# Cannot customize some site texts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-customize-some-site-texts/387463>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-customize-some-site-texts/387463 "2025-11-03T14:45:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-customize-some-site-texts/387463/6 "2025-11-06T00:50:06Z")

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Feels like a general issue you your Discourse instance.

```plaintext
sam@arch discourse % bin/rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 8.0.4)
[1] pry(main)> I18n.exists?("js.user.username.short_instructions", :en)
=> true

```

Particularly something around build. During build we parse all of this stuff and pop it in tables, somehow this did not happen yet in your instance.

Would recommend a console rebuild.

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