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Key Stats

Total new posts: 49
Total new topics: 12

Top users (posts, likes):

Interesting Topics

Bug

  • Meta is partly translated to Chinese(?): fuzzyk reported that anonymous visitors saw meta content translated into Chinese—category names rendered as “文档”—even on a German IP; mcwumbly linked this to our in-progress multilingual experience, and Moin shared screenshots illustrating cache poisoning in the anonymous view read more.

  • Restore failing on new Bitnami instance: Lilly reminded a newcomer that Bitnami installations are unsupported in the Discourse ecosystem, pointing to the official unsupported-installs guide and advising users to migrate off Bitnami for reliable backups read more.

  • Problem with Discourse Solved plugin: hosna discovered that after upgrading Discourse the Solved plugin no longer displayed accepted answers correctly, and noted disabling the Rating plugin restored proper behavior read more.

Support

  • How many simultaneous users can this VPS server handle?: Ethsim2 compared UNICORN_WORKERS and db_shared_buffers knobs for concurrency, and Ed_S explained that true capacity depends on traffic patterns, historical data volume, and megatopic performance, linking to Improving Instance Performance for deeper insights discussion.

  • Help me find that banner message: pyc couldn’t locate the post used as a global banner; Moin walked through using the edit and wrench menus to unpin or remove a banner topic via the topic settings UI read more.

  • Mobile keyboard covers interface: Heliosurge reported that on mobile the on-screen keyboard obscures form fields in the theme editor; Moin pointed to an open CSS fix in GitHub PR #32468 after bitmage shared interim workaround code read more.

  • Load balancer domain requirements: Willy asked if two domains are needed when using a load balancer with Discourse; Falco clarified that while backend traffic can remain local, client access must occur over a domain name—no second public domain is required read more.

UX

  • AI icon for category helper overlaps + menu: Moin noticed the AI-helper icon for title and tag suggestions sits above the composer’s + menu, echoing a prior issue reported here, and provided screenshots to aid troubleshooting read more.

  • “Joined” visible on hidden profiles: Browsing the cards view, Moin saw that hidden profiles still display the “joined” label in the user directory—a small but confusing oversight for new or zero-activity accounts read more.

#contribute:translations

  • Plural forms in ActivityPub localization: Moin pointed out that messages like “will be published in %{delay_minutes} minutes” lack proper singular/plural handling in the ActivityPub plugin’s locale files, linking to direct lines in the GitHub repo for context read more.

  • Translating %{filter} in discovery route headings: nat responded to feedback on translating dynamic headings in the Discovery routes (%{filter}), noting the trade-off between translation completeness and string proliferation read more.

Plugin

  • Discourse AI Topic Summary :robot: updates: In the long-running plugin thread, merefield merged a PR enabling AI-generated summaries in link previews (pull #27) and explained logging strategies after Doniel_Zoldan reported missing summaries discussion.

Feature

  • User Flag for thread deletion: Jeto suggested introducing a dedicated “thread deletion” flag option to streamline community flagging workflows and ensure these flags reach moderators as a distinct, high-priority category read more.

Theme

  • Graceful Theme mobile color bars: danvanmoll asked why the Graceful Theme’s vertical color bars don’t appear on mobile, seeking CSS tips or theme adjustments for responsive compatibility read more.

Dev

  • Empty JSON responses from user API endpoints: Hyan observed that querying admin/users.json?email=… and admin/users/list/all.json?email=… returned empty arrays for newly registered users and asked if these endpoints are deprecated or under-documented read more.

Activity by the @team Group

  • Lilly clarified that Bitnami installations are unsupported in the backup restore topic link and guided a user through unpinning a global banner link.

  • mcwumbly connected the Chinese translation symptom to the in-progress multilingual overhaul in the partial translation bug report link.

  • Falco addressed domain requirements behind Discourse load balancing, confirming a single VPS setup is fine as long as users hit a proper domain name link.

  • nat investigated anonymous category cache localization in the Chinese translation thread link and weighed in on discovery filter heading translations link.

Here’s to the unicorn workers powering our VPS and the translators keeping us multilingual—see you tomorrow for more bug hunts and feature finesse!