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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links at the bottom of posts—disabling Discobot’s tutorial, appending ?silent=true to welcome-topic links, and pruning outdated suggestions. Community feedback led Falco to disable the age-based penalty on related links read more.

blog

  • 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.txt file—covering topic upload, permalink setup, and visiting https://yoursite.com/llms.txt for improved LLM crawling read more.

Community

Bug

Support

  • On Nutzung von Nextcloud aus Discourse heraus, supermathie recommended using discourse-auth-proxy to sync Discourse groups with Nextcloud access read more.

  • Moin guided moderators through assigning topics via curl or Python by pointing to the reverse-engineered API docs for the Assign plugin read more.

  • 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.

  • Members uncovered duplicated email templates with stale content and missing delete buttons, prompting further investigation read more.

Plugin

  • 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.

Feature

  • Building on silent-link improvements, tobiaseigen requested that ?silent=true be honored in oneboxes and quotes to keep test links from generating backlinks read more.

UX

  • 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

  • tobiaseigen kicked off the #Site feedback adjustments to Suggested vs Related links, streamlining new-user journeys link.

  • Falco disabled the age penalty on Related Topics after community feedback link.

  • fzngagan authored the guide for adding an llms.txt file to aid LLM crawling link.

  • awesomerobot troubleshot JSON parsing in the automation llm_tagger, clarifying array formatting for tags and confidence link, link.

  • nat confirmed the correct user context for running the doc_categories:build_sidebar rake task under the discourse user link.

  • martin refined bump logic in edited topics to prevent unintended visibility spikes link.

  • supermathie recommended discourse-auth-proxy to integrate Nextcloud access control with Discourse groups link.

  • pmusaraj released the discourse-amazon-sns plugin for push notifications via Amazon SNS link.

  • tobiaseigen proposed extending ?silent=true support 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.

  • Lilly began investigating the ctrl + enter behavior 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! :honeybee: