Is there any log on what was the issue that caused the admin notification? I find the system PM with We have some new advice and recommendations for you based on your current site settings. Visit your site dashboard to see it. Kind of unhelpful to see what it was. especially when another admin took care of it and I want to understand what it was.

Then view the staff action logs, so you can see.

it only shows a post edit which was credited to the system user. I wonder why the system user would edit a post at all? why would the system user have login IPs listed? to answer one question … it seems one user impersonated the system a few months more like years ago.

[image] darix: I wonder why the system user would edit a post at all? In my case it usually deletes full quotes.

I still wonder if that would really trigger a “please look at your dashboard” mail from the system.

I’d like to add my voice to the frustration with these messages. I visit the site dashboard as directed, and I never know what there I am supposed to be seeing. I am the most active admin, as the Staff Action Logs confirm for me when I visit there, and it seems like nothing unusual has happened. Can the message include the advice and recommendations? To me, the current message might as well say, “There’s something important for you, but we won’t tell you what it is. Go to a complex noisy page and see if you can figure it out.”

I am not following. So you are saying you get these messages as the only staff member and when you go to the admin page there is literally nothing there to act on? I can’t say I have had that experience over the last few years on my own self hosted instances, but I run them totally stock / default with zero plugins.

I’m saying that the admin dashboard is confusing. Maybe there’s something to act on, and I just don’t understand. Is “You have the maximum number of staff accounts” something I have to act on? I choose not to; can I dismiss that? The larger point is: why not put the recommendation into the system message? Why use a generic message that forces me to go somewhere else to figure out what was meant?

I had a case like that yes. Giving a hint in the mail about the topics that need attention would be helpful.

Then there are double the number of strings to translate. I struggle to understand the situation though because on my own two self hosted discourse sites — where I am the sole admin and staff — I have never seen this problem. We need a concrete repro.

Admin emails pointing to the dashboard

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 17, 2020, 7:01pm 17

I think when they say “emails” they mean “PM”.

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