Sommario quotidiano (5:00 UTC)

Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats


Interesting Topics

Feature

  • hellekin proposed cross-instance quoting via ActivityPub-style transclusion to embed source attribution across forums in Discourse Transclusion (Quote across Discourse instances) read more.

  • ondrej suggested bulk selection for personal messages to streamline inbox management (bulk-actions, personal-messages) in Expand bulk select to personal messages for non staff users read more.

  • nathank advocated for richer event oneboxes that surface date, time, and description by hooking into calendar cards (onebox, calendar-and-event) in Better Oneboxes for Events read more.

  • elmuerte outlined a GitHub Actions workflow to auto-retest plugins on Discourse core updates, proposing compatibility badges for transparency (staff-experience, dev-xp) in Give Plugin versions for minimum and maximum discourse version read more.

  • sunjam and hellekin revisited email tagging syntax, weighing the brittleness of +address schemes versus a tags: header (email, pr-welcome) in Add tags by email read more.

Support

  • saish asked how to configure custom homepages without JavaScript, and awesomerobot walked through enabling "custom-homepage": true and adjusting preferences in How to replace/override homepage template read more.

  • emonunix opened best practices for zero-downtime Discourse maintenance, with pfaffman recommending multi-container or blue/green deploys and merefield highlighting migration strategies in How to Perform Major Discourse Maintenance with Minimal Downtime? read more.

  • AntiMetaman sought spam-fighting advice and awesomerobot pointed to manual first-post review, IP banning, and the Tips for Preventing Spam guide in Anti Spam Recommendations for Forum? read more.

  • tknospdr investigated ticketing reports, and merefield shared his Discourse Workflow audit/dashboard reports in Relevant reports for Discourse as a ticket system? (dashboard-reports) read more.

  • patrickemin couldn’t find the ellipsis menu for hidden post actions, and Moin showed how to restore it by adjusting “post menu” settings in Ellipsis button no longer visible for posts actions (solved) read more.

  • Mira_Iranpour posted a $30 email-setup gig and jahan_gagan reached out via PM to assist in Email configuration – fixed read more.

  • pnorman reported old-browser redirects breaking content, and david confirmed topics should display behind the banner, requesting screenshots in Link for old browsers doesn’t work on old browsers read more.

Bug

UX

  • saish built a custom composer but ran into lag with <select> loading and linked editors; community experts weighed in on isolating tag-chooser and decoupling d-editor in Custom composer – Issue with tag-chooser and d-editor read more.

Activity by the @team Group

  • chapoi explained why the fixed tag is preferred in Bug workflows during Enable the solution plugin for the Bug category view post.

  • awesomerobot guided saish on custom-homepage modifiers in How to replace/override homepage template view post, advised AntiMetaman on spam strategies in Anti Spam Recommendations for Forum? view post, and helped viswanatha debug LLM persona issues in Custom LLMs-Job exception view post.

  • david confirmed content rendering behind the unsupported-browser banner in Link for old browsers doesn’t work on old browsers view post.

  • tobiaseigen chimed in on cross-instance quoting in Cross-Discourse Quoting view post.

  • j.jaffeux shared a theme component demo to prevent modal input page jumps in Modal input fields cause page jump to top of the page view post.

  • supermathie dug into favicon mismatches across multisite roots using curl examples in How to use .ico favicons correctly in Discourse multisite? view post.

  • Roman recommended switching to a tool-enabled persona for forum searches in Custom LLMs-Job exception view post.

  • tshenry updated the Theme component for category previews and teased a fix in Category Previews view post.


After all that quoting, deployment magic, and theme tinkering, even our metaphorical puppies get a well-deserved break—stay pawsome!