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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_name setting 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

Keep your drafts safe, your categories visible, and your AI search toggles at the ready—see you tomorrow for more meta adventures!

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Interesting Topics

UX

  • UX supermathie flagged that Admin pages should be full width, proposing a CSS tweak to expand the admin interface to 100% width, echoing related feedback on Email logs overflow admin-container requiring horizontal scroll read more and read more.

Theme component

  • Theme component: In Discourse Category Headers theme component, ToddZ praised NateDhaliwal’s 55 commits and merge of read-more/less for descriptions, and jrgong suggested adding a chevron icon for intuitive toggling read more.

Support

  • Support Where do I edit pre-built replies saw Helga_Razinkova locate pre-built messages under Site texts after a 15-minute search to edit the welcome post read more.

Community gdpr privacy

  • Community With gdpr and privacy in focus, Bas unveiled the Safe by Design white paper on protecting community privacy, sparking questions on ad blockers and document access read more.

#Site feedback

Theme component topic-filter

Theme official horizon-theme

  • Theme In Horizon Theme, nathank inquired about a full-width layout versus the default corseted width, and chapoi clarified the design choice for optimal reading length read more.

Dev

  • Dev I want to share plugin on github, do I have to add any license file? saw elmuerte outline GPL v2-compatible licenses for Discourse plugins and debate on GPL v3 compatibility read more.

Bug shared-edits

  • Bug The Shared Edits plugin gives 500 errors and can lose data, with nathank suggesting composer updates and tobiaseigen testing reproducibility in both rich-text and markdown editors read more.

Support

Support rest-api

  • Support How to logout user by api was solved by adopilot after discovering HTTPS was required, complete with a C# form-data snippet for /admin/users/{id}/log_out read more.

Support embedding

#Site feedback meta-theme-feedback

  • #Site feedback: Meta theme has extra spacing on mobile, with tobiaseigen highlighting iPhone spacing discrepancies between Meta Branded and Foundation themes read more.

Bug subfolder

  • Bug Serve Discourse from a subfolder, Login redirects to root path saw truman report redirect loops and pmusaraj jump in to investigate path handling read more.

Feature

  • Feature Allow the Latin case of a username to be modified had rokejulianlockhart question case-insensitive uniqueness rules and reference external examples on LibreOffice’s forum read more.

Activity by the @team Group

  • supermathie initiated the UX discussion on Admin pages should be full width with a 5-like CSS proposal read more.
  • Bas shared the Community white paper Safe by Design to drive conversations on privacy-by-design read more.
  • tobiaseigen streamlined Site feedback by retiring the old theme-feedback category and rehoming its topics under meta-theme-feedback read more.
  • pmusaraj responded in the Bug Serve Discourse from a subfolder thread to troubleshoot login-redirect edge cases read more.
  • tgxworld resolved the Bug Error in logs related to twitter_login with a merged fix to prevent log errors read more.
  • j.jaffeux contributed to the UX discussion on Start a new DM in sidebar for users who cannot use DMs, improving sidebar clarity read more.
  • keegan clarified configuration on #Site Management Discourse AI - Sentiment, explaining that threshold scores aren’t user-configurable read more.
  • chapoi weighed in on width preferences in the Theme Horizon Theme discussion to uphold design consistency read more.
  • christo merged the fix on Bug Merged topics are no longer being bumped, restoring expected bump behavior read more.

That’s a wrap—may your interfaces be as smooth as our CSS tweaks!