Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- Total new posts: 105 (admin statistics)
- Total new topics: 21 (admin statistics)
- Top users by likes & posts:
Interesting Topics
#Site feedback
- Blog posts would be nicer if authored by an identifiable person
nathank pointed out that blogs often credit Discourse as the author, making them feel impersonal and harder to engage with. He suggested attributing each post to the real author to foster human connections on the blog read more
blog
- Behind the Scenes: Our 2025 Prague Meetup
The Discourse team shared highlights from their September 2025 gathering in Prague, celebrating 87 participants and the value of in-person collaboration read more
Community ai
- Discourse AI Use Cases and Statistics
Rubi asked for real-world usage data on features like AI Summary and AI Related Topics. Jagster and nat debated the relevance of usage stats, while NateDhaliwal praised AI Related Topics for surfacing past discussions. The thread is shaping up a solid case for enabling AI on high-traffic sites read more
Announcements discourse-id
- Discourse ID is now available. Try it today!
rishabh announced that Discourse ID can be enabled on all sites for seamless, federated login and no-config social auth. He walked through enabling it in your admin panel read more
Feature emoji
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RFE: Update
emoji flag from old Syrian flag to new Syrian flag
jwheel requested the Syrian flag emoji be updated to reflect the December 2024 regime change. He provided images, background, and an Emojipedia link for context read more -
Add language dropdown to email templates interface
Moin noted that while site texts support multiple languages via a dropdown, the Email Templates editor does not, leading to accidental oversights when customizing templates in several locales read more -
Search for localized title/content in Discourse search
Honeyxilia highlighted that localized topic titles aren’t found by search. Falco proposed using AI embeddings for multilingual search results and auto-appending AI results to zero-hit queries read more
Bug badges
- Badge Display Order Differs Between English and Simplified Chinese Locales
copymonopoly discovered that trust-level badges reverse order when switching to Simplified Chinese. Moin and nat discussed alphabetical sorting vs.position-based order, tagging it pr-welcome read more
Bug ios
- Safari (iOS and macOS) bug when discarding a reply
Shauny reported that hitting Discard in Safari jumps the viewport up unexpectedly. He attached a video; pmusaraj confirmed reproduction and promised to investigate read more
Bug
- Bug with URLs in Embedded Comments
j127 found that trailing slashes are stripped from blog post URLs in embedded comment topics, causing redirects, and noted title-scrubbing oddities read more
UX
- Email logs overflow admin-container requiring horizontal scroll
omarfilip showed that Sent and Rejected email logs now overflow the container, forcing horizontal scrollbars. chapoi pointed to a recent PR as intentional design, leaving the option for a “squashed” view read more
Support email
- Problème modification mail admin
gilles couldn’t change his admin email because his old address no longer exists. supermathie explained the two-step confirmation flow and pointed to a workaround via temporary admin removal read more
Support
- Is there a guide for moving /uploads to new attached disk drive?
nathank asked how to remap/shared/uploadsto another drive inapp.yml. pfaffman explained it mirrors Docker volume syntax and hinted at the “astral semantics” of the Discourse container setup read more
Support notifications email
- Is there a way I can send email notifications faster?
Richie confirmed that bumpingThreadsfrom 5 to 7 in the mailer config did indeed speed up email dispatch, verified by observing the Threads metric increase read more
Support discourse-id
- Localized discourse ID login page?
nukeador noted that the Discourse ID login page is only in English regardless of browser locale. pmusaraj moved the request into Feature for future localization work read more
Activity by the @team Group
- rishabh announced the rollout of Discourse ID, outlining how to enable it for a seamless, cross-site login experience.
- nat weighed in on Discourse AI Use Cases and Statistics, advocating for AI Summaries and Related Topics, and offered insights on the Badge Display Order debate.
- Falco suggested leveraging AI embeddings to surface multilingual results in Search for localized title/content in Discourse search.
- pmusaraj confirmed the issue in Safari bug when discarding a reply and steered the Localized discourse ID login page? into the Feature queue.
- chapoi clarified design intent and pointed to the relevant PR in Email logs overflow.
- supermathie guided gilles through the email-change flow in Problème modification mail admin.
After a whirlwind of emoji debates, AI stats and Safari quirks, our pups are safe—and our community is stronger than ever!
