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[ToddZ]

@system

Feature Allow bumping for topics with zero replies
ToddZ pointed out that Discourse Automation’s “Stalled topic” trigger now handles bumping topics with no responses

Er, no. I just pointed out that a relevant trigger exists. OP would still have to develop a bumping action.

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 106
• New topics: 15

Top users (24 h)

• tobiaseigen (20 posts, 6 likes)
• Moin (10 posts, 9 likes)
• pmusaraj (6 posts, 3 likes)
• supermathie (4 posts, 3 likes)
• Rubi (2 posts, 4 likes)
• Arkshine (2 posts, 3 likes)
• david (1 post, 5 likes)
• ficuswhisperer (1 post, 3 likes)
• mcwumbly (1 post, 3 likes)
• pfaffman (1 post, 2 likes)

Top @team members

• tobiaseigen (20 posts, 6 likes)
• pmusaraj (6 posts, 3 likes)
• supermathie (4 posts, 3 likes)
• david (1 post, 5 likes)
• mcwumbly (1 post, 3 likes)
• martin (1 post, 2 likes)
• dax (1 post, 1 like)
• zogstrip (1 post, 1 like)
• renato (1 post, 0 likes)
• sam (1 post, 0 likes)

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Interesting Topics

Support

• “Block” a ‘Leader’: New user Tyl asked if there’s a way to block a TL4 user rather than merely mute or ignore them, sparking a discussion of trust levels and site settings read more

• An error occurred: You are not permitted to view the requested source: Gavin_Hudson reported a 403 error when trying to post, and supermathie suggested checking browser tools for proxy or backend issues read more

• Unsubscribe button from confirmation email: Cate_Soule asked how to remove Google’s “unsubscribe” suggestion, and putty explained it stems from the List-Unsubscribe header, not Discourse itself read more

• Any way to send PM to TL2 without including TL3 and TL4?: ToddZ wanted to message only TL2 users; Moin pointed to dynamic groups, and tobiaseigen suggested BCC or secure categories read more

• How to solve discourse ai : No endpoints found that support tool use: whitewaterdeu shared OpenRouter errors, then self–solved by disabling native tools as per the OpenRouter docs read more

• Number of users and legacy posts: pHneutre asked which user states count toward the /about total, exploring deleted vs. suspended vs. deactivated and asking for finer anonymization controls read more

Bug

• Results in user search disappear after a few seconds: Moin demoed how modal user invites lose results when the on-screen keyboard hides, with video repros on desktop and tablet read more

• “Ranked choice” polls don’t work properly with pie charts (polls pr-welcome): dax reported pie charts miscount votes in ranked-choice polls, prompting calls to auto-switch to bar charts or block the selection read more

• No Update of notifications while logged-in (notifications): patronit’s instance stopped marking notifications as read or showing new ones; logs revealed Sidekiq heartbeat failures read more

• Invite Only with OpenID only does not work (openid-connect): DevTeVe found that enabling “invite only” breaks OIDC login flows, whereas “invite code” partially works after a retry read more

• Discourse Prometheus 404 metrics for Grafana (prometheus): DevTeVe continues the discussion on broken /metrics/api routes, noting 404s when Grafana queries labels and ranges read more

Feature

• Change the default docker container name be discourse instead of app (docker): JustinZ proposed renaming the container for clarity, and pfaffman reminded users they can rename app.yml or enable DOCKER_USE_HOSTNAME read more

• Admins: Show a dialogue before entering email logs, log email log views: twofoursixeight suggested a confirmation dialog and audit log when viewing /admin/email-logs to protect sensitive content read more

UX

• ‘Remove password’ button should be btn-danger, not btn-transparent?: NateDhaliwal noted that the security page’s Remove password button lacks dangerous styling, and shared proposed btn-danger mockups read more

wordpress

• Critical Error: Call to undefined function mb_convert_encoding (s3): angus reminded that WP Discourse requires PHP’s mbstring extension and linked the official docs read more

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Activity by the @team Group

• tobiaseigen tested PM invites on ask.discourse.com and confirmed rubi could receive them in Unable To Invite Users To Topics on ask.discourse.com. They also chimed in on tag-groups, sharing that the data-tag-group PR was closed due to scope in Add a data-tag-group attribute for tags.

• pmusaraj guided Tealk through Discourse ID activation, highlighting HTTPS requirements and the difference between Discourse ID and Connect, and updated the What’s New feed to hide items for stable instances in Discourse ID fails to activate on my instance.

• david updated the status of the iOS 26 editor bug, confirming that iOS 26.1 beta restores cursor behavior, in iOS 26 bugs with fixed position elements in Discourse.

• supermathie suggested using browser devtools to pinpoint permission or proxy issues in An error occurred: You are not permitted to view the requested source.

• mcwumbly raised awareness of the [foo]() link edge-case and its clash with the linkify setting in Markdown links not working without https://?.

• martin weighed in on merged topic behavior, agreeing that closed topics shouldn’t bump again, in Merged topics are no longer being bumped.

• dax reported the pie-chart bug for ranked-choice polls, sparking UX considerations for poll types, in “Ranked choice” polls don’t work properly with pie charts.

• zogstrip shipped a UI consistency patch to align front-end error messages with backend logic in Wrong reason shown why moderator user can’t be deleted.

• renato confirmed that the rich-text editor now properly handles relative links after recent fixes in Relative links input into the Link tool during editing, don’t work in final post display.

• sam assessed the roadmap for user-created categories, noting it’s not yet planned, in User created categories.

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After all that, we’ve shipped more fixes than Apple ships betas—onward to another day of fun (and flawless) foruming!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• In the last 24 hours on the Latest page: 104 new posts and 13 new topics.

• Top users:

  • ToddZ: 11 posts, 10 likes
  • Moin: 10 posts, 8 likes
  • renato: 8 posts, 8 likes
  • Steradiant: 2 posts, 5 likes
  • saquetim: 3 posts, 4 likes
  • david: 1 post, 4 likes
  • supermathie: 2 posts, 4 likes
  • FINDarkside: 1 post, 3 likes
  • tobiaseigen: 10 posts, 3 likes
  • angus: 2 posts, 2 likes

Interesting Topics

• Feature In “Official groups/posts”, ice.d proposed an official marker for high-priority threads and asked “but if you have 5 pins what if one is the most important?” The discussion expanded when tobiaseigen pointed out the existing official reply feature (post 6), and folks compared the Category Banners vs the Category Headers component for keeping “about” topics visible.

• Dev In “Improving automatic switching of mobile/desktop modes”, stuwest explained how disabling the old viewport based mobile mode broke their category-first workflow. david clarified that linking to /categories is an alternative (post 6), and awesomerobot showed how setting “Desktop category page style” to “Categories with featured topics” and adjusting user prefs can restore the old feel (post 7).

• Dev saquetim announced that the widget rendering system will be disabled on next update, linking to PR #35504 and noting admins can still toggle deactivate_widgets_rendering for now (details).

• Dev The “Upcoming post stream changes” topic saw Boost report tests against Glimmer overrides and saquetim confirm that the Glimmer Post Stream will become default soon, even on incompatible sites, with clear instructions on toggling glimmer_post_stream_mode and deactivate_widgets_rendering (post 12).

• UX In “Show “and XY other groups” instead of “…” on user profile”, Steradiant flagged discoverability issues. ToddZ suggested a simple CSS tweak (post 2), Steradiant confirmed the hard-coded dots (post 3), and ToddZ refined the CSS to hide “…” and insert “and more” with a negative margin (post 4).

• UX “Can we improve usability of pinned topic site settings?” saw tobiaseigen propose merging two unpin prefs into one dropdown. ToddZ gave feedback on simplifying the UI (post 3), Moin weighed in on default vs. user override scenarios (post 4), and tobiaseigen updated his approach to clarify when the user pref appears (post 5).

• UX In “FluentUI emojis has background”, Don pointed out the new white-background +1 emoji from the recent commit 028aa5c. They compared the deleted version () vs. the new one ().

• Support “Any way to send PM to TL2 without including TL3 and TL4?” solved by tobiaseigen suggesting BCC or a custom group, and ToddZ highlighting the Discourse BCC Plugin and ad-hoc BCC workarounds (post 3, post 4, post 5).

• Support In “Why is my CSS color choice being overwritten?”, Jack_McCarthy showed how their theme CSS reset on reload. jahan_gagan recommended overriding the root variables (--primary-low, --primary-very-low, etc.) (post 2), and Jack confirmed it resolved the issue (post 3).

• Support “Chat icon in edit history – what does it mean?” saw NateDhaliwal self-answer that it marks a PM converted to a public topic (solution), and Moin linked to the code that implements it (post 3, source).

• #SiteFeedback: In “Unable To Invite Users To Topics on ask.discourse.com”, Rubi confirmed the workaround—sign into Meta then navigate to ask.discourse—and tobiaseigen noted that Site feedback has no Solution box but the issue is resolved (post 8).

• #Blog: “Why I Chose Discourse Over Discord” linked to the Blog post. ToddZ chimed in that it reads like a Joan Westenberg piece before realizing it was by jawestenberg (post 2).

• Community “Multilingual user feedback on Automatic Translations” featured FINDarkside collecting requests from polyglot users who prefer no auto-translation and suggesting per-user language opt-outs.

• #WordPress: “Webhook names query/inconsistent?” saw TimMOz patch supported_events in sync-discourse-topic.php and angus promise an update in the next plugin release (post 4).

• Bug In “Merge pasted preformatted text => code block in the new composer”, renato asked for repro steps but noted many inline/block code improvements have landed—inviting testers on latest.

Activity by the @team Group

• renato clarified smart-quotes behavior in Single/double quotes require two backspaces, addressed escaped tildes in Rich text editor bug, and weighed in on pasted preformatted text in Merge pasted preformatted text.

• tobiaseigen showed official posts in Official groups/posts and led the UX discussion on pinned topics in Improve pinned topics usability.

• saquetim posted on the widget rendering EOL in Widget rendering EOL announcement and the Glimmer Post Stream rollout in Post stream changes.

• supermathie guided API troubleshooting in 400 Bad Request Using API.

• david helped refine mobile/desktop switching in Automatic mobile switching.

• awesomerobot suggested desktop category layout tweaks in Automatic mobile switching.

• Falco offered a fix for older Chromium WebView issues in Chromium webview error.

• chapoi corrected button styling in Remove password button and discussed emoji alignment in FluentUI emojis background.

• lindsey weighed in on smart-quotes in Smart quotes in new composer.

• jordan.vidrine announced the end-of-life for the Custom Category Boxes component in Custom Category Boxes lifecycle update.

That’s a wrap—here’s hoping none of your next drafts disappear after you hit “cancel”!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New topics: 22
• New posts: 170
• Top users (likes, posts):
  • Moin (16 likes, 17 posts)
  • sam (15 likes, 16 posts)
  • RGJ (12 likes, 2 posts)
  • awesomerobot (11 likes, 3 posts)
  • pfaffman (10 likes, 8 posts)
  • Falco (9 likes, 3 posts)
  • martin (8 likes, 2 posts)
  • j.jaffeux (5 likes, 3 posts)
  • gassim (4 likes, 3 posts)
  • Danielle (4 likes, 1 post)

Interesting Topics

#Site feedback

• pfaffman noticed the reaction was removed, and awesomerobot restored it shortly after (read more).

Bug

• renato reported drafts not saving when canceling a reply, then martin reproduced and merged a fix in PR #35534 (read more).

• RGJ uncovered that disabled plugins still inject queries even when turned off, leading to performance slow-downs (report).

• noahl discovered the tag-management entry on /tags was missing (screenshot), and awesomerobot delivered a patch (read more).

• lhkjacky demonstrated theme assets under /uploads/ returning 404s for anonymous users when “Prevent anons from downloading files” is enabled (steps), prompting discussion with sam and david (read more).

Support

• Reports of spam from the “system” user led Falco to trace the cause to email-handling missteps (read more).

• tobiaseigen followed up on digest emails queuing but never sending in multisite environments.

• gassim found that Discobot’s narrative welcome message had been auto-disabled after a recent update (details), linked to PR #34373.

• jahan_gagan flagged that CodePen embeds stopped rendering, and Moin pointed out a past whitelist change (read more).

• sandra.mccollum reported broken image uploads after a snapshot restore, with renato beginning troubleshooting (read more).

Announcements

• In Announcements, TFF_SD shared a video of fixed-element glitches on iPadOS 26 (demo), and sam confirmed an Apple-side fix is pending (read more).

• Danielle invited community managers to register for the “Community Scaries” webinar on spotting engagement red flags (info).

• tvavrda suggested finer controls in color palette editing (discussion), with pointers to advanced approaches (read more).

Feature

• gassim proposed logging system-initiated site setting changes in staff action logs (request), and Moin shared an automation workaround (details).

Activity by the @team Group

• awesomerobot re-added the emote in What happened to the reaction? and provided the tag entry point fix in Tag settings entry point missing.

• martin reproduced the draft-save bug and merged the resolution in Draft is no longer automatically saved after you cancel replying.

• Falco diagnosed the “system” spam issue in Spam from “system”.

• sam weighed in on asset-access issues in Theme assets served from /uploads/ break when “Prevent anons from downloading files” is enabled and advised on CLI updates in Discourse no longer can be updated.

• pmusaraj gathered reproduction videos for the iOS fixed-element bug in iOS 26 bugs with fixed position elements in Discourse.

• tobiaseigen followed up on digest-email failures in Cannot Send Digest Emails: Jobs::UserEmail Deprecation Notice / No Emails After Enqueue via Rails.

• j.jaffeux addressed emoji styling issues and merged updates in FluentUI emojis has background.

• Danielle hosted the announcement for “Community Scaries” in Webinar: Community Scaries: What to Worry About in Communities.

• SaraDev published a new Data Explorer query in Themes and Associated Theme Components Report.

• saquetim flagged a misleading setting description in Upcoming post stream changes - How to prepare themes and plugins.

Here’s to a day free of disappearing drafts, phantom spam, and missing reactions — happy posting!