Daily Summary (1pm UTC)

[Discourse]

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Support Allow guest to see AI Bot Page: BrianC attempted to expose /discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversations to 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_EMAILS protects 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Marketplace [paid] help to fix outgoing email issue: bloomexperiment recapped successfully resolving ambimorph’s outgoing email and Postgres upgrade issues (details). Completed.

• Theme component Enable Dev Tools Button: NateDhaliwal announced plans to migrate the component to a GJS file format.

• Theme component Blog Post Styling: tknospdr reported deprecation warnings in the Blog Post Styling component and requested an update for Ember compatibility. Reminder.

• Installation 未收到管理员账户的确认邮件: ywk2022-jfg shared a Net::ReadTimeout error 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

• joffreyjaffeux investigated the Côte d’Ivoire flag emoji rendering bug.

• 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!

[Discourse]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 97 posts in the last 24 hours (source)
• New topics: 15 topics started
• Top users:
  • Moin: 6 posts, 13 likes (see admin shields discussion read more)
  • jahan_gagan: 7 posts, 10 likes (clarifying About page admins read more)
  • JammyDodger: 3 posts, 10 likes (homepage view walkthrough read more)
  • nathank: 3 posts, 7 likes (server control insights read more)
  • merefield: 4 posts, 5 likes (tag navigator maintenance read more)
  • NateDhaliwal: 3 posts, 4 likes (console-based admin creation read more)
  • rumi.ju: 2 posts, 3 likes (editor default feature request read more)
  • MachineScholar: 1 post, 3 likes (onebox settings tip read more)
  • BrianC: 2 posts, 3 likes (AI prompts query read more)
  • pfaffman: 5 posts, 2 likes (S3 migration workaround read more)

Interesting Topics
Below is a roundup of the most engaging discussions in the last 24 hours, grouped by category.

Feature

• moderation: Encounter kicked off a deep dive into updating admin and moderator shields, debating whether first admins on hosted vs self-hosted forums can be demoted. Moin clarified the differences in Discourse’s trial shields logic read more.

• ai: BrianC asked about AI conversation starters on the AI page, seeking customization like the Ask Discourse prompts. sam offered to demo a theme component for easy integration read more.

• ai: kuaza proposed replacing the new topic interface with an AI-driven question box on the private message page, envisioning auto-generated titles and category assignments via Discourse AI read more.

• Feature: darkpixlz suggested enabling Meta login on Discourse Try, paralleling Theme Creator’s authentication flow to avoid duplicate accounts read more.

• Feature: rumi.ju asked how to disable Markdown and default to rich text in the composer. sam confirmed an option is under consideration and hinted at building a dedicated component rather than relying on a MutationObserver hack read more.

Support

• Support: Cate_Soule wanted to set her homepage to Categories + Latest Topics, and JammyDodger walked through adjusting the top menu ordering and Desktop category page style to achieve it read more.

• Support: Encounter noticed no admins listed on the About page. jahan_gagan explained how inactive users and hidden groups affect the staff listing by design (discussion) read more.

• Support: MihirR saw a pink banner warning of a theme/plugin needing an update. Moin pointed to inspecting the browser console to find the specific component causing the alert read more.

Bug

• user-custom-fields signup: fhe reported that a mandatory multiselect custom user field shows no error on signup and a ReferenceError: $ is not defined appears in the console, blocking user feedback read more.

• Bug: barreeeiroo encountered false positives during an S3 migration, with 257 posts flagged for rebake. pfaffman suggested skipping cooked-post checks to prevent the exception read more.

Plugin

• Plugin: Dimava checked if Tag Intersection Navigator supports negative tags like -#foo -tags:bar. merefield set expectations on free maintenance and the balance between features and interface simplicity read more.

Installation

• install: millerthegorilla’s Discourse-setup failed when pups tried to create log file symlinks. jahan_gagan recommended removing existing log files in /var/www/discourse/log before rerunning setup read more.

• Installation: d_bl1n asked which data to enter in the JSON API object and whether to use port 587 or 2525 for SMTP. The thread covered port configuration and SSL certificate concerns read more.

Marketplace

• Marketplace: dccpmmrp sought freelancers for a 2–3 day theme setup. Both jahan_gagan and pfaffman volunteered to assist via private messages read more.

Dev

• Dev: jahan_gagan opened a pull request to add a plugin outlet under Category Settings → Images, inviting reviews from maintainers to enable richer UI extensions read more.

Activity by the @team Group

• sam demoed how to add AI conversation starters via a theme component while closing the feature request on AI prompts link.
• sam flagged that a dedicated component could cleanly disable Markdown, avoiding fragile MutationObserver approaches link.
• Falco clarified the source of AI suggestions, comparing them to Ask Discourse defaults to ensure correct prompt text link.
• kris.kotlarek confirmed that the PR fixing the enable_names admin-name bug has been merged and the original issue is resolved link.
• martin proposed adding a hasNoPreferredMode getter in the chat state manager to detect unset preferences, improving collaboration UX link.
• chapoi reassured everyone that the larger chat avatars will return to the sidebar as the experiment is merged into core link.

That’s a wrap—may your prompts be clever and your avatars always load properly!

[Discourse]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 89
• New topics: 13
• Top users by activity:
  • david: 4 posts, 9 likes
  • joffreyjaffeux: 1 post, 6 likes
  • tobiaseigen: 4 posts, 4 likes
  • yaran: 2 posts, 3 likes
  • piffy: 1 post, 3 likes
  • keegan: 1 post, 3 likes
  • stanigator: 4 posts, 2 likes
  • JammyDodger: 2 posts, 2 likes
  • pfaffman: 4 posts, 2 likes
  • pacharanero: 1 post, 1 like

Interesting Topics

Support

• How to adjust line spacing
  stanigator asked how to tweak line spacing in Support, and keegan suggested overriding the CSS font variables for line height; see his solution here.

• How to turn off “Latest topic!” on home page
  Crocodilus_CZ accidentally enabled a “view latest topics” section and Moin walked through disabling it (including safe mode checks) in this post.

• Discourse Email Issue – AutoGeneratedEmailError
  th-afm reported all outgoing emails being rejected with Email::Receiver::AutoGeneratedEmailError in Support; JammyDodger began the troubleshooting by inspecting the admin logs—full details.

• Sub-sections on the sidebar without sub-categories
  mrmowji wanted nested sections in the docs sidebar and tobiaseigen explained how ## headings create collapsible groups; check the example here.

• How do you install netstat to check server load etc.?
  agemo discovered that netstat isn’t included in the container image and jahan_gagan clarified that additional packages must be added to app.yml and rebuilt; read more.

Installation

• Can I run Plesk and Discourse separately?
  Ethsim2 asked about potential conflicts between Plesk and Discourse’s Docker/Nginx setup; community members explained that only the official install is supported and highlighted why Plesk re-installs can break the default build—discussion.

Bug

• Côte d’Ivoire flag emoji not rendering emoji
  joffreyjaffeux confirmed that rendering is “vastly improved” by this commit, resolving the missing flag issue.

• Policy reminder cannot be left empty policy fixed
  yaran added a preselected “(No reminder)” option to prevent empty policy reminders after reports of validation failures—see the code update here.

• Inconsistent behavior with chat max direct message users setting chat
  Moin and others dug into why creating a group chat with two members still triggers a “too many members” error; details and proposed fixes are in this thread.

Dev

• When to switch themes/plugins to .gjs?
  david outlined the push towards Embroider’s “static invokables” and avoiding Ember resolver lookups in long-term plugin/theme development; learn more at post 20.

• How to add links to site settings into the settings description of my component?
  david merged the core change and provided a PR to update the homepage feature component—see his implementation here.

• Add plugin outlet to Category Settings → Images tab
  david introduced a new plugin outlet in the category image settings and merged the enhancement; check out the merge details here.

Feature

• Full-screen chat as default for collaboration setup chat
  martin merged a PR enabling chat full-screen mode by default via the plugin API and hasNoPreferredMode; see the merge in post 7.

• I want to use the private message initiation page with AI bot to create a new topic ai
  kuaza proposed simplifying topic creation by removing the title/category/tag step and leveraging an AI-driven prompt page; explore the concept in this suggestion.

Announcements

• Introducing image grids in posts new-feature
  ariznaf and others discussed migrating from the Tiles Gallery component to the new core grid and how to rebake existing posts selectively; see the conversation here.

Activity by the @team Group

• keegan assisted in Support by recommending CSS variable overrides for line height in How to adjust line spacing.

• joffreyjaffeux improved the emoji support for the Côte d’Ivoire flag in Côte d’Ivoire flag emoji not rendering.

• david outlined the shift from Ember resolver to static invokables in When to switch themes/plugins to .gjs?.

• david merged core updates and fixed the homepage feature component in How to add links to site settings into the settings description of my component?.

• yaran resolved the birthday cake cakeday bug in profiles in Birthday cake emoji displayed on profile when its not your birthday.

• yaran added a default “(No reminder)” option for policy reminders in Policy reminder cannot be left empty.

• martin merged the pull request to enable full-screen chat by default in Full-screen chat as default for collaboration setup.

• Falco recommended using low-latency models like Gemini Flash for AI search testing in Best models and prompts for testing Discord search and Discoveries.

• tobiaseigen explained how ## headings create nested sidebar sections in Sub-sections on the sidebar without sub-categories.

• tobiaseigen detailed event participant lists and time zone display in Discourse Calendar (and Event).

• chrism asked about session vs. persistent storage for AI artifacts in AI Artifact User storage.

• sam clarified how AI artifacts are linked by user ID across sessions in AI Artifact User storage.

• tshenry pushed a minor update to remove admin notice banners in Last Seen User Card.

• tshenry followed up to confirm isolation of custom theme code in Mandatory custom user field shows no error hint when omitted on signup.

Here’s to another day of meta magic—may your flags render perfectly and your chats stay forever full-screen!

[Discourse]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 77; New topics: 14
• Top users:
  • david: 6 posts, 21 likes (see outletArgs update)
  • denvergeeks: 1 post, 8 likes (see 5-year anniversary)
  • Moin: 4 posts, 5 likes (see FontAwesome placeholder discussion)
  • RGJ: 2 posts, 4 likes (see Geo Blocking plugin help)
  • nolo: 3 posts, 3 likes (see Marketplace expert search)
  • nathank: 4 posts, 3 likes (see Survey plugin fix)
  • Falco: 2 posts, 3 likes (see netstat install advice)
  • jordan-vidrine: 1 post, 3 likes (see header dropdown experiment)
  • Curtis_Rueden: 2 posts, 3 likes (see tag sidebars request)
  • piffy: 1 post, 3 likes (see deleted-post visibility question)

Interesting Topics

Dev

• david announced that @outletArgs are now available as top-level arguments, simplifying component templates by allowing direct @foo usage.

• Building on How do I add links to site settings into the settings description of my component?, Moin proposed a %{FA_free_link} placeholder for free FontAwesome icons in #370555, aiming to streamline translations and maintenance.

Plugin

• A rendering issue in the Survey Plugin (related to #308679) was diagnosed by nathank, and david provided a patch in this week’s rewrite read more.

• In the ActivityPub Plugin, angus clarified manual vs. automatic post publishing after approval for federated posts.

• Moin asked how to activate the “forum researcher” persona in the Discourse AI plugin and linked to the AI persona guide.

Praise

• denvergeeks celebrated five years of community participation with a heartfelt thank-you post and a celebratory GIF.

Support

• Curtis_Rueden sought help with a deprecated theme in Discourse-tag-sidebars, prompting david to recommend the modern Discourse Topic List Sidebars.

• A misconfiguration in Microsoft Exchange led to an AutoGeneratedEmailError on all outgoing emails; riking suggested checking SMTP headers.

• opcourdis reported that events don’t show on published pages, and nathank explained that published pages intentionally exclude theme components.

Bug

• In the reactions table avatar click bug, david merged a fix to restore user-card popovers.

• ascension.forum found MathJax expressions failing to render in polls (#370632); the core team is investigating.

• phillcoxon confirmed that a mandatory custom user field shows no error hint on signup, and the team is investigating.

UX

• jordan-vidrine re-enabled the experiment for the new header dropdown/notification menu (#369574), with sam noting contrast issues on read items.

• Stephen highlighted that checklists inside HTML

  auto-collapse on interaction, triggering a UX debate.

Feature

• martin proposed hiding the collapse button to enforce a full-screen chat default in the collaboration setup, sparking calls for more chat-only modes.

Activity by the @team Group

• david contributed to outletArgs top-level args, FontAwesome placeholder, tag sidebars support, Survey plugin fix, and avatar click bug.

• Falco provided server insights in netstat installation and clarified quoting behavior in fenced code blocks.

• jordan-vidrine maintained the design experiment for the new header dropdown.

• sam fine-tuned UX feedback on the header dropdown contrast and discussed recurring events topic creation.

• martin deep-dived into chat preferences in full-screen chat setup.

• phillcoxon confirmed reproduction of the signup custom field bug.

It was a whirlwind of outlets, icons, and full-screen chats yesterday—here’s to more meta-magic tomorrow!

[Discourse]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• 90 new posts in the last 24 hours
• 22 new topics created
• Top Users:
  • Danielle – 1 post, 11 likes
  • HAWK – 2 posts, 9 likes
  • Moin – 5 posts, 6 likes
  • jordan-vidrine – 3 posts, 6 likes
  • NateDhaliwal – 8 posts, 5 likes
  • Discourse – 1 post, 4 likes
  • sam – 3 posts, 4 likes
  • MAR – 2 posts, 4 likes
  • david – 2 posts, 3 likes
  • Richie – 3 posts, 3 likes

Interesting Topics

Announcements

• Webinar: Meet the Discourse Customer Projects Team – Danielle invites you to an Ask Discourse Anything session with the designers and engineers behind custom plugins and integrations, scheduled for June 25th. read more

blog

• How to Launch an Enterprise Community in 30 Days with Discourse – “Building an enterprise community from scratch in just 30 days might sound impossible. It’s not.” Discourse shares Jordan Violet’s Netwrix case study and sparks a conversation on rapid community growth. read more

Community

• WhatsApp and Discourse Challenges – MAR explores strategies to funnel “knowledge nuggets” from multiple WhatsApp groups into Discourse; HAWK links to proven group-chat integration tips and mcwumbly outlines a hands-on pilot approach. read more

• Welcome screen for new users? – marvi seeks a more prominent onboarding flow for newcomers; merefield recommends setting a dedicated Welcome Topic to guide first-time visitors. read more

• What livestream/webinar platforms do you use? – putty asks which streaming tools Discourse communities prefer; Bas hints at upcoming enhancements to the event plugin experience. read more

UX

• New header dropdown / notification menu styles – jordan-vidrine and sam iterated on read/unread contrasts in the top nav; community feedback led to refined mobile color tweaks and icon treatments. read more

• Text-Preview on Cards – jonasnaue noticed missing excerpts on Kanban cards and asked for a fix; UX enthusiasts discussed preview line limits and layout adjustments for kanban-board. read more

Installation

• Where is the discourse.conf file? – agemo struggled to locate and edit discourse.conf within the container; Lilly clarified its path under config/ and explained how to use sudo nano for tweaks. read more

Bug

• Composer resizing problems while using a tablet – Moin reported touch-mode composer sizing issues on iPad; Richie confirmed the bug in Safari on iPadOS 18.5, prompting further investigation. read more

Support

• Foundation theme? – patrickemin discovered an uninvited “Foundation” theme; HAWK revealed it’s simply the renamed Default theme. read more

• I have a problem with installing a plugin – clacle cloned multiple plugins via app.yml but they didn’t appear on rebuild; helpers suggested checking /var/www/discourse/log/production.log and restarting the container. read more

• Are highlight-js assets not uploaded to S3 bucket? – kpums found the /highlight-js/ directory missing in MinIO storage and asked if extra build steps are needed beyond rake s3:upload_assets. read more

Dev

• Tracked variable not found? – NateDhaliwal encountered a ReferenceError when using @tracked in a plugin; merefield advised using DIcon for static icons and avoiding unnecessary tracking. read more

Feature

• Workflow/UX requests for automations – ganncamp outlined needs for easier duplication, in-place editing, and quick report access within the automations UI, sparking roadmap discussions. read more

• Display number of user’s rejected posts on posts in the review queue – T_Disco proposed showing prior rejection counts alongside queued posts to inform reviewers, echoing earlier feedback from davemaxwell. read more

Activity by the @team Group

• Danielle launched the Webinar: Meet the Discourse Customer Projects Team (Announcements) to spotlight custom design and dev work link

• HAWK shared integration tips in WhatsApp and Discourse Challenges link and clarified the Default rename in Foundation theme? link

• jordan-vidrine showcased the latest nav style iterations in New header dropdown / notification menu styles link

• sam provided key feedback on the nav experiments, noting mobile contrast issues in New header dropdown / notification menu styles link

• david explained how to render connector components with top-level outlet args in @outletArgs are now available as top-level arguments link

• tshenry pushed an update to clear warnings in the Discourse Cookie Consent Banner theme component link

• Bas teased imminent livestream enhancements in What livestream/webinar platforms do you use? link

• joffreyjaffeux advanced the fix for the I can only quote one word bug in tablets link

• Lilly guided users to the correct config/discourse.conf location in Where is the discourse.conf file? link

• mcwumbly contributed strategic guidance to WhatsApp and Discourse Challenges, emphasizing small-scale pilots link

Stay pawsitive—no actual puppies were harmed in today’s meta adventures, though plenty of threads wagged their tails enthusiastically!

[system]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 90 (site stats)
• New topics: 16 (site stats)
• Top users: @dsims (3 posts, 17 likes), @Moin (6 posts, 10 likes), @Lilly (5 posts, 8 likes), @cocococosti (1 post, 7 likes), @sam (2 posts, 6 likes), @NateDhaliwal (4 posts, 5 likes), @RGJ (2 posts, 5 likes), @Bas (3 posts, 5 likes), @ondrej (1 post, 4 likes), @merefield (1 post, 4 likes)

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Interesting Topics

Migration

• dsims migrated his old custom-built trail-journal/blog to Discourse on 2025-06-19, recovering bit-rotten media and hotlinked images, and replicating features like a chronological topic list, #tagged post-types, and a map view via the Locations plugin and the Isabelle theme read more

Support

• In Foundation theme?, sam explained that new installs will ship with uneditable “Foundation” and “Horizon” core themes, and kris.kotlarek hid them from the UI for now read more

• Newcomer Crocodilus_CZ asked Is it normal for Sidekiq to be idle?, and Bas confirmed that idle status simply means no pending jobs, showing live Meta graphs for reference read more

• Lilly investigated Theme Creator doesn’t update?, surfacing console errors in local setups and rallying engineering for a deeper fix read more

• ondrej resolved why some users couldn’t access the text-color button despite installing the BBCode Colouring plugin in Why don’t I see the text-color button read more

• Lilly guided Sidi_Codet through enabling the advanced-search-banner component and updating its settings in Forum search bar not showing up read more

• Lilly requested badge SQL and screenshots to debug Issue with disabling badge repetition, as several SQL-triggered badges kept re-awarding despite “Give this badge more than once” being disabled read more

• In “Mark as Solution” button missing from group messages, tobiaseigen and Moin traced the removal to a February PR that blocked solved actions in PMs and converted threads read more

Installation

• merefield helped sgw troubleshoot Discourse_docker: issues with bootstrapping, confirming internet access requirements and recommending the dev-install path for Docker on Debian VMs read more

UX

• Moin questioned Why is the theme interface width limited to 68 percent?, pointing at leftover styles from the old sidebar now replaced by empty whitespace read more

• hugh reproduced and debugged the intermittent upload failure in Uploading a logo after deleting the current logo without submitting in between shows an error, gathering console logs for the dev team read more

Community

• nolo unveiled Discourse as a chat-first collaboration platform, demoing “Vela,” a theme/component set that emphasizes chat at the center of the layout read more

Theme component

• NateDhaliwal opened a PR to modernize Theme component Discourse Category Headers, swapping deprecated <script> tags for Ember-friendly GJS modules read more

Bug

• ascension.forum highlighted that MathJax still isn’t rendering inside poll options in MathJax not working in poll options, referencing the longstanding feature request on meta read more

Support

• opcourdis sought clarification on the from: & to: syntax for Docker hook replacements to disable anonymous search in Hooks from: & to: syntax in yml read more

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Activity by the @team Group

• Lilly provided guidance on Theme Creator doesn’t update?, Issue with disabling badge repetition, and Forum search bar not showing up

• cocococosti praised dsims’s migration work in Migrated my old custom-built trail-journal/blog to Discourse

• sam clarified the new core themes rollout in Foundation theme? and acknowledged UX feedback in Workflow/UX requests for automations

• Bas confirmed idle Sidekiq behavior in Is it normal for Sidekiq to be idle? and shared known limitations in MathJax not working in poll options

• hugh reproduced the logo upload error in Uploading a logo after deleting the current logo without submitting in between shows an error

• kris.kotlarek hid core themes from the UI in Foundation theme?

• keegan debugged AI discover settings in Reenable discover search (per user settings)

• Falco tested AI preference toggles in Reenable discover search (per user settings)

• tobiaseigen troubleshooted the search banner in Forum search bar not showing up

• mcwumbly solicited more details in Welcome screen for new users?

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Looks like yesterday we sprinted through migrations, themes, and badges—time to recharge before the next batch of great ideas hits the forum!

[system]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

97 new posts and 11 new topics in the past 24 hours.

Top users:
NateDhaliwal (13 posts, 7 likes)
Ed_S (6 posts, 4 likes)
ondrej (3 posts, 5 likes)
HAWK (3 posts, 6 likes)
TonyG (3 posts, 5 likes)
merefield (2 posts, 5 likes)
JammyDodger (3 posts, 4 likes)
Heliosurge (4 posts, 4 likes)
WolfpackFan (2 posts, 4 likes)
KhoiUSA (1 post, 5 likes)

Top @team members:
HAWK (3 posts, 6 likes)
Falco (2 posts, 2 likes)
Lilly (1 post, 2 likes)
keegan (1 post, 2 likes)
tobiaseigen (2 posts, 0 likes)

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Interesting Topics

Community

• TonyG raised concerns about community misuse of the flagging system and asked how to appeal or suspend abusive flaggers in Use of Flags (371077/1), prompting KhoiUSA to suggest trust-level locking and Ed_S to recommend tooltips on flag dialogs. read more

Support

• MihirR noticed the like count on the homepage aggregates the entire topic rather than the first post in Why does the like count show for the entire topic? (371146/1), and merefield confirmed it’s part of the default Topic List serialization. read more

• MihirR explored private group chats versus email notifications in How does group messaging work in Discourse? (371088/1), and HAWK walked through creating a new group chat via the “+” button. read more

• odhiambo reported an odd “7d” suffix on FQDN links in Self-hosted discourse instance appending “7d” to the FQDN (371144/1), and Moin traced it to a typo in the Quick Start guide with a pending PR to fix it. read more

• Nicca asked why the admin verification email wasn’t arriving in Not Receiving Admin Verification Email After Setup (371134/1), and ondrej steered them to the standard SMTP troubleshooting topic. read more

• Rubi requested group-specific saved replies in General Question About Saved Replies (371156/1), sparking a discussion on using Templates and restricting them by group. read more

Bug

• WolfpackFan discovered that confirming “Update Notifications” without choosing an option silently mutes topics in Bulk Action Notifications and not selecting an option deletes selected thread from User (371074/1), and Lilly confirmed the modal should require a selection. read more

• JammyDodger repro’d missing email alerts for scheduled posts with staff color in Topic notifications emails are not being sent if adding a Staff Colour to the post (370857/2), identifying post_type filtering as the likely culprit. read more

Announcements

• darkpixlz and MachineScholar debated broader access to AI-generated artifacts in AI Artifact User storage (369822/6), with calls to allow non-AI roles to create or edit artifacts. read more

#Self-Hosting

• Falco explained how to spin up a second container for emotion analysis in Self-Hosting Sentiment and Emotion for DiscourseAI (334451/6), linking to the SamLowe roberta-base-go_emotions model. read more

Dev

• opcourdis sought help when live code changes didn’t appear in the front end in Live app code test code modifications not reflected in front-end (371015/1), investigating console logs and rebuild hooks. read more

Installation

• sgw resolved a bootstrap failure by switching from the outdated master branch to main in Discourse_docker: issues with bootstrapping (370909/5), restoring a clean rebuild. read more

• ryan_olsen dug into YAML quoting quirks that forced SMTP on port 25 in Running a build on standalone.yml (371032/1), highlighting the need to remove stray quotes. read more

Support

• opcourdis and Moin uncovered a hidden site setting to throttle anonymous searches to zero in Hooks from: & to: syntax in yml to disable anonymous searches (370952/2), using DISCOURSE_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH_ANON_GLOBAL_PER_MINUTE. read more

Theme component

• BrikoX flagged a breakage after Discourse 3.5.0 beta in “Last Seen” User Card (81375/32), tracing it to a deprecated inline script tag. read more

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Activity by the @team Group

• HAWK clarified the difference between moderation and censorship in Community’s Use of Flags and demoed private group chat creation in Support’s How does group messaging work in Discourse?.

• Lilly confirmed the bulk-action modal bug in Bulk Action Notifications and not selecting an option deletes selected thread from User and guided users to recover muted threads.

• Falco revealed the hidden rate_limit_search_anon_global_per_minute setting in Hooks from: & to: syntax in yml to disable anonymous searches, pointing out how to disable anonymous search entirely.

• keegan pushed a fix to restore per-user Discover search in Reenable discover search (per user settings), linking to the merged Discourse AI PR.

• tobiaseigen steered Site feedback on webinar tools in Zoom for webinars and coordinated attendee Q&A in Announcements for Webinar: Meet the Discourse Customer Projects Team.

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And that’s a wrap—may your flags stay fair, your searches stay silent, and your daydreams of ice cream never end!

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I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that.

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

85 new posts, 7 new topics

Top users (posts & likes):

• Lilly: 2 posts, 8 likes
• sam: 6 posts, 8 likes
• Moin: 3 posts, 7 likes
• Ed_S: 1 post, 6 likes
• joffreyjaffeux: 5 posts, 5 likes
• das-g: 1 post, 3 likes
• kris.kotlarek: 1 post, 3 likes
• darkpixlz: 3 posts, 3 likes
• agemo: 5 posts, 2 likes
• tobiaseigen: 3 posts, 2 likes

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Interesting Topics

Announcements

• In Announcements, sam detailed how AI artifacts store and retrieve user data in the AI Artifact User storage topic and MachineScholar followed up with an admin API for AI web artifact creation and editing feature request to simplify artifact management. read more

• The New Calendar Feature: Show Local Time discussion saw yaran propose clearer date‐range formatting and timezone display options in the calendar-and-event category. read more

Bug

• In composer discobot, das-g reported that Discobot’s advanced tutorial still references a gear icon instead of ⊕ in the “more” menu (report), and Lilly confirmed the strings will be updated in her reply. read more

• A fix for MathJax failing to render inside poll options was promised by joffreyjaffeux in the MathJax poll options bug, and ascension.forum expressed excitement in their comment. read more

• sam spotted that enabling a staff colour on a post suppresses email notifications in the staff-colour notification issue, and Richie asked whether replies with staff colours behave the same way in their follow-up. read more

• In policy, kris.kotlarek confirmed resolution of the “This policy has no possible users” error in their post and linked the merged PR #171. read more

Feature

• Moin highlighted that the AI captions prompt reappears despite opting out in preferences in this report, and sam marked it as an interim bug/feature in his reply. read more

• In ai, jordan-violet asked about an official Model Context Protocol (MCP), and sam outlined a multi‐phase roadmap from MCP server to OAuth in the MCP discussion and its follow-up. read more

• Building on AI tooling, MachineScholar’s Admin API feature request links back to the AI Artifact User storage thread to illustrate how custom artifacts could be created and edited via API. read more

• The automation feature set saw ganncamp find that an “enabled” report automation could save without a Recurrence unit in the automation UX requests and reinforce the issue in her comment. read more

Support

• tobiaseigen clarified ActivityPub’s ownership rules after angus explained why federated posts can’t be edited in the SocialMusic federation thread and in a subsequent follow-up. read more

• In moderation, T_Disco struggled to retract a review-queue claim in the unclaim item discussion and detailed the missing “unclaim” button in their update. read more

• Ethsim2 walked through diagnosing “2 Emails stuck in mailq” in their initial mailq post, and NateDhaliwal moved it to Support in his follow-up. read more

• MihirR explored disabling topic creation for Group Membership triggers in their query, and PaidToAnswer explained title priority via SQL and badge order in their reply. read more

Community

• Ed_S proposed moving flag privileges up to Trust Level 2 to curb low-quality flags in the Use of Flags discussion and elaborated on the idea in his follow-up. read more

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Activity by the @team Group

• Lilly addressed the Discobot icon mismatch and committed to string updates in 371234/4.
• sam explained AI artifact messaging in 369822/13, flagged the AI captions behavior in 371257/2, and marked the staff-colour notification fix in 370857/4.
• joffreyjaffeux slated a MathJax-in-polls patch in 370632/4 and noted ongoing video-autoplay work in 273191/36.
• kris.kotlarek confirmed the policy plugin fix in 365688/7.
• tobiaseigen clarified ActivityPub editing rules in 370991/14.
• mcwumbly explained the global sidebar setting in 371222/4.
• martin resolved the TL0 posting restriction in 170929/7.
• yaran refined calendar datetime formatting in 368608/24.

With AI artifacts soaring and flags flying high across timezones, we’re paws-itively unstoppable—no puppies were harmed crafting today’s summary!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New Posts: 85
• New Topics: 7 (view all)

Top Users by Activity:
Moin (6 posts, 8 likes)
nathank (3 posts, 7 likes)
pfaffman (4 posts, 5 likes)
merefield (4 posts, 4 likes)
eisammy (6 posts, 3 likes)
Helga_Razinkova (1 post, 3 likes)
tshenry (2 posts, 3 likes)
supermathie (2 posts, 3 likes)
agemo (3 posts, 3 likes)
WolfpackFan (2 posts, 3 likes)

Interesting Topics

• Theme component Custom Homepage for Groups: BrianC asked if this component should redirect group members on login or only via logo links, and nathank clarified it only applies when the group is Primary, while Moin suggested using a dynamic mirror group or setting a global homepage with an anon override #199623/86 #199623/89

• #Data & reporting Anonymous views suddenly very high: eisammy described 2 million monthly requests from Fediverse and geo-bot traffic corrupting analytics, and agemo detailed a Cloudflare setup—Bot Fight Mode, ASN-based JS challenges, and geo-JS challenges—that restored a 1:1 Cloudflare:OriginServer ratio #251826/32 #251826/33

• Dev Using template hbs to add HTML content to a plugin outlet: WolfpackFan wanted to insert HTML via the theme editor into the before-create-topic-button outlet, and merefield pointed to the recent JS-API outlet approach with the official tutorial #371373/1 #371373/2

• Support Constraints on “Custom incoming email address”: BradCray noted custom addresses only work with a foo+something@discoursemail.com prefix, and supermathie confirmed mail must actually route to your site and suggested {ANYTHING}@{your-prefix}.discoursemail.com as a reliable option #371380/1 #371380/2

• Bug Can admins no longer see who deleted a post?: Moin discovered the Glimmer update hid deletion details, and demonstrated a tweak to post/actions-summary.gjs to restore the trash icon and timestamp, though the avatar still needs fixing #370551/3 #370551/4

• Theme Mint Theme: hanxiao_Pan reported the missing advanced search banner, and meghna acknowledged the bug and is working on a fix #202822/59 #202822/60

• Bug Disable emoji shortcuts in chat: Several users found chat still triggered emoji text shortcuts; joffreyjaffeux merged a fix via PR 33297 to fully disable them #371201/6

• Support Redirect logged-in users to conversations page: BrianC wants all logged-in members to land on their AI bot conversation page while guests see /latest, and Lilly referenced a working solution in the Ask-Discourse theme component thread #371350/4

• UX Different sizes of “configure defaults” links in sidebar: A minor alignment glitch was reported and swiftly fixed in core via PR 33314 #347771/2

• Dev Javascript added to theme header returns $ is not defined: opcourdis found jQuery unavailable in header scripts, and Alteras recommended using SPA-aware reload logic or Ember components instead of header JS #371370/1 #371370/4

• Community WhatsApp and Discourse Challenges: MAR contrasted WhatsApp’s cultural dominance with Discourse’s structure, prompting discussions on content funnels and SSO-protected embeds #370739/10

• Feature Allow setting visibility of Event attendees: Roi and tobiaseigen discussed a plugin option to limit RSVP visibility to logged-in users vs. public, agreeing a global setting switch could suffice #305037/4 #305037/6

• Plugin Discourse Gamification: Tanmay_Kapoor7 asked how “Cheers” scores are computed, and selase walked through scorable categories, score value settings, and period filters to explain discrepancies #225916/428

• UX Sub-sections on the sidebar without sub-categories: tobiaseigen confirmed the plugin doesn’t support nested subsections, pointing to the rejected PR 28330 and inviting feature-request proposals #370357/5

• Announcements New Calendar Feature: Show Local Time: yaran prepared two PRs for timezone naming and weekday/relative date logic, ready to merge the first and plan edge-case fixes next #368608/25 #368608/26

Activity by the @team Group

• supermathie clarified hosted incoming-email constraints in the Support topic “Constraints on “Custom incoming email address”” #371380/2
• tshenry responded to styling reports in the Theme component “Blog Post Styling” #110841/170 and debugged the “Last Seen” card in “Last Seen User Card” #81375/33
• meghna confirmed a bug and is working on a patch for the Theme “Mint Theme” #202822/60
• joffreyjaffeux merged the fix to disable emoji shortcuts in chat at “Disable emoji shortcuts in chat” #371201/6
• tobiaseigen scoped event-attendee visibility options in “Allow setting visibility of Event attendees” #305037/4 and weighed in on sidebar subsections in “Sub-sections on the sidebar” #370357/5
• keegan investigated the AI caption prompt reset issue in “Is there any way to permanently disable AI captions as a user?” #371257/3
• selase broke down Cheers scoring logic in “Discourse Gamification” #225916/428
• Lilly shared a working redirect strategy for logged-in users in “Redirect logged-in users to conversations page” #371350/4
• yaran advanced two PRs on local-time display rules in the calendar plugin “ New Calendar Feature: Show Local Time” #368608/25

Let’s hope tomorrow’s threads stay attack-free and puppy-approved!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• Total new posts: 97

• Total new topics: 16

• Top users by posts & likes:

  1. Falco — 6 posts, 20 likes
  2. joffreyjaffeux — 9 posts, 18 likes
  3. saquetim — 2 posts, 9 likes
  4. hugh — 2 posts, 6 likes
  5. Magie — 4 posts, 6 likes
  6. pfaffman — 9 posts, 5 likes
  7. Moin — 4 posts, 5 likes
  8. nathank — 2 posts, 4 likes
  9. Richie — 1 post, 4 likes
  10. tgxworld — 1 post, 4 likes

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Interesting Topics

Feature

• Handling Video Compatibility in Forums

  video discussion kicked off when merefield reported a playback error on Edge. Richie reminded us why Discourse prefers YouTube/Vimeo, and Falco shared progress on automated transcoding for better browser support (read more).

Bug

• Calendar event seems broken?

  After the latest update, events lost their dates for some German users. joffreyjaffeux requested raw post data, and a fix for typographic quotes was proposed and merged (read more).

• Disable emoji shortcuts in chat

  A debate erupted over the new chat emoji replacements. Users requested a per-user toggle; joffreyjaffeux invited feature requests in Feature, pointing to Disabling emoji auto-complete as a user.

• Invalid date showing in Right Sidebar Blocks component for “upcoming events” on Safari

  Neil_Evans2 spotted “invalid date” on Safari but not other browsers. joffreyjaffeux is unable to repro; investigation continues (read more).

• Javascript added to theme header returns $ is not defined

  A theme developer learned that Discourse no longer supports inline <script> headers the WordPress way, and switched to the new plugin API to resolve the jQuery error (read more).

Announcements

• 3.5.0.beta7: Smart link editing, better invite tracking, unique icons, and fixing name management

  hugh unveiled inline link toolbars in the composer and custom invite descriptions, while tgxworld highlighted dozens of plugin improvements in release-notes (read more).

• 3.4.6: Security fix release

  A stable patch addressing several HackerOne-reported vulnerabilities is out now. Sites on tests-passed or beta are encouraged to update (read more).

• Upcoming Events filter & Event Location/Description

  joffreyjaffeux added a toggle to view all vs. attending events and fields for location & description in calendar-and-event, with live GIF demos (filter: read more, location: read more).

Support

• Is Discourse not as smooth due to web app limitations

  On iPhone 15 Pro, MihirR felt lag around keyboard events. Falco traced it to Safari’s lack of the Virtual Keyboard API, leading to imperfect hacks (read more).

• Custom badge description not showing up in “summary”

  ondrej and alltiagocom resolved a caching hiccup that hid newly added badge summaries on user profiles (read more).

• Troubleshooting Cheers score discrepancies

  Tanmay_Kapoor7 saw mismatched Cheer counts. Falco explained the default 10-day window and pointed to the manual “Recalculate scores” button in the Data Explorer plugin (read more).

• Cannot select author with the RSS feed polling plugin

  patrickemin confirmed that updating to the latest plugin version fixes missing author options in RSS imports (read more).

• Relation “discourse_automation_automations” restoring from 3.3beta1 to 3.5beta7

  Database restores hit a duplicate-table error. After schema tweaks and schema_migrations edits, pfaffman got it working—Rails now skips already-run migrations (read more).

• Bootstrap error with AI plugin, bundle exec rake db:migrate

  Missing Postgres extension vector caused migrations to fail. Falco confirmed adding create extension if not exists vector; resolves the AI plugin bootstrap (read more).

#Data & reporting

• Joining classification_results table to other tables support request

  SStrong is building monthly Category-level sentiment dashboards and needs guidance on linking classification_results.target_id to posts. Community input is needed (read more).

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Activity by the @team Group

• Falco responded to video playback debates in Handling Video Compatibility in Forums and enabled the missing Postgres vector extension to fix the AI plugin bootstrap error.

• joffreyjaffeux triaged and patched the date rendering bug in Calendar event seems broken? and rolled out new calendar features in both Upcoming Events filter and Event Location/Description.

• saquetim diagnosed the deletion-audit regression and submitted a PR to restore visibility in Can admins no longer see who deleted a post?.

• hugh authored the detailed 3.5.0.beta7 release notes, spotlighting smart links, invite tracking, and more.

• tgxworld expanded on plugin improvements in the same 3.5.0.beta7 announcement.

• yaran refined the internationalization fix for quotes in Calendar event seems broken?.

• chapoi corrected Discobot’s composer menu icon reference in Discobot still mentions instead of ⊕.

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Can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s discussions have in store—hopefully fewer “invalid dates” and more seamless video playback!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• Total new posts: 145
• Total new topics: 13
• Top users:
  • JammyDodger (17 posts, 26 likes)
  • sam (4 posts, 15 likes)
  • Jerome-cockpitLAB (6 posts, 8 likes)
  • joffreyjaffeux (6 posts, 8 likes)
  • NateDhaliwal (10 posts, 7 likes)
  • merefield (4 posts, 6 likes)
  • nathank (3 posts, 5 likes)
  • pfaffman (3 posts, 4 likes)
  • nolo (2 posts, 4 likes)
  • Michael12 (2 posts, 4 likes)

Interesting Topics

• Bug: Neil_Evans2 discovered that the Right Sidebar Blocks component for “upcoming events” in calendar-and-event right-sidebar-blocks on Safari displayed an invalid date due to dropped leading zeros—patched by joffreyjaffeux.

“dropping a ‘0’ in the single digit date” read more

• Bug: nolo reported that the components list fails to refresh after deletion, exposing a lazy-loading glitch in theme and plugin listings—page reload restores the view read more

• Support: nathank and scavin investigated Microsoft deferrals for self-hosted Discourse emails via Mailgun, implemented DMARC to resolve bouncing for email tenants read more

• Support: merefield guided ice.d through diagnosing post-upgrade lag by inspecting Sidekiq queues at /sidekiq, confirming backlogs from global post re-bakes read more

• Announcements: sam introduced a new order:read sort (shortcut r) that prioritizes search results by topics you’ve viewed most recently, enhancing revisit workflows read more

• Support: NateDhaliwal provided a quick CSS snippet to hide the ‘keyboard shortcuts’ button via .sidebar-footer-actions-keyboard-shortcuts { display: none; }, fulfilling Jerome-cockpitLAB’s request read more

• UX: sam, kris.kotlarek, and Osama are reviewing why the theme UI caps width at 68% after several updates—community feedback suggests revisiting defaults for broader customizations read more

• Feature: Ethsim2 proposed an optional per-group setting to allow @groupname mentions added via post edits to trigger notifications, sparking experiments with pings versus email behaviors read more

• Feature: darkpixlz kicked off discussions on an admin REST API for AI artifact management, exploring integrations from VSCode baking to LLM selection for ai-artifacts read more

• Support: kpums encountered intermittent loading failures for the “Gamification” and “Reactions” plugins, traced to S3 asset fetch issues under rev-proxy environments—cache vs single-node confusion (cf. Syntax Highlighter assets glitch discussion) read more

• Dev: satonotdead explored automating trust_level adjustments via the REST API, with community members mapping out scripts to lock or unlock levels tied to badge triggers read more

• Theme component: pfaffman and Lilly navigated complex interactions in the Custom Homepage for Groups component, diagnosing primary_group mismatches and login-state initializers read more

• #Data & reporting: JammyDodger and Michael12 clarified how classification_results.target_type links to posts.id, guiding SQL queries for topic-level sentiment dashboards read more

• Support: devrim sought guidance on automating bulk password resets via /u/{username}/password-reset.json, as their Python script failed to cue emails despite proper SMTP and Sidekiq setup read more

• Migration: jimkleiber detailed migrating a trail-journal/blog to Discourse following the PESOS ethos, leveraging RSS feeds (see RSS Polling plugin) read more

Activity by the @team Group

• sam championed search and UI improvements: rolled out order:read in this announcement, weighed in on width constraints here, and led the avatar-forward notification menu experiment here

• joffreyjaffeux swiftly triaged and fixed the calendar sidebar date bug in this thread

• joffreyjaffeux also refined the poll plugin’s date handling with a “dark magic” tweak in this discussion

• joffreyjaffeux confirmed a multi-word quote fix on tablets in I can only quote one word

• Lilly investigated initialization quirks in the Custom Homepage component here

• lindsey advocated for default avatar visibility in the notification menu redesign in this UX experiment

• awesomerobot merged a fix for the missing AI Search Upload button tooltip translation in this update

• Falco clarified that Cheers scores update hourly, demystifying scoreboard lag in this thread

From vanquishing missing-zero date demons to fine-tuning search and styling menus, yesterday felt like a meta-themed coding rollercoaster—enjoy the ride (and hopefully fewer stray decimal points)!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 117 (view latest posts)
• New topics: 25 (browse recent topics)
• Top users (past 24 hrs):
  • @Moin: 10 posts, 13 likes
  • @jimkleiber: 6 posts, 6 likes
  • @NateDhaliwal: 6 posts, 4 likes
  • @pfaffman: 4 posts, 6 likes
  • @Lilly: 3 posts, 7 likes
  • @awesomerobot: 3 posts, 5 likes
  • @RGJ: 1 post, 4 likes
  • @Heliosurge: 2 posts, 3 likes
  • @bletch: 1 post, 3 likes
  • @joffreyjaffeux: 1 post, 3 likes

Interesting Topics

Support

• jimkleiber explored using max_category_nesting=3 and theming components to swap logos based on top-level categories in Creating sub-communities in a discourse server

• Moin reported that personal_messages:username returns no results unless a search term precedes it, a nuance clarified by joffreyjaffeux in the search filter thread

• A question on trust-level inheritance led Falco to confirm that settings for TL1 automatically extend to higher trust levels in Category Security Permissions

Bug

• Moin discovered that theme creator no longer shows translations or a working share button, which Lilly acknowledged and flagged for investigation in Sharing themes is broken, settings and translations aren’t available on theme creator

• Users found that deleting one component could hide others beyond a threshold; a community-led fix is underway in Components list not showing all components after deleting one

• A server error (NoMethodError: undefined method 'category_id' for nil) surfaced when merging topics with calendar events, prompting sam to tag it pr-welcome in the merge error report

• Unexpected iOS autocomplete prompts disrupted PWA drafting, sparking high-priority discussion in Spontaneous autocomplete prompts

Dev

• NateDhaliwal fixed a typo in his file structure that was blocking api.renderInOutlet and shared the solution in api.renderInOutlet not rendering?

• A newcomer to Ruby received insights on transitioning from Python and mastering Discourse’s backend/API ecosystem in Is going from Python to Ruby easy?

• Questions about integrating Play Billing into a Trusted Web Activity spawned technical feasibility exchanges in Can Play Billing be enabled in a Discourse TWA forum?

Feature

• A proposal to publish a post to multiple ActivityPub actors led to a deep dive on tagging logic in Send multiple posts if there are multiple tags with actors

• An early implementation of an admin API for AI-generated web artifacts inspired ideas for in-browser editing workflows in An admin API for AI web artifact creation and editing

Theme component

• Community members shared and praised a new theme component that exports and imports translations across sites in Share theme (component) translations

Announcements

• Event chat channels launched to complement the Calendar plugin, letting users coordinate live in Event Chat Channels Now Available

• A fresh “Upcoming Events” filter with list and calendar views rolled out, drawing requests for attendee listings in Upcoming Events filter

Activity by the @team Group

• Lilly praised Moin’s work on Share theme (component) translations

• Lilly confirmed the theme creator translation issues and promised a fix in Sharing themes is broken, settings and translations aren’t available on theme creator

• Lilly enforced option selection to prevent accidental deletions in Bulk Action Notifications and not selecting an option deletes selected thread from User

• awesomerobot addressed the disappearing component bug in Components list not showing all components after deleting one

• awesomerobot advocated for wider use of CSS variables in Could inline styles be generally set with CSS variables?

• awesomerobot tracked down and proposed a tweak for the active state in The first Custom Top Nav link inappropriately appears selected

• joffreyjaffeux clarified that personal_messages:username requires a preceding query in the search filter discussion

• Falco explained that granting TL1 rights automatically covers TL2 and above in Category Security Permissions

• sam flagged the merge bug with a pr-welcome label and outlined cleanup steps in NoMethodError in TopicsController#show error after merging topics

• sam shared interim fixes for search alias ordering and invited feature requests in Ordering search results by the date you last visited topics

• sam pointed out that AI often hallucinates images and suggested inspecting markdown in Discourse AI image didn’t load correctly

• pento merged a patch to ensure reviewables can be unclaimed after canceling in Can’t unclaim post after cancelling from ‘Revise post’

• martin reminded users to press Enter for search modifiers in Ordering search results by the date you last visited topics

• meghna recommended updating to the latest build to resolve icon glitches in Mint Theme

• lindsey detailed how the messages icon will now show correctly in in:all searches in Missing PM icon in “in:all” searches

• sam celebrated the rollout of live chat alongside events in Event Chat Channels Now Available

• sam gathered feedback on participant lists for the new events filter in Upcoming Events filter

• sam dispelled confusion about server-side caching and showed how to clear it for embed assets—see Embed Assets Theme cache investigation

Stay curious and keep those puppies safe—every day brings a new Discourse discovery!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

New posts: 72
New topics: 10

Top users:

• rahim123: 2 posts, 6 likes
• NateDhaliwal: 6 posts, 6 likes
• Moin: 4 posts, 5 likes
• nwnuyhs: 2 posts, 3 likes
• Discourse: 1 post, 3 likes
• RGJ: 1 post, 3 likes
• jordan-vidrine: 1 post, 2 likes
• Falco: 1 post, 2 likes
• merefield: 3 posts, 2 likes
• tshenry: 1 post, 2 likes

Interesting Topics

Theme component

• “Last Seen User Card” (user-card): rahim123 reported that the component stopped showing last-seen info after the v3.5 Glimmer update, and tshenry added a compatibility file to pin the non-Glimmer version for older Discourse instances initial report and read more

blog

• “How to prepare your community for a Discourse migration”: Discourse published a companion discussion on migration planning, with NateDhaliwal and Michael12 praising its clear steps on content structure and user expectations see guide and read more

General

• “Discourse or discuz ？”: nwnuyhs weighed DiscuzX versus Discourse, hearing from Heliosurge on version lifecycles and nolo on licensing and SaaS subtleties discussion start and read more

UX

• “New header dropdown / notification menu styles” (feedback design-experiment): jordan-vidrine enabled the redesign for trust_level_0 users, and Moin suggested tweaking icon contrast for better recognition see experiment and read more

• “Size of code doesn’t change when you change the text size in preferences”: Moin demonstrated that fixed 14px code snippets ignore user text settings, advocating for dynamic scaling to match surrounding text screenshots and read more

Dev

• “api.renderInOutlet not rendering?”: Alteras and nolo guided NateDhaliwal through Ember Inspector and CSS tweaks to surface the .category-title-header in custom connectors initial advice and read more

• “Can Play Billing be enabled in a Discourse TWA forum?”: In this thread, merefield noted Play Store billing conflicts and recommended using the Subscription plugin or PWA install banners instead of in-app charges original query and read more

Support

• “Is it possible to embed counters in the footer of the site?”: DigneZzZ asked about Yandex.Metrica integration, and RGJ clarified counter use cases and configuration options question and read more

• “Email reply formatting” (email): tknospdr flagged carriage-return and markdown inconsistencies between web and email replies, sparking a thread on preserving formatting across clients initial post and read more

• “Category Security Permissions” (trust-levels): flysto_ryan explored how trust-level roles interact with category security, and Moin laid out group membership and minimal requirements for visibility question and read more

• “Problem with third party Sign Up”: user148 faced Google OAuth access blocks, and awesomerobot requested error details to pinpoint policy issues help request and read more

• “Is there a way to see what posts have been hidden and by whom?”: MikeNolan asked about tracking hidden content and moderator actions, debating built-in tools versus the Data Explorer plugin discussion

• “Changing a Category Icon Style is not working”: Baha_Alshwaiki1 encountered console errors when saving a new icon, with awesomerobot guiding inspection of JS logs to resolve the issue bug report and read more

Feature

• “Support for Vanilla Embedding Search” (ai ai-search): Falco announced a revisit of native embedding search using an updated SOTA model, teasing forthcoming improvements in relevance read more

Announcements

• “ Event Location/Description” (calendar-and-event): nathank applauded the richer event location field and proposed retiring the Minimal Event setting for greater consistency announcement and read more

Activity by the @team Group

• Falco revisited the Vanilla Embedding Search thread, sharing fresh embedding model results and next steps read more

• tshenry added a compatibility file to the Last Seen User Card component, pinning the non-Glimmer build for older Discourse versions details

• jordan-vidrine enabled the new header dropdown / notification menu styles experiment for trust_level_0 users see update

• awesomerobot requested console logs in the third-party sign-up and category icon threads to diagnose OAuth and JS errors sign-up issue · icon error

• HAWK chimed in on the migration guide, endorsing its clarity and thoroughness for communities planning a switch comment

• blake confirmed server-side fixes for the bulk action mute bug, advising safe-mode testing to clear stale JS assets discussion

• chapoi verified that the Discobot icon fix updates existing installs, replacing with ⊕ in the composer menu confirmation

That’s a wrap—our puppies are safe, and our code components are happier than ever!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• Total new posts: 32
• Total new topics: 9
• Top users (by likes received / posts made):
  • oshyan: 5 likes, 1 post
  • ondrej: 3 likes, 1 post
  • NateDhaliwal: 2 likes, 5 posts
  • nathank: 2 likes, 1 post
  • JammyDodger: 1 like, 2 posts
  • Moin: 1 like, 2 posts
  • merefield: 1 like, 1 post
  • agungor: 1 like, 1 post
  • jimkleiber: 1 like, 1 post
  • renato: 1 like, 1 post

Interesting Topics

Feature

• In Add Reply-in-Line back to Chat in addition to Reply-as-Thread, oshyan argued for re-introducing inline quoting in Chat, noting threads feel too “heavy.” jimkleiber backed this in post #2, likening it to WhatsApp/Signal style chat.

• nathank proposed in Dedicated chat channels for wikis (and maybe other topics) that wikis get their own chat overlay—similar to how collapse off-topic replies, the Discourse Livestream plugin, and event chat channels now available work.

• Ethsim2 chimed in on Allow Group Mentions in Post Edits to Trigger Notifications (Opt-In Setting) asking why skipped mentions don’t always notify, sparking discussion on mention visibility and edit history.

Support

• ice.d asked in How to limit wiki editing to a certain group or trust level on a post how to restrict wiki edits to TL 3+ only. ondrej pointed to the Edit wiki post allowed groups site setting in post #2.

• NateDhaliwal wondered What happened to review.discourse.org?, noting it used to post PRs publicly. The site now requires sign-in, and @NateDH suggested updating the GitHub integration docs accordingly.

• GeoffSchultz tackled Forwarding email with reply-by-email enabled?, seeking to forward webmaster@xyz.org after enabling reply-by-email. The thread is gathering suggestions on MX record workarounds.

• In Is it possible to embed counters in the footer of the site?, RGJ was pointed to the Yandex Metrica solution in this topic, while DigneZzZ requested a more step-by-step guide.

• Moin asked User cannot create a new topic and tag it during creation why allowed tags don’t show. JammyDodger explained how category permissions can block tag selection in post #17, and Moin offered a Data Explorer query in post #18.

Bug

• Moin reopened Composer resizing problems while using a tablet, reporting limited visible lines in the composer. In post #6, renato assured the team will investigate tomorrow.

• darkpixlz reported in Backup uploads are not protected against 429s that hitting rate limits aborts uploads. They suggested removing rate-limiting or adding retry logic.

• Banson encountered Can’t unclaim post after cancelling from ‘Revise post’, where front-end claiming behavior persists despite settings. The issue is under review.

#Data & reporting

• joshhabka asked in How can I filter members by IF customField HAS value (like for all users that have a Linkedin link) how to list users with a filled “LinkedIn” field. JammyDodger recommended using either the search index or a Data Explorer query in post #2.

Installation

• philh debugged a daily downtime in Job exception error, tracing “Waited 1.0 seconds” Redis errors. The community is weighing memory and unicorn worker tweaks.

Dev

• NateDhaliwal solved a theme component logic question in Settings switching to false if another setting is true?. After pfaffman’s advice in post #2, they settled on a single list-type override.

UX

• schneeland spotted style regressions in New header dropdown / notification menu styles, questioning icon sizing and padding adjustments in the latest design experiment.

Activity by the @team Group

• renato provided an update on the Bug Composer resizing problems while using a tablet, confirming the team will investigate layout limits tomorrow.

Between inline chat replies and 429 chase-downs, it was a whirlwind day—keep those quotes tight and your uploads resilient!

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Key Stats

• New posts: 45

• New topics: 9

• Top users:

  • sam (6 posts, 8 likes)
  • NateDhaliwal (3 posts, 6 likes)
  • RGJ (2 posts, 5 likes)
  • mcwumbly (2 posts, 3 likes)
  • HAWK (1 post, 2 likes)
  • meglio (1 post, 1 like)
  • pfaffman (2 posts, 1 like)
  • oshyan (1 post, 1 like)
  • Moin (1 post, 1 like)
  • pento (1 post, 1 like)

• Top @team:

  • sam (6 posts, 8 likes)
  • mcwumbly (2 posts, 3 likes)
  • HAWK (1 post, 2 likes)
  • pento (1 post, 1 like)

Interesting Topics

Support

• Under Support code-review, Moin reported that the outdated review.discourse.org link remains live; HAWK clarified it’s now internal-only explanation and sam confirmed plans to update the copy plans.

• A user struggled to access uploaded images externally, hitting 404s on live Support site; the community traced the issue report to missing uploads after migration and corrected file permissions in a follow-up solution.

• Several admins reported that their Discourse instances lose connection to Redis nightly between 00:15–00:30; Esat_Ceber raised the Support request log dump seeking causes and fixes.

• In Support, TheNab couldn’t inject inline <script> tags in the Landing Pages plugin due to a strict content-security-policy details.

• notriddle flagged missing sender addresses causing errors in iCloud delivery; community members linked it to hosted-support email headers discussion and a community reply advice.

• A Support user, MihirR, asked how to pass current user details to Razorpay via a custom Landing Page; guidance is pending on capturing username or email in the plugin question.

• avidseeker requested automatic conversion of uploaded images to AVIF using ImageMagick; community weighed in on thumbnail compression and file-type selection Support proposal.

Feature

• In Feature chat, mcwumbly and oshyan debated bringing back inline replies alongside thread replies in Chat; initial context and rationale here and further thoughts on channel settings consideration.

Bug

• A Bug pr-welcome math report showed MathJax failing inside <details> sections; sam labeled it pr-welcome issue and proposed a patch in a follow-up fix ideas.

• The Data Explorer revealed tag_group_id showing as group_id; RGJ outlined the SQL and sam weighed in on regex adjustments for entity resolution pr-welcome bug report and regex tweak.

• Users found rapid-fire DMs or channel messages could drop due to staging issues; ばこん reproduced the Bug by sending messages every 0.5s repro steps and sam investigated internal rate-limiting debug log.

• sam spotted that backup uploads aren’t protected against 429 errors during large restores Bug backups initial note and suggested adjusting chunk sizes and rate limits team thoughts.

• pento fixed automatic claiming behavior when cancelling from “Revise post” in the moderation queue Bug moderation review-queue root cause and users noted linked claiming of adjacent items issue.

• A Bug wp-discourse rest-api issue left only five categories in /site.json after raising max_category_nesting to 3; jimkleiber shared his manual workaround report and patch.

Theme component

• The long-standing Discourse Category Headers theme component was modernized with a Glimmer rewrite and parent-bg-image setting by NateDhaliwal PR details.

Activity by the @team Group

• sam chimed in on the deprecation of review.discourse.org details, labeled the MathJax <details> bug pr-welcome report, analyzed entity resolution in the Data Explorer tag groups discussion, debugged backup uploads hitting 429 errors thread, and dove into rapid DM staging issues in chat analysis.

• mcwumbly clarified the inline vs. thread reply setting in Chat context and revisited the idea of combining both UX patterns follow-up.

• HAWK explained why review.discourse.org is now internal-only and flagged the copy update TODO explanation.

• pento outlined the fix for automatic reviewable claiming in the “Revise post” flow and responded to edge-case feedback root cause.

Phew, that was ruff—free-floating uploads, DM delays, and math hacks aside, no puppies were harmed in the making of this update!