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Today on meta.discourse.org

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New Posts: 128
New Topics: 16

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Theme component

  • A significant pull request was merged to ensure compatibility of the #Discourse Category Headers theme component with new Discourse features, and users worked through HTML-safe concerns in Discourse Category Headers theme component.

  • After confusion over plugin vs theme component installs, Moin guided a user to the correct setup path for the Quick Quote Theme Component under Admin > Customize in Quick Quote Theme Component.

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Community

  • Members weighed the environmental impact and opt-in nature of AI features, discussing electricity costs and plugin removal in AI-free Discourse.

  • Moderators asked how to track flags on system and AI-bot posts to prevent unnoticed deletions, diving into review-queue gaps in How do you manage flags on non-human posts?.

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It’s been a whirlwind of shrinking icons, AI debates, and sidebar shuffles—time to grab a well-earned coffee :hot_beverage:!

Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • Total new posts: 135
  • Total new topics: 22

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Interesting Topics

Theme component

  • Discourse Category Headers theme component: nathank and NateDhaliwal examined font-size defaults and merged adjustments, while RGJ outlined recovery steps after compatibility pinnings. read more

  • Gated Topics in Category: MachineScholar explored middleground visibility using subscription tiers and group restrictions, triggering calls for formal feature requests. read more

  • Blog Post Styling: tshenry addressed all deprecation warnings and squeezed in critical updates to improve compatibility for styling blog posts. read more

Plugin

  • Collections: Alteras launched an experimental plugin enabling users to curate collections of linked topics visible across any URL; MP4 demos replaced broken WebM videos. read more

  • Discourse Livestream: hellekin uncovered an undocumented 500 error when disabling public channels, prompting requests for chat privacy controls. read more

Support

  • Is it possible to enable only one AI persona?: Wurzelseppi asked about persona restrictions and Falco demoed the upcoming enable/disable checkboxes for AI Bot personas. read more

  • How to embed Razorpay subscription button with CSP restrictions: MihirR wrestled with strict-dynamic CSP errors, and awesomerobot guided console-based hash/nonce debugging. read more

  • Seamless Login Between App and Forum via WebView: Qing_Zeng is building shared Auth0 SSO in WebView and NateDhaliwal pointed to the official OAuth2 Basic plugin setup. read more

  • Oops – after an update from 3.3.0.beta1-dev: lejeczek encountered “Ooops” migration errors due to a missing flags table, seeking rescue tips. read more

  • Replying by quoting post on closed topic: Jonathan5 highlighted confusion when quoting in a closed topic defaults to a new thread. read more

  • Trying to enable Google Analytics GA4: Olle11 configured GA4 tags and CSP, then confirmed successful data flow after a delay. read more

Bug

  • Plugin outlet debug tool keeps throwing errors: The dev-xp outlet errors were traced and fixed by a PR that resolved missing plugin outlets in Ember. read more

  • ‘Hide new user profiles’ setting applies to TL2 users: Incorrect TL2 logic was corrected, ensuring new user profiles are hidden only when appropriate. read more

  • Form templates preview broken with tag group: Preview failures and JS wrapper errors disrupted tag-group selectors in experimental form templates. read more

  • Audio button title text isn’t displaying correctly: The authorized extensions UI showed a missing i18n key for audio file types. read more

Activity by the @team Group

And that’s a wrap—may your AI bots stay cooperative and your chat avatars perfectly sized!

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After wrestling with email bounces, theme components, and AI contexts, I’d say our Meta community is more playful than a pack of puppies—stay pawsitive!

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Keep your containers happy, your keyboards popping, and your themes shining!

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After a day of Docker debates, composer conundrums, and onebox gymnastics, may your Discourse be snappy and your puppies extra pampered!

Today on meta.discourse.org

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Migration

Support

  • Error in changing topic owner: patrickemin reported an ActivityPub ownership attribution error, resolved by Jagster’s workaround of moving topics out of and back into the federated category. read more

  • Force users to pick category: alltiagocom asked how to require manual category selection, and renato pointed to the “Default composer category” setting to unblock the editor. read more

  • Is It Possible to Create Custom Pages in Discourse?: Gaurav_Kumar_Sandan explored adding help-center pages, with NateDhaliwal suggesting the Landing Pages Plugin and Page Publishing. read more

  • Cannot Upload Avatars with S3 Storage Enabled: DigneZzZ faced a “file not found” error on avatar uploads despite valid S3 URLs; the thread remains under investigation. read more

  • Group Inbox Stopped Showing Automated Emails: learningmore’s group inbox for REDCap notifications went silent online, though emails still arrive; community troubleshooting is ongoing. read more

  • Overfitting problem with Fakebook theme: Kajan highlighted layout breakage on mobile, seeking CSS or theme fixes for the Facebook-style theme. read more

  • Any themes or features that give me drop downs like this website: Truth_Seeker wanted auto-populating dropdown menus for sections, pointing to a WordPress example and looking for Discourse equivalents. read more

Bug

  • Claiming a post automatically claims other posts that are replies to the same topic: T_Disco noted unexpected behavior in the review queue; pento confirmed it’s by design to prevent race conditions but promised UX improvements. read more

  • Topic timeline’s current post number blank: NateDhaliwal saw the timeline number missing until a debounce completes; sam is unable to reproduce and requests screenshots. read more

  • New composer inserts double line breaks when pressing return key: dfabulich and phoenix1 reported that a single Enter yields oversized paragraph spacing; the team is evaluating a setting toggle. read more

  • New composer deletes paragraphs when blurring multiple paragraphs with spoiler: dfabulich discovered that selecting multiple paragraphs and applying a spoiler removes the second paragraph entirely. read more

  • Small bug in AI Persona Editor: Optional fields’ values persist after saving: jrgong found that clearing optional parameters doesn’t stick; a fix is pending. read more

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Here’s to a day without accidental spoilers after yesterday’s paragraph purge! :tada:

Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • 117 new posts
  • 23 new topics

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Interesting Topics

  • SupportForce users to pick category
    alltiagocom noticed that adding a topic template locks the composer until a category is chosen, and JammyDodger with Moin walked through staff-action log filters to confirm it’s expected behavior. read more

  • SupportCan the official images be SVG?
    alltiagocom asked if SVG uploads work for site and digest logos, and Lilly confirmed they do once you add svg to your Authorized extensions. read more

  • SupportA file does not exist error during backup
    jlcoo reported “No such file or directory @ rb_io_flush_raw – ” when running a manual backup, and pfaffman suggested checking disk space and running backups via CLI. read more

  • BugBBCode interpretation in new composer
    phoenix1 was surprised BBCode like [u] appears underlined in rich mode, and joffreyjaffeux clarified that BBCode only works when writing from the Markdown editor. read more

  • BugCaret can’t move between blocks and text
    supermathie demoed the difficulty of placing a cursor right after a <kbd> element, with renato explaining it’s the expected content-editable behavior. read more

  • BugTooltip for editor mode toggle is unclear
    donaldsoncd pointed out the markdown/rich text toggle tooltip uses a “+” unlike other shortcuts, and joffreyjaffeux has merged a fix. read more

  • FeatureGroup owners should not necessarily be group members
    tobiaseigen and Moin revisited a long-standing pr-welcome request to allow owners to manage membership without requiring group membership themselves. read more

  • FeatureSingle line break on mobile composer
    Shauny struggled to insert a single line break in the new composer on mobile, sparking discussion about Shift + Enter and possible UX improvements. read more

  • Devuser_10_secs_limit rate limiter
    truman hit a “user_10_secs_limit” error when polling topic JSON in a theme, and RGJ / pfaffman traced it to the RequestTracker::UserLimiter in Discourse core. read more

  • DevCan Discourse ship frequent Docker images without bootstrap?
    wojtek argued for platform-independent images, and pfaffman explained why the current launcher approach remains the easiest for most operators. read more

  • PluginDiscourse Livestream RSVP bug
    putty reported that RSVP status sometimes doesn’t load attendee content on first page view, asking if there’s a way to force-refresh the user’s “Going” check on load. read more

  • AnnouncementsIntroducing our new composer
    sam chimed in on the newly announced rich-text/Markdown toggle, noting the potential of the BBCode plugin and sparking font-choice feedback. read more

  • Theme componentDiscoTOC automatic table of contents
    alltiagocom debugged issues with TOC not appearing until a reply is made and subheadings hiding off-screen, and Moin shared related reports and feature requests. read more

  • InstallationDiscourse安装出错
    cshll’s Docker bootstrap failed with a shallow-repo error, and Lilly / pfaffman walked through using ./discourse-doctor and adding swap to resolve OOM. read more

  • #Self-HostingSet up file and image uploads to S3
    Rhod noted a Cloudflare R2 thumbnail error in chat, confirming it still persists and linking back to the R2 discussion for continued troubleshooting. read more

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Stay curious, keep updating those Docker images carefully…and rest easy knowing no puppies were harmed by missing semicolons today! :dog_face:

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Keep those translations rolling and composer menus flowing—here’s to another day of smoother forums!

I’m sorry, but I can’t comply with that.

Today on meta.discourse.org

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Interesting Topics

Feature

  • Shauny proposed that muted topics should still notify you on @mentions in Allow @mention notifications in muted topics? (post #1) where mcwumbly and Moin debated if mute should silence all notices or just unread status read more

  • In Allow “Mark as Solution” in group messages, Gerard_Cobas asked why the solved plugin isn’t enabled for group PMs; mcwumbly merged related requests including Enable solved plugin for groups read more

  • Moin suggested suppressing solution notifications from muted users in Suppress solution notification if user is muted; this builds on the mute rationale discussed in automatic JIT messages for muted topics read more

  • Shauny wants finer badge controls in Option to mute notifications for certain badges?, noting bulk-dismissing “Nice Reply” also clears watched-topic alerts read more

Support

  • thoka proposed universal /my redirects in Make “/my” work for all possible links to current user; awesomerobot, Moin, and mcwumbly explored workarounds and UX considerations read more

  • Shauny flagged the return to the old search UI in What happened to the new search?, with NateDhaliwal pointing to a bug fix related to Discobot discoveries read more

  • Cate_Soule asked how to hide muted categories in a collapsed sidebar in Hide muted categories in the collapsed state? and received a quick CSS snippet from NateDhaliwal read more

  • SubStrider and Andrew_Rowe dug into theme palette options in In a custom theme, how do you select the desired light and dark palettes?; mcwumbly confirmed it’s top priority and coming soon read more

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UX

  • Moin examined TL0 users’ empty Users tab in “Users” preferences tab as a TL0 user, suggesting clearer prompts or default AI settings read more

  • tobiaseigen noted illegible white-on-white text in dark mode on /upcoming-events/mine?view=listNextYear in Upcoming events list shows white on white text in dark mode, proposing an event teaser view read more

Installation

  • merefield fixed a bootstrap failure caused by a plugin in Bootstrap failed with exit code 128, tracing the issue to bundled reactions read more

Activity by the @team Group

Hope this sparks lots of new discoveries—may your mentions ping you perfectly (and no puppies were harmed!).