# Latest **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=301 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 302 --- ## [Prevent Unauthorized Domains from Pointing to Our Discourse Instance](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-unauthorized-domains-from-pointing-to-our-discourse-instance/351330)
**Author:** [@Abdelrahman\_MoHamed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Abdelrahman_MoHamed)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-unauthorized-domains-from-pointing-to-our-discourse-instance/351330 "2025-02-09T16:26:55Z")
We are running a Discourse instance on our server, but we’ve encountered an issue where anyone can take our server’s public IP and create an A record on their own domain, effectively pointing their domain to our forum. W… --- ## [How to get this text editor feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-this-text-editor-feature/351319)
**Author:** [@LaptechInfo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LaptechInfo)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-this-text-editor-feature/351319 "2025-02-09T12:41:14Z")
Hi, to get this on my forum, i.e., when I click on the new topic the text editor is opening, in its top right corner, this icon (see arrow-marked picture below), we can move right and center on the typing text box. How t… --- ## [Numeric Tags & Filter (Feature Request)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/numeric-tags-filter-feature-request/251923)
**Author:** [@Raraferu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Raraferu)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/numeric-tags-filter-feature-request/251923 "2025-02-09T09:37:56Z")
There are forums which deal with videos, and ones where people lists sale information. Both have a numeric measurement to them - duration and price. It would be useful if a tag can be set to contain a numeric value, and… --- ## [Creating and saving preset topic and groups for invites while allowing "types" of invites that would have different settings for these](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-and-saving-preset-topic-and-groups-for-invites-while-allowing-types-of-invites-that-would-have-different-settings-for-these/351299)
**Author:** [@famousamos.1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/famousamos.1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-and-saving-preset-topic-and-groups-for-invites-while-allowing-types-of-invites-that-would-have-different-settings-for-these/351299 "2025-02-09T05:17:38Z")
For our community, which we want to be by invite only, we want to be able to designate which topic post and which group the invites take the new person. We do not want to have to rely on the members who have invite privi… --- ## [How to change the color of the topic list dividers?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-color-of-the-topic-list-dividers/351282)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_McIvor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johnny_McIvor)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-color-of-the-topic-list-dividers/351282 "2025-02-09T04:24:58Z")
The divider lines are almost invisible, what’s the CSS to change it? --- ## [Hide elements on individual topic pages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-elements-on-individual-topic-pages/351236)
**Author:** [@BrianC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BrianC)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-elements-on-individual-topic-pages/351236 "2025-02-09T04:24:50Z")
Hi everyone, I’m trying to display a custom element from the Banner Featured Links only on the topics (home) page and hide it on individual topic pages or elsewhere. I’ve experimented with different CSS selectors and co… --- ## [Rejected mail logs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-mail-logs/351294)
**Author:** [@Andro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andro)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 3:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-mail-logs/351294 "2025-02-09T03:23:14Z")
I have to ask this again, since this thread was closed before satisfactory resolution: The rails database command there cannot find a rejected type and fails. Also, setting the retention period to 2 days in the admin … --- ## [Web container can't connect to redis](https://meta.discourse.org/t/web-container-cant-connect-to-redis/351278)
**Author:** [@stevegaarder](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stevegaarder)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/web-container-cant-connect-to-redis/351278 "2025-02-09T00:56:52Z")
We upgraded our two-container multisite, including a move from Postgres 13 to 15, and now gunicorn complains that it cannot connect to redis, saying . Error connecting to Redis on data:6379 (Redis::TimeoutError) . Redi… --- ## [AI helper does not know the difference between Discourse and Discord 🫢s](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-helper-does-not-know-the-difference-between-discourse-and-discord-s/351281)
**Author:** [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-helper-does-not-know-the-difference-between-discourse-and-discord-s/351281 "2025-02-09T00:21:43Z")
Awkward… Found here. Maybe add something to its prompt that explains the difference…? --- ## [Discourse Update Error: Your Docker installation is not working correctly](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-update-error-your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/351253)
**Author:** [@hanisch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hanisch)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-update-error-your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/351253 "2025-02-08T20:31:20Z")
I’ve been self-hosting a Discourse installation on a DigitalOcean droplet for several years and have updated Discourse many times with no problems both via the admin page and ssh-ing in and using the CLI. This is the fi… --- ## [I want to remove the username display here. Where can I adjust this setting?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-the-username-display-here-where-can-i-adjust-this-setting/351241)
**Author:** [@wenqin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wenqin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-the-username-display-here-where-can-i-adjust-this-setting/351241 "2025-02-08T18:25:59Z")
I noticed an issue: at the top of each post, there is a gray line of small text indicating who created the post. Is it possible to remove this text? I see that the main forum doesn’t have this line. --- ## [Use of % in SMTP Password for discourse-setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-in-smtp-password-for-discourse-setup/106434)
**Author:** [@LotusJeff](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LotusJeff)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-in-smtp-password-for-discourse-setup/106434 "2019-06-04T11:58:31Z")
I used a % as a special character in my SMTP password. This caused a control character to be created in the app.yml file that caused the following errors (): control characters are not allowed at line 1 column 1 -e LANG… --- ## [Badge-category\_\_name needs a width constraint for long category names](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-category-name-needs-a-width-constraint-for-long-category-names/351242)
**Author:** [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-category-name-needs-a-width-constraint-for-long-category-names/351242 "2025-02-08T16:08:36Z")
Hi there, there is a bit of an issue with the .badge-category\_\_name CSS when longer than normal category names are used. It looks like it needs a max-width constraint. Here’s Discourse Meta in mobile view mode with one o… --- ## [Duplicate Content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-content/91745)
**Author:** [@entrep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/entrep)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-content/91745 "2025-02-08T15:40:11Z")
I was wondering the same thing about duplicate synchronized WP/Discourse content from this topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/risk-of-duplicate-content-with-synchronized-wp-posts-discourse-topics/91737 But it got close… --- ## [Is it possible to show the 'likes' number in the Kanban cards?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-show-the-likes-number-in-the-kanban-cards/351238)
**Author:** [@meowlivia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meowlivia)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-show-the-likes-number-in-the-kanban-cards/351238 "2025-02-08T14:51:06Z")
Currently using the Kanban board as a product roadmap (suggestion, in development, shipped)… and users get to like features they’d like to see implemented. Ideally, we’d like to show the # of likes and allow the board co… --- ## [Database files are incompatible with server (updating inside Linode)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/database-files-are-incompatible-with-server-updating-inside-linode/350727)
**Author:** [@kgreed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgreed)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/database-files-are-incompatible-with-server-updating-inside-linode/350727 "2025-02-06T21:24:53Z")
I have the symptoms described at Error Updating from 3.4.0.beta3-dev to 3.4.0.beta3 Only the error is different. --- ## [Need to include PGN (chess game notation) in a post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-include-pgn-chess-game-notation-in-a-post/157376)
**Author:** [@KranthiKiranGude](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KranthiKiranGude)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-include-pgn-chess-game-notation-in-a-post/157376 "2020-08-20T17:45:05Z")
I am trying to embed a PGN file in a topic. This requires including CSS and Javascript in the topic. Could some one, please help me how can I use CSS and Javascript in a topic --- ## [Completely custom embed design?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-custom-embed-design/351221)
**Author:** [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-custom-embed-design/351221 "2025-02-08T11:52:06Z")
When I link to a page from my Discourse forum to my website I get an embed like this: https://tardis.guide/story/joy-to-the-world/ This is fine, but I’d like to completely customise it. I have added my domain to the wh… --- ## [Inline links no longer fetch the HTML Title](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-links-no-longer-fetch-the-html-title/351057)
**Author:** [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-links-no-longer-fetch-the-html-title/351057 "2025-02-08T11:49:57Z")
I added lots of anti-bot firewall additions to my Cloudflare, and whilst I have whitelisted “OneBox”, I can’t find out information about whitelisting the function that grabs the HTML tag and replaces an inline link with… --- ## [\[Glimmer\] Different theme for personal message topics list?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/glimmer-different-theme-for-personal-message-topics-list/351090)
**Author:** [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/glimmer-different-theme-for-personal-message-topics-list/351090 "2025-02-08T04:31:05Z")
Hi there, I have been using a theme component with Sam's Simple Theme for the reasons described in Different theme for personal message topics list? to show all the participants’ avatars in the PM topics list like this: … --- ## [PostgreSQL update fails from China](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-update-fails-from-china/350869)
**Author:** [@sober](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sober)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-update-fails-from-china/350869 "2025-02-08T02:53:50Z")
data cannot be rebuild ./launcher rebuild data x86\_64 arch detected. Ensuring launcher is up to date Launcher is up-to-date 2.0.20250129-0720: Pulling from docker-hub-china/discourse-base Digest: sha256:d798a945ca4d31c2… --- ## [Search for and/or filter topics in a category using text search](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-and-or-filter-topics-in-a-category-using-text-search/350569)
**Author:** [@Av8tion](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Av8tion)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-and-or-filter-topics-in-a-category-using-text-search/350569 "2025-02-08T02:52:53Z")
I am using a category to store personnel files for my gaming organization which will have hundreds of personnel files, each one its own topic. What I am looking for is a theme component or something that puts a search ba… --- ## [FR: please enable emoji picker in flag message text boxes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fr-please-enable-emoji-picker-in-flag-message-text-boxes/351088)
**Author:** [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fr-please-enable-emoji-picker-in-flag-message-text-boxes/351088 "2025-02-08T02:24:35Z")
--- ## [Ampersand in badge name causes bug in Title selector](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ampersand-in-badge-name-causes-bug-in-title-selector/351121)
**Author:** [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ampersand-in-badge-name-causes-bug-in-title-selector/351121 "2025-02-08T02:11:23Z")
I have an ampersand in the title of a badge, and when you try to select it as a Title it has & in it. It does work normally once selected, though. --- ## [Invite link now available in the sidebar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-link-now-available-in-the-sidebar/333632)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-link-now-available-in-the-sidebar/333632 "2025-02-07T23:48:48Z")
Good news! We have now added the invite link to the sidebar on all sites, and selecting it opens the invite popup directly. The link is only shown to people who have permission to invite. Sites can customize the plac… --- ## [Different subject for email notifications that include an @mention](https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-subject-for-email-notifications-that-include-an-mention/31132)
**Author:** [@wesochuck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wesochuck)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-subject-for-email-notifications-that-include-an-mention/31132 "2025-02-07T21:26:18Z")
This is probably a holdover from folks that are using Discourse in a similar manner to old email listservs, but what I’m noticing is that many users signup for email notifications and then build a rule to shuttle them to… --- ## [Migrating Small Community from Discord to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-small-community-from-discord-to-discourse/351118)
**Author:** [@iSayYippeeKiYay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iSayYippeeKiYay)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-small-community-from-discord-to-discourse/351118 "2025-02-07T21:07:59Z")
I have a small Discord community where I’d like to permanently migrate about 50 members or so to a new Discourse community. I’ve poured through a lot of threads on here about the best way to accomplish this but haven’t … --- ## [How to change the logo in the bottom right corner of the avatar？](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-logo-in-the-bottom-right-corner-of-the-avatar/351029)
**Author:** [@Elena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-logo-in-the-bottom-right-corner-of-the-avatar/351029 "2025-02-07T20:18:59Z")
Could you please advise on how to change the logo in the bottom right corner of the avatar into a circle instead of a square? Also, I’d prefer the logo without a white border. --- ## [Create custom Automations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-automations/275931)
**Author:** [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-automations/275931 "2025-02-07T20:17:02Z")
:information\_source: This is a draft, and may need some extra work. Vocabulary trigger: represents the name of the trigger, eg: user\_added\_to\_group triggerable: represents the code logic associated to a trigger, eg: tr… --- ## [Update failed. Low disk space and database version discrepancy](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-failed-low-disk-space-and-database-version-discrepancy/351076)
**Author:** [@mxa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mxa)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-failed-low-disk-space-and-database-version-discrepancy/351076 "2025-02-07T19:08:50Z")
While trying to upgrade through the web interface the installation broke. On investigation the disk space is kind of low, which is surprising, since it is a really small forum with not much content on a 40 GB server. I … [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=300) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=302)