# Latest

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## [GitHub folder preview not showing up](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-folder-preview-not-showing-up/278265)

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**Author:** [@dlwlrma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dlwlrma)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-folder-preview-not-showing-up/278265 "2023-09-08T07:59:02Z")

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https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/lib/onebox https://github.com/blackmatrix7/ios\_rule\_script/tree/master/script/bilibili https://github.com/blackmatrix7/ios\_rule\_script/tree/master/script/bilibili Is th…

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## [Is it possible to make the default search Semantic search on the site? How much do these calls cost?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-default-search-semantic-search-on-the-site-how-much-do-these-calls-cost/275953)

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**Author:** [@kuaza](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kuaza)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-default-search-semantic-search-on-the-site-how-much-do-these-calls-cost/275953 "2023-09-08T17:52:26Z")

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Semantic search really works great and gives better results than regular search. We can use this search system throughout the site, but it does not come by default. It must be selected when searching. Is it possibl…

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## [Hi guys, I need some help with SEO optimization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hi-guys-i-need-some-help-with-seo-optimization/278276)

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**Author:** [@Dimeji](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dimeji)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hi-guys-i-need-some-help-with-seo-optimization/278276 "2023-09-08T17:21:37Z")

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Hi guys, I set up a Discourse forum, and when do a google search referencing any of the topics in the forum, the existing topics do not populate. Is there something I’m not doing right? Or is there a specific day to opti…

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## [Bulk un-deletion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-un-deletion/277861)

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**Author:** [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-un-deletion/277861 "2023-09-08T15:38:25Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Best way to temporarily remove public access to a user's topics?: Would it be possible to enable a bulk un-delete selector in the /u/username/deleted-posts list? From what I can tell it wo…

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## [Bulk undelete topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-undelete-topics/196533)

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**Author:** [@rahulMasal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahulMasal)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-undelete-topics/196533 "2023-09-08T14:46:02Z")

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I need help to undelete deleted posts but in bulk! eg. https://example.com/u/{user}/deleted-posts so i can access all posts but we need to undelete it in bulk!

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## [Best Email Providers based on your experience?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-email-providers-based-on-your-experience/93804)

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**Author:** [@jayqueue2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jayqueue2)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-email-providers-based-on-your-experience/93804 "2023-09-08T14:03:27Z")

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The install guide offers a handful of email providers for Discourse. I was wondering if people could chime in with their feedback for the ones mentioned in the guide (Mailgun, Elastic, SendGrid, Mailjet). I used SendGri…

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## [Any Examples of Seamless Integration with Wordpress?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-examples-of-seamless-integration-with-wordpress/278250)

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**Author:** [@TAKY123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TAKY123)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-examples-of-seamless-integration-with-wordpress/278250 "2023-09-08T04:31:08Z")

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I have some static content and would like to create a wordpress site with community seamlessly integrated. Does anyone know of any good examples?

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## [Moving the personal chat section of the sidebar below the channels section](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-the-personal-chat-section-of-the-sidebar-below-the-channels-section/278239)

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**Author:** [@hello-smile6](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hello-smile6)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-the-personal-chat-section-of-the-sidebar-below-the-channels-section/278239 "2023-09-08T03:57:11Z")

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The personal chat part of the sidebar somehow ended up above the channels section on a forum that I’m an admin on, how could it be moved back to its original position?

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## [Setting option to make unlisted topics inaccesible to public](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-option-to-make-unlisted-topics-inaccesible-to-public/277862)

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**Author:** [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-option-to-make-unlisted-topics-inaccesible-to-public/277862 "2023-09-08T01:48:40Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Best way to temporarily remove public access to a user's topics?: Hi there, after reading Understanding closed, unlisted, and archived topics it seems like there is still a gap in function…

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## [Unique color scheme for a category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-color-scheme-for-a-category/278084)

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**Author:** [@Rhababo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rhababo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-color-scheme-for-a-category/278084 "2023-09-07T23:04:10Z")

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Greetings. I am porting an older forum onto discourse and the original site had a unique theme (including unique header logo) for one of their categories. My current solution is a theme-component that looks something l…

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## [Activity Summary included content of posts to which user no longer had access](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-summary-included-content-of-posts-to-which-user-no-longer-had-access/278167)

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**Author:** [@inducer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inducer)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-summary-included-content-of-posts-to-which-user-no-longer-had-access/278167 "2023-09-07T21:09:35Z")

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I use Discourse for discussion in an academic setting, and I have different courses separated out by groups and categories, so that they cannot see each others’ posts. That works well, with one troublesome exception: Dig…

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## [Trouble Rebuilding: gnutls\_handshake() failed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-rebuilding-gnutls-handshake-failed/278205)

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**Author:** [@Brandon\_Martus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brandon_Martus)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-rebuilding-gnutls-handshake-failed/278205 "2023-09-07T20:42:52Z")

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We’re having some trouble rebuilding one of our sites. It is hosted in China, which might have something to do with it. In the past we’ve used the web.china template to fix any issues there, but that doesn’t seem to he…

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## [Rewrite external URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855)

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**Author:** [@kam44](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kam44)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855 "2023-09-07T18:35:17Z")

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I enjoy using Discourse feature that automatically converts watched words into links. However, I’m also looking for a way to auto-convert external links, primarily to insert affiliate links (other than Amazon). I attempt…

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## [Extra functionality for the AI Helper](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extra-functionality-for-the-ai-helper/278145)

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**Author:** [@Aizada\_M](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aizada_M)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extra-functionality-for-the-ai-helper/278145 "2023-09-07T18:17:55Z")

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Greetings! I have previously posted this proposal here. But noticed that my suggestion is more suitable for the Discourse AI plugin. Recently, I’ve been using the notion.so website (There is a similar open source projec…

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## [Support old-fashion telnet terminal access](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-old-fashion-telnet-terminal-access/278185)

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**Author:** [@fbpbdmin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbpbdmin)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-old-fashion-telnet-terminal-access/278185 "2023-09-07T17:16:32Z")

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the old fashion BBS, access in terminal telnet… how to make it accessible via terminal telnet ? wonder if someone has ideas on this :grinning: guess need to stand up a traditional BBS server, which could access disou…

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## [Best practices for using Licensed code?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-using-licensed-code/276227)

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**Author:** [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-using-licensed-code/276227 "2023-09-07T16:27:58Z")

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OK then that brings up a question that I have… I see 8 contributors to this repository… https://github.com/wyzelabs/discourse-wyze-theme I’ve “rolled my own” Theme Component stealing from this. I did it for my own lea…

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## [Mark a PM as read if the message was replied to by email (aka, there's a topic reply logged in Discourse)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-a-pm-as-read-if-the-message-was-replied-to-by-email-aka-theres-a-topic-reply-logged-in-discourse/278170)

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**Author:** [@Walker\_Blackwell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Walker_Blackwell)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-a-pm-as-read-if-the-message-was-replied-to-by-email-aka-theres-a-topic-reply-logged-in-discourse/278170 "2023-09-07T14:42:58Z")

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I use part of Discourse to do support ticket requests at community.inkjetmall.com. Because part of my day is publicly replying to questions online it’s easy for me to go into the private support tickets from the Discours…

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## [Can I get the meta welcome link banner background file?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-get-the-meta-welcome-link-banner-background-file/278163)

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**Author:** [@kynic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kynic)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-get-the-meta-welcome-link-banner-background-file/278163 "2023-09-07T12:53:47Z")

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Hello, :wave: Can I get the PSD file of this background image, please?

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## [Setting a custom IP doesn't work?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-custom-ip-doesnt-work/277981)

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**Author:** [@JTzLinux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JTzLinux)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-custom-ip-doesnt-work/277981 "2023-09-07T11:42:04Z")

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Hello everyone, recently I tried to discourse on my debian server everything went ok expect that I could not access the site due to I tried to change the port to access it but only nginx shows up so I figured the proble…

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## [Have notification panel as right sidebar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-notification-panel-as-right-sidebar/278143)

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**Author:** [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-notification-panel-as-right-sidebar/278143 "2023-09-07T09:08:25Z")

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Now that we have the hamburger menu in a left sidebar, it would be nice to have the notification panel in a right sidebar. I know that might make things look very “busy”… but I thought that about the left sidebar, and n…

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## [Looking for a designer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-a-designer/278110)

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**Author:** [@inj3ct0r](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inj3ct0r)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-a-designer/278110 "2023-09-07T09:04:22Z")

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Hello, I hope u r well :heart: im looking for designer to design a theme for cyber security forum

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## [Group membership request fails to notify members?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-membership-request-fails-to-notify-members/278049)

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**Author:** [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-membership-request-fails-to-notify-members/278049 "2023-09-07T08:44:27Z")

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This is likely a bug Situation We have a closed group with ‘request’ membership. Group is visible to everyone and mentionable by everyone. When someone requests membership, group owners invite the whole group to the m…

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## [Issue after Rebuilding Discourse on Digital Ocean Droplet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-after-rebuilding-discourse-on-digital-ocean-droplet/277877)

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**Author:** [@techwithanirudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techwithanirudh)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 6:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-after-rebuilding-discourse-on-digital-ocean-droplet/277877 "2023-09-07T06:29:38Z")

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I’ve successfully deployed Discourse on a Digital Ocean Droplet, but after initiating a rebuild, I encountered problems. Logs: View Here - Notably, there’s an “x86\_64 arch detected” message. App.yml Configuration: View…

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## [Summarise with AI button... new?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarise-with-ai-button-new/277021)

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**Author:** [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)\
**Replies:** 26\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarise-with-ai-button-new/277021 "2023-09-07T03:19:36Z")

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Hey guys, I just saw this button in a topic here on Meta. Is this feature new? It only appears in this topic (being rolled out slowly?) Or is it a plugin?

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## [Using DATE\_TRUNC for Data Aggregation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-date-trunc-for-data-aggregation/278095)

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**Author:** [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-date-trunc-for-data-aggregation/278095 "2023-09-06T23:24:38Z")

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The date\_trunc function is a powerful tool in SQL. It allows you to truncate a TIMESTAMP or an INTERVAL value based on a specified date part, which makes it an invaluable function when you want to aggregate or group da…

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## [AI Search for finding non-exact matches](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-search-for-finding-non-exact-matches/275569)

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**Author:** [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-search-for-finding-non-exact-matches/275569 "2023-09-06T22:48:28Z")

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We use our site as a knowledge-base and discussion forum for a university department. So for example, I can imagine people wanting to ask things like: when will MSc grades be available? what is the pass mark for MPsych…

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## [Building a plugin to add Stack Exchange features](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-plugin-to-add-stack-exchange-features/31402)

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**Author:** [@BIBI](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BIBI)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-plugin-to-add-stack-exchange-features/31402 "2023-09-06T22:44:45Z")

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I currently run both a forum and Q&A website (stack exchange clone). Both our forum and Q&A have questions on that are answers by a team of moderators. We considering rebuilding and consolidating the software we use, so…

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## [Voting Up the Best Answer!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voting-up-the-best-answer/26070)

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**Author:** [@Mohammad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mohammad)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/voting-up-the-best-answer/26070 "2023-09-06T22:42:07Z")

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My forum is a “Blogger Help Forum” where users ask questions and they receive multiple answers. Currently what we are looking for is to enable a voting system that will Move up the best answer based on Like votes it rece…

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## [Email digest of all activity during the day whether seen or not](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-digest-of-all-activity-during-the-day-whether-seen-or-not/278075)

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**Author:** [@Adam\_Monago](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Adam_Monago)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-digest-of-all-activity-during-the-day-whether-seen-or-not/278075 "2023-09-06T20:31:15Z")

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Hello, A number of our users, having previously used listserv and forum software that was email based such as Lyris or Groups.io have been frustrated that email digests do not meet the expectations that they had around …

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## [Contabo vs. Hetzner vs. Linode vs. Digital Ocean for Discourse Hosting Under $30/mo](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contabo-vs-hetzner-vs-linode-vs-digital-ocean-for-discourse-hosting-under-30-mo/264943)

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**Author:** [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contabo-vs-hetzner-vs-linode-vs-digital-ocean-for-discourse-hosting-under-30-mo/264943 "2023-09-06T20:34:47Z")

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I have Discourse instances on 4 different shared-cloud hosting services at the moment, for testing: (These screenshots are as of 2023-05-14) Contabo for $27/month: Hetzner for $27/month: Linode for $24/month: …

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