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Interesting Topics

  • Bug – Calendar broken after 3.5.0.beta2 upgrade:
    icaria36 reported that after upgrading to 3.5.0.beta2 the forum calendar stopped working, and david quickly jumped in, merging a fix and suggesting further permission tweaks.

  • Plugin – Locations Plugin :earth_africa::
    In the Locations Plugin thread, merefield and dsims exchanged ideas on handling styling issues with maps; a reverted change and subsequent patch led to restored outlets and a cheer for Locations on Topics.

  • Bug – Solved topic cannot be loaded:
    Don raised an error when loading solved topics, and a discussion ensued—Arkshine and david investigated while nat confirmed that a fix was successfully merged (read more).

  • Support – Is iOS 18 a requirement for Discourse?
    Misunderstandings around iOS support were cleared up by Bruce5051, merefield, and pmusaraj who clarified that the minimum supported version is now iOS 16 (read more).

  • UX – Prevent words in logos being detected as text:
    Richie sparked a conversation when he questioned Safari’s behavior, and supermathie along with Arkshine suggested CSS tweaks to disable unwanted text interpretation (read more).

  • Bug – Unable to create new Personas:
    MachineScholar encountered an error during persona creation; thanks to the prompt response from sam and a follow-up fix by joffreyjaffeux, the issue was resolved (read more).

  • Marketplace – New Host For My Discourse Site:
    danabrig sought hosting assistance, and with help from RGJ and a tip from pfaffman, potential hosting solutions were discussed (read more).

  • UX – Discourse.org/features: ‘awes’ not ‘awesome’:
    NateDhaliwal noticed a quirky typo on the features page which prompted awesomerobot to acknowledge and fix the issue in record time (read more).

  • Dev – Theme components are not overriding theme CSS any more?:
    A moment of levity struck when RGJ admitted to a misunderstanding in CSS load-order, leaving a note for future reference in this thread (read more).

  • Bug – The “button” HTML5 tag renders in the editor previewer, but not in rendered posts:
    david and Jagster debated whether this was an upstream issue or a feature proposal, hinting at future enhancements for button support (read more).

  • Bug – Unable to grant admin rights due to error:
    After a confusing renaming of a system group, hannes_e provided a command-line fix while sam added commentary on preventing such states in the UI (read more).

  • Support – ERROR RecordNotUnique on index_discourse_solved_solved_topics_on_answer_post_id:
    A duplicate key error during a migration saw thoka and fhe collaborate to apply a patch that resolved the issue (read more).

  • UX – Simpler and faster Category Settings page:
    alltiagocom proposed a more streamlined view for managing category permissions, with RGJ explaining the underlying redundancy in group settings (read more).

  • Support – Backups - which email?:
    When Olle11 couldn’t receive backup emails, guidance from RGJ and pfaffman helped clarify email settings and server configuration (read more).

  • Bug – Setting to manually close AI Helper’s popup modal:
    Responding to user feedback, keegan moved the modal issue to the bug category and pushed out a fix—leaving users with a smoother AI Helper experience (read more).

Activity by the @team Group

What a day! Yesterday’s lively discussions and rapid-fire fixes had the @team cracking code and sharing brilliant insights—here’s to more fun and smooth operations today!