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New posts: 172
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New topics: 24
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Interesting Topics
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Announcements lindsey introduced the chat search feature, enabling full-chat and channel-specific searches across all DMs and group chats.
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Announcements Danielle shared a recap and replay of the Community Scaries webinar, enriching the original announcement with fresh insights.
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UX keegan implemented improvements to the translation composer based on Moin’s feedback, clarifying raw view access and GIF resizing in the German translation workflow (read more).
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UX Ltrlg highlighted that the email revocation notice omits actionable options, suggesting clearer calls-to-action for users to resolve bounced email issues (read more).
- Installation Falco and tom1984 clarified that rebuilding Discourse upgrades the software without wiping content but requires backups and might cause minutes of downtime (read more).
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Support putty spotted an overnight icon update on production due to the FontAwesome Pro plugin defaulting to solid style, resolved with a style change and a linked bugfix PR.
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Support RGJ discovered that lowercase enforcement in CSV tag import causes errors for uppercase tag groups, fixed by toggling
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Support tobiaseigen explored custom user fields visibility, recommending the Discourse User Notes plugin over admin-only user fields for secure staff-only notes (read more).
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Support AstonJ reported a misleading silenced-user notification without visible flags, redirecting the discussion to the original bug topic (read more).
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Support pangbo traced missing site-text customizations to an empty locale file in a plugin, demonstrating how
deep_mergecan wipe translations and prompting a runtime check proposal (read more).
- Dev pmusaraj acknowledged that a console alert from
emails:testshould not appear on hosted forums and committed to remove the warning (read more).
- Plugin kelv modernized the Locations Plugin by removing legacy jQuery in PR #132, enhancing the location selector’s performance.
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Bug Moin and sam confirmed a boundary-detection issue in chat where emojis can clear an entire message; kelv parked time to address this in an upcoming fix (read more).
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Bug Moin found that search toggles reopen on every click after using the browser back button, a UX hiccup flagged for cleanup of stray event handlers (read more).
- Feature Moh_X proposed group-based copy-paste code button gating to incentivize sign-ups, with community feedback pointing to CSS and theme-based workarounds (read more).
Activity by the @team Group
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lindsey announced the new chat search feature.
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j.jaffeux clarified search ordering in channel-specific chat queries in post #4 and explained reversed chat order behavior in post #10.
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sam resolved the bookmarks search error with a PR in post #5 and fixed the undefined ICS filename in post #3.
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keegan updated the translation composer based on feedback in post #9.
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Falco forced retranslation to diagnose missing formatting in post translations (post #2).
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Danielle posted the “Community Scaries” webinar recap in post #3.
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pmusaraj confirmed that hosted forums won’t show the
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gabriel pinpointed and fixed the CSV tag-group import bug in post #4.
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tobiaseigen shared theme-CSS classes for group-based code button gating in post #10.
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kelv tracked the chat emoji bug to legacy boundary logic and parked a fix in post #14.
And that’s a wrap! May your search queries be swift, your emojis stick the landing, and your inbox never bounce—chat on!