Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
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New posts: 67 (recent activity)
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New topics: 8 (new topics list)
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Top users:
- @Moin: 9 posts, 7 likes
- @mcwumbly: 4 posts, 5 likes
- @jenmck: 3 posts, 5 likes
- @pfaffman: 7 posts, 4 likes
- @Teafh: 2 posts, 4 likes
- @Roi: 8 posts, 2 likes
- @Arkshine: 1 post, 2 likes
- @Canapin: 3 posts, 2 likes
- @Anton_Akhmerov: 1 post, 2 likes
- @merefield: 1 post, 1 like
Interesting Topics
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Announcements The experimental review queue layout rolled out with new moderation workflows, prompting discussions on terminology and workflow flags. See the announcement and explore the #review-queue tag.
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#Site Management Deep dive into How Discourse ID works, clarifying setup and automatic key generation. Related troubleshooting thread: Discourse ID fails to activate on my instance.
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Community Exploring Using Discourse for courses in a university program, with category strategies and tag-based organization. See also Allow category moderators to create subcategories.
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Theme component Emoji Fluff theme component had a username autocomplete bug in chat; a fix was pushed. Also compare behavior with Gated Topics in Category.
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#Site Management Updates needed for Composer Popup Messages Guide after recent changes to education and onboarding messages. Etiquette reminder: Don’t mention PM team members.
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Support How to unflag/restore a post I as admin flagged—admins struggled to find the unhide option. Original solution: use the admin wrench.
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Support Network error on backup download—failures at 50% were traced to one-time links and resume issues. Related: Backup upload not working.
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Dev Assigning based on post content with Discourse Workflow AI swimlanes explored; see the Discourse Workflow plugin.
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Support How to Enable Email Notifications for PMs?—answers pointed to the Emails tab in Preferences and the #emails tag.
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#Self-Hosting Install plugins on a self-hosted site—admins asked about updates; community suggested migrating from retort to Reactions.
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Support Why my forum can’t be displayed on Google or Bing search results?—indexing tips and crawler settings discussed; see SEO concerns.
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UX Preferences → Interface → Skip new user onboarding tips and badges—requests to decouple badge notifications from tips for TL1+ users.
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Theme component Gated Topics in Category had questions about branding and script-blocking.
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Support Cannot any longer retrieve YouTube titles when pasting URLs—community looking for the regression cause.
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Bug Spurious notification when navigating away from review queue after adding note alerted moderators to a “You didn’t submit your changes!” dialog despite successful note submission.
Activity by the @team Group
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@mcwumbly engaged deeply in the review queue layout discussion—asking usage questions post #21 and suggesting “Assign” vs. “Claim” language post #24.
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@Lilly acknowledged feedback on the Composer Popup Messages Guide and will coordinate updates post #8.
Keep calm and keep flagging—yesterday’s 67 posts proved our community’s energy is unstoppable!