@Moin : Aha, thanks for correcting my misunderstanding! Something I’d read on these threads, combined with my own failure to find the right settings the first time, led to my thinking that this wouldn’t work for Discourse-managed sites. But you’re right that it does.
For others like me who have admin privileges on their Discourse and may need a helping hand, here’s the approach in a nutshell:
- Click on the triple-bar menu in the upper right near your user icon and select “configure details”
- Scroll down until you see “Site texts” on the left sidebar. For me, it’s the last item in the “Appearance” section
- At this point you should see a “Site texts” page that starts with a search bar. Type
.previewinto that search bar:
- Among other things, this should filter down to entries like “user_notifications.user_quoted.preview”, “user_notifications.user_posted.preview”, " user_notifications.user_replied.preview", “user_notifications.user_mentioned.preview”, which are the main cases that were annoying our users. Click on the “Edit” buttons of any you’d like to change.
- As @Moin says on the linked issue above, these can’t be left blank or simply replaced with a space, but they can be set to a non-breaking space, like ’ '.
- This will cause the old preview text to be replaced by the new text. In the case of a non-breaking space like the one above, this should restore most of the previous preview text from the body of the message itself.
Thanks again, @Moin!
-Brad