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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 83
  • New Topics: 6

Top Contributors:

  1. CocoQuark (9 likes, 6 posts)
  2. LotusJeff (8 likes, 4 posts)
  3. Ed_S (6 likes, 7 posts)
  4. Jagster (5 likes, 1 posts)
  5. md-misko (4 likes, 2 posts)

Interesting Topics

Support Category

Bug Category

UX Category

  • Discussion continued on Events display issues where standalone events showed “0 going” unnecessarily.

Theme Category

  • Fma965 provided feedback on the FKB Pro Social theme, requesting an option to prevent layout readjustment when the sidebar is hidden.

Dev Category

#Self-Hosting Category

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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Interesting Topics

Bug

  • MihirR reported a user profile click issue in the chat window where clicking on usernames causes the interface to turn blank. rishabh confirmed the issue can be reproduced on Firefox (MacOS).

  • Users are experiencing segmentation faults during assets:precompile with mini_racer.rb, with hellekin noting undefined method errors for salt and theme modifiers.

Support

UX

Feature

  • rishabh responded positively to a suggestion for adding graphs of cheers, comparing it to GitHub’s profile heatmap functionality.

Dev

  • Don provided detailed CSS examples for customizing avatar placement within topic bodies.

Installation

Plugin

Community

Praise

  • BrianC shared heartfelt wishes for 2025, expressing appreciation for both the Discourse product and community.

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 61
  • New Topics: 7

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

UX

Support

Plugin

  • In the Discourse Yearly Review thread, users discussed handling AI personas in yearly reviews, with Moin noting that AI users have negative IDs which may prevent their inclusion.

Theme

  • Users discussing the FKB Pro - Social theme functionality, with Moin providing insights about changes in the glimmer topic list implementation.

Installation

General

  • MihirR shared a new Welcome Banner design inspired by the Discourse hiring banner, featuring responsive design and smooth transitions.

#Site Management

  • Discussion about AI bot custom tools emphasizing the importance of clear tool explanations in system prompts.

#Integrations

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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Support

UX

Feature

#Integrations

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 80
  • New Topics: 13

Top Contributors:

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Bug

Support

Feature

Praise

Plugin

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • New Posts: 77
  • New Topics: 13

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Feature Category

Support Category

Bug Category

UX Category

Theme Component Category

Activity by the @team Group

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Key Stats

  • New Posts: 62
  • New Topics: 10

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • Saif introduced a new Smart dates feature for Helper, which helps convert text related to time and date into Discourse-friendly timezone-supported dates.

Support

Bug

UX

#Site Management

Theme Component

Community

#Site Feedback

Feature

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 82
  • New Topics: 11

Top Contributors:

  1. CocoQuark (12 likes, 9 posts)
  2. Lilly (10 likes, 5 posts)
  3. a2937 (9 likes, 7 posts)
  4. pfaffman (8 likes, 4 posts)
  5. Moin (7 likes, 1 posts)

Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • Saif provided an update on the AI date writing helper, noting the importance of verifying AI outputs, particularly for special dates and holidays.

Bug

Support

UX

Plugin

  • Multiple users reported issues with the Yearly Review plugin not automatically generating reviews on New Year’s Day.

  • The Locations Plugin discussion continued with users seeking help with map marker limitations.

Activity by the @team Group

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Key Stats

  • New Posts: 103
  • New Topics: 12
  • Top Users:

Interesting Topics

Feature

Support

Bug

  • An ongoing discussion about titles not being localized in the community health dashboard graphs received attention from the team.

UX

#Translations

Dev

Theme Component

Activity by the @team Group

sam was particularly active, providing insights on several topics:

tgxworld provided technical assistance:

martin contributed to:

pento engaged in:

Falco participated in:

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Interesting Topics

Support

  • A user sought help with hiding themselves from the /u page, leading to a discussion about privacy settings and user directory visibility. The solution involved disabling the user directory feature and using the leaderboard as an alternative.

  • An interesting discussion about WYSIWYG editing revealed that Discourse is actively developing a rich text composer using ProseMirror’s library, with lindsey sharing a preview of the upcoming feature.

  • Users reported issues with emoji rendering when emojis are placed directly after words, with supermathie providing a detailed technical explanation of the post cooker behavior.

Bug

Feature

UX

Dev

Community

  • A discussion about proper category usage explored strategies for helping users select appropriate categories for their posts.

Theme Component

Activity by the @team Group

lindsey provided updates on the new WYSIWYG editor development, confirming it will coexist with the current markdown editor and explaining the implementation using ProseMirror.

supermathie investigated and explained the technical details behind emoji rendering issues, providing example tests and analysis of the post cooker behavior.

Lilly helped redirect users to the 2024 Year in Review post and assisted with category organization.

tobiaseigen participated in discussions about GitHub Codespaces development and theme testing.

Saif reported a text selection issue and provided a video demonstration of the bug.

blake provided updates on RSS feed fixes and discussed subscription plugin functionality.

nat shared insights about onebox implementation.

martin contributed to translation improvements for the community health dashboard.

gerhard discussed the challenges of translating setting names and the reasoning behind keeping them in English.

sam provided information about upcoming scroll behavior improvements.

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Key Stats

  • New Posts: 107
  • New Topics: 13
  • Top Users:

Interesting Topics

Support

UX

Community

  • An insightful discussion about category management featured noahl sharing how they simplified their forum structure from 16 categories to just 3, resulting in increased engagement.

Feature

Bug

#Site feedback

Theme component

Plugin

  • Discussion continued on the Locations Plugin, with merefield clarifying that new features need sponsorship or community contributions.

#Self-Hosting

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 83
  • New Topics: 11

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

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Bug

UX

Feature

Praise

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 138
  • New Topics: 21

Top Contributors:

  • sam (13 posts, 11 likes)
  • angus (11 posts, 9 likes)
  • david (4 posts, 8 likes)
  • Osama (2 posts, 8 likes)
  • Moin (3 posts, 7 likes)

Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • Osama announced a new bulk user deletion feature for staff members to help handle spam waves more effectively. The feature allows staff to bulk select and delete multiple user accounts directly from the admin users list.

Support

Bug

UX

#DEVELOPERS

Installation

Marketplace

Feature

General

#ADMINISTRATORS

#SITE-MANAGEMENT

  • Discussion about AI triage automation continued, with sam suggesting potential improvements to avoid requiring multiple automations for category classification.

#HOSTING

  • Users shared experiences with various hosting providers, with recent discussion focusing on German hosting options and their pricing.

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 144
  • New Topics: 18
  • Top Users:

Interesting Topics

UX

Bug

Support

Feature

Dev

Activity by the @team Group

awesomerobot was particularly active, addressing several UI/UX issues including:

sam contributed to several technical discussions:

zogstrip worked on:

supermathie offered support on:

david engaged in discussions about:

Saif provided clarification on:

pmusaraj helped troubleshoot:

lindsey acknowledged UX improvement needs for:

isaac fixed issues with:

nat provided technical explanations about:

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 129
  • New Topics: 16

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Support

Bug

UX

Feature

Theme component

Migration

Dev

Announcements

#Site feedback

  • Changes to the META Terms of Service were explained, with suggestions for improving the change notification system.

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • New Posts: 118
  • New Topics: 18

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Dev

  • david introduced an exciting new Discourse developer toolbar featuring one-click access to commonly-needed developer tools, including plugin outlet debugging capabilities.

UX

Bug

Support

Feature

#Site Management

Marketplace

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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Bug

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Installation

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#Data & reporting

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 149
  • New Topics: 18

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Support

  • A user sought help with AI-powered forum assistance, expressing concerns about the AI bot’s ability to process detailed content from newsletters and Q&As.

  • Discussion around database cleaning tools and methods to remove extra configuration data while preserving content and site settings.

  • Questions raised about configuring notifications when users aren’t receiving expected email alerts despite proper system logs.

Installation

Dev

Bug

UX

  • Request to address missing translations in the Badge Editor interface, particularly for badge types and group settings.

Community

  • Discussion about handling forum rule breaches and dealing with users redirecting members to other forums.

#Translations

Marketplace

  • Request for assistance with AI bot improvements to enhance response quality and context understanding.

Activity by the @team Group

supermathie provided guidance on database backup automation and clarified that Discourse staff won’t intervene in forum disputes.

tobiaseigen updated the 2024 translators list and acknowledged a correction in the contributors’ information.

joffreyjaffeux announced a fix for chat video issues with a new commit.

blake provided background information on video placeholder implementation in chat versus topics.

bryce updated documentation for the Right Sidebar Blocks component, adding the missing ‘period’ parameter.

pmusaraj shared updates about fixes for Firefox mobile reply composer issues.

featheredtoast provided guidance on handling gem compile-time dependencies during rebuilds.

sam confirmed a deploy to address AI-powered spam detection issues.

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • New Posts: 59
  • New Topics: 10

Top Contributors:

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Dev

UX

Community

Theme component

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • New Posts: 71
  • New Topics: 7

Top Contributors:

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Activity by the @team Group

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