Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- New Posts: 137
- New Topics: 18
Top Users:
- Moin (18 likes, 9 posts)
- lindsey (16 likes, 2 posts)
- Arkshine (10 likes, 3 posts)
- Don (10 likes, 8 posts)
- Falco (9 likes, 6 posts)
- Jagster (9 likes, 6 posts)
- Discourse (8 likes, 1 posts)
- Lilly (6 likes, 4 posts)
- Roman_Rizzi (6 likes, 4 posts)
- pfaffman (5 likes, 13 posts)
Interesting Topics
Announcements
- lindsey announced the launch of new fullscreen signup and login pages which will provide a more streamlined experience for community members. The update will be rolled out across communities in the coming weeks.
Support
-
A significant issue with AI embeddings costs was reported by Don, where token usage unexpectedly increased to ~24 million per day. Roman_Rizzi identified and fixed a bug in the backfill code.
-
pfaffman encountered issues with Google auth across multiple sites, though the problem resolved itself after subsequent upgrades.
-
Discussion around hiding the presence feature continued, with zogstrip confirming that chat presence now respects the online/offline toggle.
Feature
-
hellekin proposed adding a “Regular mode” for admins to allow administrators to browse sites as normal users, helping them better understand the user experience.
-
There’s ongoing discussion about AI gists and short summaries on topic lists, with Saif noting they’re currently only available on Meta and select sites.
Dev
- Don shared progress on the F NAV theme component, adding new features like home icon changes and topic dot indicators.
Plugin
- martyn_thomas suggested improvements to the Discourse Doc Categories plugin, requesting support for grouping headings into sections for better layout organization.
Bug
-
Multiple reports about outdated Font Awesome icons in badge fixtures were noted by pfaffman.
-
An issue with tag groups visibility was resolved by changing to group categories.
Activity by the @team Group
-
lindsey led discussion about the new fullscreen login pages launch and engaged with the community about auto-grid feature controls.
-
Falco and Roman_Rizzi collaborated on investigating and fixing the AI embeddings cost issue.
-
Lilly provided support across multiple topics, including helping users with pinned banner access and reactions data.
-
maiki participated in discussions about AI Web Artifacts, sharing examples and use cases.
-
zogstrip implemented improvements to the presence feature in chat.
-
sam added priority tracking to the groups management UI issue.
-
tobiaseigen engaged in discussions about staff action logs and custom moderation flags.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again tomorrow! 