Today on meta.discourse.org…
Over the last 24 hours, we saw the release of the Current Projects – February 2026 newsletter, deep dives into rebuilding after a failed GUI upgrade in Update problem, do I press the big scary red button?, and further feedback on the Discourse Free plan beta and the upcoming Upcoming Changes admin area. The conversation continues to bubble across every corner of Meta!
Key Stats
- New posts: 133
- New topics: 17
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Interesting Topics
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lindsey kicked off Current Projects – February 2026, outlining work on the Solved plugin and a new theme blocks system read more.
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The team shared updates on Modernizing the Foundation theme, fixing layout quirks and AI search issues read more.
#Self-hosting support
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Update problem, do I press the big scary red button? walked users through a
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Failed email jobs on one-line install without SMTP? explained why the dashboard shows email job failures and pointed to the community workaround read more.
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The Beta update to 2026.1 notice drove discussion on container tags and rebuild steps read more.
#Site feedback
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In Updating how categories are organized on Meta, contributors proposed a “Community Success” top-level category and debated subcategory names read more.
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Adding a #welcome tag for newcomers spun out a dedicated thread for onboarding suggestions read more.
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The Meta splash screen thread called for more obvious loading indicators on first visit read more.
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Marketplace & Feedback Options compared Swapd’s closed-source plugin vs the open-source Discourse User Feedback variant read more.
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Resenha – Add Discord-style Voice Rooms gathered UI and invitation-flow suggestions as Falco shipped fixes for join indicators and sounds read more.
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The decade-old Date Type On Custom User Fields request finally landed in core via PR 37902 read more.
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Allow users to see trust level 3 progress on user profile debated whether to surface progress cards or keep trust metrics mysterious read more.
- Discourse User Feedback maintainers tackled one-vote-per-user limitations and invited community PRs read more.
- TL2 promotion seemingly only counts public contributions uncovered surprising criteria exclusions and calls for clearer documentation read more.
- The More self-evident icon to access the edit message dialog thread discussed composer layout tweaks for better discoverability read more.
Activity by the @team Group
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lindsey published the Current Projects – February 2026 newsletter, setting expectations for upcoming features.
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chapoi celebrated the date-type field merge in Date Type On Custom User Fields, pointed users to add votes in automatic grouping, clarified TL2 criteria in TL2 promotion bug, and tested the edit icon in UX dialog icon.
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Falco merged his full-page embed work in the comment platform discussion, fixed email job failures in SMTP-less installs, refined the AI Chat dropdown in AI Chat errors, and shipped join indicator improvements in Resenha plugin.
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zogstrip confirmed the fix for category moderator report errors in Insights error and patched the chat button path in personal messages chat bug.
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manuel recommended onboarding paths with a #welcome tag in the category redesign thread.
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awesomerobot proposed a clearer composer UI for editing messages in UX dialog icon.
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mcwumbly kicked off the Welcome tag for newcomers topic and contributed to the category reorganization.
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jordan.vidrine addressed the floating border issue on
/categoriesin the Foundation theme modernization thread.
That’s a wrap—enough Discourse to keep our servers buzzing and our puppies wagging!