Continued from Discourse v3.0.6 to v3.1.1 upgrade error - undefined method `register_bookmarkable' for Bookmark:Class - #9 by stevejr Hi, Is there a way to disable a core plugin at startup? I would like to disable the Chat plugin. Thanks.

hi @stevejr :wave: chat isn’t a separate plug in anymore and is part of core Discourse is bundled as part of core. It can be disabled by unchecking admin-settings-chat enabled.

Thanks @Lilly . Is there a way to disable it at startup rather than post-startup via the admin console? I have an issue with an upgrade and I would like to test having Chat disabled at startup. Thanks.

just disable it and restart the server? i’m not sure what you are trying to accomplish. I suppose you can disable it in rails but not sure why you’d need to do that. it’s just a setting and part of core now, not a plug in. Are you having issues with another plug in or something? what are you upgrad…

The reason for disabling it is related to another post I opened - Discourse v3.0.6 to v3.1.1 upgrade error - undefined method `register_bookmarkable' for Bookmark:Class I know my install is not supported and that’s ok but the way the upgrades work is to deploy a new instance of discourse with the l…

Looks like maybe I can set chat_enabled to false in my site settings which hopefully will disable it.

[image] How to remove the Discourse chat plugin completely from an install Self-hosting The code is disabled in the admin settings but would prefer to not waste any bits loading this plugin which we don’t plan to use. Could not find any Discourse config parame…

Chat is still a plugin, it’s just shipped with core now, see: [image] Chat plugin - > Core Development Sorry Robert, We don’t have plans for this in the mid term. Im not sure what you are trying to do with qunit, but you could certainly achieve this with …

yea I meant to update my post. Jammy since reminded me they are"bundled" plugins still. In my head I tend to think of plugins being separate like theme components.

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merefield (Robert) October 7, 2023, 5:36pm 8

Chat is still a plugin, it’s just shipped with core now, see:

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