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Key Stats

• New posts: 51
  New topics: 10

• Top Users:

  • Moin (11 posts, 20 likes)
  • RGJ (4 posts, 18 likes)
  • david (4 posts, 15 likes)
  • mcwumbly (2 posts, 12 likes)
  • Thomas_Rother (1 post, 6 likes)
  • pfaffman (2 posts, 5 likes)
  • JammyDodger (2 posts, 4 likes)
  • Richie (2 posts, 3 likes)
  • chapoi (2 posts, 3 likes)
  • awesomerobot (1 post, 2 likes)

Interesting Topics

Announcements

• mcwumbly unveiled Release v2025.11.0: AI translations improvements, chat search, new review queue, and improvements for posts with images, introducing localized search blurbs, author-driven translations, and chat-channel search—building on the RFC: A new versioning strategy for Discourse.

• Community members debated image quoting sizes in Let’s talk about pictures, quoting pictures in Discourse, suggesting scaling quoted images to thumbnails and relying on the lightbox for full-size viewing.

Dev

• Alexandre_Gurgel1 explored how to programmatically obtain cookies for a user or a ‘user-api-key’ without browser redirects in How can I obtain cookies for a user or a ‘user-api-key’ without requiring user interaction or browser redirects?.

Support

• Welsh_Selkie sought help previewing a custom signup modal offline in Total newbie struggling to preview the signup modal with my test theme, receiving advice to spin up a GitHub Codespace via Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces or use a live-edge trial.

• Richie removed the new Anniversaries menu item in How do I remove the Anniversaries option from the burger menu? by disabling the cakeday plugin, with CSS-based hiding tips in the sidebar configuration guide.

• miguelbemartin learned to add custom links to the user dropdown via the plugin-API in Add new item to user dropdown menu, following the customizing-themes-without-an-edit-code-button guide.

• Tealk investigated whether topic starters can reopen their own closed threads in Is there any workaround to let topic starters reopen their own closed topics?, with pointers to the Topic OP Moderation plugin.

• nordize proposed a URL-hash hack for direct editing links in Is there a way to link directly to the editing screen?, envisioning a theme component that triggers in-place editing on load.

Plugin

• RGJ introduced the Discourse Time Registration plugin for integrated time-tracking, referencing the install-plugins-in-discourse guide.

General

• Thomas_Rother gauged interest for an informal meetup of Discourse operators at the 39th CCC Congress in Hamburg (27–30 Dec 2025) in Discourse Meetup at CCC Congress in Hamburg?, pointing to the official CCC event page.

Theme component

• Moin demonstrated building a Messages section for the sidebar in Messages section for sidebar, noting missing support for get badgeText() and linking to the sidebar configuration guide.

Bug

• RGJ reported that published pages ignore theme-set --font-family variables in Published pages do not use theme-set --font-family and --header-font-family; nat confirmed it’s a load-order issue in the site_settings.yml.

Feature

• JammyDodger requested per-post Overrides for ignored-user content in Allow “Ignored content” to be temporarily overrided per-post, linking back to viewability of hidden topic text from an ignored user.

Marketplace

• doubleshot offered a paid consult for Google Ad Manager ads setup in Paid consult for ads plugin setup, until nat moved the discussion into Marketplace in post 2.

#Site Management

• typed-sigterm asked about manual and automatic group/title localization with Discourse AI in Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI, echoing the AI translation enhancements from the v2025.11.0 release.

Activity by the @team Group

• mcwumbly kicked things off with Release v2025.11.0: AI translations improvements, chat search, new review queue, and improvements for posts with images, detailing new features and plugin fixes.

• david added further context on that release in post 7 and updated progress on the RFC: A new versioning strategy for Discourse.

• chapoi provided CSS-based advice to preview a theme’s signup modal offline in post 4 of the signup modal topic.

• awesomerobot showed how to remove the Anniversaries link by disabling the plugin in post 2 of the burger menu topic.

• Lilly clarified what “cakeday” means in post 6 of the same thread.

• yuriy confirmed the fix for the category-dropdown search bug in Search in category drop-down missing.

• nat acknowledged the CSS bug report on Published pages not using theme-set variables and moved the ads plugin consultation request to Marketplace in post 2 of Paid consult for ads plugin setup.

And on a lighter note, our community moved faster than a caffeinated puppy chasing its tail yesterday—no real puppies were harmed!