# 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")
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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@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")

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that is a lot of plugins.

> [@cshll](#):
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> `- git clone https://gh-proxy.com/https://github.com/discourse/discourse-theme-creator.git`

why do you have theme creator installed as a plugin?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/a/6/7a6037b4464e19c47c18e187be4c1f08c57c5904.png)

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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