Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
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114 new posts
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11 new topics
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Top users (likes, posts):
- itsbhanusharma (17 likes, 8 posts)
- Moin (14 likes, 13 posts)
- tobiaseigen (12 likes, 8 posts)
- NateDhaliwal (10 likes, 6 posts)
- Ed_S (9 likes, 4 posts)
- Canapin (9 likes, 5 posts)
- HAWK (8 likes, 3 posts)
- pfaffman (7 likes, 4 posts)
- merefield (5 likes, 3 posts)
- j.jaffeux (4 likes, 1 post)
Interesting Topics
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In Community, westes sparked a deep dive into funding models in Forum maintenance cost, proposing user‐to‐user tipping economies and drawing HAWK’s cautionary views on extrinsic motivators (read more).
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In Community, stephtara revisited private messaging policies in Thoughts on Turning Off Personal Messaging and Chats, where Heliosurge highlighted the Private Message Keyword Scanner theme component as a guardrail against off-thread advice.
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In Feature, westes challenged the $100/month barrier for the Subscriptions plugin on the Starter plan, prompting itsbhanusharma to outline how self-hosting on a $15 VPS plus occasional maintenance can slash annual costs (details).
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In Feature, Moin announced that the “Only return topics/posts…” filter is now multi-select in Combining multiple advanced search filters, following the merged PR #36697.
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In Support, tobiaseigen and patrickemin debugged inconsistent YouTube title fetching in Cannot any longer retrieve YouTube titles, uncovering differences between
www.youtube.comandyoutu.bedomains (more info). -
In Support, bryce showed how to insert an 8-space tab via
entities in How do you make a TAB indentation (8 spaces)?, with Canapin recommending a userscript for repeated use (read more). -
In Support, hipp0 asked how to display full timestamps in topic lists in Show timestamp posted for topic post, and Moin solved it using the
Relative date durationsetting plus adates.tiny.date_monthsite text tweak (solution).
- In Marketplace, pfaffman outlined the custom import requirements for PAID Migration from FUDforum 3.1.3, noting that parallel email list mbox archives ease content preservation.
- In Dev, NateDhaliwal walked through installing the Gitee 码云登录插件 into
/var/www/discourse/plugins, and pointed to the standard plugin installation guide.
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In Plugin, mcmcclur advanced MathJax V4 support in Discourse Math, enabling alt-click zoom and applying a CSS fix for MathJax issue #3489.
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In Plugin, Yuan_Yao asked for WeChat Pay and Alipay in Discourse Subscriptions Plugin, and pfaffman recommended separate plugins modeled after the core payments system (discussion).
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In Installation, tobiaseigen weighed centralized multisite hosting against standalone containers in Pros and cons of multiple standalone containers vs one for multiple Discourse installs?, with AstonJ sharing an Apache + HAProxy multi-backend setup.
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In Installation, Canapin clarified that Discourse does not auto-apply builds despite the dashboard timestamp in Does this mean everything is auto-updating?, explaining the “Mettre à jour” button and occasional Docker_manager/CLI rebuild steps.
Theme component
- In Theme component, Moin detailed how to rebake existing excerpts after tweaking TLP settings in Topic List Previews (TLP), with merefield explaining cache key invalidation when excerpt lengths change (info).
- In Bug, j.jaffeux provided an update on the iOS composer layout in Composer positioning issues in iOS, noting that Apple’s modal/keyboard quirks are mostly addressed in the January patch.
Activity by the @team Group
- HAWK cautioned against extrinsic motivators in Forum maintenance cost and debated fraud safeguards in Forum maintenance cost.
- j.jaffeux tackled the iOS composer misplacement in Composer positioning issues in iOS.
- bryce outlined an HTML non-breaking space approach for tab indentation in How do you make a TAB indentation (8 spaces)?.
- mcwumbly advised on scripting needs for the PAID Migration from FUDforum 3.1.3.
Despite 114 posts, not a single puppy was harmed—only our keyboards got a little more exercise!