Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- New posts: 129
- New topics: 16
Top users:
- hugh (21 likes, 3 posts)
- pfaffman (15 likes, 10 posts)
- ondrej (14 likes, 6 posts)
- piffy (12 likes, 5 posts)
- Moin (11 likes, 8 posts)
Interesting Topics
#comparison
- ludwikc initiated a discussion comparing Discourse vs Skool, exploring Skool’s popularity and potential lessons for Discourse. The community discussed engagement features, gamification, and monetization options.
- Users reported missing icons after a recent upgrade to Font Awesome 6. awesomerobot acknowledged the issue with the Font Awesome Pro plugin and promised a fix soon.
- hugh announced improvements to pageview metrics with the new site traffic report, offering more comprehensive and accurate data on community engagement.
- A request was made for bulk marking of messages and posters as spam, with suggestions to use Administrative Bulk Operations for similar spam posts.
- putty sought help for Chrome being slow to upload in a topic with many images. The community suggested investigating with a Chrome profile during file upload.
- A user reported gradual memory usage increase after restart, leading to discussions about server resources and potential causes for site sluggishness.
- Updates on the Discourse Automation plugin were shared, including new features for consent management and group tagging.
#site-management
- A guide on using topic templates for categories was discussed, with questions about supporting placeholders for poster’s usernames.
- A user sought advice on using Discourse as SSO for additional services like Wikimedia, Nextcloud, and Immich.
- Issues with buttons for scrolling to the top/bottom of topics on mobile devices were reported and discussed.
- Questions about enabling related topics using AI models were raised, comparing different embedding models and their effectiveness.
- A user reported API calls returning 403 errors behind Cloudflare and sought solutions for their setup.
- The community discussed a Trust Level Permissions Reference, clarifying various permissions associated with different trust levels.
- A suggestion was made to lock the default period when setting a leaderboard date range in the Discourse Gamification plugin.
Activity by the @team Group
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hugh announced improvements to pageview metrics and provided an explanation of the new site traffic report.
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awesomerobot addressed the issue with missing icons after the Font Awesome 6 upgrade and promised a fix for the Font Awesome Pro plugin.
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HAWK moderated a discussion about Discourse vs Skool, ensuring fair comparisons between platforms.
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supermathie suggested creating a helper webpage for generating links to start new topics with pre-filled information.
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Falco discussed Discourse AI embeddings, mentioning automatic backfilling and support for open-source models.
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lindsey provided an update on the progress of splitting profile hiding and presence features.
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joffreyjaffeux addressed issues with searching users and clarified the difference between rate limits and result limits.
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keegan announced a fix for the max form template content length setting.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again tomorrow! 