# Latest

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## [Does changing the default digest overrides user's chosen settings?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-default-digest-overrides-users-chosen-settings/195414)

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**Author:** [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-default-digest-overrides-users-chosen-settings/195414 "2021-06-30T17:02:01Z")

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We want to change the frequency of digest from daily to weekly. My question is: if a user set it to ‘never’ or to ‘every hour’ would this override their chosen setting? Or would this only apply to users who are on the “…

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## [Help needed with theming and logo](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-needed-with-theming-and-logo/195035)

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**Author:** [@Planktro\_Neum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Planktro_Neum)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-needed-with-theming-and-logo/195035 "2021-06-30T17:01:51Z")

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Hi everyone hope you are well… I’m currently new to admin status on the website I’m on ( and new to css ), I’m adding new styles, etc but there’s one more thing I’d like to change but I cannot find out how to do it, eit…

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## [Admin sso and group permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-sso-and-group-permissions/195495)

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**Author:** [@jsouthall](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jsouthall)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-sso-and-group-permissions/195495 "2021-06-30T14:52:09Z")

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Hi I have found behavior wherein my group memberships are disappearing. The scenario is that sometimes I add the “admin” parameter to my sso login for testing purposes. When I revoke admin afterwards, my group membershi…

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## [Review of topics in private discussion - dev](https://meta.discourse.org/t/review-of-topics-in-private-discussion-dev/195494)

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**Author:** [@dvdpell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dvdpell)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/review-of-topics-in-private-discussion-dev/195494 "2021-06-30T13:56:00Z")

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Hello everybody, you can customize the buttons that appear in the review phase for the publication of the topic. We need not to make public all the topics that are sent in the “pending” phase but to respond privately t…

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## [E-mail notifications when members are mentioned](https://meta.discourse.org/t/e-mail-notifications-when-members-are-mentioned/191175)

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**Author:** [@Richard\_Millington](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richard_Millington)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/e-mail-notifications-when-members-are-mentioned/191175 "2021-06-30T13:14:54Z")

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Feels like a silly question, but I can’t find the setting for this - and the last posts were from a few years ago. How do I make sure members get an email notification when they are are @mentioned within the community? …

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## [Avatar Img tag missing alt attribute](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-img-tag-missing-alt-attribute/183507)

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**Author:** [@Alexander\_Wright](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alexander_Wright)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-img-tag-missing-alt-attribute/183507 "2021-06-30T10:12:58Z")

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I’m investigating a user who can’t see the site’s front page (a different issue). In doing so, I ran my site’s source through the w3’s validator. This returned many errors of the form: An img element with no alt attri…

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## [How is Discourse Search implemented?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-discourse-search-implemented/195320)

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**Author:** [@Yashi12](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yashi12)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-discourse-search-implemented/195320 "2021-06-30T08:35:40Z")

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What kind of Search algorithm Discourse uses, for recommending similar topics. Can someone guide me with it, I want to improve it, further.

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## [DiscourseHub not on Linux?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discoursehub-not-on-linux/195464)

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**Author:** [@philip\_rhoades](https://meta.discourse.org/u/philip_rhoades)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 8:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discoursehub-not-on-linux/195464 "2021-06-30T08:31:52Z")

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People, I love this app on Android but it doesn’t appear to be available for Linux desktops? - why not? - could it be done as a Chrome Extension? ATM, on the desktop, I have a window with all my (27) Discourse sites in…

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## [Did anyone try to embed Datatables into Topic Body?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-anyone-try-to-embed-datatables-into-topic-body/129299)

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**Author:** [@Raghu\_Nandan\_Avula](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Raghu_Nandan_Avula)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-anyone-try-to-embed-datatables-into-topic-body/129299 "2021-06-30T08:26:13Z")

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Hello Community, Did anyone try to embed Data tables into Topic Body ? Any plugin or theme ? Thanks,

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## [How to search on Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-search-on-discourse/195459)

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**Author:** [@meep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meep)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 7:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-search-on-discourse/195459 "2021-06-30T07:04:54Z")

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I’m new to Discourse and cannot find documentation on “How to Search” If something such as that does exist, then kindly provide me with the link. In particular, does anyone know how to search for multiple words, such a…

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## [Any way to show live stats to users?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-show-live-stats-to-users/195437)

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**Author:** [@Tanz0rz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tanz0rz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-show-live-stats-to-users/195437 "2021-06-30T02:13:55Z")

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Back in my VBulletin days, there were widgets that some forums had that showed live stats for the forum like users online, mods online, etc. Is there anything like that for Discourse?

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## [Unofficial Discourse GraphQL API Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unofficial-discourse-graphql-api-plugin/158955)

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**Author:** [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unofficial-discourse-graphql-api-plugin/158955 "2021-06-30T01:34:09Z")

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discourse-graphql - GitHub - tgxworld/discourse-graphql · GitHub Hi all, I’ll like to share the discourse-graphql plugin which I’ve been working on recently as a personal project. The plugin is still a work in progress a…

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## [Reply-by-mail UTF-8 characters mis-rendering](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-mail-utf-8-characters-mis-rendering/195436)

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**Author:** [@BradCray](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BradCray)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-mail-utf-8-characters-mis-rendering/195436 "2021-06-30T01:29:12Z")

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Hi Discourse support and community — I’m noticing that when sending replies to our site’s Discourse posts by plain text email, UTF-8 characters like the m-dash in my greeting above show up in the online version of the p…

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## [Is it possible to replace the h3 tag with another tag in category name titles?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-replace-the-h3-tag-with-another-tag-in-category-name-titles/195419)

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**Author:** [@bekircem](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bekircem)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-replace-the-h3-tag-with-another-tag-in-category-name-titles/195419 "2021-06-30T00:10:30Z")

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Is it possible to replace the h3 tag with another tag in category name titles? For example i want to remove h3 tags from “bug” category name. Thanks.

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## [Focus jumps when writing title of a message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focus-jumps-when-writing-title-of-a-message/195426)

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**Author:** [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focus-jumps-when-writing-title-of-a-message/195426 "2021-06-29T22:27:09Z")

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Steps to reproduce start a new message type some characters of a username select the username using tab use tab to enter a title start typing → after some characters you suddenly type in the userfield again.

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## [Problem with sending notification when message contains HTML/code and a lot of escaping](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-with-sending-notification-when-message-contains-html-code-and-a-lot-of-escaping/96260)

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**Author:** [@mkpankov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mkpankov)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-with-sending-notification-when-message-contains-html-code-and-a-lot-of-escaping/96260 "2018-10-10T19:36:08Z")

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I’ve got this error: { "error\_key": null, "message": { "chat\_id": "@rustycrate", "text": "\<b\>Chikirev Sirguy @cheblin\</b\> posted in \<a href=\\"https://forum.rustycrate.ru/t/pochemu-oshibka-conflicting-impleme…

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## [Restrict Office 365 Login to certain Group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-office-365-login-to-certain-group/195377)

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**Author:** [@Rene.Rohner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rene.Rohner)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-office-365-login-to-certain-group/195377 "2021-06-29T19:33:57Z")

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Is it possible to restrict the Office 365 Login Plugin to only allow users from a specific Organization and within this organization to a specific Group? In the Docs it is written, that we must choose the the most permi…

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## [Is there a way to see what version of Discourse a forum is on without being an admin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-what-version-of-discourse-a-forum-is-on-without-being-an-admin/195396)

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**Author:** [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-what-version-of-discourse-a-forum-is-on-without-being-an-admin/195396 "2021-06-29T18:58:16Z")

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Title says it all, really. I reported a bug a while back but the forum I regularly use isn’t up to date, so it could have just been a matter of updating their instance to get the bug fixed. But I feel like telling them t…

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## [How deeply can you use plugins to add new complex features to a Discourse instance?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-deeply-can-you-use-plugins-to-add-new-complex-features-to-a-discourse-instance/193889)

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**Author:** [@rsmithlal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rsmithlal)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-deeply-can-you-use-plugins-to-add-new-complex-features-to-a-discourse-instance/193889 "2021-06-29T18:41:16Z")

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Hi folks, I’m new to working with discourse and I’d like to ask some questions about developing extensions for the platform. I am a full stack rails developer working to build a rails engine to add certain reusable feat…

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## [Enable Full site accleration in cloudflare](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-full-site-accleration-in-cloudflare/195369)

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**Author:** [@Pravi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pravi)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-full-site-accleration-in-cloudflare/195369 "2021-06-29T14:13:21Z")

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In order to enable full site acceleration on Cloudflare, An A record named origin (or any name) has to be created such that origin.mydomain.com is proxied by Cloudflare and mydomain.com resolves to my Linode IP. force\_…

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## [502 error when saving topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/502-error-when-saving-topic/184588)

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**Author:** [@hoangviet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hoangviet)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/502-error-when-saving-topic/184588 "2021-06-29T09:40:35Z")

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I kept getting the Saving error (can’t post topic) …, then reporting 502 error. How can I fix this, currently I can’t post a new topic.

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## [We created a custom Sprockets directive for the Custom Wizard plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-created-a-custom-sprockets-directive-for-the-custom-wizard-plugin/189908)

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**Author:** [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-created-a-custom-sprockets-directive-for-the-custom-wizard-plugin/189908 "2021-06-29T05:45:41Z")

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The Custom Wizard plugin creates its own Ember app and borrows some of the assets from the discourse core. For that we use a js file called wizard-custom.js with sprockets directives targetting individual files. In som…

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## [The ability to search for posts exclusively in the base category itself](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ability-to-search-for-posts-exclusively-in-the-base-category-itself/188192)

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**Author:** [@Macaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Macaw)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ability-to-search-for-posts-exclusively-in-the-base-category-itself/188192 "2021-06-29T01:45:35Z")

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One is currently unable to use the search feature to look for topics/replies only in the parent/base category. Right now, selecting the base category will also pull up results from all subcategories under said base categ…

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## [Long links break the click tracker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-links-break-the-click-tracker/33702)

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**Author:** [@yousef](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yousef)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-links-break-the-click-tracker/33702 "2021-06-28T23:07:20Z")

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See examples on our staging server. Clicking on the link normally causes a white screen, opening in a new tab works fine.

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## [Users pasting unformatted code results in unwanted styles](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-pasting-unformatted-code-results-in-unwanted-styles/29120)

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**Author:** [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-pasting-unformatted-code-results-in-unwanted-styles/29120 "2021-06-28T22:55:38Z")

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Hi we have a lot of this Bounce not Working - ℹ️ Support - phpList Discuss where people post code in from some config file and all the commented out lines beginning with a hash become #bold - I guess due to the markup …

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## [Getting error when changing e-mail address](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-error-when-changing-e-mail-address/195290)

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**Author:** [@Flashio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Flashio)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-error-when-changing-e-mail-address/195290 "2021-06-28T21:47:13Z")

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Hello, I’m trying to change user’s email address, but it shows me an error after I open the link I’ve received on my old e-mail. “This page does not exist or it was hidden from public”. What can I do?

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## [Modifying Variables related to 'New Topic'](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modifying-variables-related-to-new-topic/195289)

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**Author:** [@Connor\_Parrish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Connor_Parrish)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modifying-variables-related-to-new-topic/195289 "2021-06-28T21:40:04Z")

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I’m trying to modify the behavior of tag-show.js’s createTopicDisabled. I cannot seem to get this to be overwritten how I’ve seen on here. I’ve tried using api.modifyClass() and api.modifyClassStatic() like this: api.…

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## [Automation for sending Discourse invite after user signs up for Mailchimp list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automation-for-sending-discourse-invite-after-user-signs-up-for-mailchimp-list/195255)

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**Author:** [@Millions](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Millions)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automation-for-sending-discourse-invite-after-user-signs-up-for-mailchimp-list/195255 "2021-06-28T20:52:56Z")

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I’m trying to find some sort of automation to connect my Mailchimp list form to automatically send a Discourse invite when someone new signs up for the Mailchimp list. I tried to utilize Zapier for this, but this automat…

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## [Can't edit categories with full permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-edit-categories-with-full-permissions/195183)

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**Author:** [@AnaisDG](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AnaisDG)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-edit-categories-with-full-permissions/195183 "2021-06-28T20:31:45Z")

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Hello all, I’m trying to edit my categories, but the wrench icon doesn’t show up for me. Can you help me please? Thanks.

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## [Updates always come before release notes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updates-always-come-before-release-notes/88919)

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**Author:** [@willemb2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/willemb2)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 4, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updates-always-come-before-release-notes/88919 "2018-06-04T18:02:30Z")

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When I get that “New Discourse version, update available” email from my forum (this time about 2.1.0.beta1), I know @jomaxro 's elaborate release notes will appear here within 6-24 hrs. or so. It’s not very important, bu…

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