Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
- 94 new posts, 8 new topics in the last 24 hours.
- Top users by posts & likes:
- pfaffman: 11 posts, 16 likes
- Moin: 7 posts, 15 likes
- zogstrip: 6 posts, 10 likes
- NateDhaliwal: 5 posts, 6 likes
- tgxworld: 2 posts, 7 likes
- RGJ: 2 posts, 7 likes
- pmusaraj: 4 posts, 5 likes
- JammyDodger: 3 posts, 6 likes
- nat: 2 posts, 6 likes
- saquetim: 1 post, 5 likes
Interesting Topics
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In Support, pfaffman confirmed that non-members can’t send PMs by default and shared a plugin-based solution to allow logged-in users to message @staff, with follow-ups by Andrew_Rowe and JammyDodger on usage details. read more
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In Support, RGJ and zogstrip hashed out regex strategies to obfuscate and flag crypto addresses via watched words after Salocin’s request for automatic censoring. read more
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In Support, Moin suggested using the composer’s “preformatted text” button to work around French iOS keyboards’ back-tick issues when posting inline code, following Salocin’s keyboard formatting woes. read more
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In Support, a solved thread on restricting category visibility saw pfaffman recommend email-in or tagging to ensure users only see their own topics in a private category, fulfilling eXotic’s privacy requirements. read more
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In Support, Moin explained how to manually type
[wrap]placeholders in automation messages due to the missing toolbar in the RTE field, clarifying Hanaffi’s confusion in the automation formatting thread. read more
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In Bug, pmusaraj and saquetim collaborated on PRs #105 & #106 to restore infinite scroll for Tenor GIF search after TheBaby5 reported missing load-more functionality. read more
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In Bug, tgxworld and NateDhaliwal investigated spurious awards of the “Nice share” badge, then disabled the share badges on Meta to stop unwarranted counts in the Nice share badge glitch. read more
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In Bug, zogstrip attempted to reproduce Neil_Evans’ report of new tabs opening for images when using a mouse “back” button in Safari, finding it WebKit-specific and hardware-triggered in this repro topic. read more
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In Bug, nat merged fix #36817 to correct permission errors when editing titles/categories/tags, resolving the full-editor bug. read more
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In Bug, contributor small-lovely-cat submitted a PR to disable the load_more_replies button while loading, improving the reply UX in this thread. read more
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In Bug, sam and MentalNomad tackled malformed oneboxes for URLs with encoded spaces, merging a frontend fix in #36822 after discussing the pasted URL bug. read more
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In Bug, pmusaraj requested backtraces from Julien_Palard to debug a spike in load averages tied to ActivityPub’s processing locks, logged in the load average diagnostics. read more
- In Feature, joo proposed support for threaded/branched AI bot chats—allowing users to branch off any AI reply into contextual sub-threads for deep dives in this feature request. read more
- In Installation, cedric_chin traced Let’s Encrypt renewal failures to an Nginx redirect quirk in the Docker template, leading nat and featheredtoast to escape a misplaced quote and patch the SSL template. read more
#Sysadmins
- In #Sysadmins, Lee_Ars shared practical tips for combining wp-discourse with Cloudflare—using VPC host overrides to bypass API rate limits and prevent caching races—in this setup guide. read more
Activity by the @team Group
- zogstrip investigated the WebKit-specific Safari back-button bug and reviewed regex options in crypto-address censoring.
- tgxworld disabled the “Nice share” badges on Meta and explained the badge miscount issue in Nice share badge glitch.
- nat confirmed and triaged the certificate renewal report in Discourse certificate renewal and coordinated the Docker patch with featheredtoast.
- saquetim reviewed and merged the infinite-scroll fix for Tenor GIF search.
- pmusaraj provided timely debugging feedback on the GIF onebox issue and solicited backtraces for the ActivityPub load spike.
- Falco assisted with NVIDIA-embedded model setup in the AI plugin discussion: NVIDIA embeddings support.
- sam identified the onebox frontend fix in pasted-URL spaces and tracked down the “silent+anchor” RTE bug in Daily summary feedback.
- featheredtoast pinpointed the quoting error in the Nginx SSL template, resolving the issue in certificate renewal bug.
- awesomerobot acknowledged and praised the fix for the misaligned editing icon in editing icon alignment bug.
Phew—no puppies were harmed in the making of this summary, but we did rescue plenty of misplaced badges and runaway regex patterns!