Welcome to our AI-generated Daily Summary topic! (1:00 PM Edition)
This is the topic where a daily summary of meta’s activity is collated by our good friend Bert, and posted here so everyone can get a rundown of some of the top discussions over the past 24 hours.
To account for our global audience, we have three editions (this one, Daily Summary (9pm UTC), and Daily Summary (5am UTC)), which fire at different times of the day so you can get one at a time most convenient to you. All of them cover the last 24 hours (respectively), so the main difference is when they land.
If you’d like to get a ping whenever a new one is posted just set this topic to Watching (and if you change your mind, change it back ).
Feedback is certainly welcome. We’ll be tweaking and refining the idea as we go, so all input is encouraged. We do have a separate topic for that so as to keep this one just for summaries. You can find that here - Daily Summary Feedback
Enjoy!
Small caveat… AI (even GPT-4) does hallucinate, it is unavoidable. Don’t treat everything it says as truth, as there will likely be some lies mixed in. We’ll try to manually correct any if we spot them, but still… keep an eye out.
Users reported issues with Onebox for some sites like New York Times and Washington Post. martin explained that Discourse generally cannot onebox paywalled/private sites, but suggested there may be enough info to show something for these cases.
A user shared their experience moving a Discourse installation to a new host and learned about running shell commands inside the Discourse container for emergency backups.
There were reports of Discourse AI installation failing due to issues with the tokenizers library. The Discourse team is investigating the problem.
@Wendell_Fernandes shared their community feedback about moving to Discourse. pmusaraj congratulated them and invited them to enroll in Discourse Discover.
pmusaraj engaged with a community member’s feedback, offering congratulations and inviting them to enroll in Discourse Discover. He also confirmed openness to a PR for supporting itunes:image syntax in the RSS Polling plugin.
awesomerobot provided CSS solutions for rounding buttons and corners site-wide. He also shared follow-up fixes for issues with solutions and cheers appearing large on user cards.
lindseyannounced an upcoming update to hide chat’s Channels option in the footer when enable public channels is disabled. She also acknowledged a report about replying issues in iPhone Mail dark mode and promised to work on fixing it.
A user inquired about using Discourse for delivery dispatch, sparking a discussion about alternative platforms and the potential risks of using Discourse for time-sensitive operations. read more
The community discussed changes to the Terms of Service on meta.discourse.org. awesomerobot clarified that the checkbox for agreeing to the terms doesn’t require clicking the link, as users take on personal responsibility for reviewing the terms. The changes were minor, primarily updating the date and adding a note about future updates.
The Discourse team introduced a new sidebar for better documentation navigation. Some users reported issues with the search functionality on mobile devices, which the team is investigating.
Eugene49 sought assistance in using a custom domain for their Discourse-hosted forum. The community provided guidance on configuring DNS records and changing domain settings within Discourse.
A user reported a broken logo in the site header during development. Firepup650 suggested enabling the “force https” setting in the admin panel to resolve the issue.
The community continued discussions on the ActivityPub Plugin, with mcdanlj sharing insights on the potential usefulness of following entire Discourse instances on Mastodon.
A user reported a fatal site error caused by a bad MF translation string. The issue was traced to a problem with the Hebrew locale. JammyDodger and thoka provided suggestions to troubleshoot and temporarily resolve the issue by switching users to English locale.
Some users are experiencing issues with chat messages not showing up unless they refresh or switch channels. This seems to be affecting highly engaged chat users.
Another user reported chat messages appearing in the wrong order and inquired about ways to clear chat messages or perform some cleaning, especially for a channel with over 50K users.
A user asked about adding an external chatbot to their Discourse community. They encountered issues with implementing a Microsoft bot service script and sought advice on the best integration method.
ArunROG87Razer sought guidance on installing a black theme for their community. bryce provided a detailed explanation of the difference between themes and color schemes in Discourse, noting that a dark mode typically only involves a color scheme read more.
Firepup650 inquired about why old topics are closed on Discourse. Jagster explained that as topics grow longer, they’re more likely to go off-topic, and ondrej added that support categories bump old topics for staff review read more.
angus introduced the new Journal Plugin, which allows turning a Discourse topic into a one-to-many journal where one user can post entries that others comment on read more.
angus started a poll to gauge interest in upgrading the Multilingual Plugin, asking users about their current usage and desired improvements read more.
pfaffman shared his experience with implementing live updates of components in a custom rating system. He provided code snippets demonstrating how to use tracked properties and update them in actions.
huynhthai824 experienced slow loading times on their Discourse site. Possible causes discussed included the use of the Topic Card theme component, a large number of categories, and server location. supermathie noted the site loaded quickly for him, suggesting a potential client-side issue.
gassim shared insights on onboarding new users to forums, emphasizing the importance of understanding the user journey and promoting the community across various channels.
JammyDodger provided information about the Local Dates plugin and suggested troubleshooting steps for a user experiencing 500 errors when inserting dates.
chapoi responded to feedback on the Custom Profile Link component, explaining the rationale behind implementing it as a theme component rather than a user field type.
pfaffman sought help with live updates of components in Discourse development. He later shared his solution, which involved using tracked properties and initializing them in the constructor. read more
Small caveat… AI (even GPT-4) does hallucinate, it is unavoidable. Don’t treat everything it says as truth, as there will likely be some lies mixed in. We’ll try to manually correct any if we spot them, but still… keep an eye out.
