I know there are site setting changes by system in the staff action logs. For example, at the end of July, the system enabled rich editor on my forum, and in April, the allowed iframes were changed.
But when I tried to find out why the welcome message from Discobot no longer worked, it was very difficult. I checked for changes of settings in the staff action logs, but there was no change. That’s why I assumed the problem was not related to a site setting. If those hadn’t changed and it had worked before, it couldn’t have been the cause.
Some days later, I found out that the Discourse update had changed the site setting Disable Discourse Narrative Bot welcome post[1].
An entry in the staff action logs would have helped me to find that. Is it possible to add an entry in those cases?
When allowed iframes was changed, such an entry was added:
Is it possible to do this for all migrations of site settings? Maybe also with “changed during Discourse update” in the context field?
Yes, I agree with you that this would be very helpful. We had spent quite some time rewriting and formatting the ‘Welcome message’, and even based some of the monthly metrics on number of views/replies.
I’ve been having ‘zero’ views/replies for that narrative welcome post so when investigating we found out that it was disabled by the system which would’ve been very important for us to know.
I hope that this feature request to let admin know of these changes in the Dashboard where we learn about new feature updates too!
Discobot이 로보토마이(기능 제거)된 걸 방금 알게 돼서 여기 왔습니다. 지금까지는 전혀 몰랐거든요. 설정이 변경될 때, 특히 Discobot처럼 중요한 사항인 경우 사이트 관리자에게 더 많은 알림이 갔으면 좋겠습니다. 사소한 설정 변경마다 알림을 보내는 건 지속 가능하지 않을 수 있지만, 주 단위로 옵트인 방식으로 요약 알림을 보내거나, 최소한 이 사이트에서 관련 정보를 제공한다면 큰 도움이 될 것 같습니다.