# Badges Error launching
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** badges
**Created:** [May 10, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594 "2026-05-10T11:58:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/1 "2026-05-10T11:58:02Z")
[https://www.910500.xyz/badges](https://www.910500.xyz/badges)
What’s the reason? That caused the unit to have errors.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/2 "2026-05-10T12:59:42Z")
Did you disable the `enable_badges` site setting?
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/3 "2026-05-10T13:27:57Z")
No such option is available
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/4 "2026-05-10T13:36:13Z")
Could you try searching for `enable badges` in Admin \> All site settings? Is the setting ticked? If not, please tick it and save.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/5 "2026-05-10T13:44:23Z")
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/7 "2026-05-10T14:02:26Z")
But me.
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### Author:  [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/8 "2026-05-10T14:06:01Z")
Does this topic duplicate the existing topic [Discourse badges error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-badges-error/377124)?
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/9 "2026-05-10T14:25:12Z")
Can you try entering [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) and tick all the boxes? Does the setting show up after that? Does the Badges page work after that?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/10 "2026-05-10T14:39:12Z")
It can’t work in safemode
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### Author:  [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/12 "2026-05-10T15:35:30Z")
Does the image in [#10](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/10) show the initial state of the website just after installation? Is this a customized version or something else, because it looks different from the initial state after installation by cloning `https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git`, for example the “文档” section and the “周年纪念日” section, but I cannot rule out whether they were manually added after the installation.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/13 "2026-05-10T16:02:27Z")
perhaps it is a managed host install on a chinese server with some things disabled - almost looks like a limited or incomplete install.
can you give us more information about your configuration - is it a self-hosted standard docker install?
i fired up a discourse hosted free plan test forum and badge admin page looks like this:
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/14 "2026-05-10T22:36:36Z")
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/15 "2026-05-10T23:15:40Z")
```plaintext
templates:
- "templates/postgres.template.yml"
- "templates/redis.template.yml"
- "templates/web.template.yml"
- "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
- "templates/web.china.template.yml"
expose:
- "8001:80"
params:
db_shared_buffers: "256MB"
env:
LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
UNICORN_WORKERS: 4
DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: www.910500.xyz
DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: c135860@outlook.com
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS:
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT:
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: work@sv1.910500.xyz
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: ""
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true
DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none
# ✅ 唯一存储卷 → 指向你的 U盘 路径
volumes:
- volume:
host: /mnt/usbntfs/discoursed/shared/standalone
guest: /shared
hooks:
after_code:
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
cmd:
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-animated-avatars.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-saved-searches.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-experts.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-follow.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-yearly-review.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-doc-categories.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-signatures.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/scavin/discourse-bilibili-onebox.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-livestream.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-journal.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bcc.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-tickets.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-surveys.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/maiizii/discourse-choujiang.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-user-card-badges.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-video.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-translator.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-theme-creator.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-tag-by-group.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-tag-topic-user-device.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sketchup-3dwh-onebox.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved-reminders-plugin.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-shared-edits.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-route-blocker.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-newsletter-integration.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-logster-transporter.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-just-chat.git
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-group-category-banner-ads.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-deprecation-collector.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-code-review.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chart.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-browser-history.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode-color.git
- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/spirobel/discourse-matheditor.git
```
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/16 "2026-05-10T23:17:43Z")
that is a lot of plugins.
> [@cshll](#):
>
> `- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-theme-creator.git`
why do you have theme creator installed as a plugin?
it is probably breaking your forum
this one:
`- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-group-category-banner-ads.git`
isn’t going through the `gh-proxy.com/` path
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/17 "2026-05-11T01:49:41Z")
you have way too many plugins, especially unsupported/ unofficial plugins. remove them all and try and get your forum working properly, then add the important ones back one by one.
> [@cshll](#):
>
> ```plaintext
> DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT:
>
> ```
you have no SMTP port. i don’t think you can have email working without it.
> [@cshll](#):
>
> ```plaintext
> volumes:
> - volume:
> host: /mnt/usbntfs/discoursed/shared/standalone
> guest: /shared
>
> ```
are you running the data volumn off an NTFS formatted USB drive? that will degrade database performance and stability.
that one plugin pointing to github without the proxy is probably going to fail in your (presumably) firewalled location if you need to have the gh-proxy in between for it to load.
i think you need either of these depending on what you are doing with certificates:
```plaintext
templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml
templates/web.ssl.template.yml
```
this should probably commented out unless you have a specific reason for including it:
> `DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none`
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/19 "2026-05-11T04:03:13Z")
So, should we remove [GitHub - discourse/discourse-theme-creator · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-theme-creator)?
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/20 "2026-05-11T04:52:36Z")
Yes that one at minimum, as as Lilly said, probably you have too many others too. Try that one first, and then start removing other unofficial ones until it works again so you know what the issue is.
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/21 "2026-05-11T09:32:20Z")
It still doesn’t seem to work. What could be the reason? I’ve already tried.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/22 "2026-05-11T09:39:37Z")
Have you tried in [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true), as suggested? If it works like that, we know it’s a theme component or plugin.
Try that first please.
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### Author:  [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-error-launching/402594/23 "2026-05-11T09:49:40Z")
Still nothing. I’ve already tried that and disabled all plugins.
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