Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- 32 new posts (e.g. JammyDodger’s translation icon fix)
- 3 new topics (see “What does the globe-with-plus button do?”)
- Top users (by posts & likes):
- JammyDodger: 5 posts, 9 likes (example)
- Don: 2 posts, 5 likes (example)
- Falco: 1 post, 5 likes (details)
- sam: 1 post, 4 likes (patch)
- Richie: 1 post, 4 likes (remark)
- bdfl: 3 posts, 3 likes (discussion)
- Lilly: 1 post, 1 like (proposal)
- tobiaseigen: 2 posts, 1 like (guidance)
- Olle11: 1 post, 1 like (confirmation)
- pfaffman: 2 posts, 1 like (report)
Interesting Topics
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#Site feedback – Don opened a discussion on the globe-with-plus button’s purpose in translator/discourse-translator, and JammyDodger, Falco and others explored how to enable the experimental_content_localization setting and future AI translation features read more
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Support – bdfl asked about disabling the minimum post length, JammyDodger and KhoiUSA clarified the enforced range (1–2,000,000,000 chars) with screenshots, while Richie and tobiaseigen debated UX implications and an
<empty post>workaround read more -
Feature – sam resolved a sandboxing limitation in the Discourse AI plugin by introducing an awaited postMessage approach in a new pull request read more
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Bug – Lilly proposed an “Advanced Settings” button to restore the missing text color field in category settings introduced by a recent update read more
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Plugin – Olle11 confirmed that updates to ActivityPub fixed a federated posting issue in the experimental plugin read more
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Support – Kartoon investigated a mysterious loss of desktop highlight colors in a custom theme, pinpointing a core CSS change after recent updates read more
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#Self-Hosting – Ethsim2 detailed a full restore via s3/scp and a switch from Mailgun to Brevo, then asked how to remove the post-restore banner read more
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Bug – cuo_wu flagged a CORS error caused by a relative path, seeking any upstream fixes read more
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Plugin – thoka was blocked by a missing asset (
locales/i18n.js) after core cleanup in the Multilingual Plugin
pavilion read more -
Theme component – Kartoon suggested that emoji deny list could replace the Omit Emoji component, but still values manual code usage as a fallback read more
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Theme – NateDhaliwal requested a circular table-of-contents button in the experimental Horizon theme for better visual consistency read more
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Support – Jose_C_Gomez ran into an unsupported Docker version on Ubuntu 16 during a web upgrade, looking for rollback or OS upgrade advice read more
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Dev – pfaffman struggled to render a DTooltip component within a form field, seeking working examples from core or other plugins read more
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Dev – elmuerte discovered that changes to
client.en.ymlhang a WSL2 development setup’s Puma server, blocking hot reloads read more -
#Developer Guides – Janno_Liivak asked how to configure the PostgreSQL socket path when using asdf on Ubuntu, as
db:createcan’t find/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432read more
Activity by the @team Group
- Falco expanded on the experimental #internationalization initiative and future AI translation options in the site feedback discussion
- sam implemented a sandboxed postMessage solution in the Discourse AI plugin see discussion
- tobiaseigen added UX cautions about minimum post lengths and low-value replies in the support thread
- Lilly proposed an “Advanced Settings” UI for granular category styling in the bug report
After all this talk of character counts, we almost wrote War and Peace twice—keep being concise!