Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- Total new posts: 97
- Total new topics: 16
- Top users by contributions:
- Moin (10 posts, 21 likes)
- tobiaseigen (7 posts, 13 likes)
- nat (3 posts, 12 likes)
- schneeland (5 posts, 10 likes)
- ToddZ (2 posts, 7 likes)
- RGJ (5 posts, 7 likes)
- chapoi (3 posts, 6 likes)
- pfaffman (4 posts, 6 likes)
- forum_solution (4 posts, 6 likes)
- david (2 posts, 5 likes)
Interesting Topics
- tobiaseigen kicked off a vibrant thread on favorite Discourse sites in the wild, sharing his long-time love for meta.discourse.org here and inviting others like ct-337 to showcase gems such as the Gimkit Creative forums and Prodigy forum here.
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A new user asked How do I send a message to a user? and Moin explained the trust level requirement here, while chapoi clarified the TL0 restriction and welcomed them here.
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In Is there a “Reply to View” plugin for Discourse?, copymonopoly revealed custom code and rgj pointed them to the official private-replies plugin here after the OP intro here.
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On Spam providing from internal IP addresses as 172.17.0.1?, Thanatermesis charted mysterious local-IP spam here and pfaffman suggested real_ip_header tweaks in
app.yml
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A member proposed Simple sensor-driven notifications via Webhooks or MQTT? and pmusaraj recommended scoped API keys for lightweight IoT posts here after the OP’s project outline here.
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How to assign topic to a moderator using curl or python script (not from web UI) saw srk123 ask for the assign-plugin endpoint here and Moin pointed to reverse-engineering the API here.
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Can I send an automated welcome message to all new users? featured SubStrider’s ask here and Moin mapped Discobot settings for custom greetings here.
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A Persistent SMTP Timeout Issue with Spacemail on Discourse (VPS, Docker) was reported by errorexee here and supermathie diagnosed port 465 vs 587 nuances here.
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Renaming sub-categories didn’t work properly had GeoffSchultz describe broken labels on knysnayachtowners.org here and a restart miraculously fixed the glitch.
- In OIDC users not associating with existing Discourse users, WurstLander detailed Keycloak mishaps here and pmusaraj suggested email-match checks for account linking here.
- RFC: A new versioning strategy for Discourse sparked debate over monthly vs quarterly releases OP, with schneeland questioning upgrade flows here and david outlining launcher behavior here.
- Sidebar activation issues after recent Doc Categories update saw MachineScholar report missing sidebars here and nat digging into rake outputs and cache concerns here.
- The Discourse Doc Categories plugin received a self-hosters update from nat about manual rake tasks for sidebar rebuilds here.
- Monikas suggested adding a daily point limit to the gamification plugin to curb farming here and linked back to the core Discourse Gamification topic here.
#Site Management
- fzngagan showed how to add llms.txt for better LLM crawling in a private topic and expose it via a permalink at
/llms.txt
here using this example file.
Activity by the @team Group
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tobiaseigen launched the favorite-sites thread here and shared his personal picks here.
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nat unraveled the Doc Categories sidebar bug here and detailed self-hosted rebuild steps in the plugin topic here.
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chapoi clarified PM trust levels in “How do I send a message to a user?” here (and cheekily noted the jinx at post 6).
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david steered the new versioning RFC, proposing upgrade commands here and branching options for plugin authors here.
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pmusaraj triaged the Doc Categories issue here, guided the MQTT/Webhook integration here, and helped with OIDC associations here.
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fzngagan outlined the llms.txt setup for LLM-friendly endpoints here.
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supermathie diagnosed the Spacemail SMTP timeout woes on VPS containers here.
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tgxworld proposed more intuitive “after last reply” labels for topic timers here.
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martin reproduced and dissected title-edit bump behavior here.
No puppies were harmed, but our community pups surely wagged their tails reading 97 posts yesterday!