Tägliche Zusammenfassung (21 Uhr UTC)

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• 116 new posts

• 9 new topics

• Top users:

  • stephtara (17 posts, 29 likes)
  • Moin (18 posts, 13 likes)
  • lindsey (1 post, 12 likes)
  • Paul_King (9 posts, 11 likes)
  • chapoi (7 posts, 8 likes)
  • JammyDodger (5 posts, 8 likes)
  • ToddZ (4 posts, 7 likes)
  • tobiaseigen (2 posts, 6 likes)
  • AstonJ (1 post, 6 likes)
  • Falco (2 posts, 5 likes)

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Interesting Topics

Support

• stephtara kicked off a question on tag management in How to add multiple tags up front (How to add multiple tags up front), and chapoi revealed the hidden CSV bulk-import trick (read more), while tobiaseigen pointed out the fixed category positions toggle (read more) and ToddZ highlighted the matching site setting UI (read more).

• stephtara explored translation and content-localization hurdles in Not sure how to juggle languages while setting up my francophone community (Not sure how to juggle languages while setting up my francophone community), and Falco clarified that auto-generated category descriptions respect the current locale (read more) while steering everyone toward Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI.

• Paul_King unearthed a missing logo glitch on the login screen in Login dialog missing link to logo because DISCOURSE_FORCE_HTTPS set to ‘false’ (Login dialog missing link to logo because DISCOURSE_FORCE_HTTPS set to ‘false’), and JammyDodger confirmed that setting DISCOURSE_FORCE_HTTPS back to true during a rebuild restores the image (read more) after JammyDodger’s hints on handling the recent runit/Let’s Encrypt rebuild error).

• hellekin encountered a censor-blocking error when featuring external links in An error occurred: Featured Link is invalid (An error occurred: Featured Link is invalid), and found a clever workaround by publishing it as a shared draft before going public (read more).

Announcements

• lindsey rolled out the Starred Channels feature for improved chat navigation in Star your favorite chat channels for easy access (Star your favorite chat channels for easy access) and even captured it in a live demo video.

Bug

• MachineScholar hit a 400 error when pinging an AI bot on 2025.12.0-latest in Ai bot 400 error on 2025.12.0-latest (Ai bot 400 error on 2025.12.0-latest); Falco dug into the provider/model parameters (read more), and sam landed a fix in GitHub PR #36572.

• Thiago_Mobilon reported the “Show Full Post” embed button refusing to load on subfolder installs in “Show Full Post” button doesn’t work in subfolder installations ("Show Full Post" button doesn't work in subfolder installations), and renato traced it to a missing JSON route in the WordPress embed handler (read more).

Migration

• sniper756 battled missing images after a XenForo → Discourse migration in Images Missing After Recent Discourse Upgrade (Post-XenForo Migration) (Images Missing After Recent Discourse Upgrade (Post-XenForo Migration)), ran rake uploads:recover + rake posts:rebake to restore 2061 uploads (read more).

• sniper756 also needed to clean up leftover BBCode after import in After migrating from XenForo to Discourse (After migrating from XenForo to Discourse), and ToddZ pointed to the classic Replace a string in all posts technique (read more).

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Activity by the @team Group

• lindsey introduced Starred Channels in Star your favorite chat channels ([390713/1]).

• chapoi guided on bulk tag creation via CSV in How to add multiple tags up front ([390796/2]) and refined the UI in Use user names in participants list ([390176/14]).

• Falco clarified locale-based title translations in Not sure how to juggle languages… ([390791/3]) and probed AI model parameters in Ai bot 400 error… ([390794/2]).

• southpaw updated the search cheat sheet with in:replies and in:all-posts filters in Searching for content effectively ([273328/14], [273328/16]).

• sam triaged and fixed the AI bot error in Ai bot 400 error… ([390794/6]).

• zogstrip patched the PM cleanup path for removed users in Can’t clear unread notification after being removed from a PM ([311995/13]).

• jordan.vidrine investigated the dropdown overlap in ‘Powered by Discourse’ covers dropdown ([390625/7]).

• kris.kotlarek explained review queue claim visibility in A new review queue layout with all new features ([388194/43]).

• renato diagnosed the embed JSON error in “Show Full Post” button doesn’t work… ([390811/2]).

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With images recovered, AI errors resolved, and chat channels formally starred, the meta team blazed through another 24 hours—no puppies were harmed, but a few tags got well-deserved CSV treatments!