Today on meta.discourse.org…
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- New posts: 59
- New topics: 8
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Interesting Topics
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Release v2025.12.0: rishabh kicked off the end-of-year cycle with the new Discourse Rewind retro summary, rolled out a refreshed review queue, and added live PR statuses in the Discourse GitHub plugin. Full release notes.
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Release v3.5.3: mcwumbly delivered a security & maintenance update fixing issues flagged via HackerOne, including a user-discovery bypass (CVE-2025-64528). See the announcement.
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Release v2025.11.1: Shortly after, mcwumbly shipped v2025.11.1 to patch similar security gaps—again thanks to our community and HackerOne for the reports. Read more.
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Silence duration: chapoi tackled “How long does automatic ‘New user typed too fast’ silence last?”, noting the default is
1000.years.from_nowand UI support is missing. Solution in post #5 and follow-up. -
Noindex by category: pfaffman confirmed there’s no built-in UI to set
noindexper category, pointing to community threads like 350066 and the third-party discourse-categories-suppressed plugin read more. -
FontAwesome issue: davidkingham reported nearly all icons broken after an upgrade—removing the FA Pro plugin restored defaults. Watch the demo and join the discussion here.
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External API search: Andrew_Rowe showed how
https://meta.discourse.org/search.json?q=URLfinds topics linking to any external page (e.g. news.bbc.co.uk) and shared PHP/Curl embed tips here details. -
Missing notifications: Rubi discovered mods aren’t always PM-alerted when users are silenced despite
Notify mods when user silencedbeing enabled. See the deep dive in post #11, error logs in the Redis client, and full thread here.
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Paste → Markdown corruption: Copying a table into the rich editor then switching to Markdown broke the markup; renato merged PR #36917 to fix it test report.
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Localization excerpts: When first posts are localized, topic list excerpts weren’t updating. nat shipped a fix in PR #36885 and a back-fill task in PR #36901 discussion.
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Chat DM badge count: Replies in DMs weren’t marked as unread because of threading quirks; zogstrip diagnosed it over months and landed a patch in PR #36918 read more.
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Custom CSS hook: NateDhaliwal demonstrated targeting the unread dot in the sidebar, topic dots, and notification icons with CSS and pointed to the custom CSS guide guide.
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currentUser service: RGJ clarified that
@service currentUseris injected via inject-discourse-objects.js rather than a standalone Ember.js service details.
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AI gist exclusions: Lilly proposed a setting to exclude RSS-feed categories from AI summarization for cost control, sparking conversation about categories and tags scope feature request.
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Site setting docs links: ToddZ and Jonathan5 brainstormed linking each site setting back to its group or docs for smoother navigation in
/adminthread.
Activity by the @team Group
- zogstrip diagnosed and fixed the DM badge count bug in chat, landing PR #36918 and weighed in on the chatables 502 error.
- mcwumbly authored the v3.5.3 security release and swiftly followed with v2025.11.1 patch notes.
- chapoi offered the accepted solution for the “typed too fast” silence duration see post #5 and guided the feature-request next steps.
- david expanded on v2025.12.0 plugin improvements in post #3.
- rishabh led the v2025.12.0 announcement, spotlighting #Discourse_Rewind and the revamped review queue announcement.
- renato tracked down the composer paste bug and merged the fix in PR #36917.
Between silencing speedy newbies, chasing elusive chat badges, and rewinding the year in retro style, our meta space sure knows how to keep the party rolling!