Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- New posts: 75
- New topics: 10
- Top users (by likes / posts):
- Moin (20 likes / 7 posts)
- tobiaseigen (12 likes / 9 posts)
- JammyDodger (12 likes / 3 posts)
- Falco (9 likes / 2 posts)
- Discourse (6 likes / 1 post)
- fzngagan (6 likes / 1 post)
- Kartoon (4 likes / 1 post)
- pmusaraj (4 likes / 1 post)
- awesomerobot (4 likes / 2 posts)
- supermathie (3 likes / 2 posts)
Interesting Topics
#Site feedback
- In a thread on ai, related-topics, and suggested-topics, tobiaseigen proposed tweaking the “Suggested” vs “Related” links at the bottom of posts—disabling Discobot’s tutorial, appending
?silent=trueto welcome-topic links, and pruning outdated suggestions. Community feedback led Falco to disable the age-based penalty on related links read more.
- Following the “The end of community memory” blog post by Discourse, members debated whether long-term memory tools (wikis, Slack, Discord) can replace AI-driven retrospection, with perspectives from Kartoon and mcwumbly read more.
#Site Management
- fzngagan walked through adding an ai-friendly
llms.txtfile—covering topic upload, permalink setup, and visitinghttps://yoursite.com/llms.txtfor improved LLM crawling read more.
- In automation, putty and JammyDodger shared multi-step welcome-message schedules and referenced Hawk’s Swarm talk slides for personal onboarding DMs read more.
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awesomerobot debugged the llm_tagger automation plugin, clarifying that
"tags"must be an array and"confidence"an integer after JSON parse errors (#30871, #30972) read more read more. -
nat fixed a doc-categories / horizon-theme issue by confirming the
doc_categories:build_sidebarrake task must run as thediscourseuser to avoid database errors read more. -
martin refined bump logic so that title, tag, and category edits no longer surface topics-with-replies unexpectedly read more.
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In a keyboard / accessibility / keyboard-shortcuts bug, Lilly began investigating why
ctrl + enteropens search results in the same tab instead of a new one read more.
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On Nutzung von Nextcloud aus Discourse heraus, supermathie recommended using discourse-auth-proxy to sync Discourse groups with Nextcloud access read more.
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Moin guided moderators through assigning topics via curl or Python by pointing to the reverse-engineered API docs for the Assign plugin read more.
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Inquiries about automated welcomes led to advice on customizing Discobot messages and using the automation plugin to send DMs when users join Trust Level 0 read more.
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Members uncovered duplicated email templates with stale content and missing delete buttons, prompting further investigation read more.
- pmusaraj introduced the discourse-amazon-sns plugin for push notifications via Amazon SNS—covering device registration, AWS setup, and integration with Discourse’s notification system read more.
- Building on silent-link improvements, tobiaseigen requested that
?silent=truebe honored in oneboxes and quotes to keep test links from generating backlinks read more.
- tobiaseigen asked for more intuitive topic-timers UI shortcuts to auto-close and auto-delete topics after the last post, revisiting earlier PR discussions read more.
Activity by the @team Group
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tobiaseigen kicked off the #Site feedback adjustments to Suggested vs Related links, streamlining new-user journeys link.
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Falco disabled the age penalty on Related Topics after community feedback link.
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fzngagan authored the guide for adding an
llms.txtfile to aid LLM crawling link. -
awesomerobot troubleshot JSON parsing in the automation llm_tagger, clarifying array formatting for
tagsandconfidencelink, link. -
nat confirmed the correct user context for running the
doc_categories:build_sidebarrake task under the discourse user link. -
martin refined bump logic in edited topics to prevent unintended visibility spikes link.
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supermathie recommended discourse-auth-proxy to integrate Nextcloud access control with Discourse groups link.
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pmusaraj released the discourse-amazon-sns plugin for push notifications via Amazon SNS link.
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tobiaseigen proposed extending
?silent=truesupport to oneboxes and quotes for cleaner testing docs link. -
tobiaseigen also suggested UI improvements for topic-timers to auto-close and auto-delete, advancing faster moderation workflows link.
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Lilly began investigating the
ctrl + enterbehavior on search results to restore browser keybind functionality link. -
ted provided a progress update on fixing review-item generation when flags are resolved via “Take Action…” link.
That’s it for today’s recap—after 75 posts and 10 new topics, our Meta forum was busier than a beehive yesterday! ![]()