Today on meta.discourse.org…
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- 16 new topics
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#Blog: After six months of beta, Unboxing Discourse 3.5 by Discourse introduces the Horizon theme, a streamlined composer, dark mode enhancements, and automatic translations, with more details on bundled plugins.
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Announcements Discourse 3.5 is now live! hugh’s 3.5.0: Major release highlights a visual composer, new core theme, color management improvements, and content translation.
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Announcements In 3.5.0.beta9, hugh details ongoing color palette enhancements and the new core welcome banner, while tgxworld shares even more plugin fixes.
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Support stephtara reported a display problem on iPhone 13 Pro Max that hid typed text in the composer before chapoi diagnosed it as a desktop-mode toggle issue.
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Support Users on iOS 16 & earlier saw missing background colors and font styling in dark mode; TethysPlex’s bug report prompted chapoi to investigate z-index rendering on Meta Branded/Dark.
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Support patrickemin confirmed that personal theming on desktop vs. mobile is controlled by a “default on all devices” checkbox in A theme on mobile and another one on PC?, as explained by awesomerobot.
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Feature martin updated the Add … option to Discourse Reactions PR, sparking discussion on per-user multi-reaction support and product decisions.
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Feature Community members like opcourdis revived calls to replace email with push notifications, linking back to the native app push notifications topic.
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Bug wings uncovered a Chat Upload Bug where files re-uploaded by non-original uploaders fail without text or lose attachments when sent with text.
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#Developer Guides: pfaffman’s advice on Windows 11 WSL2 setup for local Discourse development helped streamline environment fixes after missing dependencies.
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#Translations: A big thank you to everyone listed in Thanks to translators for release 3.5!, from Albanian to Chinese, for making Discourse accessible worldwide.
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Plugin The Events Plugin
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UX rahim123 highlighted that Horizon theme’s search results are hidden under the main topic list in Firefox ESR on Debian, prompting layout tweaks.
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#Data & reporting: rabecha explored loading Discourse tables into Microsoft Fabric and weighed API vs. OAuth approaches for secure data ingestion.
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Support pnzr’s SEO query on pages “Crawled – currently not indexed” by Google led to discussions on sitemap configuration and webmaster console diagnostics.
Activity by the @team Group
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hugh announced 3.5.0: Major release and detailed 3.5.0.beta9 improvements.
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martin chimed in on the Discourse Reactions PR, addressing cross-posted feedback and next steps.
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david resolved issues in theme management by fixing theme installation bugs, updating Theme Creator, and restoring sharing in 371961/7.
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chapoi triaged mobile display bugs in 379251/3, 379269/2 & 379269/6, and offered CSS tips for activitypub in 378730/3.
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sam weighed in on markdown defaults in the composer via 379243/3.
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awesomerobot clarified per-device theming in 379342/2 and permission scopes for guest access in 379341/2.
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tobiaseigen reassured self-hosters about plugin compatibility in 379249/3.
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featheredtoast responded to upgrade concerns in 373574/122 and praised community translation efforts in 379214/1.
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tgxworld added insight on additional beta9 fixes in 379217/3.
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pento merged a core fix to restore topic rendering in the right-sidebar-blocks component in 377636/8.
Here’s to more polished palettes and fewer phantom desktop-mode toggles tomorrow! 