Today on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
24 h at a glance:
- Total new posts: 80
- Total new topics: 4
Top users (likes, posts):
- david – 23 likes, 2 posts
- Moin – 11 likes, 10 posts
- Canapin – 11 likes, 2 posts
- itsbhanusharma – 10 likes, 5 posts
- tobiaseigen – 9 likes, 3 posts
- awesomerobot – 7 likes, 5 posts
- alltiagocom – 7 likes, 4 posts
- pfaffman – 6 likes, 3 posts
- Bas – 6 likes, 3 posts
- gormus – 3 likes, 2 posts
Interesting Topics
#Hosting
- alltiagocom explored hosting multiple communities in One server for 2 Discourse communities?, and itsbhanusharma advised caution over AI-sourced guidance in post #34.
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david launched Introducing releases.discourse.org to streamline version tracking, linking directly to the 2025.12.0 changelog.
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Users can now create new tags from the public /tags page, and nat highlighted how to find it in the sidebar.
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A community member asked how to hide moderator names on action posts in Way to hide mod actions from users?; Bas pointed them to the discourse-staff-alias plugin.
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yingdong wondered about an audit of gamification points in How can users and admins view the changes in gamification points?; chapoi noted the built-in leaderboard but confirmed detailed point histories weren’t available.
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rbos flagged a scanner false positive on CVE-2021-41163 in CVE-2021-41163 false positive and sought ways to disable AWS webhooks cleanly.
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In Remove categories and tags buttons, Andrew_Rowe shared frustration with CSS-only solutions and discovered Breadcrumb Links as a more robust approach.
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DavidO tracked Digital Ocean Spaces (S3) upload issues, showing that the backup continued to grow and even created a new tombstone directory.
- Stephtara tried out Moetwemoji: Lightweight Animated Emojis (AVIF) but found no animations until running the rake task and testing URLs like
/images/emoji/twemoji/hugs.png?v=15&cache=0.
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RBoy spotted caching problems in the LLM Usage UI in Bug in LLM Usage UI and zogstrip quickly merged PR 36975 to fix it.
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kris.kotlarek verified the fix for 404 errors in review-insights for moderators in FIX: review-insights have a 404 dialog for category moderators.
- Moin noted that converting flag reasons to lowercase had unintended side-effects in Flag reason conversion to lowercase has unintended consequences, illustrating the issue with a screenshot.
- Alex_Diker re-awoke interest in container options by asking “Any interest in Podman?” in Any interest in Podman? and chimed into the ongoing Deploy with Podman.
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Aasrith_Arva followed up on a student survey in Seeking brief perspectives from contributors on ethics of open-source commercialization (student research).
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Architect weighed in on monetizing contributions in Building Community Through Compensated Contributions.
Activity by the @team Group
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david announced releases.discourse.org and clarified plugin inclusion in post #4.
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awesomerobot improved notification filtering in Remove notifications for disabled badges and guided theme component support in Topic List Thumbnails.
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Bas provided alias plugin assistance in Way to hide mod actions from users?.
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chapoi clarified leaderboard capabilities in gamification points view.
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zogstrip fixed a UI cache bug in LLM Usage UI.
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kris.kotlarek wrote tests for the review-insights 404 fix.
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manuel shared a route-debugging helper for Right Sidebar Blocks.
And after all that multisite planning and animated emoji trials, the forum felt like a pack of puppies mastering new tricks—adorable chaos at its best!