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Key Stats
- New posts: 48
- New topics: 3
- Top users (posts / likes):
Interesting Topics
Dev
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RFC: A new versioning strategy for Discourse
per1234, RGJ and mcwumbly debated a shift from SemVer to a YYYY.N scheme, discussing support lifecycles and semantics—see per1234’s critique, RGJ’s proposal, mcwumbly’s update, and the team’s “agree to disagree”. -
AI Forum Moderation: Seeking Insights and Experiences
jenmck responded to SethWilliams’s ideas on bot answers versus human replies, emphasizing community learning, transparency, and the risk of false positives—see Seth’s suggestion and jenmck’s feedback. -
Topic ID as a variable?
NateDhaliwal shared a quick theme component to jump to a topic by its ID, including JS and FormKit code—review the discussion and the implementation.
Plugin
- Discourse Doc Categories
nathank ranrake doc_categories:build_sidebarwith an odd safe.directory warning, and nat confirmed the workflow, noting future UI improvements—see nathank’s output, nat’s confirmation, Sailor’s version query, and nat’s follow-up.
#Site feedback
- How automated reports could help keeping Meta tidy
JammyDodger highlights using Data Explorer for ad hoc checks on Community wiki topics and suggests flagging non-wiki discussions:“the brilliant thing about data explorer is that you can perform these kind of checks ad hoc without the need to wait for any new features”
see tobiaseigen’s point and JammyDodger’s tips.
Support
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Last-chance warning when replying to old topics
JammyDodger proposes a confirmation pop-up instead of a full warning, notes the official theme component is broken, and Moin points to the unformatted-code detector example—see JammyDodger’s ideas and Moin’s reference. -
New way to track edits on wiki posts?
mcwumbly asks who needs notifications when wiki posts change; Jagster responds that interested users want to read updates—details at mcwumbly’s query and Jagster’s comment. -
502 error on Re-Order Categories
Ethsim2 reports a timeout when sorting ~405 categories; pfaffman suspects a slow server and suggests using Rails for bulk reordering—see issue report and pfaffman’s advice. -
From email address changed in notifications and digests
adamengst upgraded Discourse and found theFrom:header now shows the site address; the setting behind this remains unclear—read more. -
What Are Some Good Welcome Banner Designs?
anoedo looks for a full-width banner display without obstruction; ondrej and others point to the versatile-banner theme and discuss design alternatives—see ondrej’s question and anoedo’s feedback.
Bug
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Custom fields are not inserted with new ProseMirror editor
manut added a QUnit test showing custom event form fields vanish in both MD and WYSIWYG modes—see the reproduction scenario. -
DiscourseConnect provider redirect after login not working
uckelman moved this to Bug after observing a login-redirect regression in 3.5.0.beta5-dev, linking to a suspect commit; initial report at post #2. -
iOS PWA input bug (fixed in iOS 18.7)
Ethsim2 confirms certain input fields in PWAs broke on iOS 18.6.2 but work again after upgrading to iOS 18.7—details at post #1 and post #2.
Feature
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Full name @mentions
mcwumbly asks saquetim whether the theme component for showing full names in mentions should become core or official—see post #64. -
Link to first unread post?
Shauny wants a “go to first unread” button and keyboard shortcut usable on desktop and mobile; mcwumbly requests real-world anecdotes—see Shauny’s post and mcwumbly’s follow-up.
Activity by the @team Group
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mcwumbly led discussions on the versioning RFC (#383536/31, #383536/33, #383536/35), probed wiki edit tracking (#383582/5), weighed in on full name mentions (#23896/64) and the unread-post shortcut (#106476/18).
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nat automated the documentation categories build and clarified the process for self-hosters in Discourse Doc Categories (#322376/132 & #322376/135).
Keep calm, embrace those version numbers, and may your PWA inputs always catch your taps—thanks for another lively day on Meta! 