Daily Summary (1pm UTC)

[Discourse]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 109

• New topics: 11

• Top users:

  • merefield: 10 posts, 14 likes
  • awesomerobot: 5 posts, 8 likes
  • NateDhaliwal: 4 posts, 4 likes
  • davidb: 3 posts, 4 likes
  • RGJ: 3 posts, 4 likes
  • ganncamp: 4 posts, 3 likes
  • MarcP: 2 posts, 4 likes
  • Falco: 2 posts, 3 likes
  • sam: 2 posts, 4 likes
  • chrismalone: 1 post, 3 likes

• Top team contributors:

  • awesomerobot: 5 posts, 8 likes
  • Lilly: 7 posts, 3 likes
  • davidb: 3 posts, 4 likes
  • sam: 2 posts, 4 likes
  • Falco: 2 posts, 3 likes
  • hugh: 2 posts, 1 like
  • pmusaraj: 1 post, 1 like
  • blake: 1 post, 1 like
  • fzngagan: 1 post, 2 likes

Interesting Topics

Bug

• ganncamp reported that the Data Explorer Automation plugin isn’t sending PMs to CommunityManagers, and davidb deployed an update to restore notifications read more.

• Users noted that ActivityPub followers of a tag actor aren’t shown on Discourse Meta; pmusaraj confirmed a PR has been merged to fix this in core read more.

• After updating, some sites experienced intermittent 502 Bad Gateway errors traced to slow Postgres queries; post-upgrade VACUUM and reindex steps by pfaffman and bar10dr brought performance back to normal read more.

• awesomerobot diagnosed a CSS conflict where hiding locks plus pinned icons breaks the title layout in split view on UX, and demonstrated the fix steps read more.

Support

• A clarification in Support merefield and sam confirmed that Groq is a hardware inference provider, not a typo for “Grok” in the Discourse AI docs; sam emphasized that the naming is deliberate read more.

• Many admins are exploring the new “More robust site search” features, but Lilly pointed out you must include filters like bot:true or whisper:true in your query syntax; docs will be updated soon read more.

• toon251 ran into a “Page not found” when using /bookmarks?order=created; Lilly guided them to the correct /my/activity/bookmarks endpoint and advanced filter pattern read more.

• New users asked why the “Reply” button doesn’t appear in some restricted categories; sam identified and resolved a misconfigured category permission to re-enable replies read more.

• In an AI-focused support thread, awesomerobot explained that you can technically run Topic List Excerpts and AI gists simultaneously but recommended choosing one for clarity read more.

• jordan-violet explored automating banner creation with AI summaries; the community discussed draft category workflows and LLM integration scenarios read more.

• Joe_F sketched out a “roadmap style” category like Matillion’s roadmap and merefield pointed to the Kanban Board plugin and workflow extensions as a solid foundation read more.

• fzngagan invited everyone to test the new rich text composer in Support, sharing an early draft build for feedback read more.

Installation

• A newcomer, Vixi, struggled with the official Docker behind Nginx proxy; Lilly walked through the cloud install guide, launcher commands, SMTP settings, and admin account setup read more.

Feature

• In Feature, icaria36 proposed real ActivityPub–style hashtags instead of Discourse’s internal tag syntax, sparking a deep discussion on federated tag semantics read more.

Dev

• noahl asked whether API-driven group membership flows belong in a plugin or theme component; merefield pointed to the Verifiable Credentials plugin and private user fields as starting points read more.

Activity by the @team Group

• awesomerobot contributed to the Comprehensive admin search announcement, diagnosed the split-view pin issue in Truncated pinned title, and clarified AI gist vs. excerpt behavior in Compact and AI Expanded.

• davidb offered step-by-step guidance for the Automation plugin PM bug in Automation doesn’t send to group and confirmed the deploy success in a follow-up post.

• sam cleared up the Groq vs. Grok confusion in AI provider list and restored the “Reply” action by correcting category permissions here.

• Lilly steered Vixi through the reverse-proxy Docker install in Discourse setup questions, fixed bookmark navigation in Bookmarked activity, and outlined new search filters for whispers and bots in site search.

• Falco shared a simple Ruby one-liner to bulk-delete AI gists after a language mix-up in AI changed quite many gists.

• hugh recommended adding the Right-to-Left override character itself as a watched word to catch spam bypass attempts in flag reason exploits.

• blake pointed Hyan to the official Admin List Users API docs and explained valid “flag” parameters for user queries in API tuning.

• pmusaraj acknowledged the issue with ActivityPub tag followers and linked the merged fix PR in Actor tag display.

• fzngagan encouraged testing of the new composer via this draft link.

That’s a wrap—after all those grok vs. groq debates and AI gist purges, even our servers deserve a coffee break!