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[Discourse]

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• 114 new posts and 15 new topics created in the past 24 hours.
• Top users by posts and likes:
  • sam: 15 posts, 25 likes
  • Moin: 10 posts, 13 likes
  • hugh: 2 posts, 9 likes
  • tgxworld: 3 posts, 9 likes
  • JammyDodger: 8 posts, 8 likes
  • merefield: 10 posts, 8 likes
  • Bas: 1 post, 7 likes
  • david: 6 posts, 6 likes
  • Sean_Dahlberg: 1 post, 6 likes
  • pfaffman: 2 posts, 5 likes

Interesting Topics

Announcements

• Event Chat Channels Now Available (calendar-and-event): sam announced dedicated chat channels for calendar events, automatically syncing attendees who mark “Going” or “Interested” with the event — read more

• 3.5.0.beta5: Improved admin search, AI forum research, easier site appearance configuration, and simpler plugin development (release-notes): hugh detailed admin search refinements and introduced the new Forum Researcher persona for the Discourse AI plugin — read more

Feature

• Date line should be human-readable in mails (email, calendar-and-event): sam proposed changing default email date format to friendly style and adding discourse_local_dates_email_timezone; Moin suggested using "llll z" to auto-display the correct timezone, which was merged — read more

• Why are weekly summary emails on by default? (activity-summary): refcherry and sam discussed making initial email settings clearer and debated default subscriptions to summary emails — read more

Installation

• POP3 polling settings (email-in): HenrysCat, JammyDodger, and Moin tracked down elusive POP3 and reply-by-email site settings under All Site Settings → Email, and discovered polling only works on port 995 — read more

Dev

• Toggling Visibility within a Topic connector (Dev): merefield proposed exposing toggleVisibility via a connector, and david suggested using this.args.model.toggleStatus("visible") to list/unlist topics without extra outlets — read more

Support

• Can’t delete topic without category (Support): steinjer used the Rails console to remove a stray topic after category deletion, with guidance from JammyDodger on safe console commands — read more

• What exactly is Let’s Encrypt email used for? (Support, letsencrypt): Willy asked about changes to email setup samples, and pfaffman confirmed templates and discourse-setup will stop including deprecated email options — read more

• Topic Summarization doesn’t work (Support, ai): Wurzelseppi found summary requests never reached an internal proxy, and Falco questioned the vLLM provider setting versus OpenAI compatibility — read more

Bug

• in:messages filter doesn’t update reliably in header (Bug): The message count in the header failed to refresh under certain conditions, leading tgxworld to move the report to Bug for deeper investigation — read more

• Update Error: “CopyAddGroupsToAbout ComponentSettings” SQL (Bug): A high-priority migration error was flagged by sam and scheduled for review within five business days due to its upgrade-blocking nature — read more

• Back button in theme component ‘edit code’ loads old themes and components (Bug): After noahl reported stale loads, kris.kotlarek fixed the issue with PR #32875 — read more

Site feedback

• How automated reports could help keeping Meta tidy (Site feedback): Moin explored a Data Explorer query to find fixed topics missing bug reporter badges, prompting discussion on automating badge grants — read more

Theme component

• Topic List Previews (TLP) (Theme component): Infinite-scroll layout broke grid sizing off-screen for Michael_König-Weichhardt, and merefield committed a JavaScript patch to restore stable previews — read more

wordpress

• The link to the comments community is missing from the WordPress article (wordpress): Petr_Mišák traced missing /update-topic-content hooks to plugin conflicts, and angus recommended isolating the culprit plugin for WP-Discourse sync — read more

Activity by the @team Group

• sam engaged in discussions on Event Chat Channels Now Available, Date line should be human-readable in mails, Topic Summarization doesn’t work , and Update Error: “CopyAddGroupsToAbout ComponentSettings” SQL.

• hugh rolled out 3.5.0.beta5: Improved admin search, AI forum research, easier site appearance configuration, and simpler plugin development and shared the stable 3.4.4: Bug fix and UX release.

• tgxworld elaborated on 3.5.0.beta5: Improved admin search… and plugin updates in 3.4.4: Bug fix and UX release.

• Bas clarified compatibility with the livestream plugin on Event Chat Channels Now Available.

• david reviewed connector patterns in Toggling Visibility within a Topic connector and cookie naming strategies in Add path to cookie.

• Roman_Rizzi bumped examples limits on AI-person’s examples are limited to 100 chars.

• Danielle supplied the requested slide deck for Webinar: Growing and Retaining Your Community.

• Falco debugged the missing summarization request in Topic Summarization doesn’t work .

• kris.kotlarek patched the edit-code back-button issue in Back button in theme component ‘edit code’ loads old themes and components.

Keep those tails wagging—Meta’s been bustling, and even our virtual pups need a nap after all this!