Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- New posts: 62
- New topics: 7
- Top users (last 24 hours):
- NateDhaliwal: 9 posts, 6 likes
- spirobel: 1 post, 4 likes
- Moin: 3 posts, 4 likes
- mrmowji: 7 posts, 3 likes
- bloomexperiment: 2 posts, 3 likes
- AquaL1te: 3 posts, 3 likes
- satonotdead: 2 posts, 3 likes
- tknospdr: 3 posts, 3 likes
- ondrej: 1 post, 3 likes
- joffreyjaffeux: 1 post, 2 likes
Interesting Topics
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Support Leaderboard in homepage: MihirR asked if there’s a way to populate the leaderboard on the homepage, and satonotdead recommended using theme components like Right Sidebar Blocks and Top Contributors Sidebar; nolo clarified the two concepts—likes vs cheers—with Discourse Bars and pointed to Homepage Blocks for mobile. Solved.
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Support How to find item needing update?: tknospdr shared a deprecation banner for component-template-resolving in this thread, and Moin showed how to trace it in the browser console (example), revealing the Blog Post Styling component. Solved.
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Support Hidden Timeline button: mrmowji reported the Timeline button never appears in the disco-toc plugin; NateDhaliwal explained its intended behavior per the component’s design, and subsequent testing confirmed the toggle once multiple replies are present. Solved.
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Support Remove fonts: Yuuki_Mizukami noticed “[zh_CN.solved.solution_summary.other count=undefined]” in an image (example) and Moin identified it as a theme-generated placeholder. Ongoing.
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Support Allow guest to see AI Bot Page: BrianC attempted to expose
/discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversationsto guests, and Falco explained that anonymous users cannot create PMs, hence the page remains restricted (details). Clarified. -
Feature Update our admins and moderator shields: Encounter proposed making the forum owner undemotable with a green shield; ondrej clarified that
DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILSprotects creators and shared a visual customization guide along with ownership settings details. Discussion. -
Feature Add different payment methods to Discourse subscription: spirobel reminded the community that subscriptions are managed by Stripe and summarized his work on the Monero subscriptions plugin, noting the added complexity of handling cancelations and expirations. Read more.
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Announcements Help us test Horizon, our newest theme: AquaL1te critiqued Topic List Thumbnails compatibility, suggested better banner integration (tag banners, category banners), compared Reader Mode fonts (GitHub), and proposed mobile UI padding tweaks. Read more.
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Bug Côte d’Ivoire flag emoji not rendering: joffreyjaffeux acknowledged historical issues in flag conversion and committed to investigating the emoji mapping errors. In progress.
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Marketplace [paid] help to fix outgoing email issue: bloomexperiment recapped successfully resolving ambimorph’s outgoing email and Postgres upgrade issues (details). Completed.
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Theme component Enable Dev Tools Button: NateDhaliwal announced plans to migrate the component to a GJS file format.
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Theme component Blog Post Styling: tknospdr reported deprecation warnings in the Blog Post Styling component and requested an update for Ember compatibility. Reminder.
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Installation 未收到管理员账户的确认邮件: ywk2022-jfg shared a
Net::ReadTimeouterror when registering an admin (logs), and NateDhaliwal suggested swapping SMTP ports. Ongoing. -
#Self-Hosting Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install: Preeminence faced Mailgun issues on port 587 for a fresh setup and pfaffman recommended rebuilding after modifying port settings in
app.yml(post). Ongoing. -
#Site Management Forum Researcher AI Persona guide: BrianC sought best practices for managing multiple AI personas in the composer dropdown for the Forum Researcher guide. Advice requested.
Activity by the @team Group
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joffreyjaffeux investigated the Côte d’Ivoire flag emoji rendering bug.
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Falco explained why anonymous users cannot access the AI Bot conversations page due to PM restrictions.
Whether you were chasing leaderboards or uncovering tricky emoji flags, yesterday was a real Meta safari!