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## [Moderation tools for chat?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-tools-for-chat/279302)

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**Author:** [@piffy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/piffy)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-tools-for-chat/279302 "2023-09-21T20:27:03Z")

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I just found out today that there was a scammer on my forum. They had zero public interactions (post/likes) but would chat message members who were looking to buy certain items and pretend that they owned them. This look…

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## [Is there a way to see how many posts in a topic in a particular month?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-how-many-posts-in-a-topic-in-a-particular-month/279486)

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**Author:** [@Mollyvog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mollyvog)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-how-many-posts-in-a-topic-in-a-particular-month/279486 "2023-09-21T20:17:17Z")

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I am curious about topic growth over time - is there a way to see posts within a topic in a particular timeframe for reporting?

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## [Identifying users in multiple groups using AND rather than OR?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/identifying-users-in-multiple-groups-using-and-rather-than-or/272712)

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**Author:** [@CC\_people](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CC_people)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/identifying-users-in-multiple-groups-using-and-rather-than-or/272712 "2023-09-21T20:09:00Z")

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It’s easy to use categories and subcategories to allow users to view them based on ‘OR’ logic - ie. if a user is in Group X or Group Y then they can see the category or subcategory. Is it possible to effectively use ‘AN…

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## [Change 'Answer' button back to 'Save Edit' when editing a Post Voting post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-answer-button-back-to-save-edit-when-editing-a-post-voting-post/279724)

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**Author:** [@aidanheerdegen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aidanheerdegen)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-answer-button-back-to-save-edit-when-editing-a-post-voting-post/279724 "2023-09-21T19:50:45Z")

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When I edit the original topic the button that would normally say “Save Edit” now says “Answer”. It has the functionality of save edit, or seems to, so as it is currently I find it misleading/unhelpful/confusing.

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## [How to avoid an explosion of sub-topics in a topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-avoid-an-explosion-of-sub-topics-in-a-topic/279257)

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**Author:** [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)\
**Replies:** 34\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-avoid-an-explosion-of-sub-topics-in-a-topic/279257 "2023-09-21T17:52:12Z")

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These are my thoughts, with an implicit question of how members and mods might respond, when a thread starts to go exponential. Discourse doesn’t offer threaded discussions, although it does have a sort of back-pointer,…

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## [Is it possible to add posts to a profile?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-add-posts-to-a-profile/279668)

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**Author:** [@inj3ct0r](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inj3ct0r)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-add-posts-to-a-profile/279668 "2023-09-21T17:22:45Z")

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hello, im wondering if it possible to have the user the ability to make a personal posts in his profile, such like vb,xen,etc… IDK if it possible or not.

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## [More granular "disable emails"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-disable-emails/279673)

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**Author:** [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-disable-emails/279673 "2023-09-21T17:13:56Z")

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On staging instances we generally “disable emails” to make sure that no rogue digests and notifications go out. This does create some issues since user activation emails and password resets don’t work either when email …

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## [Filter topics without a specific tag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filter-topics-without-a-specific-tag/80253)

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**Author:** [@Mister\_Leroy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mister_Leroy)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filter-topics-without-a-specific-tag/80253 "2023-09-21T14:00:37Z")

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Is there a way to filter topics that do not have a specific tag?

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## [Other (all?) system's user involved somehow?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/other-all-systems-user-involved-somehow/279682)

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**Author:** [@lejeczek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lejeczek)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/other-all-systems-user-involved-somehow/279682 "2023-09-21T13:04:33Z")

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Hi guys. Why Discourse — have not tried any other containers, not Ubuntu nor Docker are my weapon of choice — involves other(all regular ?) users? When I start Discourse a number of process are started on behalf, for a…

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## [Forum inside Android app - cannot access gallery to add pictures to post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-inside-android-app-cannot-access-gallery-to-add-pictures-to-post/279679)

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**Author:** [@Oohyeah88](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Oohyeah88)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-inside-android-app-cannot-access-gallery-to-add-pictures-to-post/279679 "2023-09-21T10:05:47Z")

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We are creating an mobile app which includes our forum, accessed through one of the tabs on the app. All seems to work fine, but I can’t seem to post a picture. Using a normal browser, pressing this would access the pho…

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## [Have we been silently sending Digest emails to 200,000+ migrated users?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-we-been-silently-sending-digest-emails-to-200-000-migrated-users/279672)

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**Author:** [@Oohyeah88](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Oohyeah88)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-we-been-silently-sending-digest-emails-to-200-000-migrated-users/279672 "2023-09-21T09:25:39Z")

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So we just migrated an old unused forum to Discourse about a month ago, including 200,000+ users. The forum was naturally in a state of complete mess and has not been in any state to go public yet. But I just noticed un…

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## [Wishlist: Leaderboard cheers for marking another user's post as solution](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wishlist-leaderboard-cheers-for-marking-another-users-post-as-solution/271388)

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**Author:** [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wishlist-leaderboard-cheers-for-marking-another-users-post-as-solution/271388 "2023-09-21T08:52:38Z")

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I’d like to encourage marking solutions in threads. More specifically, I’d like to encourage marking another user’s post as the solution. And cheers seems like a good way to do it. Cheers are already awarded when your p…

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## [Filesystem permission issues after upgrade to 3.1.0](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filesystem-permission-issues-after-upgrade-to-3-1-0/274654)

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**Author:** [@kdambekalns](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kdambekalns)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 6:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filesystem-permission-issues-after-upgrade-to-3-1-0/274654 "2023-09-21T06:04:46Z")

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I upgraded from 3.0.x to 3.1.0 today. Updaring via the web UI failed, so I did git pull ./launcher rebuild app which finished fine, but all I got was an “invalid gateway” error when visiting the site. I tracked this d…

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## [Keep selections in cooked](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keep-selections-in-cooked/279641)

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**Author:** [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keep-selections-in-cooked/279641 "2023-09-21T04:55:40Z")

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Hello :waving\_hand: It happens with me on mobile lot of times when I want to quote the selection text in OP. When the line starts a short word letter like I it’s pretty hard to select it precisely. It most of time jumps…

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## [\[PAID\] Plugin for Customizing Embedded Topic Post Comment](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-plugin-for-customizing-embedded-topic-post-comment/279644)

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**Author:** [@Aaron\_B](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_B)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-plugin-for-customizing-embedded-topic-post-comment/279644 "2023-09-21T05:02:48Z")

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When using the Embedding feature from an external site with the Discourse embed code, I don’t want the content of the generated post to be from actually scrapping content in the page. Instead, I just simply want the post…

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## [GET /posts/ request got plain HTTP error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-posts-request-got-plain-http-error/279552)

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**Author:** [@Hyan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hyan)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-posts-request-got-plain-http-error/279552 "2023-09-21T04:26:11Z")

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Seems this hasn’t been reported when visiting page /posts, browsers shows. example Discourse Meta While it should always give an application error page like what you visit https://meta.discourse.org/posts1

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## [Template Interpolation Key Usage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/template-interpolation-key-usage/135609)

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**Author:** [@kimardenmiller](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kimardenmiller)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 4:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/template-interpolation-key-usage/135609 "2023-09-21T04:11:09Z")

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Related to this post, we previously customized templates such as user\_notifications.reply\_by\_email, e.g. to say … Visit Topic or reply to this email to respond. Reply with a private message The second item has the lin…

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## [New installation not appearing at domain name or IP address](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-installation-not-appearing-at-domain-name-or-ip-address/279409)

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**Author:** [@flyrefi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/flyrefi)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-installation-not-appearing-at-domain-name-or-ip-address/279409 "2023-09-21T03:51:50Z")

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Hi, I have tried to install Discourse multiple times over the past few days to a DigitalOcean droplet using the basic “under 30 minutes” install instructions, but every time the installation finishes and I go to the doma…

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## [Can I create two new topic butons on my home page?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-two-new-topic-butons-on-my-home-page/279469)

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**Author:** [@Srujan\_Madderla](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Srujan_Madderla)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-two-new-topic-butons-on-my-home-page/279469 "2023-09-20T23:57:29Z")

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i want to have two Create a new Topic buttons on my community page. is it possible ? I want to have one button for creating a community post. Other button to create a Idea. Please confim.

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## [Embedding keeps showing "Loading Discussion..." with no error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-keeps-showing-loading-discussion-with-no-error/269041)

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**Author:** [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-keeps-showing-loading-discussion-with-no-error/269041 "2023-09-20T21:03:33Z")

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I’ve read the similar topics, but couldn’t find a solution, and the most relevant topic was closed so I couldn’t continue the discussion there :confused: I’ve embedded Discourse using this React component. On this page …

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## [Webhooks plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webhooks-plugin/25176)

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**Author:** [@rcfox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rcfox)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webhooks-plugin/25176 "2023-09-20T20:45:18Z")

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I made a super-simple webhooks plugin, which sends HTTP requests for chosen DiscourseEvents that are triggered. Right now, there aren’t many events that are triggered, and only topic\_created and post\_created seem like th…

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## [How can I fix the Permissions Policy header?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-fix-the-permissions-policy-header/279618)

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**Author:** [@haydenjames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haydenjames)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-fix-the-permissions-policy-header/279618 "2023-09-20T20:42:28Z")

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Referring to the red warning here: Same for https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org%2F&hide=on&followRedirects=on On my main domain, I added headers using Nginx to address this but not sure w…

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## [Styling the sidebar without using CSS?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/styling-the-sidebar-without-using-css/279050)

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**Author:** [@MarximusMG](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarximusMG)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/styling-the-sidebar-without-using-css/279050 "2023-09-20T20:06:49Z")

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Hey everyone! I’m wanting to know if there’s a way to configure the styling of the sidebar in the admin panel without using CSS? I’m wanting the sidebar on my site (shown below) to match the simple styling that’s used …

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## [Can I align the category banner away from the sidebar?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-align-the-category-banner-away-from-the-sidebar/298486)

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**Author:** [@lejeczek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lejeczek)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-align-the-category-banner-away-from-the-sidebar/298486 "2023-09-20T19:47:44Z")

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Hi. Is it possible to align the banner in such a way so it would vertically be (always, whether sidebar on or off) in one line with – forgive a non-webdev’s lack of better/proper terminology – where the main content (no…

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## [Your topic is similar to... not showing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-topic-is-similar-to-not-showing/279614)

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**Author:** [@MrAli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MrAli)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-topic-is-similar-to-not-showing/279614 "2023-09-20T19:36:41Z")

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Hi The menu of " Your topic is similar to…" is not showing I set min title similar length to 3 but still the same problem. I hit the error An error occurred: Title has already been used How can I enable " Your topi…

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## [Why does markdown do this? (whitespace trimming and other features)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-markdown-do-this-whitespace-trimming-and-other-features/279437)

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**Author:** [@Rhababo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rhababo)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-markdown-do-this-whitespace-trimming-and-other-features/279437 "2023-09-20T19:16:48Z")

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Apologies for the vague title, I’m in the process of modifying some of the functionality with markdown on discourse to better suit the needs of my community which is coming over from a mybb forum. Discourse is my first…

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## [Custom message if topic not replyable to](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-message-if-topic-not-replyable-to/279613)

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**Author:** [@codergautam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codergautam)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-message-if-topic-not-replyable-to/279613 "2023-09-20T19:11:08Z")

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I have a system where users can join groups and that group will let them full access some categories etc. normally users can see all the categories but not reply in them (except some special scenario ones) Now in the ca…

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## [MP4 files not working on Chrome](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mp4-files-not-working-on-chrome/279606)

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**Author:** [@Vinicius\_Goncalves](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vinicius_Goncalves)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mp4-files-not-working-on-chrome/279606 "2023-09-20T18:48:48Z")

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Hi there, When I try to play any .mp4 file on forum it works fine just if I am using Safari, but it doesn’t work if I am using Google Chrome. Can someone take a look and do a test as well? Here you have an example: Ear…

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## [Embedding Post: Can't read CSS Selectors from React Site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-post-cant-read-css-selectors-from-react-site/279316)

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**Author:** [@Aaron\_B](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_B)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-post-cant-read-css-selectors-from-react-site/279316 "2023-09-20T18:23:51Z")

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I have CSS tags on my content and have identified the CSS Selectors in the embedding admin settings but they are not being picked up by the crawler. I believe it is because my site is built with React and the css selecto…

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## [Deepening tag structure?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepening-tag-structure/279165)

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**Author:** [@Renato\_Mendes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Renato_Mendes)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepening-tag-structure/279165 "2023-09-20T17:48:14Z")

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Hey, guys! Hope you’re all doing fine ^^ I’ve been having a bit of trouble with tags on my forum (even though I’ve read the great introduction on tagging that’s been posted here ^^). The following questions are based on…

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