Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
In the last 24 hours:
- New posts: 111
- New topics: 15
Top users:
- pfaffman (26 likes, 15 posts)
- Discourse (23 likes, 1 post)
- awesomerobot (12 likes, 6 posts)
- david (10 likes, 3 posts)
- ondrej (9 likes, 4 posts)
Interesting Topics
- Discourse announced the new Starter plan for Discourse, offering public or private sites with unlimited members at $20 a month.
- pfaffman encountered issues with fabricators generating duplicate names due to an aging local test database. david suggested dropping and recreating the test database to resolve the issue.
-
A user inquired about adding a tick badge for usernames, similar to social media platforms. awesomerobot suggested using the subscriptions plugin and group flairs as a workaround.
-
xgpt sought clarification on the difference between watching and tracking a post. awesomerobot explained that watching notifies for every post, while tracking only notifies for direct replies or mentions.
- pfaffman shared his positive experience with the Discourse AI Helper, which assisted in adding a watermark to a page background.
- tobiaseigen announced that anonymous users will no longer be included in the user directory or show up in user tallies on the directory or about page.
- MarcP inquired about support for OpenAI’s new o1-preview and o1-mini models. sam mentioned that these models currently lack support for tools or streaming.
- A user reported an issue with the ‘description’ field in the admin badges section. ella confirmed that the bug has been fixed.
- david identified a performance regression in Chrome when uploading images to topics with many existing images. A fix has been implemented to improve the situation.
- A user discussed migrating from Salesforce community to Discourse, citing better community experience and easier maintenance as reasons for the switch.
support data-explorer rest-api
- xyzzy reported issues with accessing Data Explorer reports via the Discourse API, particularly when using cURL requests.
- pfaffman inquired about the status of the Discourse Web Page Watermark theme component, which appears to be broken. saquetim promised to look into it over the weekend.
- A discussion about improving the signup UX by changing the position of the “Full Name” field is ongoing. pmusaraj mentioned plans to add a site setting for customizing the field’s visibility and requirement.
- gschmid asked about the availability of the Discourse Automation plugin in version 3.2.2, as they couldn’t find it in their installation.
Activity by the @team Group
-
awesomerobot provided suggestions for implementing a verified user system using subscriptions and group flairs.
-
david explained the cause of fabricator issues and suggested ways to prevent them in the future.
-
sam commented on the limitations of new OpenAI models in the context of Discourse integration.
-
ella fixed a bug related to the ‘description’ field in the admin badges section.
-
tobiaseigen announced changes to user directory visibility for anonymous users.
-
pmusaraj shared plans for improving the signup form by adding customizable options for the “Full Name” field.
-
mcwumbly provided an update on the potential integration of Matrix protocol for chat, explaining the current challenges and requirements.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again tomorrow! 