**Author:** [@Slind](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slind)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slight-mail-template-change-no-link-element-content/20960 "2014-10-09T15:59:46Z")
Hey, some of the modern mail clients flag mails that use a link inside the link element but href to another site as scam. This is an issue with click tracking. Of course this is not an issue of Discourse but I don’t see… --- ## [Posts Read Discrepancy](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-read-discrepancy/18694)
**Author:** [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-read-discrepancy/18694 "2014-10-08T16:32:03Z")
Okay, so maybe the numbers don’t mean exactly what I think they do, but the Requirements for TL 3 show I’ve read (all time) 1905 posts. But if you go to my admin user page, it has 2743. Why the large discrepancy? I’d… --- ## [Is discourse suitable for android && iOS native app as a forum plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-suitable-for-android-ios-native-app-as-a-forum-plugin/20885)
**Author:** [@York23](https://meta.discourse.org/u/York23)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2014, 8:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-suitable-for-android-ios-native-app-as-a-forum-plugin/20885 "2014-10-08T08:21:45Z")
I want add user login/out and post comments features to my android && iOS native app. Is that possible only use discourse’s backend to develop those features? --- ## [Invite on the profile page only?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-on-the-profile-page-only/20889)
**Author:** [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-on-the-profile-page-only/20889 "2014-10-08T03:03:43Z")
Continuing the discussion from How do I send people invites?: Is there a reason not to add the ability to invite to the Admin page also? --- ## [Editing Old Posts and Adding Links Doesn't Alert Anybody](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373)
**Author:** [@geek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/geek)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373 "2014-10-07T21:30:22Z")
Situation: Users can edit old posts, adding links to whatever they want, and there’s no way that a forum administrator would know about it. As far as I know based on a bunch of testing, editing a post inside a topic doe… --- ## [S3 competitor integration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883 "2014-10-07T18:46:22Z")
This is a continuation of a discussion to find an S3 competitor. The main reason is that S3 has bizarre pricing structures and IMO for a large Discourse instance including those based on photo and video it could hit the… --- ## [Domain events In Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/domain-events-in-discourse/20765)
**Author:** [@Del\_Boy\_Trotter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Del_Boy_Trotter)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2014, 6:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/domain-events-in-discourse/20765 "2014-10-06T06:06:14Z")
is there any concept of domain events in discourse? We’d like our app to be notified of certain events within discourse. If not we’ll be looking at creating this as some sort of extension but I do think there’d need to … --- ## [Add moderators in the 'About' section](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderators-in-the-about-section/20773)
**Author:** [@molly\_cushing](https://meta.discourse.org/u/molly_cushing)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderators-in-the-about-section/20773 "2014-10-05T17:54:24Z")
Would it be possible to add the moderators in the ‘About’ section? I know that admins are highlighted and I like that a lot, but I know the moderators on my site to a lot, so I’d like to have them be hilighted. Is that p… --- ## [Customize social networks sites to share](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-social-networks-sites-to-share/13597)
**Author:** [@oSiNaReF](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oSiNaReF)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2014, 10:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-social-networks-sites-to-share/13597 "2014-10-04T10:35:24Z")
Reading this https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-to-social-networks/3164 I think that it could be more social Discourse, adding more social networks, like reddit, meneame, wk, but the problem is that there are a lot o… --- ## [Support auto-highlighting for preformatted code](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-auto-highlighting-for-preformatted-code/14234)
**Author:** [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-auto-highlighting-for-preformatted-code/14234 "2014-10-01T20:42:05Z")
Highlightjs offers “auto highlighting” out of the box. It’d be nice if this functionality could be exposed to Discourse through an admin pref (eg. “Auto highlight preformatted code”). I understand this won’t be relevant … --- ## [In read-only mode changing the settings fails silently](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-read-only-mode-changing-the-settings-fails-silently/20623)
**Author:** [@tpokorra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tpokorra)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-read-only-mode-changing-the-settings-fails-silently/20623 "2014-09-30T19:01:13Z")
This is probably related to https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-only-mode-bugs/12708. I tried to set in the settings, Backups, allow restore. But it did not allow to save it. Because there is no error message, I first th… --- ## ["Questionable" account checks at the time of signup?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068)
**Author:** [@brodock](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brodock)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068 "2014-09-29T22:04:51Z")
Why do that, when you can use “Project Honeypot”, that does it in a much better, distributed way. We can also check IP address during the registration, to require admin approval: The best part is that you do all the c… --- ## [Emoticons should not count toward the post character minimum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503)
**Author:** [@AdamCapriola](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamCapriola)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503 "2014-09-29T21:41:41Z")
:smile: :stuck\_out\_tongue: --- ## [Mobile option to not load user avatars (and other potential bandwidth saving features)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-option-to-not-load-user-avatars-and-other-potential-bandwidth-saving-features/17792)
**Author:** [@daybreaker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daybreaker)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-option-to-not-load-user-avatars-and-other-potential-bandwidth-saving-features/17792 "2014-09-27T06:57:00Z")
We recently released our Discourse forum to replace our self-built mini-forum app, and some users are up in arms over the mobile version not being as friendly (personally, I dont see how they can prefer our terrible self… --- ## [Discourse meetup near MacTech Boot Camp?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-meetup-near-mactech-boot-camp/13545)
**Author:** [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-meetup-near-mactech-boot-camp/13545 "2014-09-25T21:46:18Z")
All - I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, home of not-a-thing-related-to-discourse-besides-me. \* I do speak at all the MacTech Boot Camps though. I would Love to attend/help coordinate a meetup - perhaps if one could be … --- ## [Editing a post should make the grey unread count appear in the topic list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-post-should-make-the-grey-unread-count-appear-in-the-topic-list/17418)
**Author:** [@probus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/probus)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-post-should-make-the-grey-unread-count-appear-in-the-topic-list/17418 "2014-09-25T18:00:16Z")
Here’s something that has been bugging me for a while. Edited posts should make the grey unread count appear in the topic list so you know there is something you haven’t read in that topic. This is especially important … --- ## [Post reply via Twitter?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-reply-via-twitter/20332)
**Author:** [@Ricardo\_Viteri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ricardo_Viteri)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-reply-via-twitter/20332 "2014-09-24T22:12:36Z")
Would it be possible for users to post a short reply via Twitter to a forum discussion? --- ## [GPG signed emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gpg-signed-emails/20390)
**Author:** [@funvill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/funvill)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gpg-signed-emails/20390 "2014-09-24T15:37:36Z")
My overly security conscious group is looking for the emails that are sent from discourse to be GPG signed by discourse. Not encrypted emails but signed. Over half of our group primarily interacts with discourse via emai… --- ## [Is it better for Discourse to use JavaScript or CoffeeScript?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153)
**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153 "2014-09-24T11:27:54Z")
Religion aside: http://wekeroad.com/2012/03/21/coffeescript-or-straight-up-js-i-suck-either-way What is better for Discourse, CoffeeScript or JavaScript? Notice, I am not particularly interested in personal preference… --- ## [API Functionality for invites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-functionality-for-invites/20278)
**Author:** [@alxnik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alxnik)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-functionality-for-invites/20278 "2014-09-22T18:05:23Z")
I have deployed a discourse installation which is invite only and I am looking for a way to trigger invitations from another website. However, I don’t want to invite users to a specific topic, but to the forum in general… --- ## [Include reading time in the site stats](https://meta.discourse.org/t/include-reading-time-in-the-site-stats/20108)
**Author:** [@probus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/probus)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/include-reading-time-in-the-site-stats/20108 "2014-09-18T15:30:24Z")
I believe we should add another metric into the admin dashboard. What I’m specifically thinking is: The time spent reading forum posts I know Discourse already tracks reading time so it should be possible to show an ag… --- ## [Include anonymous users in site stats](https://meta.discourse.org/t/include-anonymous-users-in-site-stats/20109)
**Author:** [@probus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/probus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2014, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/include-anonymous-users-in-site-stats/20109 "2014-09-18T08:00:20Z")
The site stats in admin panel could do with a redesign. By providing a just a few key metrics there we could reduce the need to use google analytics etc. for many forum owners and provide them with better data to underst… --- ## [World Discourse Meetup in Toronto, September 16th 2014 @ 6pm](https://meta.discourse.org/t/world-discourse-meetup-in-toronto-september-16th-2014-6pm/19683)
**Author:** [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/world-discourse-meetup-in-toronto-september-16th-2014-6pm/19683 "2014-09-18T03:44:15Z")
I’m delighted to announce that on September 16th, 2014 we’re having an Official Discourse Meetup in Toronto! If you’re around, please do come by and meet the team. Here are the details: 6pm at Pharmacy which is lo… --- ## [Stacked FontAwesome icons for badges, etc](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stacked-fontawesome-icons-for-badges-etc/20071)
**Author:** [@fysics](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fysics)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stacked-fontawesome-icons-for-badges-etc/20071 "2014-09-16T04:23:05Z")
Stacking FontAwesome icons can result in some pretty neat looking glyphs. It would be nice to be able to stack icons like this when specifying the icon for a badge. It involves a parent element with fa-stack class, then… --- ## [Why doesn't Discourse show user statistics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058)
**Author:** [@joshfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshfrank)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058 "2014-09-15T11:29:33Z")
In Discourse, the user avatar doesn’t show any stats about the user: In other BB software, you generally see stats like total post count, reputation, date joined, etc. I’m not sure any of that is helpful, but it’s ub… --- ## [Prioritise a specific search result](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritise-a-specific-search-result/20030)
**Author:** [@tradpainter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tradpainter)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritise-a-specific-search-result/20030 "2014-09-15T06:07:56Z")
Hope I can explain my search requirement in time. (I am still giddy with excitement having had my WP forum migrated over by Discourse Hosting.) To manipulate a certain result to be top of the search results in Google, y… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=22&status=archived) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=24&status=archived)