Daily Summary (1pm UTC)

[Discourse]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats:

• New posts: 174
• New topics: 25
• Top users:
  1. merefield (27 likes, 8 posts)
  2. Lilly (25 likes, 8 posts)
  3. HAWK (24 likes, 6 posts)
  4. pfaffman (12 likes, 11 posts)
  5. Moin (11 likes, 7 posts)

Interesting Topics:

Support

• A user sought help increasing the size of their reply textarea in Discourse. After troubleshooting, it was discovered that the issue was caused by the “Choose Next Topic” plugin.

• A question was raised about changing the link under the logo to point to the Categories page instead of Discovery. Solutions involving custom settings and theme components were suggested.

• There was a discussion about configuring permissions to allow users to create posts in a category without seeing others’ posts. The built-in flagging system was recommended as an alternative.

Community

• A user asked for recommendations on plugins to enhance user engagement on Discourse forums. Suggestions included the Gamification plugin, Follow plugin, and the built-in Poll feature.

• A thread discussed looking for the perfect theme for a Discourse forum, with users sharing various theme and component suggestions.

Bug

• An issue was reported where bookmarks couldn’t be deleted in certain situations. The problem seemed to be related to how old bookmarks were recognized by the system.

Feature

• A request was made to make “implicit link name syntax” the default in the Discourse composer, arguing it produces more human-readable markdown.

Dev

• A developer sought guidance on adding a custom SVG icon to a plugin they were working on. The solution involved using the register_svg_icon function.

wordpress

• A user asked about implementing Discourse forums in a Laravel 11 project, specifically regarding user authentication with Discourse Connect.

#Hosting

• Advice was sought on setting up a multi-subdomain Discourse instance with shared SSO. Various options and considerations were discussed.

#Site feedback

• Users provided feedback on the Daily Summary feature, with some noting issues in attribution of actions to the correct users.

Announcements

• The Discourse team shared an update on current projects for September 2024, including work on the composer, converter framework, and other improvements.

Activity by the @team Group:

• HAWK provided guidance on using the flagging system for reporting issues instead of creating a separate category with restricted visibility.

• Lilly offered advice on configuring post notices and clarified the impact of safe mode on theme components.

• awesomerobot shared information about setting up voting and form templates for feature requests.

• mcwumbly discussed plans to follow up on the new converter framework and its potential use for forum migrations.

• sam explained the various implementation options for RAG capabilities in Discourse AI, including custom tools and API access to embeddings.

• hugh acknowledged contributions to documentation on custom user statuses.

• saquetim suggested testing a PR that modernizes the Discourse Web Page Watermark component.

Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again tomorrow!