Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- New posts: 125
- New topics: 18
- Top users (posts | likes):
- lindsey (4 | 18)
- Moin (14 | 13)
- Falco (7 | 12)
- NateDhaliwal (8 | 8)
- jordan.vidrine (1 | 8)
- pmusaraj (1 | 5)
- putty (2 | 5)
- Harrison_Johnson (1 | 5)
- Arkshine (1 | 4)
- awesomerobot (2 | 4)
Interesting Topics
Announcements
- lindsey introduced the October Current Projects newsletter with details on an admin-area revamp, Feature image grid support in the new RTE, a simplified UX topics list, and an updated lightbox. read more
blog
- jordan.vidrine shared how the Discourse design team “dog-fooded” the Horizon theme via a design-driven development process in the companion blog discussion.
Bug
- The category-groups theme component broke homepage navigation after the latest update; Arkshine’s PR was merged by awesomerobot to restore category visibility. read more
- Topics merged via the UI stopped bumping; christo provided a fix PR that’s now awaiting merge. read more
- Moderators received incorrect silenced-user reasons in emails (it cited flags, not “typing too fast”); the issue has been acknowledged for correction. read more
- After upgrading to 3.6.0.beta2, AI embedding errors were flooding logs nightly—this traced to a disabled ProblemChecks routine. read more
- The new RTE editor errored on LaTeX (
$…$) content (“Token type html_raw not supported”); plans are underway to support Katex in RTE. read more
Community
- A surge of Mastodon agents in the Web Crawler report sparked discussion on whether federated link-preview crawlers should be grouped by origin. read more
- Community site owners reported a worldwide traffic dip after Google’s October 2025 update, with non-US traffic up and US traffic down 56%. read more
- A user discovered an interface that auto-translates every post into a selected language (via Discourse AI); they’re seeking source or plugin for this Feature. read more
Support
- A newcomer asked how to enable Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages; Moin and NateDhaliwal guided them through the
company_namesetting and Staff category. read more - A French admin couldn’t find the “Set Topic Timer” option in v3.6.0.beta2; Moin pointed out it lives in the topic menu, not the post menu. read more
- Users bypassed watchwords (
*discord*,*tampermonkey*) by injecting broken HTML tags; the crude nature of watched words was highlighted. read more - Several communities saw digest/email summaries fail despite eligibility; time-based checks in the delivery query may be the culprit. read more
UX
- Searching with no non-AI results locked out the “Enable AI results” switch; the suggestion is to force “Relevance” sort when toggling AI search. read more
Activity by the @team Group
- lindsey kicked off the Current Projects post, outlining upcoming admin and UX improvements.
- Falco clarified AI search toggling and confirmed Mistral AI compatibility in the same Current Projects thread.
- jordan.vidrine launched the Horizon theme article discussion in How We Built Horizon….
- awesomerobot merged the fix for the category-groups component and confirmed it in Category Group component malfunction.
- awesomerobot also noted draft-saving edge cases in Draft auto-save improvements.
- christo shared and tracked the PR addressing the Merged topics bumping issue.
- tobiaseigen elaborated on translation support and applauded Enit’s AI memory project in Grok integration troubleshooting.
- pmusaraj explained the nature of Mastodon link-preview crawlers in Web Crawler user agents.
- mcwumbly suggested handling quick fixes vs. long-term UX tracking in Invite auto-join group issue.
- renato investigated and requested a minimal repro for the LaTeX error in RTE in RTE editor failure with LaTeX.
- chapoi pinpointed the Theme Creator setting controlling text previews in Text-Preview on Cards.
- Falco addressed per-category limitations in the Content Localization manual & AI.
Keep your drafts safe, your categories visible, and your AI search toggles at the ready—see you tomorrow for more meta adventures!