Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- New posts: 83
- New topics: 12
- Top Users:
- Moin (9 posts, 21 likes)
- JammyDodger (9 posts, 11 likes)
- RGJ (4 posts, 8 likes)
- Don (5 posts, 7 likes)
- renato (1 post, 6 likes)
- joffreyjaffeux (2 posts, 4 likes)
- merefield (1 post, 3 likes)
- Heliosurge (5 posts, 3 likes)
- Jagster (3 posts, 3 likes)
- pfaffman (4 posts, 2 likes)
Interesting Topics
- Support How do I make a footnote box? Xuch23 asked about inline footnotes in footnote and merefield pointed to the Markdown Guide cheat-sheet. Moin then demonstrated the built-in “add footnote” button, and renato hinted at plans to unify its appearance. read more
- Support How to change site text of the drop down-menu of settings? Olle11 discovered custom profile links injected by the Quick Profile Links Menu component and was guided by Moin to tweak its settings. read more
- Support Should a deactivated user receive an email? benjamincfarmer tested manual deactivation and found no revalidation prompt; JammyDodger traced it to the
must approve userslogic and a GitHub commit, moving the discussion to Bug. read more - Support About the SMTP config in a WSL2/Docker setup. zhongziqi struggled to see MailHog output until NateDhaliwal noted dev environments don’t require SMTP credentials and pointed to the defaults in
discourse_defaults.conf. read more - Support General Question: Search Query Privacy. Fort asked if search inputs are logged or private; NateDhaliwal directed them to the Search Logs Page. read more
- Bug Select/long press doesn’t do anything in chat on androids. Jagster’s Android users couldn’t react or reply in chat; joffreyjaffeux merged a fix in PR #32668 to restore long-press functionality. read more
- Bug Cannot rebuild app after recent upgrade 05/07/2025. nbianca is on a fix for the Ember build failure in
discourse_docker; tracked in PR #959. read more - Bug Upload images in chat can’t show normally when using S3 CDN. cuo_wu found the
srcattribute pointing to a raw S3 URL; discussion continues on correct URL mapping and CSP. read more - Bug Should a deactivated user receive an email? (see above)
- Feature Option to hide IP addresses from moderators. Moin, Heliosurge, and RGJ debated a toggle vs plugin approach, weighing trust boundaries and GDPR; see core vs theme-component discussion. read more
- Feature Create dynamic Tag Group at topic level? tknospdr wants support tickets to auto-add new company tags; the community is exploring automation vs manual tag-group maintenance. read more
- Feature Mention in reply. SoteFun proposed enabling @mentions in Post Voting comments to simulate “reply to a reply,” referencing earlier discussions on comment mentions. read more
- Plugin Discourse Gamification. cnlanny saw delays in score updates; tobiaseigen noted real-time updates every five minutes plus daily recalculation, echoing the plugin’s documentation. read more
- Plugin Discourse Doc Categories. tknospdr asked about styled info/error boxes; Moin recommended the Quote Callouts theme component. read more
Theme component:
- Theme component: Quick Profile Links Menu. Don merged PR #4 to let the default translation appear when the
labelfield is empty. read more - Theme component: Kanban Board. Joe_F wrestled with category slug settings; Moin clarified using the category’s slug (e.g.
known-issues) for proper board rendering. read more
- Dev Problems manually configuring perplexity sonar deep research. aas hit a 502 error testing the
perplexity/sonar-deep-researchLLM in Discourse AI; community is troubleshooting async streaming and error handling. read more
- Announcements AI Image Captioning Feature in Discourse AI Plugin. fokx asked about async captioning; Falco confirmed a plan to move processing to post-submit background jobs. read more
- UX Disable ai title generator when PM title cannot be edited. awesomerobot submitted a fix in PR #1331 to disable the generator on non-editable titles. read more
Activity by the @team Group
- renato weighed in on the footnote box discussion in #365509, proposing unified styling for inline footnotes.
- joffreyjaffeux fixed the Android chat long-press bug and merged PR #32668 in #365496.
- Falco confirmed backend improvements for the AI image captioning feature in #296087, planning to shift processing off the critical path.
- nbianca addressed the Ember rebuild failure in discourse_docker via PR #959 on #365213.
- awesomerobot provided a targeted fix for disabling the AI title generator in PMs on #307595.
- tobiaseigen clarified real-time scoring mechanics in the Discourse Gamification plugin on #225916.
May your footnotes stay inline and your chat bugs stay at bay—see you tomorrow for more Meta madness!