Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- New posts: 87
- New topics: 10
- Top users (by likes / posts):
- tobiaseigen (13 likes, 3 posts)
- martin (8 likes, 4 posts)
- featheredtoast (8 likes, 5 posts)
- lspector (7 likes, 3 posts)
- Lhc_fl (6 likes, 1 post)
- Moin (4 likes, 5 posts)
- Steve_John (4 likes, 3 posts)
- chapoi (4 likes, 2 posts)
- Alteras (4 likes, 1 post)
- Jagster (3 likes, 4 posts)
Interesting Topics
Announcements
- tobiaseigen launched the Discourse community survey in Announcements, clarifying the term “Meta” vs “Discourse community” for non-regulars and inviting broader feedback. read more
Dev
- Steve_John reported change detection woes in a Glimmer component’s
@trackedarray—mutating objects didn’t trigger re-render. Alteras and awesomerobot suggested wrapping items in tracked classes or usingtrackedObjectto solve it. read more - An unexpected error in Discourse Plugin CI was traced by NateDhaliwal and merefield to ActiveRecord calls in
after_initialize; migrating the logic to a scheduled job cleared the failure. read more - keegan outlined a step-by-step on how to add per-user CSS in a plugin via
api.addSaveableUserOptionField, enabling dynamic user style preferences. read more
Installation
- A decade-long self-hosted admin asked why launcher cleanup isn’t part of rebuilds; featheredtoast explained container/image rotation practices and recommended cron-based
docker system prunealternatives. read more - harishg33 sought to trim the ~2 GB Discourse Docker image; featheredtoast pointed to an ongoing slim-image initiative aimed at removing unused dependencies. read more
- Headless troubleshooted mounting Docker volumes when moving a Discourse instance to a new server, gathering best-practices for container storage and volume binding. read more
Support
- lspector found the rich text editor awkward for LaTeX and rediscovered the default composition mode toggle to restore Markdown + preview for math. read more
- Salama kicked off the Discobot New User Tutorial and Moin plus chapoi guided the steps to start, respond, and bookmark the course. read more
- A recent update caused the BBCode plugin to display raw
[color]and[url]tags until the editor is switched mid-post, as discovered in this thread. read more - Ed_S and jahan_gagan debugged why certain YouTube videos won’t embed on some sites—checking
allowed_onebox_iframesandallowed_iframessettings resolved it. read more - A community-builder asked how to structure a practitioner directory with form-style intake; solutions pointed to Site feedback’s form templates and topic templates per category. read more
Bug
- rjmccall reported that the rich text editor breaks macOS/iOS text replacements (e.g. custom
adf →links); the workaround is to hit the Markdown toggle. read more - Non-staff members were blocked from creating calendar events due to
allowedGroups=trust_level_0; kris.kotlarek removed that filter, restoring public event creation. read more - Lhc_fl uncovered a Markdown composer bug where
something**loses the initial characters on bold, and submitted a PR to fix textarea-text-manipulation.js. read more
Activity by the @team Group
- tobiaseigen announced and clarified the Discourse community survey to broaden feedback beyond Meta regulars.
- martin merged and deployed a fix for the enable welcome banner setting in this thread.
- featheredtoast guided the discussion on launcher cleanup and contributed to slimming the Docker image via the slim-image PR.
- chapoi provided the step by step solution in the Discobot tutorial thread.
- sam shared thoughts on consolidating Bug vs UX categories in the categorization discussion.
- awesomerobot explained why array reference tracking alone won’t catch object property changes in the Glimmer component thread.
- davidb patched the category color input bug with a commit linked here and confirmed the fix in this topic.
- keegan detailed how to use the plugin API for per-user CSS in this Dev topic.
- kris.kotlarek updated the event builder to omit unnecessary
allowedGroupsfor public events in this PR and patched it live. - supermathie chimed in on AI crawling support and bot-user agents in the Discourse AI discussion.
After a whirlwind of Docker slimming, Glimmer tweaks, and survey launches, may your forums stay smooth and your day be as bug-free as a freshly pruned container!