Resumen diario (1pm UTC)

david anunció que @outletArgs ahora están disponibles como argumentos de nivel superior, simplificando las plantillas de componentes al permitir el uso directo de @foo.
Construyendo sobre ¿Cómo agrego enlaces a la configuración del sitio en la descripción de la configuración de mi componente?, Moin propuso un marcador de posición %{FA_free_link} para iconos gratuitos de FontAwesome en #370555, con el objetivo de agilizar las traducciones y el mantenimiento.

Un problema de renderizado en el Plugin de Encuestas (relacionado con #308679) fue diagnosticado por nathank, y david proporcionó un parche en la reescritura de esta semana lee más.
En el Plugin de ActivityPub, angus aclaró la publicación manual versus automática de publicaciones después de la aprobación para publicaciones federadas.
Moin preguntó cómo activar la personalidad de "investigador del foro" en el plugin de Discourse AI y enlazó a la guía de personalidades de IA.

Elogios

denvergeeks celebró cinco años de participación en la comunidad con un mensaje de agradecimiento sincero y un GIF festivo.

Soporte

Curtis_Rueden buscó ayuda con un tema obsoleto en Discourse-tag-sidebars, lo que llevó a david a recomendar las modernas Barras laterales de lista de temas de Discourse.
Una mala configuración en Microsoft Exchange provocó un AutoGeneratedEmailError en todos los correos electrónicos salientes; riking sugirió verificar las cabeceras SMTP.
opcourdis reportó que los eventos no se muestran en las páginas publicadas, y nathank explicó que las páginas publicadas excluyen intencionalmente los componentes del tema.

Errores

En el error de clic en avatar de la tabla de reacciones, david fusionó una corrección para restaurar los popups de tarjetas de usuario.
ascension.forum encontró que las expresiones MathJax no se renderizaban en las encuestas (#370632); el equipo central está investigando.
phillcoxon confirmó que un campo de usuario personalizado obligatorio no muestra ninguna pista de error al registrarse, y el equipo está investigando.

jordan-vidrine reactivó el experimento para el nuevo menú desplegable de notificaciones en el encabezado (#369574), con sam señalando problemas de contraste en los elementos leídos.
Stephen destacó que las listas de verificación dentro de HTML se colapsan automáticamente al interactuar, desencadenando un debate sobre UX.

Característica

martin propuso ocultar el botón de colapsar para imponer un chat en pantalla completa por defecto en la configuración de colaboración, lo que generó llamados a modos exclusivos de chat.

Actividad del grupo @team

david contribuyó a argumentos de nivel superior de outletArgs, marcador de posición de FontAwesome, soporte para barras laterales de etiquetas, solución para el plugin de encuestas y error de clic en avatar.
Falco proporcionó información sobre servidores en instalación de netstat y aclaró el comportamiento de citas en bloques de código con comillas.
jordan-vidrine mantuvo el experimento de diseño para el nuevo menú desplegable en el encabezado.
sam ajustó los comentarios de UX sobre el contraste del menú desplegable en el encabezado y discutió la creación de temas de eventos recurrentes.
martin profundizó en las preferencias de chat en configuración de chat en pantalla completa.
phillcoxon confirmó la reproducción del error de campo personalizado al registrarse.

Fue un torbellino de outlets, iconos y chats en pantalla completa ayer; ¡que mañana haya más magia meta!

Discourse · 19 Junio, 2025 13:02

Hoy en meta.discourse.org…

Estadísticas clave

90 nuevas publicaciones en las últimas 24 horas
22 nuevos temas creados
Usuarios destacados:
- Danielle – 1 publicación, 11 «me gusta»
- HAWK – 2 publicaciones, 9 «me gusta»
- Moin – 5 publicaciones, 6 «me gusta»
- jordan-vidrine – 3 publicaciones, 6 «me gusta»
- NateDhaliwal – 8 publicaciones, 5 «me gusta»
- Discourse – 1 publicación, 4 «me gusta»
- sam – 3 publicaciones, 4 «me gusta»
- MAR – 2 publicaciones, 4 «me gusta»
- david – 2 publicaciones, 3 «me gusta»
- Richie – 3 publicaciones, 3 «me gusta»

Temas interesantes

Anuncios

Webinar: Conoce al equipo de proyectos de clientes de Discourse – Danielle te invita a una sesión de Pregúntale a Discourse lo que quieras con los diseñadores e ingenieros detrás de plugins e integraciones personalizados, programada para el 25 de junio. lee más

blog

Cómo lanzar una comunidad empresarial en 30 días con Discourse – «Construir una comunidad empresarial desde cero en solo 30 días puede parecer imposible. No lo es». Discourse comparte el estudio de caso de Netwrix de Jordan Violet y desata una conversación sobre el crecimiento rápido de comunidades. lee más

Comunidad

Desafíos de WhatsApp y Discourse – MAR explora estrategias para canalizar «pepitas de conocimiento» de múltiples grupos de WhatsApp hacia Discourse; HAWK enlaza consejos probados de integración de chats grupales y mcwumbly describe un enfoque piloto práctico. lee más
¿Pantalla de bienvenida para nuevos usuarios? – marvi busca un flujo de incorporación más visible para los recién llegados; merefield recomienda establecer un Tema de Bienvenida dedicado para guiar a los visitantes por primera vez. lee más
¿Qué plataformas de transmisión en vivo o webinarios utilizan? – putty pregunta qué herramientas de streaming prefieren las comunidades de Discourse; Bas insinúa mejoras próximas en la experiencia del plugin de eventos. lee más

UX

Nuevos estilos de menú desplegable en la cabecera / menú de notificaciones – jordan-vidrine y sam trabajaron en los contrastes de lectura/no lectura en la navegación superior; la retroalimentación de la comunidad llevó a ajustes refinados de color en móviles y tratamientos de iconos. lee más
Vista previa de texto en tarjetas – jonasnaue notó la falta de extractos en las tarjetas de Kanban y pidió una solución; entusiastas de la UX discutieron límites de líneas de vista previa y ajustes de diseño para kanban-board. lee más

Instalación

¿Dónde está el archivo discourse.conf? – agemo tuvo dificultades para localizar y editar discourse.conf dentro del contenedor; Lilly aclaró su ruta bajo config/ y explicó cómo usar sudo nano para ajustes. lee más

Errores

Problemas de redimensionamiento del editor al usar una tableta – Moin reportó problemas de tamaño del editor en modo táctil en iPad; Richie confirmó el error en Safari en iPadOS 18.5, lo que motivó una investigación adicional. lee más

Soporte

¿Tema Foundation? – patrickemin descubrió un tema «Foundation» no solicitado; HAWK reveló que simplemente es el tema Predeterminado renombrado. lee más
Tengo un problema al instalar un plugin – clacle clonó varios plugins mediante app.yml pero no aparecieron tras la reconstrucción; los asistentes sugirieron verificar /var/www/discourse/log/production.log y reiniciar el contenedor. lee más
¿Los activos de highlight-js no se suben al bucket de S3? – kpums encontró que el directorio /highlight-js/ faltaba en el almacenamiento de MinIO y preguntó si se necesitan pasos adicionales de compilación más allá de rake s3:upload_assets. lee más

Desarrollo

¿Variable rastreada no encontrada? – NateDhaliwal encontró un ReferenceError al usar @tracked en un plugin; merefield aconsejó usar DIcon para iconos estáticos y evitar el rastreo innecesario. lee más

Funcionalidad

Solicitudes de flujo de trabajo/UX para automatizaciones – ganncamp detalló necesidades de duplicación más sencilla, edición in situ y acceso rápido a informes dentro de la interfaz de automatizaciones, desatando discusiones sobre la hoja de ruta. lee más
Mostrar el número de publicaciones rechazadas del usuario en las publicaciones de la cola de revisión – T_Disco propuso mostrar los conteos previos de rechazo junto a las publicaciones en cola para informar a los revisores, retomando comentarios anteriores de davemaxwell. lee más

Actividad del grupo @team

Danielle lanzó el Webinar: Conoce al equipo de proyectos de clientes de Discourse (Anuncios) para destacar el trabajo de diseño y desarrollo personalizado enlace
HAWK compartió consejos de integración en Desafíos de WhatsApp y Discourse enlace y aclaró el renombrado de Predeterminado en ¿Tema Foundation? enlace
jordan-vidrine mostró las últimas iteraciones de estilo de navegación en Nuevos estilos de menú desplegable en la cabecera / menú de notificaciones enlace
sam proporcionó retroalimentación clave sobre los experimentos de navegación, señalando problemas de contraste en móviles en Nuevos estilos de menú desplegable en la cabecera / menú de notificaciones enlace
david explicó cómo renderizar componentes conector con argumentos de salida de nivel superior en @outletArgs ahora están disponibles como argumentos de nivel superior enlace
tshenry impulsó una actualización para eliminar advertencias en el componente de tema Banner de consentimiento de cookies de Discourse enlace
Bas anticipó mejoras inminentes en la transmisión en vivo en ¿Qué plataformas de transmisión en vivo o webinarios utilizan? enlace
joffreyjaffeux avanzó en la corrección del error Solo puedo citar una palabra en tabletas enlace
Lilly guió a los usuarios hacia la ubicación correcta de config/discourse.conf en ¿Dónde está el archivo discourse.conf? enlace
mcwumbly aportó orientación estratégica en Desafíos de WhatsApp y Discourse, enfatizando pilotos a pequeña escala enlace

Mantente positivo: ningún cachorro real resultó herido en las aventuras meta de hoy, ¡aunque muchos hilos movieron la cola con entusiasmo!

system · 20 Junio, 2025 13:01

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)

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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?

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

system · 21 Junio, 2025 13:01

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)

Interesting Topics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

system · 22 Junio, 2025 13:00

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

system · 23 Junio, 2025 13:02

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

Interesting Topics

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

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

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

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

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

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!

system · 24 Junio, 2025 13:01

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!

system · 25 Junio, 2025 13:01

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

Interesting Topics

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).

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).

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).

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

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 ⊕.

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

system · 26 Junio, 2025 13:04

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)!

system · 27 Junio, 2025 13:03

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

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

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

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?

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

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!

system · 28 Junio, 2025 13:01

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“ 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!

system · 29 Junio, 2025 13:01

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

system · 30 Junio, 2025 13:03

Today on meta.discourse.org…

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

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.

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.

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!

system · 1 Julio, 2025 13:02

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

Total new posts: 84
Total new topics: 18
Top users (last 24 h):
- @JammyDodger — 8 posts, 9 likes
- @saquetim — 2 posts, 8 likes
- @lindsey — 2 posts, 7 likes
- @awesomerobot — 2 posts, 6 likes
- @not-ethan — 1 post, 6 likes
- @elmuerte — 2 posts, 6 likes
- @joffreyjaffeux — 3 posts, 5 likes
- @Moin — 3 posts, 4 likes
- @Richie — 1 post, 2 likes
- @Florian_Müller — 2 posts, 2 likes

Interesting Topics

Support: Rubi raised a question on GDPR’s right to erasure and whether IP/email data remain post-anonymization. elmuerte walked through the anonymizer code in user_anonymizer.rb and anonymize_user.rb, noting that reversal is “basically impossible” and PMs are handled the same way https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372282/2 read more
Support: pfaffman investigated email failures for iCloud’s “Hide My Email” feature, with notriddle confirming workaround settings and supermathie digging into /admin/email-logs for delivery records https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372198/5 read more
Support: patrickemin reported seeing self-created topics in their /unseen list. HAWK requested repro steps and NateDhaliwal confirmed it can’t be reproduced on Meta, suggesting more details on private vs. public installs https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372328/3 read more
Dev: saquetim unveiled the migration from old widget APIs to modern Glimmer components in “Upcoming post stream changes,” sharing a timeline through Q4 2025 and inviting feedback on Meta https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372063/1 read more
Dev: A newcomer asked if a “Sign in with Ghost” plugin could be built for hosted Ghost(Pro). The consensus: self-host the SSO middleware for now https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/329328/9 read more
Announcements: lindsey announced Horizon, the new core theme emphasizing simplicity and expansiveness, complete with light/dark previews and installation steps https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/369608/1 read more
Feature: Johnny_McIvor proposed a “No bump” (sage) switch to reply without bumping. not-ethan pointed out it already exists for staff/TL4 users https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372310/2 read more
Feature: ecki noted lag in PWA unread badges after resolving notifications. Falco confirmed it’s tied to pending review items and notifications count https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372306/3 read more
Theme component: awesomerobot warned of an upcoming PR replacing <h1> with .custom-search-banner-headline in the Advanced Search Banner component, recommending stylesheet updates https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/122939/177 read more
Bug: MathJax rendering inside <details> sections broke; joffreyjaffeux merged a fix in discourse-math #111 after users reported missing equations https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372218/4 read more
Bug: Uploads of large backup chunks triggered 429s. gerhard is investigating Uppy’s chunk size and rate-limit handling https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372139/4 read more
UX: pHneutre was baffled by automatic post translations contaminating content. nat pointed to the topic-level toggle button and upcoming docs on the translator feature https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372401/2 read more
UX: On mobile, the “Reviewable Scoring” modal overflows off-screen. JammyDodger suggested scrolling improvements or landscape view as a stopgap https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372385/1 read more
Plugin: After updating to 3.5.0.beta6, Thorsten saw incorrect event dates in Discourse Calendar (and Event) posts. Moin linked to a recent fix in the plugin’s repository https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/97376/526 read more
Community: TonyG’s deep dive into TL1 flag abuse sparked discussion on flag reputation, hide thresholds, and appeal flows. JammyDodger broke down how trust level weighting and reputation limit misuse https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/371077/32 read more

Activity by the @team Group

saquetim published the full Glimmer post stream migration guide and followed up on console deprecation messages https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372063/2
lindsey rolled out Horizon with detailed previews in introducing-horizon and thanked early testers in help-us-test-horizon
awesomerobot pre-announced banner markup changes in Advanced Search Banner https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/122939/177 and offered CSP guidance for the landing pages plugin https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/372200/2
joffreyjaffeux merged the MathJax fix within discourse-math PR #111 and verified the iOS post owner bug is resolved in 367409
gerhard began troubleshooting 429s during backup uploads in 372139
jordan-vidrine confirmed the Ghost Theme PM container overflow is fixed in 367563
supermathie dove into Apple’s “Hide My Email” logs and advanced the troubleshooting in 372198
Falco clarified PWA badge logic for unread/pending items in 372306, updated summarization persona group settings in 372280, and chimed in on ActivityPub categorization in 370991
HAWK probed the unseen-list glitch in 372328 and tested theme-switch visibility for admin accounts in 372346
nat tracked down the broken “first accepted solution” PM automation in 372382 and helped toggle translations in 372401

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

system · 2 Julio, 2025 13:03

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

New posts: 146
New topics: 21
Top users by posts & likes:
- merefield: 10 posts, 18 likes
- pHneutre: 5 posts, 13 likes
- nat: 8 posts, 13 likes
- Moin: 16 posts, 9 likes
- SubStrider: 5 posts, 7 likes
- JammyDodger: 7 posts, 6 likes
- EricGT: 1 post, 5 likes
- RGJ: 3 posts, 5 likes
- nathank: 5 posts, 5 likes
- david: 4 posts, 4 likes

Interesting Topics

Why am I reading this in Spanish instead of the original post language?
merefield opened a thread about unexpected default translations, and nat later detailed improvements to the LLM locale-detection prompt.
Original post Locale-prompt update
Can you customize the AI Summarize prompt?
satonotdead explained how to define new personas and supply custom prompts for the built-in summarizer.
Original post Solution by satonotdead
Why am I seeing this translated into Portuguese?
merefield’s deleted OP sparked a debate on translation defaults for different locales.
Original post
How can I change the subheader on the signup form?
jonasrosland sought the missing js.create_account.subheader_title site text, and NateDhaliwal pointed to the js.create_account.header_title key.
Original post Header-title suggestion
Why does my admin account lack a theme-select dropdown?
awesomerobot noted that admins needed multiple user-selectable themes enabled; after a hard reload, RoldanLT confirmed the fix.
Original post Resolved by RoldanLT
After config change some settings not in sync on sibling nodes…
kpums ran into load-balancer caching issues on a multi-node setup; Moin recommended SiteSetting.refresh! in the Rails console.
Original post Refresh solution

AI-free Discourse
pHneutre proposed labelling AI features, grouping them under a single menu, or offering an AI-free build; merefield reminded everyone it’s a plugin.
Discussion start Plugin note by merefield

Theme component

Discourse Category Headers theme component
Rhidian merged NateDhaliwal’s pull request for enhanced compatibility; jackierenee reported and nathank helped debug a routing error.
Merge confirmation Debug by nathank
Restricting a theme component to moderators only
pangbo needed to conditionally load an admin-scoped Glimmer component; david recommended using optionalRequire.
Original post optionalRequire solution

Discourse Calendar (and Event) update
opcourdis praised the 06/2025 release as a cornerstone for communities, and Ethsim2 highlighted integration with the official Events plugin.
Feature feedback Events synergy

“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

Messages section moved to single sidebar link
lindsey streamlined the sidebar by replacing multiple inbox entries with a singular My Messages link; Moin caught a visibility quirk.
Announcement Visibility fix coming

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

Accepted Solutions Query
Shreyas_Kulkarni’s SQL returned data through March only; SaraDev updated the query to use the new discourse_solved_solved_topics table.
Original query Corrected SQL

Activity by the @team Group

nat clarified the locale-detection prompt in Why am I reading this in Spanish…, outlined future translation UX in Everything is translated, help!, refreshed broken French localizations in Category description in french broken, and merged the solved-topic fix in “First accepted solution” trigger doesn’t work.
david showed how to use optionalRequire for staff-only components in Restricting a theme component to moderators only and unpacked avatar-flair outlet choices in Upcoming post stream changes….
jessii enhanced docs on Stripe metadata in Discourse Subscriptions Plugin.
lindsey announced the sidebar revamp in Messages section moved to single sidebar link and is working on Crowdin integration for Horizon theme.
renato deployed a fix for the tablet composer resize in Composer resizing problems while using a tablet.
Falco confirmed the screenshot language as Spanish in Why am I reading this in Spanish….
sam investigated the Gemini AI image analysis error in Error “no implicit conversion of Array into String”… and tracked the calendar library runtime issue in Calendar back runtime.
SaraDev corrected the SQL join in Accepted Solutions Query.
pento verified and merged a patch for unclaiming in Can’t unclaim post after cancelling from ‘Revise post’.
MarkDoerr probed the Stripe pricing plan metadata in Discourse Subscriptions Plugin.

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

system · 3 Julio, 2025 13:04

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

New posts: 111
New topics: 17
Top users:
- Moin: 8 posts, 7 likes
- NateDhaliwal: 7 posts, 6 likes
- RGJ: 6 posts, 5 likes
- sam: 3 posts, 6 likes
- awesomerobot: 3 posts, 5 likes
- hellekin: 3 posts, 3 likes
- lindsey: 2 posts, 5 likes
- pangbo: 2 posts, 3 likes
- Lilly: 1 post, 6 likes
- syoxTS: 1 post, 7 likes

Interesting Topics

lindsey and sam consolidated the Messages UI into a single sidebar link to simplify inbox navigation in Messages section moved to single sidebar link.
Community members raised security concerns over an outdated lightbox plugin, prompting feedback on whether to resume migration in New Discourse Lightbox Enabled on Meta – now disabled.

pangbo reported persistent errors in the Dev Tools plugin outlet debug, leading david to merge a fix that resolves the SimpleLiveBlock initialization error in Plugin outlet debug tool keeps throwing errors.
Admins discovered that tag group selectors weren’t populating on preview, throwing undefined-element errors, as discussed in Form templates preview broken with tag group.
Keyboard users could not load parent posts via the “Dayv0” control, a fix for which was merged by ted to restore accessibility in ‘Dayv0 (Load parent post)’ control present at post number 12 is not actionable through keyboard.
Mobile users found event calendars clipped and notification buttons unresponsive on small screens in Bug calendar event on mobile.

Community managers requested the ability to pin staff comments directly below reply boxes to keep clarifications in view, sparking discussion in Feature Request: Allow Staff to Pin Comments Below the Topic.

Falco explained how to configure non-English AI summarization by cloning existing Personas and adjusting system prompts in Customizing AI summarizer to use non-English languages.
CSP errors blocked Razorpay widget scripts until awesomerobot showed how to add the required SHA-256 hash to the “content security policy script src” setting in How to embed Razorpay subscription button with CSP restrictions.
App developers integrating WebViews sought seamless Auth0 SSO, and NateDhaliwal clarified OAuth2 plugin setup in Seamless Login Between App and Forum via WebView with Shared Auth0 Authentication.
Out-of-sync settings across Unicorn workers in multi-node setups were traced to Redis timeouts, with troubleshooting steps detailed in After config change some settings not in sync on sibling nodes in multi-node discourse setup.

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

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

Subscription-gated access sparked interest in more granular control for paid communities via the gated-topics component in Gated Topics in Category.

#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

lindsey led the rollout of the unified sidebar inbox, answering setup questions and confirming automatic updates in Messages section moved to single sidebar link.
The Dev-XP team (sam and david) triaged the plugin outlet debug errors, with sam reproducing the bug and david merging the resolution in Plugin outlet debug tool keeps throwing errors.
Falco guided admins on creating custom Personas to override the default English summarizer, detailing steps in Customizing AI summarizer to use non-English languages.
awesomerobot pinpointed the missing SHA-256 hash in CSP settings and demonstrated how to embed Razorpay scripts safely in How to embed Razorpay subscription button with CSP restrictions.
tgxworld confirmed that a community PR fixed misreported tag_group_id fields in the Data Explorer plugin, celebrating the merge in Tag_group_id values are shown as group_id in data explorer results.
hugh acknowledged the need to treat system-generated flags like user flags and pledged a review queue enhancement in How do you manage flags on non-human posts?.
ted restored keyboard support for the “Load parent post” control, merging the accessibility fix in ‘Dayv0 (Load parent post)’ control present at post number 12 is not actionable through keyboard.
tshenry addressed critical deprecation warnings and compatibility updates in the Blog Post Styling component in Blog Post Styling.
NateDhaliwal refined the category header font sizes and merged a PR to restore blank pages in Discourse Category Headers theme component.
joffreyjaffeux shipped a Safari key-support fix to ensure editor formatting controls are accessible on iOS in Cannot select formatting from gear menu in editor when text is highlighted on iOS.

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

system · 4 Julio, 2025 13:03

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

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).

Interesting Topics

In Plugin, Alteras unveiled the Collections link-curation plugin that lets users assemble dynamic topic collections across any category and preview them inline (demo & install guide; read more)

Theme component

In Theme component, jackierenee explored Discourse Category Headers customization and RGJ detailed recovery steps after compatibility mismatches (thread highlights; read more)

In Support, TeoStel reported missing reaction buttons and Moin pointed out the post-menu setting to resolve it in Reactions are not available (troubleshoot; read more)
In Support, Wurzelseppi asked about limiting AI personas and Falco showed the persona toggle in Is it possible to enable only one AI persona? (UI tip; read more)
In Support, JammyDodger and Heliosurge dissected granular email controls in Disabling Notification emails to Specific external user to help admins fine-tune user preferences (discussion; read more)
In Support, patrickemin discovered low PM view counts in Sent 560 PM, none is viewed and Moin clarified default PM email settings (solution; read more)

#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)

In Community, Quinirynilin sought ideas for a hyper-local solidarity economy forum and Bas explained group-based category permissions in Seeking Advice: making a discourse forum hyper local (group setup; read more)
In Community, Saif and merefield debated AI’s environmental trade-offs in AI-free Discourse, weighing green energy levies against utility savings (conversation; read more)

In Announcements, satonotdead praised the new Horizon theme and sam outlined how official components will support Horizon customizations in Introducing Horizon, our newest theme (theme guide; read more)

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)

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)

In Dev, nat guided NateDhaliwal through resetting branches and database requirements in Switch tracking branch in dev install? (git advice; read more)