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Interesting Topics

Support

  • In What to do during bot raid?, sam warned about email-change loopholes in post #28 and chapoi proposed limiting changes to TL1 in post #29 to mitigate attacks. read more

  • Difficulty understanding the enable welcome banner setting saw martin trace a reactive UI glitch via the MessageBus code in post #9 and later dove into theme cache invalidation logic in post #12, post #14 and post #16. read more

  • Emails are no longer being sent to users prompted PFaffman to note DigitalOcean’s port 587 block in post #2 and itsbhanusharma clarified broader restrictions in post #3. read more

  • Bulk email without duplicates had EMHmark7 ask how to target overlapping groups/sub-categories without spamming users in post #1. read more

Dev

Feature

  • Allow group chat creators to remove others from the group chat kicked off with wings’ use-case in post #1 and lindsey moved it into a dedicated feature thread in post #2. read more

  • Newly-created “unlisted” Topics send “new topic” Notifications had Richie bump the thread in post #9 after approval settings still triggered alerts. read more

  • Categories bulk edition saw nathank query admin tools in post #5 and hellekin share a manual workaround in post #6. read more

UX

  • AI-bot header button title doesn’t always match its action featured sam acknowledging Moin’s report and awesomerobot’s ongoing fixes in post #3. read more

  • Header search disappears on login site settings was reproduced by Moin in post #1, highlighting an unintended hide logic in the login settings UI. read more

Bug

  • Published timestamps incorrect: date shown on topic vs date shown on user activity page saw NateDhaliwal report the mismatch in post #1 and sam confirm the extra date update needed in post #2. read more

  • People can mention group when mentioning is set to nobody had appeltaartje demonstrate unintended autocomplete in post #1, and Moin dug into visibility vs notification rules in post #5. read more

  • Chat API: page_size parameter is ignored when direction=past was narrowed to threaded channels by Nima1 in post #4. read more

#Extras

  • Webhook Telegram Bot – AI-Powered Discourse Notifications introduced by DigneZzZ in post #1, offering an OpenAI GPT-4.1-nano Telegram integration. repository | read more

#Site Management

  • Immediate actions you can take during a spam attack was refreshed by Moin referencing updated settings for fast typing thresholds in post #13. read more

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Stay pawsitive after yesterday’s bot-raid and caching rollercoaster – now go give your pup an extra treat! :paw_prints: