The discussion revolves around the effects of Bootstrap Mode in a self-hosted Discourse instance (3.4.0.beta1-dev). ToddZ initially expected Bootstrap Mode to automatically assign new users TL1, set digest frequency to 1 Day, display a banner, and show a Getting Started button. However, they observed that new users were assigned TL0, digest frequency was set to 1 Week, and no banner appeared. Moin clarified that Bootstrap Mode only sets default values and doesn’t override manually changed settings. The banner was removed, replaced by the Getting Started button, as noted by tobiaseigen. ToddZ acknowledged the confusion, as the documentation lacked clarity on Bootstrap Mode’s mechanism. ToddZ later discovered a new wiki doc explaining Bootstrap Mode, which helped resolve the misunderstanding.
Ah, thanks for clarifying those details. Things make sense now. I did change the new user TL and the summary settings at some point – just thought bootstrap was some kind of background override.
(I searched, but couldn’t find official documentation for bootstrap mode. Seems it’s usually described in posts here as “it gives the first 50 users TL1 and daily digests” without explaining the mechanism. This leads to some misunderstandings.)
I did, thanks – the Getting Started admin guide likewise mentions the effects of Bootstrap mode, but not the mechanism. This left room for me to assume that Bootstrap mode was a background rule overriding admin settings, not a direct temporary change to admin settings. So as I explored these things independently, it didn’t seem to add up.
new users assigned TL0
Getting Started button in header