I’m using only the plugins published by discourse for maximum compatibility. However, I’m curious as to why the two plugins: discourse auto suspend & discourse characters required are not being marked as official?
I wasn’t sure where this topic belongs so posted it in uncategorized.
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Oh that is odd, cc @eviltrout . And @blake is auto-suspend yours?
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eviltrout
(Robin Ward)
June 18, 2018, 2:31pm
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Looks like characters-required was never added to official plugins. This adds it:
committed 02:30PM - 18 Jun 18 UTC
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blake
(Blake Erickson)
June 18, 2018, 4:39pm
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I’ve updated the README for the auto-suspend plugin stating that it is unofficial and to use the auto-deactivate plugin instead:
:warning: This plugin is NOT offical and has been replaced with the [discourse-auto-deactivate
plugin](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-auto-deactivate)
# discourse-auto-suspend
A plugin for Discourse which automatically suspends users after a defined period of inactivity.
[How to install a plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157)
The plugin is disabled by default, make sure to enable it in your site settings.
I’ve add the auto-deactivate plugin to the official list:
committed 04:20PM - 18 Jun 18 UTC
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@blake can you provide a small overview of what has changed between auto suspend and auto deactivate (despite the fact that one suspends and other deactivates) I’d have to install the other plugin tonight if there are major differences (Including support lifecycle)
blake
(Blake Erickson)
June 18, 2018, 4:51pm
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I’m not a huge fan of this approach, because a suspended user should mean they did something wrong.
Having a ton of auto-suspended users mixed in randomly with users who were suspended for, I don’t know, abusive behavior or what have you, is quite far from ideal.
That is the only difference and we don’t have plans to support the suspended plugin now that we don’t have any other paying customers using it.
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