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  • Support Rangliste auf der Startseite: MihirR fragte, ob es eine Möglichkeit gibt, die Rangliste auf der Startseite zu befüllen, und satonotdead empfahl die Verwendung von Theme-Komponenten wie Rechte Seitenleisten-Blöcke und Top-Beiträger-Seitenleiste; nolo klärte die beiden Konzepte – Likes vs. Cheers – mit Discourse Bars auf und verwies auf Startseiten-Blöcke für mobile Geräte. Gelöst.

  • Support Wie finde ich ein zu aktualisierendes Element?: tknospdr teilte einen Deprecation-Banner für component-template-resolving in diesem Thread, und Moin zeigte, wie man es in der Browserkonsole nachverfolgen kann (Beispiel), wodurch die Blog-Post-Styling-Komponente aufgedeckt wurde. Gelöst.

  • Support Versteckter Timeline-Button: mrmowji meldete, dass der Timeline-Button im disco-toc-Plugin nie erscheint; NateDhaliwal erklärte das beabsichtigte Verhalten gemäß dem Design der Komponente, und nachfolgende Tests bestätigten, dass der Umschalter erst erscheint, wenn mehrere Antworten vorhanden sind. Gelöst.

  • Support Schriftarten entfernen: Yuuki_Mizukami bemerkte „[zh_CN.solved.solution_summary.other count=undefined]“ in einem Bild (Beispiel), und Moin identifizierte es als vom Theme generierten Platzhalter. Laufend.

  • Support Gästen die AI-Bot-Seite anzeigen: BrianC versuchte, /discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversations für Gäste freizugeben, und Falco erklärte, dass anonyme Benutzer keine PMs erstellen können, weshalb die Seite weiterhin eingeschränkt bleibt (Details). Geklärt.

  • Feature Unsere Admin- und Moderator-Schilde aktualisieren: Encounter schlug vor, den Forenbesitzer mit einem grünen Schild unabsetzbar zu machen; ondrej klärte auf, dass DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS die Ersteller schützt, und teilte einen Leitfaden zur visuellen Anpassung sowie Details zu den Eigentumseinstellungen mit. Diskussion.

  • Feature Verschiedene Zahlungsmethoden für Discourse-Abos hinzufügen: spirobel erinnerte die Community daran, dass Abos von Stripe verwaltet werden, und fasste seine Arbeit am Monero-Abonnement-Plugin zusammen, wobei er auf die zusätzliche Komplexität bei der Handhabung von Stornierungen und Ablaufdaten hinwies. Weiterlesen.

  • Ankündigungen Helfen Sie uns, Horizon, unser neuestes Theme, zu testen: AquaL1te kritisierte die Kompatibilität von Themenlisten-Miniaturansichten, schlug eine bessere Banner-Integration vor (Tag-Banner, Kategorie-Banner), verglich die Schriftarten im Lesermodus (GitHub) und schlug Anpassungen des mobilen UI-Paddings vor. Weiterlesen.

  • Fehler Côte d’Ivoire-Flaggen-Emoji wird nicht dargestellt: joffreyjaffeux bestätigte historische Probleme bei der Flaggenkonvertierung und verpflichtete sich, die Emoji-Zuordnungsfehler zu untersuchen. In Bearbeitung.

  • Marktplatz [bezahlte] Hilfe zur Behebung von Problemen mit ausgehenden E-Mails: bloomexperiment fasste die erfolgreiche Lösung der Probleme mit ausgehenden E-Mails und dem Postgres-Upgrade von ambimorph zusammen (Details). Abgeschlossen.

  • Theme-Komponente Dev-Tools-Button aktivieren: NateDhaliwal kündigte Pläne an, die Komponente in ein GJS-Dateiformat zu migrieren.

  • Theme-Komponente Blog-Post-Styling: tknospdr meldete Deprecation-Warnungen in der Blog-Post-Styling-Komponente und bat um ein Update für die Ember-Kompatibilität. Erinnerung.

  • Installation Bestätigungs-E-Mail für Administratorkonto nicht erhalten: ywk2022-jfg teilte einen Net::ReadTimeout-Fehler bei der Registrierung eines Administrators mit (Protokolle), und NateDhaliwal schlug vor, die SMTP-Ports zu tauschen. Laufend.

  • #Self-Hosting Fehlerbehebung bei E-Mails auf einer neuen Discourse-Installation: Preeminence hatte Probleme mit Mailgun auf Port 587 für eine frische Einrichtung, und pfaffman empfahl, nach der Änderung der Port-Einstellungen in app.yml neu zu bauen (Beitrag). Laufend.

  • #Site Management Forum Researcher AI Persona-Leitfaden: BrianC suchte nach Best Practices für die Verwaltung mehrerer KI-Personas im Dropdown-Menü des Editors für den Forum Researcher-Leitfaden. Rat angefordert.

Aktivitäten der @team-Gruppe

Egal, ob Sie auf der Jagd nach Ranglisten waren oder knifflige Emoji-Flaggen aufgedeckt haben, gestern war eine echte Meta-Safari!

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Nachfolgend eine Zusammenfassung der engagiertesten Diskussionen der letzten 24 Stunden, gruppiert nach Kategorien.

Feature

  • moderation: Encounter startete eine tiefgehende Diskussion über die Aktualisierung von Admin- und Moderator-Schildern und debattierte, ob erste Admins auf gehosteten versus selbst gehosteten Foren herabgestuft werden können. Moin klärte die Unterschiede in der Logik für Test-Schilder bei Discourse auf mehr lesen.

  • ai: BrianC fragte nach KI-Gesprächseinstiegsmöglichkeiten auf der KI-Seite und suchte nach Anpassungsmöglichkeiten ähnlich den „Ask Discourse“-Prompts. sam bot an, eine Theme-Komponente für eine einfache Integration vorzustellen mehr lesen.

  • ai: kuaza schlug vor, die Schnittstelle für neue Themen durch eine KI-gesteuerte Fragebox auf der privaten Nachrichten-Seite zu ersetzen, mit der Vision von automatisch generierten Titeln und Kategoriezuteilungen über Discourse AI mehr lesen.

  • Feature: darkpixlz schlug vor, den Meta-Login auf Discourse Try zu aktivieren, um die Authentifizierungsabläufe des Theme-Creators zu spiegeln und doppelte Konten zu vermeiden mehr lesen.

  • Feature: rumi.ju fragte, wie man Markdown deaktivieren und standardmäßig Rich-Text im Composer verwenden kann. sam bestätigte, dass eine Option in Erwägung gezogen wird, und deutete an, eine dedizierte Komponente zu entwickeln, anstatt sich auf einen MutationObserver-Hack zu verlassen mehr lesen.

Support

  • Support: Cate_Soule wollte ihre Startseite auf Kategorien + Neueste Themen einstellen, und JammyDodger führte durch die Anpassung der Reihenfolge des Top-Menüs und des Desktop-Kategorien-Seitenstils, um dies zu erreichen mehr lesen.

  • Support: Encounter stellte fest, dass auf der Über-Seite keine Admins aufgelistet sind. jahan_gagan erklärte, wie inaktive Benutzer und ausgeblendete Gruppen die Personalauflistung nach Design beeinflussen (Diskussion) mehr lesen.

  • Support: MihirR sah ein rosa Banner mit einer Warnung vor einem Theme/Plugin, das aktualisiert werden muss. Moin wies darauf hin, die Browserkonsole zu inspizieren, um die spezifische Komponente zu finden, die die Warnung verursacht mehr lesen.

Bug

  • user-custom-fields signup: fhe meldete, dass ein obligatorisches mehrstufiges benutzerdefiniertes Feld bei der Registrierung keine Fehlermeldung anzeigt und ein ReferenceError: $ is not defined in der Konsole erscheint, was das Benutzerfeedback blockiert mehr lesen.

  • Bug: barreeeiroo stieß bei einer S3-Migration auf falsch-positive Ergebnisse, wobei 257 Beiträge zur Neubearbeitung markiert wurden. pfaffman schlug vor, Prüfungen für bearbeitete Beiträge zu überspringen, um die Ausnahme zu verhindern mehr lesen.

Plugin

  • Plugin: Dimava prüfte, ob der Tag-Schnittstellen-Navigator negative Tags wie -#foo -tags:bar unterstützt. merefield setzte Erwartungen bezüglich der kostenlosen Wartung und des Gleichgewichts zwischen Funktionen und Einfachheit der Benutzeroberfläche mehr lesen.

Installation

  • install: Die Discourse-Installation von millerthegorilla schlug fehl, als pups versuchte, Symlinks für Protokolldateien zu erstellen. jahan_gagan empfahl, vorhandene Protokolldateien in /var/www/discourse/log zu entfernen, bevor die Einrichtung erneut ausgeführt wird mehr lesen.

  • Installation: d_bl1n fragte, welche Daten im JSON-API-Objekt einzugeben sind und ob Port 587 oder 2525 für SMTP verwendet werden soll. Der Thread behandelte Portkonfiguration und Bedenken bezüglich SSL-Zertifikaten mehr lesen.

Marktplatz

Entwicklung

  • Entwicklung: jahan_gagan eröffnete einen Pull-Request, um einen Plugin-Auslass unter Kategorie-Einstellungen → Bilder hinzuzufügen, und lud Maintainer zu Reviews ein, um reichhaltigere UI-Erweiterungen zu ermöglichen mehr lesen.

Aktivität der Gruppe @team

  • sam demonstrierte, wie KI-Gesprächseinstiegsmöglichkeiten über eine Theme-Komponente hinzugefügt werden können, und schloss die Feature-Anfrage zu KI-Prompts ab Link.
  • sam wies darauf hin, dass eine dedizierte Komponente Markdown sauber deaktivieren könnte, was fragile MutationObserver-Ansätze vermeidet Link.
  • Falco klärte die Quelle von KI-Vorschlägen auf und verglich sie mit den Standardwerten von „Ask Discourse“, um sicherzustellen, dass der Prompt-Text korrekt ist Link.
  • kris.kotlarek bestätigte, dass der PR, der den Admin-Namen-Bug mit enable_names behebt, gemerged wurde und das ursprüngliche Problem gelöst ist Link.
  • martin schlug vor, einen hasNoPreferredMode-Getter im Chat-Zustandsmanager hinzuzufügen, um nicht gesetzte Präferenzen zu erkennen und die UX für die Zusammenarbeit zu verbessern Link.
  • chapoi versicherte allen, dass die größeren Chat-Avatare in die Seitenleiste zurückkehren, sobald das Experiment in den Kern integriert ist Link.

Das war's – mögen deine Prompts clever sein und deine Avatare immer korrekt geladen werden!

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Support

  • Wie man den Zeilenabstand anpasst
    stanigator fragte, wie man den Zeilenabstand in Support anpassen kann, und keegan schlug vor, die CSS-Schriftartvariablen für die Zeilenhöhe zu überschreiben; siehe seine Lösung hier.

  • Wie man „Neuestes Thema!

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Dev

Plugin

  • Ein Rendering-Problem im Umfrage-Plugin (bezogen auf #308679) wurde von nathank diagnostiziert, und david stellte in dieser Woche eine Korrektur im Rahmen eines Neuschreibens bereit. Mehr lesen.

  • Im ActivityPub-Plugin klärte angus den Unterschied zwischen manueller und automatischer Veröffentlichung von Beiträgen nach der Freigabe für föderierte Beiträge.

  • Moin fragte, wie man die Persona „Forum-Forscher“ im Discourse AI-Plugin aktivieren kann, und verlinkte auf den Leitfaden zu KI-Personas.

Lob

Support

Fehler

UX

  • jordan-vidrine hat das Experiment für das neue Header-Dropdown/Benachrichtigungsmenü wieder aktiviert (#369574), wobei sam Kontrastprobleme bei gelesenen Elementen feststellte.

  • Stephen hob hervor, dass Checklisten innerhalb von HTML

    bei Interaktion automatisch kollabieren, was eine UX-Debatte auslöste.

Funktion

  • martin schlug vor, die Schaltfläche zum Zusammenklappen auszublenden, um eine Vollbild-Chat-Voreinstellung in der Kooperationskonfiguration durchzusetzen, was Aufrufe nach mehr Chat-only-Modi auslöste.

Aktivitäten der @team-Gruppe

Es war ein Wirbelwind aus Outlets, Icons und Vollbild-Chats gestern – auf noch mehr Meta-Magie morgen!

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  • 90 neue Beiträge in den letzten 24 Stunden
  • 22 neue Themen erstellt
  • Top-Nutzer:

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Ankündigungen

  • Webinar: Lernen Sie das Discourse Customer Projects Team kennen – Danielle lädt Sie zu einer „Fragen Sie Discourse alles
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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

Activity by the @team Group

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

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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)

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

#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

Activity by the @team Group

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

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85 new posts, 7 new topics

Top users (posts & likes):

Interesting Topics

Announcements

Bug

Feature

Support

Community

Activity by the @team Group

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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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 :globe_showing_europe_africa: 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 “:globe_showing_europe_africa: New Calendar Feature: Show Local Time” #368608/25

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

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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

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).

Activity by the @team Group

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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“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

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

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New topics: 10

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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

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

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 :gear: 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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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

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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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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.

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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

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

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No puppies were harmed in this flurry of activity—just 84 posts, 18 new discussions, and a whole lot of Discourse magic!

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Community

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Plugin

Bug

  • “First accepted solution” trigger doesn’t work
    Moin flagged that solved-topic automations weren’t firing; nat merged a fix to the discourse-solved plugin.
    Issue report Fix merged

  • Inconsistencies in the unread posts indicators
    WolfpackFan noticed missing red-dot counts on migrated topics; Moin explained that only tracking topics show unread badges.
    Bug report Tracking clarified

Announcements

Dev

  • Upcoming post stream changes – How to prepare themes and plugins
    pangbo dissected odd @user={{@post}} usage and separate post-avatar-flair outlets; david explained the rationale for consistency.Code question @david’s reply

#Data & reporting

Activity by the @team Group

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s recap—our puppies promise to keep all translations and automations lively!

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  • The debate over running Discourse without any AI features drew environmental and ethical viewpoints, with contributors questioning resource trade-offs in AI-free Discourse.

Plugin

  • Real-time discussion needs drove tests of Discourse Livestream with PeerTube, revealing 20 s latency and optional chat-only modes in Discourse Livestream.

Theme component

#Administrators

  • Federation experts walked through ActivityPub actor mappings, explaining how Mastodon replies appear as Discourse posts in Publishing posts to Mastodon.

Activity by the @team Group

Stay pawsitive—your messages are now streamlined, bugs are getting squashed, and the puppies are safe (for now)!

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  • 138 new posts, 32 new topics in the past 24 hours (site report).
  • Top users: RGJ (3 posts, 14 likes), Alteras (2 posts, 13 likes), JammyDodger (18 posts, 12 likes), Falco (4 posts, 11 likes), Moin (5 posts, 11 likes), pfaffman (4 posts, 7 likes), sam (3 posts, 5 likes), nathank (4 posts, 4 likes), Ed_S (2 posts, 3 likes), tshenry (1 post, 3 likes).

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#Site feedback

  • In #Site feedback, JammyDodger checked on the AI caption bot, and Falco restored the vision_enabled flag so images now show captions again in Quick welfare check on the AI caption bot (fix applied; read more)

  • In #Site feedback, Moin flagged the overflow issue of the Composer More menu on tablets and contrasted with the fixed limited-height menu in Composer more menu partly hidden behind header and composer (UX video; read more)

Community

Announcements

UX

  • In UX, JammyDodger reported misaligned and colorless badges in quotes under Category badges are misaligned and lose their colour in quotes, highlighting the need for quote styling fixes (screenshot; read more)

Bug

  • In Bug, NateDhaliwal uncovered a delay in the topic timeline counter in Topic timeline’s current post number blank, prompting further mobile timeline optimizations (issue demo; read more)

Dev

Feature

  • In Feature, Ethsim2 proposed adding diagonal fractions via \nicefrac to KaTeX and MathJax in Feature Request: Support for \nicefrac in Discourse Math, outlining both plugin and core paths for improved inline formatting (proposal; read more)

Activity by the @team Group

Have fun reading — your keyboard might need a breather (and your pups will thank you for it)!