Welcome to our AI-generated Daily Summary topic! (5:00 AM Edition)
This is the topic where a daily summary of meta’s activity is collated by our good friend Bert, and posted here so everyone can get a rundown of some of the top discussions over the past 24 hours.
To account for our global audience, we have three editions (this one, Daily Summary (9pm UTC), and Daily Summary (1pm UTC)), which fire at different times of the day so you can get one at a time most convenient to you. All of them cover the last 24 hours (respectively), so the main difference is when they land.
If you’d like to get a ping whenever a new one is posted just set this topic to Watching (and if you change your mind, change it back ).
Feedback is certainly welcome. We’ll be tweaking and refining the idea as we go, so all input is encouraged. We do have a separate topic for that so as to keep this one just for summaries. You can find that here - Daily Summary Feedback
Enjoy!
Small caveat… AI (even GPT-4) does hallucinate, it is unavoidable. Don’t treat everything it says as truth, as there will likely be some lies mixed in. We’ll try to manually correct any if we spot them, but still… keep an eye out.
A user encountered issues trying to install the Discourse No Bump plugin via the admin interface. JammyDodger clarified that it’s a plugin rather than a theme component and provided instructions on how to properly install it.
A user asked about creating a documentation theme similar to the one used by Discourse. david explained that the theme component is still under active development and not yet ready for general use.
ckshen reported recent Onebox issues with certain sites like New York Times and Washington Post. martin explained that oneboxing for paywalled sites is generally not supported.
A user asked about creating multiple communities for different clients. The community suggested hosting separate Discourse instances for each client instead of trying to manage multiple communities within a single instance.
Users reported issues with oneboxing for certain links, particularly from news sites with paywalls. joffreyjaffeux suggested there may be enough information in the page source to show something, even for paywalled content.
A user encountered problems with the admin panel, receiving an error page when trying to access it. The issue was resolved by removing an outdated sitemap plugin from the app.yml file.
hellekin raised concerns about the recent Terms of Service changes, suggesting that a link to the changes and a feedback mechanism should be provided when users are required to accept new terms. Several users agreed, with awesomerobot clarifying that the changes were minor and providing details on the updates. read more
Eugene49 sought assistance in using a custom domain for their Discourse-hosted forum, particularly to bypass access restrictions. pfaffman provided guidance on DNS configuration. read more
A user asked about implementing a black theme on their community. Lilly responded, noting that the community’s previous response to this request seemed reasonable.
Aaron_Walsh inquired about updating terms of service on the Discourse platform. They later confirmed successfully adding it through the confirmation part of user fields.
thoka proposed an idea for improving multilingual translations by using a single YAML file for all translations, seeking feedback on potential benefits and drawbacks.
Lilly responded to a user’s request for a black theme implementation, explaining that the community’s previous response seemed reasonable and unrelated to implementation time.
JammyDodger offered guidance on creating custom automations in the Discourse Automation plugin, pointing to the developer’s guide for more information.
A user sought guidance on installing a black theme for their community. bryce provided a detailed explanation of the difference between themes and color schemes in Discourse, and how to achieve a dark mode.
A user reported issues with chat messages not showing up unless they refresh or switch channels, indicating potential synchronization problems in the chat feature.
bryce provided a detailed explanation about themes and color schemes in Discourse, helping a user understand how to achieve a dark mode for their community.
An issue was reported regarding bad MF translation strings in Hebrew causing fatal site errors. The development team is actively working on resolving this problem.
Users encountered inconsistencies in plural definition across different languages, which is being tracked and addressed by the development team.
There was a discussion about using Gravatar for avatar management and a suggestion to implement Gravatar’s new Quick Editor feature for easier avatar updates.
Full30 raised a question about why old topics are closed and whether this practice is beneficial. angus explained the importance of keeping new issues separate for proper problem-solving, while JammyDodger discussed the auto-bump feature and its potential alternatives.
A discussion emerged about making moderator actions publicly viewable to potentially deter or correct user behavior. ondrej suggested focusing on effective moderation rather than public shaming.
angus introduced the new Journal Plugin, which allows turning a Discourse topic into a one-to-many journal where one user can post entries that other users comment on.
pfaffman encountered trouble with eslint in a new plugin. Alteras explained the issue was related to the eslint config file format and provided guidance on resolving it.
Full30 expressed interest in the Landing Pages Plugin but raised concerns about its long-term viability. cabidop assured ongoing maintenance and support for the plugin.
Users reported an infinite-loading loop issue with the new topic map. david explained that a fix had been implemented but was not yet deployed to Meta. The issue was causing continuous scrolling and loading of posts.
Thomas_Rother reported missing setting options for the ActivityPub plugin after upgrading. pmusaraj clarified that the settings had been moved to a different location in the admin UI.
Small caveat… AI (even GPT-4) does hallucinate, it is unavoidable. Don’t treat everything it says as truth, as there will likely be some lies mixed in. We’ll try to manually correct any if we spot them, but still… keep an eye out.
