Daily Summary (9pm UTC)

system · June 19, 2026, 9:01pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the meta community generated 61 posts across 36 topics, with 102 likes given. Here are the top contributors by engagement:

User	Posts	Likes Received
Sam	2	14
HAWK	1	11
Nicolsdennis	3	6
Falco	2	6
Nat	2	6
Southpaw	2	6
Zogstrip	2	5
One1	1	5
Darkpixlz	3	4
Ed_S	3	4

Interesting Topics

Contribute > Feature

Android PWA sharing gets a PR: Southpaw revisited the idea of making a Discourse PWA a share target on Android, envisioning a menu for creating new topics, replies, or PMs when sharing content. Falco then delivered with a working PR and a video demo—now there’s discussion about extending this to the Discourse Hub app. read more
Show all replies after posting with simple mode: NateDhaliwal proposed that after posting a reply in simple mode, all replies should be visible instead of being hidden behind “Show xx comments,” eliminating the flash-and-hide experience. read more
Threaded discussion complexity debate continues: Dituar joined the long-running discussion, proposing a compromise where a flat forum is the main view, but a button opens the entire reply chain in a new tree-view window—a hybrid approach combining the best of flat and threaded displays. read more
Tecnoblog’s embed experience: Thiago_Mobilon reported multiple layout issues with the Discourse embed version, including ad plugins inserting ads that break layout, horizontal scrollbars from post-bottom ad slots, and inconsistent mobile margins. read more

Community Building Building

Forums that forbid AI content: One1 asked staff from forums banning AI-generated content about detection methods and enforcement strategies. Darkpixlz shared using honeypots that generated 6 million requests from crawlers in two weeks, while Ed_S described a gentler approach of remonstration and deletion on a low-volume hobby site. read more
Drastic drop in support forum activity: JammyDodger asked whether communities are seeing engagement declines. Nat revealed that a community’s user visits showed a drastic May decline, traced back to Google’s May 2026 Core Update—a crucial finding for admins wondering about traffic drops. read more

Contribute > UX

Hover over emoji shows larger version: Sam showcased a playful theme component that displays enlarged emoji on hover. While unofficial (“if it breaks your site it is not my fault”), it generated significant interest. read more
Event calendar UX issues: RGJ documented a click-focus problem where editing the event preview requires two clicks to activate the topic title input, as the first click erroneously activates the post content area instead. read more

Contribute > Bug

Large poll bug—users cannot amend votes: Zogstrip completed part 2 of the fix for a poll bug where users couldn’t amend votes on open polls, resolving it with a PR merge. read more
Error when creating event due to username: Awesomerobot fixed an edge case where having a user named “trust_level_0” caused event-creation errors—the username clashed with an internal lookup. read more
Chat thumbnails bypassing CDN: David_Ghost confirmed that after two remaps, old uploads and thumbnails now work correctly, fixing a bug where chat thumbnails used raw S3 URLs instead of the configured s3_cdn_url. read more
Error 500 when moving posts: Zogstrip suggested a 55% chance fix for the 500 error on post moves, pointing to a PR in the activity-pub plugin. read more
Layout of fullApp embed mode: Erizo1332 shared CSS fixes for four layout bugs in fullApp embed mode: blank space on left/right, excessive height, and a 1px flicker on Chrome Ubuntu. read more

#Self-hosting

Login dialog offers nonexistent options: Paul_King reported that after an update, the login dialog showed Apple, Microsoft, OpenID Connect, and passkey options despite them not being configured. Andrew_Rowe pointed out the settings are in a different tab under Login & Authentication. read more

Support (translated from Portuguese)

Community name reservation issue: Jefferson_Ferraz asked for help releasing a community name reserved during a Google account login error. Awesomerobot advised checking spam for the confirmation email, which goes to the current address first. read more

#Site feedback

Daily Summary moves to workflows: Sam announced porting the Daily Summary to workflows, making prompt engineering easier with a single prompt location and enabling simpler testing via pinned schedules. The move also shifts the model to a self-hosted deepseek v4 flash. read more

#Extras

Sidebar Feed Panel feedback wanted: YsLtr introduced a userscript turning the Discourse sidebar into a compact topic feed, asking whether it should become a theme component, plugin, or spark core discussion for feed-oriented sidebar browsing. read more

enterprise

Community ownership models: Mcwumbly deepened the discussion, arguing that user input on bugs, fixes, and features fits into “product development” rather than marketing, even though community officially falls under marketing in Discourse’s org structure. read more

News and Events > Blog

How I use AI as co-CEO: HAWK published a blog post on how he and Sam use AI at a fully remote company, addressing the intersection of AI tools and remote leadership. read more

#Announcements

Redesigned admin dashboard preview: Nat noted that date range charting heuristics have been improved based on user feedback, while Ondrej asked where to find the last update timestamp and noted less specific storage information. read more

General

Native mobile client app update: Nicolsdennis shared major updates to the Sysaru app, including multiforum support, immersive comments with nested replies, and full localization into 49 locales, pending app store approval. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Sam was exceptionally active, sharing a fun theme component for emoji hover previews and porting the Daily Summary to workflows with a model shift to self-hosted deepseek v4 flash.

Falco delivered on a feature request for Android PWA sharing with a working PR and video demo, and helped debug an AI model configuration issue, noting the correct URL format and recommending GPT 5.4 Nano over GPT 5 Mini.

Zogstrip completed part 2 of the large poll fix and proposed a fix for the 500 error when moving posts, pointing to an activity-pub PR.

Awesomerobot fixed the event-creation error caused by a user named “trust_level_0” and helped a community member resolve a name reservation issue by checking the correct email flow.

Nat provided crucial analysis of the drastic drop in support forum activity, tracing it to Google’s May 2026 Core Update, and noted improvements to charting heuristics for the admin dashboard.

Pmusaraj commented on the Android PWA sharing feature, confirming it should work with the Discourse Hub app as well.

Mcwumbly provided insightful framing of community ownership models, arguing that user input on product direction falls under product development despite community being under marketing.

Ted investigated a MissingAttributeError in gamification, unable to reproduce it and confirming only the core-bundled version should be used.

Nathank marked the recurring event feature for the nth weekday as delivered, with a note about extending it further.

With a Google Core Update causing blanket coverage concerns and an Android PWA sharing PR landing like a drop of rain in a drought, yesterday proved that even when the algorithm shifts, the community’s ingenuity never dries up.

system · June 20, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the Meta community generated 45 posts across 25 topics, receiving 75 likes in total.

Top Contributors

User	Likes Received	Posts Created
Nicolsdennis	8	3
Dituar	7	6
YsLtr	7	3
Nat	7	2
Chapoi	5	2
One1	5	1
NateDhaliwal	4	5
Paul_King	3	3
Ed_S	3	1
Darkpixlz	3	1

Interesting Topics

Community Building Building

One1 kicked off a spirited discussion on the challenges of forums that forbid AI content, asking how other staff detect and communicate AI bans. Darkpixlz shared their “nuclear” approach using honeypots and the iocaine project to trap crawlers (resulting in ~6 million requests in two weeks), while Ed_S outlined a gentler policy for their hobby forum.
Nat discovered a worrying correlation: a community’s drastic user visit decline tracked perfectly with Google’s May 2026 Core Update, suggesting forum activity drops may be algorithm-driven rather than organic. Read more.

General

Nicolsdennis showcased major updates to their Sysaru native mobile app, including full multi-forum support, immersive comments, post navigator, and native push notifications—now pending App Store approval. See the screenshots.

#Extras

YsLtr introduced a Discourse Sidebar Feed Panel userscript that compacts the sidebar into a browsing feed, and is seeking community feedback on whether to pursue a theme component, plugin, or core feature discussion path. View the visuals.

#Self-hosting

Paul_King reported that after a recent update, users see login options (Apple, Microsoft, OpenID Connect, passkeys) that aren’t configured or even enabled in admin settings. NateDhaliwal suggested checking the Login & Authentication tabs, and Andrew_Rowe pointed out the Social logins tab may have been missed. Paul_King confirmed this solved the issue.

#Announcements

Nat noted that improved date-range charting heuristics have been merged for the redesigned admin dashboard. Ondrej praised the new look but wondered where to find the last update time and storage details, which Chapoi confirmed are being moved to a new yet-unavailable home. Read more.

Contribute > Feature

Dituar registered specifically to propose a compromise for threaded discussions: keep the main display flat, but add a button to open the entire chain of related posts in a tree view, addressing the pain of figuring out context in long reply chains. Read more.

Contribute > UX

Chapoi announced that a fix has been merged to rebalance the prominence of the Delete category button versus the Save button, addressing a long-standing UX concern. Read more.

Contribute > Bug

Glob-Canard.4x traced a MissingAttributeError on the gamification leaderboard route to an errant plugin hooking into UserScoreSerializer, resolving what initially appeared to be a core bug.

#Plugin

Nicolsdennis asked about supporting PayPal Advanced Checkout in the Subscriptions plugin, as Stripe isn’t available in many countries. Tobiaseigen suggested Invoice Ninja as an alternative that supports multiple processors including PayPal.

#Nested Replies Testing

Dituar continued their thorough testing of the nested replies feature, proposing a side-panel tree view that opens related chains without leaving the flat topic view, and creating test posts to demonstrate deep nesting behavior.

Support

TimMOz requested a new granular API scope (badges->list) for listing all badges, noting that currently a global scope or disabling login required is necessary.
Ice.D questioned the purpose of primary groups when users can change their group flair anytime, with Canapin clarifying the key point is “by default.”

#Plugin (Translator)

Filipesm raised concerns about the long-term maintenance of the Discourse Translator plugin versus moving to the LLM-powered AI approach, especially given costs and a desire to avoid Big Tech models.

Contribute > Bug

Zogstrip submitted a fix for the error 500 when moving posts, traced to the ActivityPub plugin—now merged. Thomas_Rother confirmed it should arrive with the next build.
Awesomerobot merged a guard against an edge case where a user named “trust_level_0” caused event creation errors. Read more.

Contribute > Feature (PWA)

NateDhaliwal asked if a fix for Android share sheet issues could work with the Discourse Hub app. Pmusaraj confirmed it’s a separate process that should also be fixed.

Contribute > Feature (Doc Categories)

NateDhaliwal suggested that after posting in simple mode, all replies should be shown immediately rather than hidden behind “Show xx comments,” to reduce the flash and improve usability.

Contribute > Feature (Chat)

Jrgong reiterated previous feedback requesting pinned chat messages appear as a sticky bar (like WhatsApp/Telegram) to help guide new users away from using chat for support requests.

#Announcements (Topic List)

Heliosurge pointed out that the “New All” tab link doesn’t open the correct view, and requested UI parity for the number display beside the All tab.

#Theme component

YsLtr commented that reply button labels are a beginner problem but easily figured out after one try.

#Site feedback

Canapin noted that the :discourse2: emoji is broken on certain theme component topics.

#Plugin (Voice Rooms)

Fbpbdmin asked about trying the Resenha voice rooms plugin on a hosted forum. NateDhaliwal clarified it requires the Enterprise plan or self-hosting.

#Developer Guides

NateDhaliwal shared a humorous account of misreading console output during development setup—those “migrations” were actually Sidekiq jobs running.

Activity by the Team Group

Nat shared the Google Core Update discovery in the drop in forum visits topic, and later noted the improved date-range charting heuristics for the admin dashboard.
Chapoi announced the merge of a fix balancing the Delete vs Save button prominence, and responded to feedback about the missing last-update-time in the new dashboard.
Awesomerobot merged a guard against the “trust_level_0” user edge case in event creation.
Zogstrip submitted a fix for the error 500 when moving posts (ActivityPub plugin).
Jrgong provided feedback on pinned chat messages feature request.
Pmusaraj responded about fixing the Android share sheet issue for Discourse Hub.
Ted investigated the gamification leaderboard bug (later resolved by the reporter as a plugin issue).

Yesterday’s activity showed that even the most patient among us can spend four hours watching Sidekiq jobs before realizing the development server was actually running all along—proof that the Meta community’s dedication extends well past midnight debugging sessions!

system · June 21, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the past 24 hours, Meta saw 43 new posts across 18 topics, generating 22 likes from the community.

Top Users by recent activity and likes received:

User	Posts	Likes
Raadtotheraad	9	2
Canapin	4	4
Lilly	4	4
NateDhaliwal	4	0
Chapoi	1	3
Filipesm	1	3
TimMOz	1	2
Tobiaseigen	1	2
Darkpixlz	2	1
David_Ghost	1	1

Interesting Topics

Support

Quick question about the “Powered by Discourse” badge — Raadtotheraad noted the loss of the rainbow hover animation on the “Powered by Discourse” badge. After some back-and-forth, Canapin identified the culprit: the user’s browser/OS detects touch capabilities (even if the device doesn’t truly have a touchscreen), which causes Discourse to apply touch and touch-discourse CSS classes, suppressing hover effects. The rainbow animation works for non-touch, mouse-driven interactions. read more
What is the point in primary groups? — Ice.D questioned the utility of primary groups, suggesting that if anyone can change their group flair anytime, the “show that group’s avatar flair by default” setting becomes meaningless. Canapin clarified the nuance of “by default,” and Lilly provided a firm nudge to read the well-documented guide before posting further. read more
API granular scope to list all badges — TimMOz requested a new API key scope (badges->list) to programmatically list all badges without requiring a global-scope key or anonymous access. The current approach forces admins to grant overly broad permissions, which is a security concern for closed sites integrating with external systems like CiviCRM. read more
Can’t upload to S3 (Cloudflare R2) — Darkpixlz experienced upload failures after setting up Cloudflare R2 as an S3-compatible store. The error log showed “Sorry, but your upload failed.” Community members pointed out a trailing slash issue in the CDN URL and endpoint configuration, and Lilly recommended the official guide. read more
Update URLs inside a poll after changing CDN — Canapin found that rebaking posts and the standard rake 'posts:remap' did not fix CDN URLs embedded inside poll options. Lilly proposed using the built-in discourse remap command (via DbHelper.remap), which performs a global regex search-and-replace across all text fields in the database, followed by rake cache:clear. read more
Any way possible for non-admins granting badges? — Anko127 asked if group owners could grant badges without becoming admins. HAWK suggested a hacky workaround: create a custom badge configured to be awarded via group membership, then add non-admin organizers as group managers so they can add/remove users to trigger badge changes. read more

#Plugin

Discourse Translator — Filipesm raised a concern about the long-term maintenance of the official Discourse Translator plugin, asking whether the team plans to keep supporting it (security/bugs) or whether users should migrate to the Discourse AI / LLM-based translation approach, which may have higher operational costs. read more
Discourse Subscriptions Plugin — Tobiaseigen shared a clever alternative to the Subscriptions plugin: Invoice Ninja, which supports multiple payment processors (including PayPal). The approach uses payment links for subscription sign-ups and a webhook + cron task to update Discourse user status in real-time. read more
ActivityPub Plugin — Trwnh1 reported a bug where the published datetime on ActivityPub objects is set to the resource creation date (when the “Publish all posts” button is clicked) rather than the original local Discourse post date. This causes old forum content to appear as brand-new on the fediverse. read more
Resenha - Add Discord-style Voice Rooms to Your Community — NateDhaliwal noted that since Resenha is not an official plugin, users need an Enterprise plan or a self-hosted instance to use it. read more

#Site feedback

Missing images at Meta.discourse.org — Canapin flagged broken :discourse2: emoji on theme component topics, linking the issue to a chat thumbnail bug where some custom emoji are served from raw S3 bucket URLs instead of the CDN. Lilly confirmed a remap/rebake is needed, and Darkpixlz began fixing the affected instances. read more

Contribute > UX

Delete category button is more prominent than Save — Chapoi announced that a fix for this UX imbalance has been merged via PR #41049, making the delete action less dangerous. read more

Contribute > Bug

Discourse Gamification - Getting 404 / MissingAttributeError on /leaderboard route — Ted closed a bug report after the original poster, Glob-Canard.4x, resolved the issue themselves and apologized for the false alarm. read more
Error 500 when moving posts — Thomas_Rother followed up on a fix, confirming the error originated from the ActivityPub plugin and expecting the fix to ship with the next build/container update. read more

#Extras

Feedback wanted: userscript to theme component/plugin, or possible core sidebar browsing idea? — Heliosurge suggested that a userscript for sidebar browsing could be implemented as a theme component, referencing existing sidebar themes like Right Sidebar Blocks and DiscourseBars. read more

News and Events > Blog

Free Hosting for Open Source v2 — AJHalili2006 asked if an existing free discourse.group instance could be upgraded to the Pro for Open-source plan without starting from scratch. Supermathie advised emailing the Discourse team for options. read more

Contribute > Feature

Do we want to add a confirmation popup to “Reset bump date”? — Haydenjames voted yes, confessing that the current “Reset bump date” feature does nothing for him. read more

#Announcements

Star your favorite chat channels for easy access — Jrgong suggested that instead of a new “starred” tab, Discourse could simply pin chat channels to the top or rename the feature to “pinned chats” for a more familiar UX pattern. read more

Activity by the Team Group

The Discourse team has been active across several fronts today:

Chapoi pushed a UX fix to core, merging a change that prevents the delete category button from being more prominent than the Save button. read more
David_Ghost helped diagnose a Cloudflare R2 upload issue, pointing out a likely trailing-slash misconfiguration. read more
Lilly provided detailed, actionable advice in multiple topics, including:
- Encouraging Ice.D to read the primary groups guide. read more
- Recommending the discourse remap command to fix trapped CDN URLs in poll options. read more
- Identifying a rebake issue causing broken custom emoji on Meta. read more
- Pointing Darkpixlz to the official Cloudflare R2 setup guide. read more
Supermathie clarified the upgrade path for free hosting plans on discourse.group, directing users to email the team for applicable options. read more
Tobiaseigen shared a practical, third-party alternative to the official Discourse Subscriptions plugin using Invoice Ninja for payment processing, complemented by webhooks and cron. read more

The most upvoted community insight today came from Canapin, who traced a disappearing rainbow animation to a touch-detection CSS class — proving that sometimes the most magical bugs are caused by the least magical hardware.

system · June 22, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, 86 posts were created across 30 topics, receiving a total of 61 likes. The community was highly engaged, with several users standing out for their contributions.

Top Users (by posts & likes):

Lilly — 8 posts, 9 likes
Ed_S — 3 posts, 7 likes
HAWK — 3 posts, 6 likes
David_Ghost — 3 posts, 5 likes
Copymonopoly — 6 posts, 4 likes
Canapin — 2 posts, 4 likes
Zogstrip — 5 posts, 3 likes
Satonotdead — 4 posts, 3 likes
Falco — 2 posts, 3 likes
Raadtotheraad — 9 posts, 2 likes

Interesting Topics

blog

How I use AI as the co-CEO of a remote company — HAWK shared leadership insights on managing varying AI appetites across teams, sparking a rich discussion with Ed_S about humane AI adoption. Ed_S noted that “the benefits of AI use are falling in one part of an organisation, and the costs are falling in another,” linking to several thought-provoking articles. HAWK's explicit rules—always label AI content and value the time/attention of those consuming it—were well-received. read more
Free Hosting for Open Source v2 — AJHalili2006 asked about upgrading a free discourse.group instance to a Pro for Open-source plan. Supermathie advised emailing the team directly for applicable options. read more

Support

Quick question about the “Powered by Discourse” badge — Raadtotheraad reported that the rainbow hover animation on the “Powered by Discourse” badge disappeared. Canapin diagnosed the issue as Discourse detecting touch capabilities (adding .touch-discourse class to <body>), which disables hover effects. Chapoi confirmed the animation only applies under .discourse-no-touch. Users suggested checking safe mode and browser settings. read more
Can’t upload to S3 (Cloudflare R2) — Darkpixlz faced an “Unauthorized” error when configuring R2, despite following guides. Lilly identified the culprit: Darkpixlz created a general API token instead of a dedicated R2 bucket token with read/write permissions. After creating the correct token type and removing trailing slashes from URLs, the upload issue was resolved. read more
Any way possible for non-admins granting badges — Anko127 wanted event organizers to grant badges without admin rights. HAWK proposed a hacky workaround: create a custom badge configured for group membership, put non-admin organizers in charge as group managers, and let them add/remove users from the group—which effectively grants/removes the badge. read more
TypeError: can’t access property 0, i.jqXHR.responseJSON.errors is undefined when viewing post edit history — Copymonopoly reported a frontend crash when viewing edit history. Zogstrip pointed to a potential fix via this PR and asked if they were running the latest version. read more
How to use internal AI endpoints? — Satonotdead encountered SSRFDetector::DisallowedIpError when connecting to internal LiteLLM endpoints. Falco suggested using the DISCOURSE_ALLOWED_INTERNAL_HOSTS env variable, though Satonotdead reported still facing issues after adding it to app.yml. read more
Install App Prompt — Prempavee wanted to disable the PWA install prompt that appears for new users on browser, preferring to show their own branding instead. NateDhaliwal noted it’s a Chrome PWA feature. Satonotdead cited a statistic showing only ~0.005% of websites fully leverage PWA technology. read more
How to make a banner post — Jonathan5 inquired about creating dismissible banner posts. Awesomerobot confirmed the feature still exists—find it in the topic admin menu under “pin topic” modal, where “make banner topic” is an option. read more
What is the point in primary’s — Lilly pointed Raadtotheraad to the existing documentation on setting primary groups, noting that Discourse and Meta “are designed for reading” and recommending more searching before posting. read more
Update URLs inside a poll after changing CDN — Canapin struggled with stale CDN URLs in baked poll HTML. Lilly recommended using the built-in discourse remap function (instead of the rake task), which performs a global regex search-and-replace across all database tables, followed by rake cache:clear. read more
DiscourseAi::Translation: Failed to translate post due to string contains null byte — LotusJeff asked how to locate null bytes causing translation failures. The post remains open for community suggestions. read more

bug

Backend 502/504 Timeout when saving major edits to long posts (~100k words) due to Diff bottleneck — Copymonopoly identified that saving massive edits triggers timeouts due to expensive diff calculations. Sam noted that a “diff_too_complex” fallback was added in February. After upgrading to the latest version, Copymonopoly confirmed seeing the message “The diff is too complex to display” and reported improved performance. Zogstrip offered to tweak the complexity threshold if needed. read more
ArgumentError (Attributes per element limit exceeded) when trying to open the diff of a locked topic — Copymonopoly reported a related issue with extremely long posts. Zogstrip closed the topic, directing further discussion to the diff bottleneck thread above. read more
重建 Discourse 容器后，用户的 IP 变成了 172.17.0.1 — AkarinLiu encountered Docker bridge IPs appearing as user IPs after rebuilding the container. They resolved it using OpenCode on their server, noting it was not a core bug. read more

#Self-hosting

Avatars take a long time to load after moving to S3-compatible R2 — David_Ghost reported 3–4 second avatar load times. Lilly provided an exceptional three-part diagnostic: (1) on-the-fly avatar resizing requiring rake avatars:refresh, (2) IPv6 timeouts with Cloudflare R2, and (3) Gravatar delays. David_Ghost confirmed curl responses looked fine, pointing to the first issue as the likely cause. read more

Community Building Building

Anyone else seeing a drastic drop in community activity for Support forums? — Philip_Rhoades confirmed declining numbers across ~12 Discourse forums, stating “my gut feel is that people are moving away from fora.” Satonotdead linked to a previous discussion about SEO being replaced by AI. read more

#Plugin

Discourse Reactions — Bartv requested an option for users to click an existing reaction to “join in” (similar to Slack/Discord), and for frequently used emojis to be one click away. RSEhlers noted duplicate notifications for likes and reactions, asking for a way to control them separately. read more

#Feature

Add more recurrent Event options to Calendar plugin — Ed_S contributed to the ongoing feature request, specifically noting that “last Sunday of the month” would be a useful option. read more
Request for a date picker in AI Translate settings — LotusJeff requested a date picker for the “AI translation backfill max age days” field, humorously noting that forum content going back to 1999 means “we are older and don’t want to deal with math in our heads.” read more

#Announcements

Introducing the unified new view for the topic list — Martin acknowledged a catch in the new feature and promised a fix “soon.” read more
Star your favorite chat channels for easy access — Jrgong suggested renaming the feature to “pinned chats” for a more familiar UX pattern, akin to pinned topics. read more

#Theme component

Topic List Thumbnails — Ahmed26 asked for mobile-specific CSS to hide .topic-list-thumbnail.no-thumbnail, noting desktop code works but mobile doesn’t. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Chapoi confirmed that the “Powered by Discourse” badge rainbow animation is restricted to .discourse-no-touch, explaining why touch-enabled devices don’t display it. read more
Chapoi moved the diff bottleneck bug report to the Contribute > Bug category, noting that while 100k chars is unusual, a fallback should still be implemented. read more
Sam confirmed that a “diff_too_complex” fallback was added in February, and asked whether Copymonopoly was running the latest version with an adequately powered server. read more
Zogstrip closed a related bug thread, noting the discussion continues in the diff bottleneck topic, and offered to tweak the “diff too complex” threshold if needed. read more
Zogstrip confirmed that a PR was merged to address the “TypeError” when viewing post edit history, and asked if the reporter is on the latest version. read more
Zogstrip provided a link to a PR that adds a granular API scope for listing all badges. read more
Zogstrip clarified that the discourse-activity-pub plugin is not bundled with core code, and responded with a humorous GIF to Thomas_Rother's question about the upcoming build. read more
Martin acknowledged a bug in the unified new view for the topic list and promised a fix. read more
Awesomerobot guided Jonathan5 on creating banner posts via the topic admin “pin topic” modal. read more

Yesterday’s activity was a masterclass in community troubleshooting—from rainbow badges that only glow for the “touch-deprived,” to diffs so complex they’d make a supercomputer blush, proving once again that the Discourse community never runs out of edge cases to explore!

system · June 23, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community has been highly productive, generating 114 new posts across 38 topics, receiving a total of 138 likes.

Top Contributors by Likes and Posts:

User	Likes Received	Posts Made
Awesomerobot	14	12
Lilly	13	7
Falco	9	4
David_Ghost	8	5
Ed_S	8	3
Satonotdead	7	8
LotusJeff	7	4
Chapoi	6	8
Copymonopoly	6	7
Jonathan5	5	6

Interesting Topics

#Self-hosting

Avatars taking ages after S3-to-R2 migration? David_Ghost reported a 3–4 second delay after migrating to Cloudflare R2. Lilly diagnosed the issue as likely the on-the-fly avatar resizing process (#1). She recommended running rake avatars:refresh to pre-generate sizes. When that didn’t fully resolve it, further investigation revealed that Discourse was proxying avatars through /tmp instead of serving them from the CDN, a problem traced to a configuration mismatch in external system avatars url and uploaded avatars allowed groups settings. The thread is a masterclass in remote debugging read more.
Mail jobs failing with Nokogiri errors. Josip_Meštrović reported a cryptic Sidekiq error: Unregistered function: //*:a[nokogiri:visited(.)]. After extensive troubleshooting, Awesomerobot pointed him to the /admin/customize/email_style/css area, where an old a:visited style was breaking email generation. Removing it fixed the issue read more.

Support

Backend 502/504 when saving 100k-character edits. Copymonopoly identified a bottleneck in the Diff engine when editing very long posts. Sam confirmed that a diff_too_complex fallback was added in February to handle this. After upgrading to the latest version, Copymonopoly reported that the issue is completely resolved — the system now gracefully displays a “diff too complex” message instead of crashing read more.
How to use internal AI endpoints with Discourse? Satonotdead asked about connecting self-hosted LiteLLM endpoints. Falco suggested using the DISCOURSE_ALLOWED_INTERNAL_HOSTS env variable with the domain name instead of an IP. The thread remains open as the configuration hasn’t fully resolved read more.
Banner topics disappearing in restricted categories. Jonathan5 couldn’t find the “make banner topic” option. Awesomerobot revealed the culprit: global banners cannot be used on topics in categories with group permissions. Recategorizing to a public category restored the feature, and the banner state was remembered read more.
Nested replies breaking email-in replies. Paul_King reported that activating the new Nested Replies feature caused email replies to be shuffled into random threads. Deactivating the feature immediately restored order. Markvanlan is investigating read more.
Null bytes blocking AI translations. LotusJeff asked how to find null bytes in post content causing translation failures. The thread is seeking community input on detection methods.
S3-to-R2 migration token confusion. Darkpixlz was stuck trying to upload to Cloudflare R2. Lilly spotted the problem: they created a general API token instead of a dedicated R2 bucket token. Switching token types and removing trailing slashes fixed it read more.
Install App Prompt bothering users. Prempavee asked how to disable the PWA install prompt. Awesomerobot clarified that the native_app_install_banner setting controls this, and alternative banners can be hidden with CSS read more.
Viewing post edit history triggers TypeError. Copymonopoly encountered a frontend crash when clicking the edits indicator. Zogstrip believes a recent PR has fixed this read more.

Community Building Building

Drastic drops in Support forum activity. Philip_Rhoades observed a long-term decline across a dozen Discourse forums. Satonotdead linked it to SEO being replaced by AI, and Awesomerobot noted this is now being called AIO (AI Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) read more.

#Announcements

New post type composer dropdown: regression? Gormus noted that the “Toggle post voting” option appears in all categories, not just #Ideas. Awesomerobot explained this is by design — post voting is sitewide — but provided a handy theme component hook to filter it read more.

blog

How I use AI as the co-CEO of a remote company. In a thoughtful discussion, Ed_S and HAWK explored the tension between AI enthusiasm at leadership levels and skepticism among workers. They proposed two explicit rules: always label AI content and value the time and attention of those consuming your content read more.
Tracking the world’s best community builders. Jawestenberg shared a companion blog post exploring the loneliness of community building and what makes great communities tick read more.

ux

Cut off “Dismiss” button has empty space. Canapin spotted a gap between the label and chevron icon in the Dismiss button across all themes.
Foundation theme display bug. Gilles reported broken button styling after an update. Newbit1337 confirmed the fix: enabling the Modernize Foundation theme setting resolves it. Chapoi has submitted a PR fix read more.

bug

Word limit breaking IME composition gets merged. Small-Lovely-Cat reminded the team about this PR, and Sam prioritized it. Nat has now merged the fix read more.

#Data & reporting

AI translation progress graph feedback. LotusJeff requested clearer reporting on translation backfill progress. Falco explained that the page is cached to avoid timeouts on large sites, and the initial “locale detection” phase is no longer shown. LotusJeff proposed a simpler aggregate table showing eligible vs. translated counts read more.

#Feature

Date picker for AI translation settings. LotusJeff asked for a date picker instead of the current “translation backfill max age days” field, humorously noting that forum admins with 20-year-old content prefer not to do mental math.

#Plugin

Dumbcourse still alive and merged. Satonotdead checked in on the old-browser-friendly UI plugin. Ars18 confirmed it’s still active and has been merged into their JTechTools plugin, though the standalone repo remains available read more.
Discourse Reactions: join-in and notification feedback. Bartv suggested making it easier to “join in” on existing reactions (like Slack/Discord). RSEhlers noted duplicate notifications for both Reactions and Likes read more.
Discourse Translator deprecated in favor of AI. Awesomerobot advised users to switch to Discourse AI for automatic translation, which is more robust, handles categories/tags, and provides content to search engines while often costing less than self-hosted LibreTranslate.

Activity by the Team Group

The Team group members have been busy tackling tough issues and offering guidance:

Lilly was exceptionally active, first providing a detailed multi-part diagnosis of avatar loading delays after a migration to Cloudflare R2 — covering on-the-fly resizing, IPv6 timeouts, and Gravatar delays. She later identified an incorrect token type at Cloudflare R2 as the root cause of an upload failure.
Sam prioritized a PR to fix IME composition issues with the word limit, and pointed out that the diff_too_complex feature he added in February should handle large post edits.
Falco guided Satonotdead through configuring internal AI endpoints, suggesting the DISCOURSE_ALLOWED_INTERNAL_HOSTS env variable with the domain name, and explained the caching and two-phase translation process for the AI translation progress graph.
Chapoi responded to the Foundation theme display bug, identified the fix (enabling Modernize Foundation theme), and submitted a PR. They also questioned whether the post voting option appearing in all categories was a regression.
Awesomerobot was a powerhouse: explaining how banner topics work and identifying the group permissions restriction. They diagnosed the email CSS issue, provided a theme component hook for filtering post voting options, and clarified the PWA install banner settings. They also alerted the community about the new acronyms AIO and GEO for AI-driven SEO replacements, and fixed a topic-list-thumbnails issue.
Markvanlan responded to the nested replies bug report, asking for clarification on whether posts were being sent to the wrong topic entirely or merely misnested.
Nat merged the IME composition fix PR.
Zogstrip closed an old bug thread in favor of the new large-edit discussion, fixed the API scopes for listing badges, and noted the discourse-activity-pub plugin is not bundled with core.
Jordan.Vidrine was cc’d by Chapoi regarding the post voting option behavior.

Yesterday, the community spent over 4,000 words helping one admin debug avatar loading — and in the process, likely saved dozens of other forum operators from tearing their hair out over R2 migrations. Maybe that’s the real AIO.

system · June 24, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

Metric	Count
New Posts	126
New Topics	47
Likes on Posts	187

Top Posters by Likes & Posts (last 24 hours)

User	Likes	Posts
Awesomerobot	28	14
RGJ	17	5
Chapoi	13	10
Merefield	12	8
Falco	11	8
Jawestenberg	8	1
Paul_King	7	4
Canapin	7	2
Nat	6	4
Small-Lovely-Cat	6	2

Interesting Topics

#self-hosting

How to install plugins without using a third-party host? — Willy asked if it’s possible to install self-developed plugins on a self-hosted Discourse without relying on GitHub or other external services. The discussion quickly turned into a debate on the necessity of version control. RGJ argued that pushing to GitHub takes less than a minute, while Merefield emphasised that proper source control is the professional approach. Satonotdead raised concerns about GitHub’s reliability under DMCA takedowns. Awesomerobot pointed out that for small customisations, a theme component (no git needed) might be the right solution. read more

Support

Nested replies broken? — Paul_King reported that enabling the new Nested Replies feature caused email‑in replies to appear in random threads. After updating to the latest build (and removing an obsolete mysql-dep.template.yml line from app.yml), the issue resolved. Chapoi confirmed that being on “2026.6.0‑latest” doesn’t always mean the latest commits — an additional update fixed the problem. read more
Mail jobs are failing — Josip_Meštrović encountered a Unregistered function error in Sidekiq when sending mail. Awesomerobot quickly identified the culprit: a a:visited pseudo‑class in the custom email CSS at /admin/customize/email_style/css. Removing the invalid selector resolved the issue. read more

ux

“New Topic” button is not responsive when resizing — RGJ demonstrated a bug where the “New Topic” button doesn’t reflow between icon‑only and text modes when the browser window is resized. Awesomerobot confirmed and provided a fix. read more
Cut off “Dismiss ⌄” button — Canapin noticed an unwanted gap between the “Dismiss” label and the chevron‑down icon in the dismiss‑button component. Ted pointed out that the spacing is an intended design effect, but the recent modernisation of themes may have broken it. Chapoi will take a look when time permits. read more
Problème d’affichage dans le topic — Gilles reported broken button styling after an update, visible even in safe mode. Chapoi traced it to the “Modernize Foundation theme” setting – enabling that upcoming change fixes the buttons for everyone, regardless of which theme they use. A PR has been merged. read more

#announcements

Introducing a new “Post Type” Composer actions dropdown — In the ongoing discussion about the new composer menu, Gormus asked if the “Toggle post voting” option could be hidden when the category isn’t of type “Ideas”. Awesomerobot explained that the post‑voting plugin is currently site‑wide, but provided a registerValueTransformer hook enabling theme developers to filter the dropdown per category. read more

blog

I’m tracking down the world’s best community builders. Here’s what I’ve learned so far… — Jawestenberg shared a blog post about the loneliness of community builders and the importance of NPS for measuring ROI. Ted resonated with the line “I came for the language, and stayed for the people” and suggested NPS is a good way to correlate community stats with business outcomes. read more

#data-and-reporting

AI Translation Progress Graph — LotusJeff found the translation progress graph misleading (showing 99% when only a fraction of posts were translated). Falco explained the caching and two‑step process (language detection + translation). LotusJeff proposed a simpler reporting model with eligible vs. completed counts and shared his own Data Explorer SQL queries. Nat promised improvements for July. read more

bug

FIX: Word limit shouldn’t break IME composition — Small-Lovely-Cat revived a stale PR that prevents the word‑limit warning from interfering with Input Method Editor (IME) compositions. Sam prioritised it, and Nat merged the contribution. read more
FIX: Boosts in reviewables should link to posts rather than topics — Small-Lovely-Cat contributed a fix for the Boosts plugin: when a boost is reported, the review‑queue link now points directly to the post instead of the topic. Nat confirmed that Zogstrip merged the PR. read more

#plugin

Dumbcourse – Old‑browser friendly UI at /dumb — Satonotdead revived an old thread about a lightweight, D‑pad‑friendly UI. Ars18 confirmed the project is still alive and has been merged into their master plugin, while the standalone repo remains available. The community appreciated the modular approach of keeping features switchable. read more
Discourse Translator — In the long‑running translator thread, Awesomerobot advised users to migrate to Discourse AI for automatic translation, as it is now the more robust feature (automatic, includes categories/tags, costs as little as $10/year for 10k posts). NateDhaliwal added that self‑hosting a model via Ollama is an option. read more

#feature

Can I force English for unsupported languages? — Jagster, running a Finnish forum, wanted to serve English to visitors whose browser locale is unsupported instead of forcing Finnish. Falco replied that a fallback‑locale feature doesn’t exist yet. Nat suggested setting the default locale to English, since the content‑localisation setting uses the default locale as fallback. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Members of the Discourse team were active across many threads yesterday. Here’s a summary of their contributions:

Awesomerobot fixed the resizing bug in the “New Topic” button and provided a registerValueTransformer hook so theme developers can hide the post‑voting toggle per category. They also diagnosed the mail‑job failure caused by a:visited in email CSS, helped a user install themes without git, and investigated the cut‑off dismiss button. They also reported a bug in the ModelOC plugin topic and suggested a rake dev:populate command for demo content.
Chapoi corrected the understanding of version numbers in the nested‑replies issue and confirmed that the display bug in Foundation theme would be fixed by enabling the “Modernize Foundation theme” setting. They also commented on the Plugin installation debate and the composer actions dropdown.
Falco explained the caching and two‑step process of the AI Translation Progress Graph and confirmed that a fallback‑locale feature is not yet supported. They also helped with internal AI endpoint configuration, marked the Android share‑target feature as done, and moved a nested‑replies SEO request to feature requests.
Nat merged the IME composition fix and the Boosts review‑link fix. They also promised improvements to the translation progress report and clarified the fallback‑locale behaviour.
Markvanlan responded to Paul_King’s nested‑replies bug report, asking for specifics on whether posts were appearing in the wrong topic entirely or merely hidden in the nesting view. read more
Sam prioritised the stale IME composition PR after being reminded by Small-Lovely-Cat. read more
Zogstrip merged the Boosts review‑link PR and announced the merge of a Chinese bug fix.
Jawestenberg shared the blog post about community builders.
Keegan provided an update on the full‑name requirement bug, noting it had been fixed in a previous PR.

Yesterday’s deep dive into plugin installation reminded us that even small plugins deserve a GitHub home, but the real community building happens when we help each other out – even if it means convincing someone to use version control.

system · June 25, 2026, 9:01pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

Total new posts: 141
Total new topics: 40

Top users by likes & posts (last 24h):

User	Likes Received	Posts Made
RGJ	29	6
Moin	21	8
Falco	17	7
Awesomerobot	17	6
Nat	14	9
Merefield	14	6
Chapoi	13	6
Willy	9	13
Davidb	9	2
NateDhaliwal	8	5

Interesting Topics

#Self-hosting

Installing plugins without third‑party hosts – Willy asked how to deploy plugins without relying on GitHub, sparking a long thread where RGJ, Merefield, and Awesomerobot explained why version control is the pragmatic way and suggested theme components as an alternative for very small customisations. read more
Disabling Discourse updates – Willy believed his forum was updating without permission; Falco clarified that ./launcher rebuild app triggers updates, and Moin showed how to pin a specific commit or the ESR branch using the version parameter in app.yml. read more
Bug: visitors can’t access forum index – Miednr reported that setting categories as the first entry in top menu redirects anonymous visitors to the login page. After troubleshooting with Zogstrip and Nat, the issue was traced to OpenID Connect settings; deactivating it solved the problem for now. read more

ux

“New Topic” button not responsive when resizing – RGJ demonstrated that the button’s text doesn’t adapt when the window is resized between desktop and mobile views. Awesomerobot confirmed the bug and provided a quick fix in a PR. read more
Cut‑off “Dismiss ⌄” button – Ted noted that the dismiss button in the sidebar is partially hidden. Chapoi explained it’s an intended design effect that may have broken due to modernisation changes and will be looked at. read more
Conversation mode (treeview) – Dituar linked to the ongoing testing of nested replies. read more

Support

Ask Discourse moins performant – Gilles reported that Ask Discourse has become less accurate since the switch to a locally hosted DeepSeek model. Nat and Falco explained the change was made for faster, documentation‑grounded answers; for development, they recommended using dv (Discourse Vibe). read more
Nested replies broken? – Paul_King had issues where posts disappeared when nested replies were enabled. After updating and removing an old import template from app.yml, the problem was resolved. read more
View counter for each post – Wall‑E requested a per‑post view counter. NateDhaliwal pointed to an existing (broken) theme component. read more

#Feature

Configure video upload destination – Prempavee wanted to use Mux or a similar provider instead of storing videos on their Pro plan. Moin and Arkshine discussed the Vimeo/YouTube upload theme component; Arkshine is working on a plugin version but noted it won’t be available on managed hosting. read more
Force English for unsupported languages – Jagster asked how to serve English to visitors whose browser locale isn’t supported, while keeping the site’s default as Finnish. Falco and Nat explained the current limitation and suggested setting the default locale to English. read more
Multi‑language preferences – Awesomerobot proposed replacing the existing “Show original content” setting with a more granular choice system for translation exclusions. Nat agreed the idea could be implemented in July. read more

bug

Boosts in reviewables link to topics, not posts – Small‑lovely‑cat reported and fixed a bug where Boost reviews pointed to the topic instead of the specific post. Nat confirmed the PR was merged. read more
Events from unlisted topics show on calendar – RGJ found that unlisting a topic still leaves its event visible on the calendar. Zogstrip provided a fix. read more
All‑day event iCal bug – Anton_Akhmerov patched a long‑standing issue where all‑day events included times in the iCal export. Nathank merged the fix after Zogstrip’s PR. read more

#Announcements

New Reactions Popup in Chat – Davidb announced an experimental reactions popup that shows all users who reacted to a chat message. It can be enabled via /admin/config/upcoming-changes. read more

#Data & reporting

AI Translation Progress Graph – LotusJeff shared Data Explorer SQL queries to track translation status (eligible, translated, to‑be‑translated). Nat thanked them and promised improvements soon. read more

#Plugin

Discourse Shared Edits – Satonotdead asked about showing all authors when Shared Edits is enabled. Sam noted that the TODO item to allow non‑TL4 members to toggle the feature has been completed. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Only Discourse team members are listed below.

Falco participated in multiple threads:
- Is it possible to disable Discourse updates? – clarified that ./launcher rebuild app triggers updates.
- Nested replies broken? – asked user to update.
- Can I force English for unsupported languages? – noted the lack of fallback locale support.
- Ask Discourse moins performant – explained the model change.
- Discourse is Not Going Closed Source – office hours update.
Nat was active in:
- Ask Discourse moins performant – confirmed the model switch and recommended dv.
- Can I force English for unsupported languages? – advised on locale settings.
- Multi‑language preferences – agreed to implement a new UI in July.
- Bug: visitors can’t access forum index – asked for HTTP headers.
- Fix: Boosts in reviewables – acknowledged the merged PR.
- AI Translation Progress Graph – promised improvements.
- AI agent replying multiple times – suggested using the new Workflows plugin.
Davidb authored the announcement about the New Reactions Popup in Chat.
Awesomerobot contributed to:
- “New Topic” button not responsive – fixed the issue.
- Theme creator is responding with 500 – acknowledged the bug.
- Multi‑language preferences – proposed a new preferences UI.
- Plugin schema objects error – helped diagnose a rendering issue.
Chapoi participated in:
- How to install plugins without using a third‑party host? – pointed to the documentation.
- Is it possible to disable Discourse updates? – showed where to find the last update date.
- Nested replies broken? – advised to update.
- Cut‑off “Dismiss ⌄” button – acknowledged the design issue.
Zogstrip was active in:
- Events from unlisted topics show on calendar – provided a fix.
- Bug: visitors can’t access forum index – attempted reproduction.
- Creating an all‑day event that is usable by iCal – submitted a fix.
- Who closed the poll? – resolved the issue.
- Disable report description hides other descriptions – confirmed the PR was merged.
Sam updated the Discourse Shared Edits thread, noting that the non‑TL4 toggle feature is done.

Yesterday’s heated debate on plugin installation without GitHub proves that even in forums, there’s no escape from version control — but we love you anyway, Willy.

system · June 26, 2026, 9:01pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

A bustling 24 hours on Meta saw 133 new posts across 41 topics, with 189 likes shared. The community engaged deeply on hosting, AI, moderation, and platform development.

Key Stats

Total new posts: 133
Total new topics: 41

Top contributors (by likes & posts):

User	Likes	Posts
Moin	31	13
Falco	28	10
Davidb	13	3
Rishabh	12	2
Mcwumbly	9	10
Nat	8	6
Robbie.Morrison	8	3
Chapoi	6	5
Arkshine	6	4
NateDhaliwal	6	4

Interesting Topics

#self-hosting

Willy sparked a long thread about disabling Discourse updates after his plugins broke. Falco clarified that Discourse never updates automatically, and the ./launcher rebuild app command is the main way to update. Moin explained how to pin a specific version, commit, or branch (like esr) via the app.yml file, though he strongly cautioned against pinning to a commit in production due to missing security patches. read more
In a related but separate thread, Willy continued a discussion on installing plugins without a third‑party host. Falco noted that plugins can be mounted via a volume in app.yml, and Pfaffman suggested using rsync or cp -a instead of git clone. Chapoi reminded everyone to keep the tone constructive. read more
JackieP asked about self‑hosting a Business‑level account. Falco reminded that Discourse is fully open‑source (GPL v2) and can be self‑hosted without any plan; SSO, gamification, and advanced features are all included in the core distribution. read more
Miednr reported a bug where anonymous visitors were redirected to login when 7 was first in 8. After investigation with Zogstrip and Nat, the issue seemed tied to the OpenID Connect plugin — deactivating it resolved the symptom, though the root cause remains unclear. read more

Community Building

Robbie.Morrison shared a deeply personal experience with forums that forbid AI content. He described being wrongly accused of using AI on Wikipedia and documented the “reverse burden of proof” that accused editors face. RGJ linked to articles about AI‑detector bias against non‑native English speakers. One1 pointed to the AskHistorians subreddit’s strict yet more procedural AI policy. Chapoi lamented that their habit of using em‑dashes now makes them look like a bot. read more

Support

Gilles noticed that Ask Discourse has become less helpful recently. Nat confirmed they switched to a locally hosted DeepSeek v4 Flash model. Falco explained that Ask Discourse was built for general troubleshooting, not development, and recommended using dv (Discourse Vibe) for coding‑related queries. Gilles expressed disappointment, finding dv too heavy for occasional development. read more
LotusJeff asked about the translation speed difference between topics and posts. Falco clarified that both use the same batch numbers, so topics with fewer replies progress faster; adjusting the max age or backfill rate can help catch up. read more
Newbit1337 flagged a confusing UX in full‑app embed mode: the topic progress bar shows “2/2” even though only one post is visible, and the timeline can’t scroll to post #1. Mcwumbly has already been considering adding a flagging option for embedded posts. read more
Ondrej struggled to re‑enable the AI plugin after disabling it. Falco pinged Keegan suspecting a recent change might have caused the issue. read more

#announcements

Rishabh published the Current Projects – June 2026 newsletter, detailing recently finished work (GIFs moving to core, unified new topic list, nested replies, new layout/blocks system) and ongoing work (reporting improvements, events plugin upgrades, Free plan enhancements, and a new Workflows system). NateDhaliwal asked for developer documentation on the blocks API; Chapoi said it will come once the system stabilises. read more
Davidb announced the new reactions popup in chat. Hovering a reaction shows the list of users; multiple reactions trigger a filter menu. The feature is experimental and can be enabled via the “Upcoming changes” admin page. read more
Awesomerobot announced that livestream is now an optional toggle on event creation, replacing the need to tag topics livestream. livestream_enabled and livestream_chat_allowed_groups settings are deprecated; existing topics are migrated automatically. read more

#feature

Prempavee requested the ability to configure where videos are uploaded (e.g., Mux instead of local storage) on the Pro plan. Moin pointed to a theme component for YouTube/Vimeo upload; Arkshine explained the Vimeo partner limitations and offered to create a plugin version when possible. Mcwumbly noted that extra storage can be purchased on the Pro plan, but the custom Mux integration is not planned for lower tiers. read more
Moin raised a strong case for restoring the per‑topic language toggle in the translation feature. He explained that the new per‑post toggle requires many clicks and that the old timeline toggle was more discoverable. Awesomerobot acknowledged the feedback and said they could reconsider the design. read more

bug

Zogstrip fixed a long‑standing bug where all‑day events were not usable by iCal (PR #41203). Nathank called the result “a bit messy” but confirmed the fix works. read more
Zogstrip also patched an issue where events from unlisted topics would appear on the calendar (PR #41194). read more

development

Singi2016cn explored how to interact with plugin outlets inside gjs components. After RGJ pointed out that PluginOutlet has no parameters, Singi2016cn discovered they could directly access the search service from connectors, making component interaction unnecessary. read more

ux

Mcwumbly changed the default sort for the Feature category from “Votes” to “Default” (Activity) to reduce disorientation. Topics still sort by votes on the Votes tab. Moin thanked him, noting a similar confusion he had raised earlier. read more

#site-feedback

Mcwumbly opened a meta‑discussion on whether the #contribute:feature category should be split, as it currently serves both open‑ended product discussion and individual feature proposals. He gave the example of a long‑running debate on threaded discussion that feels uncomfortable to close as “done.” read more

Activity by the Team Group

Team members were highly active across many threads. Here’s a summary of their contributions:

Falco spent a lot of time helping self‑hosters: he clarified that Discourse does not auto‑update (Is it possible to disable Discourse updates?), explained how to mount plugins via volumes (How to install plugins without using a third-party host?), and reinforced that the open‑source version includes all features (Self host Business account). He also chimed in on the Ask Discourse performance change (Ask discourse moins performant), answered a question about flags in full‑app embed (Flag post in Full-App Embed?), addressed an AI translation speed question (Why topics translate faster than posts), and reported a small UI overlap in the inline AI suggestions feature (Inline integration of AI Suggestions). He also attended office hours and announced that Discourse is not going closed source (Discourse is Not Going Closed Source).
Rishabh posted the June Current Projects newsletter (Current Projects - June 2026) and helped a site get re‑listed in Discourse Discover (Including your site in Discourse Discover).
Nat investigated the Ask Discourse slowdown (Ask discourse moins performant), helped debug the anonymous login bug on / (Bug? Visitors can’t access forum index), participated in the multi‑language preference discussion (Multi-language preferences), and helped Singi2016cn troubleshoot an AI automation loop (使用 ai 角色对帖子进行分类，某个帖子被短时间多次回复).
Davidb announced the new chat reactions popup (New Reactions Popup in Chat) and added relevant tags to the announcement (Experiment: Collaborative content gardening hub).
Chapoi provided instructions on finding the Discourse version in the admin panel (Is it possible to disable Discourse updates?), defended the tone of a discussion on plugin installation (How to install plugins without using a third-party host?), commented on the AI detection bias (em‑dash lament) (Forums that forbid AI content), and noted that developer docs for the blocks API will come once it stabilises (Current Projects - June 2026). He also clarified the trust level guide (Discourse Trust Levels).
Mcwumbly helped explain how to pin a specific commit for version locking (Is it possible to disable Discourse updates?), weighed in on per‑category nested reply settings (Introducing nested replies), discussed the rationale for hiding flags in embed mode (Flag post in Full-App Embed?), considered a date‑picker alternative to the rolling “days” setting for AI translation (Request for a date picker in AI Translate settings), changed the default sort for the Feature category (Default sort for Feature category), and started a meta‑discussion about splitting the Feature category (Where should open ended discussion about the product happen?). He also noted that extra storage can be purchased on the Pro plan (Ability to configure where videos uploaded).
Zogstrip fixed two bugs: the all‑day event iCal issue (Creating an all day event that is usable by iCal) and events from unlisted topics showing on the calendar (Events from unlisted topics show on calendar). He also attempted to reproduce the anonymous login bug (Bug? Visitors can’t access forum index).
Awesomerobot announced the livestream toggle integration (Livestream is now an optional toggle on event creation), discussed bringing back the topic‑wide language toggle (Multi-language preferences), and helped Singi2016cn debug a schema setting issue (在插件中如何配置数组对象？).
Markvanlan merged a commit that changed default nested reply depth to 3 and capped nesting (Introducing nested replies).
Martin fixed a bug in the unified new view (Introducing the unified new view for the topic list) and updated on granular group‑based permissions (Granular group-based permissions).
Sam merged a PR for Discourse Shared Edits (Discourse Shared Edits).
Tannerabread investigated a bug where user cards open when clicking links on upcoming events cards (User card opens when clicking link on upcoming events card).
Keegan was pinged about a possible regression that locked users out of re‑enabling the AI plugin (Can’t get the AI plugin enabled).
NateDhaliwal asked for developer docs on the blocks API (Current Projects - June 2026), helped Singi2016cn with gjs component interaction (如何重写gjs组件中的template), and flagged that a new chat reactions post should have the correct tags (Experiment: Collaborative content gardening hub).

Fun fact from yesterday’s activity: The em‑dash ( — ) is now so closely associated with AI writing that veteran forum user Chapoi is considering giving up their favourite punctuation mark — lest they be mistaken for a bot.

system · June 27, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community created 43 new topics and 91 new posts, generating 160 likes. The most active users by likes and posts were:

User	Likes	Posts
Moin	21	12
Falco	19	6
Mcwumbly	15	10
Rishabh	14	1
Awesomerobot	12	4
Nicolsdennis	9	5
Pfaffman	9	2
Robbie.Morrison	8	3
Markvanlan	7	2
RGJ	7	1

Interesting Topics

#Community Building

Forums that forbid AI content… How’s it going? – Robbie.Morrison shared a harrowing account of Wikipedia’s AI-purity policies, describing false accusations, a font-size: 0pt honeypot trap, and a reverse burden of proof that denies natural justice. He encouraged readers to review the exchange at Fern Cave article talk page. RGJ countered with links to studies showing AI detectors are biased against non‑native English speakers, and Chapoi lamented that overusing em‑dashes now looks like AI. [read more]

#Announcements

Current Projects – June 2026 – Rishabh published the monthly newsletter, highlighting the move of the GIFs component into core, the unified new topic list, nested replies (experimental), a new blocks system for themes, and upcoming work on reporting, events, and workflows. Chapoi noted that developer documentation for the blocks API is pending stabilisation. [read more]
Introducing nested replies – The conversation continued on default settings: Markvanlan merged a commit that caps nesting depth at 3 (down from 10). Mcwumbly suggested making these settings per‑category, which Markvanlan agreed would be the eventual reality, though a way to backfill existing topics is still needed. [read more]
Livestream is now an optional toggle on event creation – Awesomerobot announced that livestream is now an attribute directly on the event, removing the need for a livestream tag. Existing topics will be migrated automatically. Developers can check topic.has_livestream and use the new CSS class body.livestream-topic. [read more]
Inline integration of AI Suggestions (in Composer) – Falco reported a tiny icon overlap when editing the topic title directly, alerting Chapoi. [read more]

#Self-hosting

Self host Business account – JackieP asked whether the Business plan allows on‑premises hosting. Falco clarified that Discourse is open‑source (GPL v2) and can be self‑hosted without any plan; SSO and gamification are available in the free version. Pfaffman offered paid integration help via the Marketplace. [read more]
How to install plugins without using a third‑party host? – Pfaffman provided a straightforward answer: use any method to copy source code into the discourse/plugins directory – git clone, rsync, or cp -a. He lamented that the thread had not been as supportive as it could have been. [read more]

#Feature

Multi‑language preferences for displaying localized content – Moin detailed why the removal of the whole‑topic translation toggle is frustrating: toggling 10 posts now takes 10 clicks instead of one, and the new per‑post toggle changes behavior when you click. He also noticed that translated titles lack a toggle, and switching interface language via the dropdown resets the “show original” preference. Awesomerobot acknowledged the need for a better design. [read more]
Ability to configure where videos uploaded – Mcwumbly mentioned existing Mux integrations but said no lower‑plan availability is planned. Arkshine built a custom Cloudflare Worker solution that handles auth and uploads directly to CF Stream or Mux, demonstrating it with a video. [read more]

#Site feedback

Where should open ended discussion about the product happen? – Mcwumbly raised a meta‑question about whether Contribute > Feature should separate ideation/voting from open discussion. Awesomerobot suggested expanding Contribute > UX to cover broader experiences. [read more]

Support

Can’t get the AI plugin enabled – Ondrej accidentally disabled the AI plugin and couldn’t re‑enable it. Keegan acknowledged a bug in the disabled state and explained that on free tier sites the AI plugin is mandatory (for spam detection), though individual AI features can be turned off. [read more]

ux

Topic edit interface shows overlapping icons – Moin spotted the angle‑down and sparkles icons overlapping when editing topic information. Falco had already flagged this in the composer thread. [read more]
Always show recent drafts first in the new topic dropdown – Moin requested that drafts be sorted by last update (as in the activity list) rather than in a seemingly random order after a reload. [read more]

bug

Diff between revisions no longer visible when there is a hidden revision in between – Moin reported that hidden revisions now break the diff view, showing nothing instead of the combined diff that was previously displayed. Examples from several Meta topics were provided. [read more]

#Site Management

Discourse Moderation Guide – Part 2 & 3 – MarkDoerr published two comprehensive guides: Part 2: Managing Users covers public profiles, IP lookups, and handling difficult users via warnings, silencing, and suspensions; Part 3: Managing Content details topic management, flag workflows, the review queue, and slow mode. Both are part of a series. [read more] [read more]

Activity by the Team Group

Staff members were active across many discussions. Here’s what the team contributed:

Rishabh kicked off the month’s Current Projects newsletter.
Awesomerobot announced the livestream toggle change, discussed translation UX in Multi‑language preferences, weighed in on open‑ended discussion categories, and clarified the trust levels guide.
Mcwumbly engaged on nested replies per‑category settings, proposed separating feature from discussion, changed the default sort for #contribute:feature, addressed video upload options, supported the flag post in embed feature, and considered a date picker in AI translate settings.
Markvanlan merged the nested replies default change and advocated for per‑category configuration.
Falco answered self‑hosting questions, reported the AI plugin bug (later fixed by Keegan), explained topic vs. post translation speed, flagged the inline AI suggestion icon overlap, and supported adding flags in embed mode.
Keegan fixed the stuck AI plugin disabled state and clarified that the AI plugin is mandatory on free tier.
Chapoi asked about blocks documentation timing and updated the trust levels FAQ.
Davidb linked to the new reactions popup in chat from the reactions feature topic.
Tannerabread asked for reproduction details on the user card click bug.

Sign‑off: Yesterday’s activity was so lively that even the AI plugin couldn’t decide whether to summarize it or join the debate about its own existence – and someone almost lost their em‑dash in the crossfire.

system · June 28, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

Over the past 24 hours, 53 new posts were created across 29 topics, accumulating 45 likes. The community was buzzing with activity, especially around the native mobile app and moderation guides.

User	Posts	Likes
Nicolsdennis	7	9
Moin	3	6
MarkDoerr	2	5
Falco	2	4
Ed_S	1	4
Arkshine	1	2
LarisaHaster	1	2
Ondrej	1	2
Bartv	3	1
Chapoi	3	1

Interesting Topics

Grouped by category, a maximum of 15 topics highlighted.

General

Nicolsdennis showcased a native mobile iOS+Android client app for Discourse, including a new “Tablet Mode” that splits the feed pane like a drawer, and demonstrated support for translated posts and post navigator. The app is already in beta for Android. Read more about the Sysaru app.

bug

Moin reported that ’ is displayed instead of ' in popular topic titles on the oops page (e.g., /oops). Lilly noted a potential related funny display. Read more.
@ばこん discovered that HTML comments are also included in AI summaries, which can reveal hidden text. Falco marked the issue as #wontfix, suggesting users modify the summary agent prompt to ignore comments. Read more.
Ililaoban reported a regression on /u/:username/activity pages where scrolling down, opening a post, and using the browser Back button fails to restore scroll position, contrary to the 3.0 release notes. Read more.
Nicolsdennis identified a bug in the nested replies view (/n/): deleted-post placeholders pad pages even when those posts have no visible replies, causing blank “removed” rows for non-staff users. He suggested a fix in NestedReplies::TreeLoader. Read more.
Seanblue found that right-clicking in the composer can interact with images behind it if the composer is overlaid on a post with an image. Reproduced on Meta with Chrome. Read more.

#Self-hosting

Ed_S emphasized that the correct way to install plugins without a third-party host is to copy source code directly into the discourse/plugins directory, respecting the original question and promoting a supportive community. Read more.

Support

Firedragon struggled with a missing Starter upgrade option on a hosted plan. Chapoi and Ondrej guided him to check the admin/manage-account/plans section, but the option appears absent; the team is expected to reply on Monday. Read more.
Darkpixlz faced Discourse embed URL configuration issues when trying to embed posts on a blog. Falco clarified the distinction between discourseUrl (forum address) and discourseEmbedUrl (page address). Further ghost topics were created due to a missing blog URL. Read more.

#Site Management

MarkDoerr published Discourse Moderation Guide - Part 2: Managing Users, covering user profiles, trust levels, and handling difficult users via official warnings, silencing, and suspensions. Read the guide.
MarkDoerr also released Part 3: Managing Content, detailing topic management, flags, review queue, and content approval, including de-escalation techniques and slow mode. Read the guide.

#Feature

Arkshine shared progress on an ability to configure where videos are uploaded, demonstrating a Cloudflare Worker broker that authenticates via Discourse SSO and creates upload URLs for CF Stream or Mux. Watch the demo.

#Plugin

Bartv and Moin discussed Discourse Reactions – feedback included a scrollable emoji bar lacking visual hints, wish for custom emojis to appear at the top, and “Frequently Used” emojis being browser-stored. Read more.

#Announcements

Noble_Fish and EricGT contributed to the solved improvements feature discussion, suggesting that a “Me too” button should show who clicked it and that user confirmations could merge related issues into a single thread. Read more.

#Site feedback

Moin spotted broken avatars in quotes within translated posts – the images are replaced by broken icons in German and other translations. Read more.

Activity by the Team Group

The Team group was active in several discussions:

Falco participated in two topics:
- Marked the HTML comments in AI summaries issue as #wontfix and provided guidance. See post.
- Clarified embed URL configuration for Darkpixlz. See post.
Chapoi assisted Firedragon with the missing Starter upgrade option, checking the manage account section and directing to plans page. See posts and later post.
Ondrej confirmed the plans page redirects back for Firedragon, supporting the troubleshooting. See post.
Tobiaseigen raised issues about Bootstrap mode being legacy, noting that new users at TL0 cannot access PMs and that his own meta posts were flagged due to TL0 restrictions. See post and suggested workaround.

Yesterday the community was so deep in moderation guides that even a wooden puppet would have learned to silence spam – but instead, they built a mobile app that translates Hungarian into tablet mode.

system · June 29, 2026, 9:01pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

A thorough look at the last 24 hours of conversation, collaboration, and community problem-solving on Meta.

Key Stats

Over the past day, the community generated 74 new posts across 30 new topics, with a total of 83 likes given. The ten most active contributors (by likes and posts) were:

Moin – 12 likes, 5 posts
Falco – 10 likes, 6 posts
Lilly – 10 likes, 6 posts
Nicolsdennis – 8 likes, 5 posts
Supermathie – 7 likes, 3 posts
Markvanlan – 4 likes, 1 post
Seanblue – 3 likes, 3 posts
Adamengst – 3 likes, 2 posts
NiceOldGuy – 3 likes, 2 posts
Tannerabread – 3 likes, 2 posts

Interesting Topics

Topics are grouped by category; each bullet summarises the key discussion in prose and includes a direct link.

bug

Nicolsdennis uncovered a perplexing bug in the [nested-replies] view: pages are padded with deleted-post placeholders when no live descendants remain, causing blank pages for non-staff. Markvanlan acknowledged the issue and plans to drop placeholders when total_descendant_count is zero—though Falco suggested moving deleteds to the end instead. Read the full report.
Moin spotted that on the oops page (/oops) some topic titles render ’ instead of a proper apostrophe. Lilly shared a laugh at the HTML entity leak, and Sam commented that it likely originates from a security fix. Zogstrip proposed a PR to resolve the encoding. See the oops page.
Lilly reported that custom emojis stored on S3 or Cloudflare R2 bypass the configured CDN URL, causing broken images when bucket policies are strict. She opened a PR to wrap the URL in Discourse.store.cdn_url(), and created a theme component as an interim fix. Falco tested default vs custom emojis on Meta and noted the two‑CDN setup might be the root cause. Discuss the CDN bypass.
Tannerabread fixed a long‑standing bug where spoilers do not toggle when placed inside <details> elements—the PR is now available for review. Read about the fix.

#Self-hosting

A question (originally in Chinese) about how to retrieve the end‑user’s real IP after commit b4a3389 sparked a deep discussion. Iamntz shared their Cloudflare‑style Nginx config, Lilly pointed to the socket‑based approach, and Supermathie wrote an entire guide on setting the chain of trust without needing a socket. Pfaffman also weighed in with a template approach. See the full thread.
Supermathie authored a comprehensive how‑to on handling the “chain of trust” for the end‑user’s real IP when multiple proxies (Cloudflare, load balancers) sit in front of Discourse. The guide explains the new discourse_docker outlet‑based template system and includes examples for AWS ALB and multi‑proxy scenarios. Read the guide.

#Feature

Falco marked as #wontfix the behaviour where AI summaries include content from HTML comments, noting that pre‑processing overhead outweighs the benefit—though site admins can tweak the summary agent prompt to ignore them. See the decision.

Support

Adamengst accidentally changed a topic’s timestamp and ended up with most posts dated a week later than intended. Moin pointed to the Rails console guide for manually editing post dates. Adamengst plans to try the console fix. Get the details.
The disappearance of the Starter upgrade option left several free‑plan users confused. Chapoi asked for screenshots, Ondrej confirmed the URL wasn’t working, and finally Rishabh clarified that Starter has been made a legacy plan and the “Change Plans” page was removed for redesign. Follow the discussion.
Lew_Grothe asked whether enabling threading on a category retroactively formats existing replies into threads. Falco answered that it does not—threading is forward‑only, but moved replies will adapt to the threaded structure. Read more.
Tobiaseigen raised the pain of communities without Bootstrap mode (now marked legacy): new users at TL0 can’t read PMs and struggle to engage. He suggested setting default trust level to 1 as a workaround, and Merefield seconded the idea. Join the discussion.

#Site feedback

Moin noticed that avatars in quotes are broken only in the translated version of posts—the raw bucket URL bypasses the CDN again. The example topic shows the issue across multiple languages. View the broken avatars.

#Plugin

Martin responded to user feedback on Discourse Reactions, discussing a potential “click to react” feature (copying Chat behaviour), the scrollability of the emoji picker, and pinning custom emojis to the top. Chapoi joined the conversation with design thoughts. Bartv provided detailed UX suggestions. Catch up on the plugin thread.

#Announcements

NiceOldGuy shared a collection of historical resources on Discourse’s flat model, including Jeff Atwood’s canonical blog post and a 2017 topic on terminology. The nested‑replies announcement continues to generate conversation about trade‑offs vs. infinite scrolling.
Martin discussed the unified new view with Moin, noting that marking a topic as unread bumps it to the top in the “All” subtab—a behaviour inherited from the old Unread list. Sam commented that this seems fine for users who depend on it. Read the exchange.
Mcwumbly updated the Upcoming Changes announcement, clarifying that for self‑hosters, beta features are currently held until stable before auto‑enabling, and proposed changing that setting to align with the documentation. View the update.

ux

Seanblue discovered that right‑clicking inside the composer (even on the textarea) can trigger actions on an image behind the composer because the image’s context menu bleeds through. Chapoi reproduced the bug on the composer container but not the textarea, and marked it #wontfix as low impact. Seanblue later clarified it depends on the editor (RTE vs. Markdown). Report the quirk.
Chapoi acknowledged a longstanding issue where the AI title suggest icon is placed above the title input field due to absolute positioning, and promised to fix it when time allows.

Activity by the Team Group

Team members were active across many topics yesterday. Here is a summary of their contributions:

Sam participated in three topics: he noted the ’ issue on the oops page likely came from a security fix, commented on the nested‑replies placeholder bug to loop in Markvanlan, and shared his thoughts on the unified new view’s bump‑to‑top rule.
Markvanlan responded to the nested‑replies placeholder bug, confirming that placeholders with no descendants should be dropped and that nested-replies are moving back to /t/ in the next release.
Zogstrip linked to a PR on the GitHub repo to fix the HTML entity encoding in oops‑page titles.
Chapoi was especially busy: he tended the right‑clicking‑composer bug, confirmed the AI button placement issue, helped with the Starter plan support thread, and contributed design ideas to the Discourse Reactions thread.
Martin engaged in two long‑running topics: he updated the unified new view announcement with findings about the bump‑to‑top behaviour, and responded to community feedback on the Reactions plugin, discussing potential UI improvements.
Rishabh provided the official clarification about the Starter plan being made legacy and the removal of the “Change Plans” page.
Mcwumbly added information to the Upcoming Changes announcement, noting that self‑hosted sites currently wait until stable to auto‑enable beta features, and proposed aligning the setting with the documentation.
Pmusaraj was referenced by Martin regarding DiscourseHub updates for the unified new view, but did not post in the last 24 hours.
Osama was referenced as one of the implementers of the unified new view, but also did not post.
J.Jaffeux was mentioned in the Reactions thread about local storage for frequently used emojis, but did not post in this period.
Lindsey’s original Upcoming Changes post was cited, but she did not post in the last 24 hours.

(Only team members who authored or replied in the last 24 hours are listed above.)

Yesterday’s activity reminds us that even the most seasoned Discourse users can be tripped up by a misplaced right‑click, a missing plan upgrade, or a full page of deleted comment placeholders—what a wild ride!

system · June 30, 2026, 9:01pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community generated 86 new posts and 41 new topics, receiving 122 likes in total. The most active contributors were:

Lilly — 7 posts, 17 likes
Falco — 7 posts, 14 likes
Sam — 4 posts, 13 likes
Supermathie — 3 posts, 10 likes
Chapoi — 5 posts, 5 likes
Nicolsdennis — 5 posts, 5 likes
Martin — 3 posts, 5 likes
Overgrow — 2 posts, 5 likes
Loic — 1 post, 5 likes
Moin — 5 posts, 4 likes

Interesting Topics

#Self-hosting

Lilly discovered that custom emojis uploaded via S3 or Cloudflare R2 bypass the CDN routing and load directly from the raw bucket URL. Falco pointed out that the issue may be a misconfiguration of the two‑CDN setup, and after further testing Lilly confirmed it was a typo in her Cloudflare DNS record. A PR and a theme component were provided as interim solutions. Read more
CLOUD_PHT reported that after commit b4a3389, user IP detection broke when Discourse is behind an external nginx. Lilly recommended switching to a Unix socket, while Supermathie wrote a detailed guide on configuring real_ip_header and set_real_ip_from directives inside the container. Read more
Supermathie published a comprehensive how‑to for handling the “chain of trust” of the end user’s real IP when multiple proxies (Cloudflare, load balancers) sit in front of Discourse. The guide explains the new predictable file‑naming convention for nginx outlets. Read more
Willy shared a working method to install local plugins without a third‑party host by mounting a host directory and copying it into the Discourse plugins folder during the after_code hook. Pfaffman and Nicolsdennis discussed alternatives like symlinks and handling database migrations. Read more

#Announcements

Sam announced cost‑based quotas for Discourse AI, allowing admins to set a maximum dollar spend per group instead of just token limits. This integrates directly with the existing LLM usage quota system. Read more
Loic published the June 2026 monthly release (v2026.6) along with patch releases for older supported versions. The full changelog is available on releases.discourse.org. Read more
Mcwumbly and Moin discussed the Upcoming Changes system: how beta changes are enabled, sorting by status, and the default behavior for self‑hosted sites. Mcwumbly clarified that currently, self‑hosters only see changes promoted to stable. Read more
Martin announced that Discourse Reactions will be enabled by default for all sites via an upcoming change. Pfaffman suggested adding a note to the main Reactions plugin topic, which Martin did. Read more
Chapoi discussed the inline integration of AI Suggestions in the composer, noting that the UI should be consistent across different contexts (composer, chat, etc.). Feedback from Falco and Nicolsdennis followed. Read more

bug

Nicolsdennis reported that in the nested replies view (/n/), deleted posts with no descendants still show placeholders, inflating page counts. Markvanlan acknowledged the issue and plans to either skip them or move them to the end. Falco suggested alternative sorting. Read more
Tannerabread fixed a long‑standing bug where spoilers inside <details> elements did not toggle. The fix has been merged and should be available soon. Read more

General

Overgrow asked whether AI translations + crawler indexing actually pay off in SEO terms. Nat shared an experience blog post and warned about a small issue (needing to enable set locale from param) that will be fixed this week. Read more

Support

Singi2016cn wanted to redirect the homepage (/) to a custom route (/home). Chapoi recommended using the custom_homepage modifier and the Block System (or a connector), which is the modern approach. NateDhaliwal added that users must set their default home page to (default) in preferences. Read more

#Plugin

Martin gathered user feedback on the Discourse Reactions plugin and discussed possible improvements: allowing one‑click “join in” reactions, placing custom emojis at the top, making frequently used emojis more accessible, and storing recent emojis server‑side instead of browser local storage. Read more

#Feature

Overgrow revived a request to limit topic translation to specific categories with an allow‑list, arguing that an exclude‑only model can lead to unintended translation costs. Pmusaraj noted that most communities benefit from translating all public content, but is curious about how common the scoped use case is. Read more

Activity by the Team Group

Sam announced cost‑based AI quotas Cost based quotas, commented on the nested replies bug Nested replies, discussed the unified new view sorting Unified new view, and noted a security concern on the oops page Oops page.
Martin gathered feedback on Reactions Discourse Reactions, edited the announcement about enabling reactions by default Enabling Reactions, and confirmed the unified new view behavior Unified new view.
Markvanlan acknowledged the nested replies placeholder issue and plans to fix it Nested replies.
Mcwumbly raised sorting of upcoming changes and clarified beta behavior for self‑hosters Upcoming Changes.
Pmusaraj discussed the allow‑list approach for limiting translation to specific categories Limit translation.
Chapoi provided guidance on custom homepages Custom homepage, discussed AI suggestion UI consistency AI Suggestions, noted the AI title suggest icon issue AI title suggest, and investigated the right‑clicking composer bug Composer bug.
Awesomerobot fixed the staff color highlight on warning OPs Staff color, updated the Homepage Feature component with srcset and tag fixes Homepage Feature, and modernized the Post Views Counter component Post Views Counter.
Zogstrip fixed the Theme Creator 500 error Theme Creator and addressed HTML escaping in oops page titles Oops page.
Tannerabread fixed the spoiler toggle inside <details> Spoilers and resolved a category‑settings conflict caused by the Custom Wizard plugin Category settings.
Loic announced the June 2026 release June release.
Supermathie authored the chain‑of‑trust guide Chain of trust and helped with the IP configuration issue IP issue.
Nat responded about AI translations SEO, sharing a blog post and a forthcoming fix AI translations.

Yesterday proved that even the most seasoned admins can have a typo in their CDN config, but the community is always ready to help sniff out the problem – and sometimes even fix it with a PCIe dog treat!

system · July 1, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, 123 new posts were created across 52 new topics, accumulating 178 total likes. The most active contributors by likes were:

Moin – 23 likes, 19 posts
Awesomerobot – 13 likes, 8 posts
Sam – 13 likes, 1 post
Itsbhanusharma – 11 likes, 8 posts
Falco – 11 likes, 5 posts

Interesting Topics

#Announcements

Cost‑based quotas for Discourse AI – Sam unveiled the ability to manage AI spending by estimated dollar cost. Admins can now set a budget per group, and the system will attempt to stay within that limit regardless of provider. read more
Modernizing the Foundation theme – Moin flagged a regression where the language dropdown icon became oversized. Awesomerobot identified the cause (a missing wrapper) and submitted a fix. read more
Admin Reporting & Analysis: Incremental changes – Moin reported that empty rows in dashboard reports appeared too large, making the layout harder to scan. Tgxworld investigated and the display was subsequently improved. read more
GIFs are moving to Discourse core! – One1 was confused by the “Upcoming Changes” wording regarding the GIF button. Mcwumbly and Davidb clarified that the setting will remain visible and configurable after the migration. read more
June 2026 monthly release – Loic announced the v2026.6.0 changelog along with patch releases for v2026.1.5, v2026.4.2, and v2026.5.1. read more
Introducing Upcoming Changes – Moin discussed the transition of feature flags from beta to stable, asking about the impact on theme components. Mcwumbly acknowledged the concern and noted a PR to shift the default to stable. read more

General

AI translations + crawler indexing – any SEO payoff? – Overgrow shared a detailed query about turning on AI translation for multilingual SEO. Nat pointed to a blog post covering the experience and fixed a “footgun” where set locale from param was needed. Eisammy contributed real‑world data from a large Portuguese forum. read more
Discourse Comments on Astro Starlight – Philh showcased a seamless integration of Discourse comments into an Astro Starlight documentation site. NateDhaliwal praised the clean embedding and noted that mermaid diagrams work perfectly. read more

#Self-hosting

Custom Emojis loaded from S3/R2 bypass CDN routing – Lilly and Falco debugged an issue where custom emojis were ignoring the DISCOURSE_CDN_URL. After tracing through a typo and a missing rebuild, Lilly re‑opened a PR that fixes the routing for Cloudflare R2. read more
How to install plugins without using a third‑party host – Willy shared a complete app.yml configuration snippet that mounts local plugins via a bind mount and copies them during the after_code hook. Pfaffman suggested symlinks as an alternative. read more

#Plugin

Resenha – Add Discord‑style Voice Rooms to Your Community – Itsbhanusharma reported a compatibility failure on ESR instances. Falco explained that experimental plugins are not guaranteed to work on stable releases. Mcwumbly described a fun voice chat session using the plugin on Meta. read more

#Migration

Telligent to Discourse Migration – User Account Migration? – Siamak‑oi asked about migrating user accounts from Telligent. Italo noted that Discourse does not have built‑in Telligent tooling, but community consultants are available. Cocococosti confirmed that user accounts, content, and statistics can be preserved, though passwords must be reset. read more

Support

Confused about security fixes as reported at releases.discourse.org – Ed_S noticed that version comparisons seemed to count the same security fixes repeatedly. Awesomerobot acknowledged that the changelog currently compares forward without excluding already‑backported fixes, and asked David if the logic could be improved. read more

#Feature

Limit topic translation to specific categories – Overgrow advocated for an allow‑list model for AI translation categories to control costs. Pmusaraj was curious how common this use case is and noted that most communities benefit from translating everything. read more
HTML comments are also summarized by AI – Ed_S raised a security concern that malicious text hidden in HTML comments could influence AI summaries without visible trace. Falco explained that LLM prompt structure mitigates this but acknowledged the risk with smaller models. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Team members were active across many discussions:

Sam introduced cost‑based quotas for Discourse AI and engaged in the initial announcement with technical details.
Nat provided extensive guidance on AI translation SEO and quickly fixed the “footgun” related to locale parameters in two posts.
Awesomerobot tackled multiple fixes: a missing wrapper in the Foundation theme (PR #41348), a visual overflow in the tag selection modal (PR #41349), the OP of warnings not highlighted with Staff Color (PR #41293), and a modernization pass of the Post Views Counter component (PR #1).
Mcwumbly participated in GIFs moving to core, the Introducing Upcoming Changes thread, and the docked composer for AI bot conversations. He also responded to feedback about multi‑language preferences, suggesting an “all topic” button for showing original language.
Davidb confirmed the GIF setting will remain configurable after the move to core.
Zogstrip fixed the theme‑creator.io 500 error and a bug in upcoming changes toggling (PR #41344).
Loic announced the June 2026 monthly release and its patches.
Pmusaraj discussed the feature request to limit topic translation categories and offered insights on common usage.
Falco was heavily involved in the Custom Emojis CDN issue, the Resenha ESR compatibility discussion, and the HTML comments AI summary security topic.
Tgxworld investigated admin reporting layout feedback from Moin and resolved the display issue.
Cocococosti provided migration advice for Telligent to Discourse, confirming user data and account preservation.

As the emojis get ready to move into core, remember: yesterday’s voice chats might be the only place you’ll hear laughter – but today, the code keeps marching on!

system · July 2, 2026, 9:01pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community generated 166 new posts across 58 new topics, with a total of 242 likes given.

Top users by activity:

Moin – 34 likes, 24 posts
Lilly – 25 likes, 18 posts
Mcwumbly – 21 likes, 10 posts
Awesomerobot – 21 likes, 7 posts
Pfaffman – 9 likes, 5 posts
Dreieck – 8 likes, 4 posts
Ed_S – 8 likes, 3 posts
Falco – 8 likes, 3 posts
Tobiaseigen – 7 likes, 7 posts
Itsbhanusharma – 6 likes, 5 posts

Interesting Topics

#Self-hosting

Error running remap after changing site url – Tobiaseigen attempted to change their domain name and hit a PostgreSQL constraint collision in the browser_pageview_referrer_daily_rollups table. Lilly provided step-by-step SQL to delete conflicting records, and after several rounds of manual database cleanup, the remap finally completed successfully. read more
Avatars take a long time to load after moving to S3-compatible R2 – David_Ghost tested four different storage+CDN configurations and found slow avatar loading in all of them. Pfaffman and Lilly suggested that the issue is likely avatar generation on first request, and recommended letting the rake avatars:refresh task run fully and then giving the cache time to build. read more

Support

Confused about security fixes as reported at releases.discourse.org – Ed_S noticed that version comparisons showed redundant security fixes. Awesomerobot and David traced the problem to the release site’s comparison logic; David then submitted a fix on GitHub to exclude already-backported patches from cross-release counts. read more
Ocultar menú flotante – Laguna asked how to hide the floating category/tag drop‑down on a Graceful Theme. NateDhaliwal suggested a CSS solution, and Lilly pointed to the #custom-top-navigation-links theme component that includes a dedicated “Hide category and tag dropdowns” setting. read more
Self Hosted Forum Log In Issues – Apiento reported being repeatedly logged out of his forum. Itsbhanusharma suspected a misconfigured Cloudflare proxy and suggested checking Cloudflare’s orange cloud and the real‑IP chain‑of‑trust guides. read more

#Feature

Accept paste input during installation – Philh noted that the new installer does not allow pasting (e.g., API keys). Moin encouraged voting on the existing feature request, and Falco quickly implemented a fix that will be included in the next installer image. read more

#Announcements

Review and suspend accounts which are not yet activated – Mcwumbly announced a new Admin > Users filter for unactivated accounts, plus bulk suspend actions. This helps moderators handle spam waves before accounts can post. read more
GIFs are moving to Discourse core! – In the ongoing discussion, One1 was confused by the “permanent” warning in the Upcoming Changes area. Davidb confirmed that the GIF setting will remain configurable, and the team discussed improving the wording of these notifications. read more
Modernizing the Foundation theme – Moin flagged a regression where the language dropdown icon became oversized. Awesomerobot identified the cause (a missing wrapper) and submitted a fix. read more
Introducing the unified new view for the topic list – Martin and Pmusaraj discussed adjusting DiscourseHub to show a single “New” count instead of separate Topics/Replies. Moin argued for the old distinction, but the team is leaning toward simplicity. read more
June 2026 monthly release – Elmuerte spotted that some CVE references in the release notes pointed to unrelated vulnerabilities. Loic confirmed it was a copy‑paste error; the correct Discourse CVEs are still being assigned. read more
Admin Reporting & Analysis: Incremental Changes – Moin reported that empty rows in the dashboard reports became oversized. Tgxworld investigated and the spacing was corrected in a later commit. read more
Introducing Upcoming Changes, a system to manage new features – Moin and Martin debated whether “stable” should be skipped for self‑hosters. Tgxworld fixed a mistake where a change was removed prematurely. read more
Solved improvements: Allowing members to indicate they’re experiencing a reported issue – NateDhaliwal suggested that solved indicators should be hidden in deleted topics. Awesomerobot agreed and improved the logic. read more
Introducing simple mode for Discourse Doc Categories – Moin noted that the post-composer issue with simple mode was fixed, making the feature more usable. read more
Self-Hosting Discourse Just Got a Whole Lot Easier – Unicom asked whether a temporary Discourse‑provided domain could be used while deciding on a permanent domain. Chapoi confirmed it’s possible to switch later using the domain‑change guide. read more

#Plugin

Resenha – Add Discord-style Voice Rooms to Your Community – Itsbhanusharma reported a compatibility issue with ESR Discourse. Falco explained that experimental plugins aren’t expected to work on ESR, and Mcwumbly shared a positive experience using the voice rooms during an internal chat. read more

#Migration

Telligent to Discourse Migration – User Account Migration? – Siamak-Oi asked about user account handling. Cocococosti (Discourse team) confirmed that accounts are migrated with content and stats, and users reset passwords on first login. He offered to move the conversation to a private channel. read more

General

AI translations + crawler indexing = any SEO payoff? – Eisammy shared real‑world experience translating a Portuguese community, noting no clear SEO gains yet. Nat fixed a footgun in the translation settings. read more

ux

Nested mouseover notes can be entered but not shown – Dreieck reported that nested footnotes appear to work but the inner note is unreachable. Chapoi decided to strip nested footnotes in PR 41325, arguing that nesting is bad UX. read more
The prompt message when upcoming changes are officially added is not clear enough – Noble_Fish was confused by the “automatically enabled” notification that didn’t link to a toggle. Moin added context about skipped stability stages. read more

bug

Custom Emojis loaded from S3/R2 bypass CDN routing – Lilly investigated and found that custom emojis weren’t using the CDN URL. Her PR wrapping URL assignments in Discourse.store.cdn_url() was merged, fixing the issue for R2 users. read more
Bulk tag edits not creating new revision – Moin asked for a workaround to avoid incorrect edit histories when bulk‑editing tags. read more
Diff between revisions no longer visible when there is a hidden revision in between – Moin and Zogstrip discussed a fix that shows why the diff is hidden, but Moin argued that it doesn’t solve the original need for a diff between public revisions. read more

#Theme component

Dismiss Admin Noise! – Asa thanked the component author after struggling with excess admin notifications. Mcwumbly suggested that more granular notification controls would be a welcome core improvement. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Team members were busy across many areas:

Awesomerobot helped with the security‑fix confusion issue and cleaned up the “Tag partly visible on modal” bug (PR 41349), and improved the Solved indicator for deleted topics (PR 41351). He also contributed to the discussion on Modernizing the Foundation theme and fixed a RTE quotation‑mark bug reported at RTE removes quotation marks within wrap syntax.
Mcwumbly announced the Review and suspend accounts which are not yet activated feature and participated in conversations about the unified new view, Discourse Reactions, secure uploads in chat, and multi‑language preferences.
Falco quickly fixed the paste‑input installer issue and addressed the Resenha plugin ESR incompatibility.
Pmusaraj weighed in on the unified new view discussion, advocating for simplicity in DiscourseHub.
Zogstrip fixed a notification‑linking bug highlighted by Moin, helped bring the Theme Creator back online, and contributed to the hidden‑revision diff fix.
Chapoi resolved the nested mouseover notes bug by stripping nesting, and updated the Cloudflare R2 documentation.
Davidb clarified that the GIFs setting remains configurable after migration to core, in the GIFs announcement.
David fixed the confusing security‑fix comparison at releases.discourse.org and helped Tanya_Byrne with a rebuild failure.
Martin discussed the unified new view and the Upcoming Changes system, working on internal consensus for the “everyone” group replacement.
Tgxworld corrected the reporting improvements spacing and fixed a removed upcoming change in the Upcoming Changes thread.
Cocococosti provided migration guidance for the Telligent migration topic and offered private follow‑up.
Nat fixed a footgun in the AI translations settings, documented here.
Renato was pinged about the RTE quotation‑mark bug by Awesomerobot.
Tannerabread fixed a NoMethodError when merging topics (PR 41369) in the related bug report.
Dax completed a feature that lets admins delete a user and block email without blocking the IP address – see PR 41258 discussed in this feature request.
Supermathie answered a technical question about Cloudflare IP handling.

Yesterday, Tobiaseigen spent the day battling database constraints and emerged victorious – a true Digital Sovereignty warrior!

system · July 3, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community added 180 new posts across 65 topics, accumulating 262 likes.

Top contributors by likes and posts:

Lilly (32 likes, 20 posts)
Chapoi (20 likes, 11 posts)
Moin (16 likes, 9 posts)
Awesomerobot (13 likes, 9 posts)
Falco (13 likes, 3 posts)
Don (11 likes, 2 posts)
Mcwumbly (11 likes, 1 post)
Tobiaseigen (10 likes, 9 posts)
Pmusaraj (10 likes, 7 posts)
Dreieck (9 likes, 5 posts)

Interesting Topics

#Self-hosting

Error running remap after changing site url – Tobiaseigen encountered a persistent duplicate key value error when running discourse remap after a domain change. Lilly provided detailed SQL steps to delete conflicting rows in browser_pageview_referrer_daily_rollups and topic_links, eventually leading to a successful remap. The thread also sparked a feature request for a discourse db command. Read more
Avatars take a long time to load after moving to S3-compatible R2 – David_Ghost tested four storage configurations (R2, S3, with/without CDN) and consistently faced slow avatar loading. Pfaffman and Lilly suggested the issue is likely due to avatar generation on first access, not storage choice. Falco pointed to the avatar image serving change as a potential cause. Read more
Rebuild failure – possibly related to rolldown? – Tanya_Byrne reported a rebuild error after removing a core plugin. David identified the root cause as running rm -rf on a core plugin, which broke the asset processor. He improved the error handling in PR #41415. Merefield asked about safely overriding core plugin templates. Read more

#Feature

Accept paste input during installation – Philh noted that the new Discourse installer doesn’t support pasting API keys, making setup tedious. Moin pointed to the existing feature request. Falco quickly made a fix to allow paste input, slated for the next installer build. Read more
Configure number of different reactions visible below a posting – Dreieck requested an admin setting to show more than three reaction types (or all) below a post, as his organization uses reactions for meaningful voting. Lilly suggested a custom plugin, and Dreieck proposed showing a “…” indicator when reactions overflow. Read more
Profile spam: Option to delete account and block email but not the IP address – Dax announced that PR #41258 has been merged, adding the ability to delete accounts and block email domains without blocking the IP, improving anti-spam precision. Read more

Support

Schedule site logo changes? – One1 asked if there’s a plugin to auto-change site logos for holidays. Chapoi replied that no plugin exists, but demonstrated how to build a theme component using registerValueTransformer("home-logo-image-url", ...). He even shared a quick prototype. Read more
How does discourse handle conflicting watched word actions – M_Terenui asked what happens when the same word is added to multiple watched word lists (e.g., block, flag, censor). Awesomerobot explained that Block takes priority because it prevents post creation; all other actions (flag, approval, silence, censor) can fire independently. Moin noted that words can only belong to one list at a time in the UI (unless using regex). Read more
Can’t regenerate Discourse ID credentials after changing domain name – Tobiaseigen reported that Discourse ID breaks after a domain change, and the “Regenerate credentials” button fails. Pmusaraj explained that on self-hosted sites there’s no event to trigger automatic credentials refresh, but toggling Discourse ID off/on clears the credentials and creates new ones, resolving the issue. Read more
Ocultar menú flotante – Laguna (Spanish) asked how to hide floating category/tag dropdowns. Lilly recommended the Custom Top Navigation Links theme component with specific settings. Laguna confirmed it worked. Read more

#Announcements

Review and suspend accounts which are not yet activated – Mcwumbly announced a new feature adding an activation filter and bulk suspend action in Admin > Users > New, making it easier to handle waves of suspicious unverified registrations. The feature was merged in PR #41227. Read more
June 2026 monthly release – Elmuerte pointed out that the CVE numbers listed in the release notes did not match the actual Discourse security advisories (they pointed to unrelated software). Loic confirmed the CVEs were not yet propagated. The confusion led to a fix in the release generation process. Read more
Self-Hosting Discourse Just Got a Whole Lot Easier – Unicom asked if they can use a Discourse domain while deciding on their own domain. Chapoi confirmed it’s possible to switch later using the standard domain change guide, and noted the feature is well-received. Read more

ux

The prompt message given when upcoming changes are officially added is not clear enough – Noble_Fish reported that when an upcoming change becomes permanent, the notification says “has been automatically enabled” but clicking it navigates to a page where the setting no longer exists. Martin fixed the notification link in PR #41385 and clarified that permanent changes now appear on /admin/whats-new. Read more

bug

Nested replies, flagging and staff color has no effect – Cuo_Wu discovered that in nested reply view, the flag button doesn’t work on the first post, and staff colors/official labels are missing. Pmusaraj could reproduce the staff color issue (flagged as a bug), but not the flagging issue on non-first posts. Cuo_Wu later confirmed flagging fails on the first post only. Read more

#Theme component

Post Score – Display engagement metrics on posts – Don released a new theme component that shows a weighted engagement score (likes, replies, bookmarks, reads) in the top right of posts. It calculates scores based on multiple signals to provide a “true community impact” metric. Read more

Activity by the Team Group

Mcwumbly announced the new unverified account review and bulk suspend feature, merged in core.
Falco quickly implemented paste support for the installer, building a fix and pointed to the avatar loading issue discussed here. He also shared a detailed Resenha update with voice room improvements.
Chapoi shared a prototype theme component for scheduled logo changes, posted on GitHub, and provided support on watched word actions, quote callouts, and the redesigned admin dashboard.
Awesomerobot helped with homepage feature thumbnail cleanup using Rails console code and fixed the Versatile Banner background image issue.
Pmusaraj investigated the Discourse ID credential regeneration problem, confirmed a workaround, and addressed nested reply flagging bugs. He also made a PR to improve first-day posting limits for TL1 users.
Zogstrip fixed the Daily Summary broken link in PR #41365 and restored the Theme Creator. He also worked on the hidden revision diff issue.
David resolved the rebuild failure and improved error handling with PR #41415, and clarified the security fix reporting confusion.
Martin fixed the upcoming changes notification link in PR #41385 and updated the OP of the Upcoming Changes topic with permanent change info.
Tynaut fixed the composer actions dropdown z-index issue on touch devices, merged in 8.
Lindsey confirmed that the Livestream feature is currently topic-only, with no out-of-the-box front-page placement.
Tannerabread fixed a NoMethodError after merging topics in PR #41369.
Supermathie clarified that the Cloudflare template uses CF-Connecting-IP for trusted proxy configuration.
Keegan noted that the docked composer for AI bot conversations was accidentally disabled and has been turned back on.

Fun sign-off: Yesterday’s most upvoted topic wasn’t about a fancy new feature—it was Tobiaseigen getting stuck in a remap loop, proving that even domain changes can lead to an infinite loop of PostgreSQL error messages… and a whole lot of community SQL debugging!

system · July 4, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community generated 119 new posts across 61 new topics, with a total of 136 likes spread across the activity.

Top Users by activity and engagement:

User	Posts	Likes
Don	2	21
Chapoi	7	19
Awesomerobot	7	10
Bartv	6	7
Stephtara	6	6
Pmusaraj	4	6
NateDhaliwal	4	5
Martin	2	5
Moin	6	4
David	3	4

Interesting Topics

Support

Schedule site logo changes? – One1 asked if there’s a plugin to automatically rotate seasonal logos. Chapoi not only pointed out a value transformer approach but built a full theme component on the spot, read more.
Import data into Discourse from wpforo – Arya_Tavana wants to migrate from wpForo with existing users. Chapoi suggested the Marketplace for paid help or a guide for DIY, read more.
Is it possible to unban IP banned by Discourse? – Webmaster_Webmaster was locked out of forums.eveonline.com and asked for an IP unban. NateDhaliwal and Awesomerobot stepped in—awesomerobot removed the publicly posted IP and explained no public checker exists to avoid abuse, read more.
Rebuild failure – possibly related to rolldown? – Merefield’s self‑hosted rebuild broke after removing a core plugin. David fixed the asset‑processor to be more resilient and warned against rm -rf on core plugins, read more.
How do I properly configure the AWS SNS topic ARN allowlist? – Deenius struggled with a “pending confirmation” subscription. After a few false starts, the correct endpoint turned out to be https://forum.example.com/webhooks/aws, read more.

#Theme component

Post Score – Display engagement metrics on posts – Don released a new theme component that shows a weighted engagement score based on likes, replies, bookmarks, reads, and incoming links – all without inflating view counts, read more.
YouTube PiP & Topic Playlist Player – Another gem from Don: a header‑docked player that automatically queues all YouTube videos in a topic, with a progress ring and jump‑to‑post shortcut, read more.
Homepage Feature – Bartv reported old thumbnails not being cleaned up and asked for a sort‑by‑tagging‑date option. Awesomerobot provided a console script to delete extra thumbnails and noted that sorting by tag‑addition time isn’t possible (workaround: manually edit timestamps), read more.
Quote Callouts – Stephtara initially couldn’t get the component to work, but Arkshine spotted it was already rendering – likely a caching or JS error on stephtara’s end, read more.
Versatile Banner – Awesomerobot fixed a long‑standing link to an Imgur image (1.5 million views!) by migrating the default background image into the theme itself and adding optional upload settings, read more.

#Announcements

A preview of the redesigned admin dashboard – Bartv fed back that the dashboard loads slowly even on short date ranges, and wished for graph views for pinned Data Explorer queries. Chapoi acknowledged the performance issues and confirmed graph toggles are on the roadmap, read more.
GIFs are moving to Discourse core! – Lilly was confused about Klipy versus Giphy, but Moin helped her realise she had to uninstall the old GIF component first. The upcoming change was hidden while the component was active, causing missed migration prompts, read more.
Introducing a new “Post Type” Composer actions dropdown – Tynaut fixed a z‑index issue on touch‑screen devices after Moin reported the dropdown being hidden behind the composer header. The fix is now merged, read more.

bug

Nested replies, flagging and staff color has no effect – Cuo_Wu reported that flagging doesn’t work on the first post of a nested reply thread, and staff colours aren’t applied. Pmusaraj confirmed the staff colour issue and noted the flagging bug only affects the OP, read more.

ux

The prompt message given when upcoming changes are officially added is not clear enough – Moin pointed out that “Permanent” changes don’t appear on the upcoming changes page. Martin fixed a notification link bug and added documentation that permanent changes live on /admin/whats-new, read more.

Activity by the Team Group

The Discourse team was highly active across many discussions. Here’s a summary of their contributions:

Chapoi – Built a scheduled logo change theme component live in the thread, helped with wpforo migration, gave dashboard feedback, fixed AI title suggest icon placement, and teased upcoming Workflows in automation.
Awesomerobot – Provided console scripts to clean up thumbnails in Homepage Feature, fixed the Versatile Banner default image, removed a publicly posted IP, modernised the Gated Topics component, and explained the origin of “Onebox” here.
Pmusaraj – Investigated nested replies bugs (flagging on OP & staff colour), improved Bootstrap mode default limits for TL1 users, and helped regenerate Discourse ID credentials after domain changes.
David – Fixed the asset‑processor for rolldown rebuilds, clarified security fix labelling on releases.discourse.org, and added a PR to prevent catastrophic breaks.
Martin – Patched the notification link for upcoming changes and updated the OP of the upcoming changes announcement with info about permanent changes.
NateDhaliwal – Pointed to the WSL container setup guide, helped with the IP ban query, and advised on certificate errors.
Stephtara – Resurfaced interest in automation workﬂows and resolved a Quote Callouts caching issue.
Moin – Reported a visual bug with hidden profile dates in the Team group list, helped migrate away from Klipy, gave feedback on the composer dropdown, and answered about email templates.
Tgxworld – Fixed bulk tag edits not creating revisions.
Keegan – Re‑enabled the docked composer for AI bot conversations after it was accidentally toggled off.
Lindsey – Clarified that livestream video only displays in the topic for now, not on the front page.
Rishabh – Explained the new category type options and the discontinued Starter plan.
Renato – Fixed the RTE removing quotation marks inside wrap syntax.
Falco – Directed a user to query ai_api_audit_logs for AI title suggestion errors.

Yesterday, Chapoi single‑handedly built a scheduled logo changer in record time – next stop: world domination via holiday logos!

system · July 5, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community generated 55 new posts across 34 new topics, accumulating 32 likes.

Top Posters & Liked Users

User	Posts	Likes
Moin	6	5
Falco	4	4
Lilly	3	3
NateDhaliwal	3	3
Nicolsdennis	5	2
Boubou	2	2
Noble_Fish	2	2
Ethsim2	1	2
Miednr	3	1
42aross	2	1

Interesting Topics

#Self-hosting

Boubou sought to modify the Nginx configuration inside his Discourse Docker container to pass real client IPs from HAProxy. Ethsim2 provided a detailed walkthrough explaining the difference between X-Forwarded-For and the PROXY protocol, and how to persist changes in app.yml. Boubou later confirmed success by disabling Let’s Encrypt and using set_real_ip_from with the HAProxy IP. read more
Dannii reported frequent 502 and 503 errors on his self‑hosted forum (intfiction.org), with high CPU usage from unicorn workers and net-smtp timeouts in the logs. NateDhaliwal suggested upping the RAM, while Dannii noted spikes from email spam and daily backups. read more
Miednr experienced a visitor access bug where guests could not reach the forum index. Lilly wondered if a WordPress SSO plugin issue was related, but the problem resolved itself after a while. read more
David_Ghost continued to struggle with slow avatar loading after migrating to Cloudflare R2 (S3‑compatible). A 504 error in /admin/users suggests possible rate limiting. read more
Dannii also asked how to configure 5 after updating to version 2026.1.5, as a site advice appeared about SNS bounce notifications but no documentation was found. read more
LaugeSvan encountered an SSL certificate error during their first Discourse installation – PEM_read_bio_X509_AUX() failed – likely due to hitting Let’s Encrypt rate limits after repeated rebuilds. NateDhaliwal pointed to existing troubleshooting threads. read more

#Plugin

Nicolsdennis asked about integrating the Resenha voice‑rooms plugin with the Events plugin and about sidebar compatibility. Falco clarified that while no direct hook exists yet, the plugin already offers a popup widget and a full‑page view for voice rooms. read more
The allow‑pm‑to‑staff plugin broke after a recent Discourse update, preventing users from sending private messages. Roi reported the error stack pointing to plugin.rb:46. Pfaffman acknowledged the issue but has no immediate fix. read more
Eisammy raised a question about the Gated Topics theme component – whether it originally hid content from HTML source even with JavaScript disabled (a bug or feature). read more

#Announcements

The GIFs moving to Discourse core announcement sparked confusion. Lilly initially struggled with Klipy vs. Giphy, but Moin helped her discover that the GIF theme component must be uninstalled (and the core setting disabled) before re‑installing to keep using Giphy. read more
In the Granular group‑based permissions discussion, Noble_Fish noted they had been using TL0 group to mean “all logged‑in users” and expressed confusion about the varying definitions of “everyone” across different contexts. read more
Moin praised the simple mode for Discourse Doc Categories but missed seeing subcategory information, which helps distinguish target audiences (e.g., hosted vs. self‑hosting). read more

Support

Andro asked how to move the 8 tag to the top of email templates and what it contains. Moin pointed to /admin/email/templates and /admin/customize/site_texts, and provided an AI‑generated list of email template keys. read more
Heliosurge inquired about icons with texts in the header and was directed to the Header Submenus theme component. read more

#Feature

42aross contributed a PR to add {username} as a template parameter in AI persona system prompts, enabling personas to resolve the current user’s identity server‑side instead of relying on fragile LLM inference. read more
Gilles suggested improving the user search in chat – instead of clicking a “+” button, allow direct user search in the chat search bar for quicker contact initiation. read more

bug

Overgrow reported a critical iOS/iPadOS 18.x bug where dragging to extend a text selection in the composer is frozen. The issue affects both legacy and WYSIWYG editors in Safari and Chrome, while selecting text outside the composer works normally. read more

ux

Moin noted that group member last‑visited and last‑posted dates for hidden profiles are barely visible in the Team group list, creating an accessibility issue. read more

wordpress

Miednr struggled with WP Discourse SSO not synchronizing local avatars from the Advanced Site Enhancements plugin. The wpdc_sso_avatar_url filter did not help; they are seeking the current correct hook for avatar sync. read more

#Integrations

M_Terenui asked about setting up Gemini API keys for Discourse AI after Google’s security changes now require service accounts. No official response yet, but the topic reveals a growing pain point for self‑hosters. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Moin was highly active, helping Lilly troubleshoot the GIFs‑to‑core migration by explaining that the GIF theme component hides the core setting – requiring uninstall/disable/reinstall steps (#404829). He also expressed the need for subcategory visibility in the new Doc Categories simple mode (#403366), pointed Andro to the email template editors for respond_instructions (#406810), and reported the hidden profile date display bug in the team group list (#406816). Additionally, he commented on the Post Type composer actions dropdown (#403635) and asked about the “Permanent” filter on the upcoming changes page (#402433).
Falco provided in‑depth responses on the Resenha plugin, explaining current popup and full‑page view options while clarifying no direct Events hook exists yet (#389056). He also assisted a user with AI API logging – advising to check the ai_api_audit_logs table to debug a 500 error when querying the Qwen model (#406799), and confirmed that Discourse does call AI APIs in the background for features like backfill, embeddings, and sentiment (#406836).
Lilly contributed to the visitor access bug discussion, suggesting a possible SSO plugin conflict (#406106). She also shared her own GIF configuration workaround after receiving help from Moin (#404829).
NateDhaliwal offered practical advice on upping RAM to resolve 502/503 errors (#406849), recommended existing threads for SSL certificate rate‑limit issues (#406822), and encouraged a theme component author to include settings in the topic (#406779).

Yesterday’s activity proves that even when the GIFs are migrating and the Nginx configs are doing backflips, the meta community is always ready to help – with a virtual high‑five (and maybe an actual one over Resenha voice rooms).

system · July 6, 2026, 9:01pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community generated 97 new posts across 36 new topics, with a total of 92 likes received.

Interesting Topics

Grouped by category — each bullet links to the discussion.

#Feature

Small-Lovely-Cat proposed a feature to let users delete their pending topics/posts directly from the activity page. Darkpixlz raised the question of confirm prompts, and Chapoi and Moin debated whether docs and design already handle destructiveness vs. recoverability. read more
Gilles (translating from French) suggested improving the chat user search to make contacting someone more intuitive for non‑power‑users. Chapoi pointed out the cmd+K shortcut, while Gilles and Satonotdead argued for a more visible, mobile‑friendly approach. read more
42aross contributed a PR to add 1 as a template parameter in AI persona system prompts, enabling server‑side identification of the interacting user without LLM inference. read more

Support

Ed_S was confused by security fix reporting on releases.discourse.org. David explained the advanced changelog tool and fixed the comparison for unsupported releases, adding a new “security fixes” section. read more
Gid asked how to integrate Discourse with a Wix site. Chapoi clarified that self‑hosting is free but the screenshots shown are from Discourse’s own free hosting plan, which does not allow custom domains without upgrading. read more

General

Nicolsdennis showcased a native Mac desktop app for Discourse, featuring a cinema widget, native composer, multi‑forum support, and offline browsing. Awesomerobot inquired about public availability, and Putty asked about advantages over a browser. read more

#Theme component

Chapoi released the Scheduled Logo Change theme component, which automatically swaps site logos on a calendar‑based schedule (e.g., Halloween, Christmas) without manual intervention. read more

#Community Building

Urdu-Nigaar423 asked about best practices for custom fonts in themes. NateDhaliwal warned against monospace fonts for readability, and Awesomerobot recommended self‑hosting fonts and limiting variants for performance. read more

#Self-hosting

Boubou needed to pass real IPs through HAProxy to Discourse. Ethsim2 provided a detailed guide on using X‑Forwarded‑For vs. PROXY protocol, and Boubou confirmed success by disabling Let’s Encrypt and using real_ip_recursive. read more
Tanya_Byrne reported a rebuild failure possibly related to rolldown. David confirmed that deleting plugin folders instead of disabling them via the admin UI can break builds. Merefield agreed that plugins should ideally be modular. read more
Dannii described frequent 502/503 errors on a self‑hosted forum with high load and email‑processing spam waves. NateDhaliwal suggested doubling RAM, and Ed_S also recommended adding memory. read more
Mononym revisited the topic of self‑hosting an open‑source LLM for Discourse AI. Falco advised against very old models like StableLM 2 and recommended Qwen 3.5 or Gemma 4, and noted that the old Translator plugin still works. read more

#Announcements

Martin posted a major update on granular group‑based permissions, including an AI‑generated table showing which settings include or exclude the anonymous_users group, and highlighted PRs #41360 and #41459. read more

ux

Martin acknowledged that the “Permanent” filter on the upcoming changes page was simply forgotten and removed it in PR #41455. read more

bug

Aliarjmandi encountered a 500 timeout in 5 that only affects admin users. Git commands run instantly from the shell, so the issue appears to be in the DiscourseUpdates feature discovery path. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Members of the Team group were active across many of yesterday’s discussions:

Chapoi contributed extensively: he reviewed and approved the pending deletion feature, clarified the chat search shortcut, released the scheduled logo change component, answered the Wix integration question, responded to the iOS selection bug, and helped refine the schedule logo discussion. read more all
David fixed the security fix comparison tool for unsupported releases, advised on the rebuild failure (recommending the admin UI over filesystem deletion), and offered guidance on changelog usage. read more all
Martin provided a comprehensive AI‑generated table of group‑based settings and their relationship to anonymous users, and removed the misleading “Permanent” filter. He also posted about the livestream events. read more all
Awesomerobot gave feedback on the Mac app, advised on custom fonts, and fixed the hidden profile dates bug in PR #41467. He also asked about invite console errors. read more all
Falco helped a user set up Ollama for AI translation and discussed image generation support. read more
Markvanlan is working on a fix for nested reply flagging (PR #41475). read more
Lindsey clarified that breakout rooms in livestreams are not yet supported and suggested threads as a workaround. read more
Angus investigated a WordPress avatar sync issue related to the wpdc_sso_avatar_url filter. read more

With a shiny new Mac app, automated logo schedules, and a clearer future for group permissions, yesterday’s activity proves that the Discourse community never sleeps — unless, of course, you schedule your logo to change for the night time!

system · July 7, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community generated 117 new posts across 40 new topics, receiving 125 likes from engaged members. Here are the top contributors by likes and posts:

User	Likes Received	Posts Made
Chapoi	22	9
Moin	12	4
Lindsey	11	2
Falco	9	7
Nicolsdennis	5	7
Martin	5	6
NateDhaliwal	5	3
Small-Lovely-Cat	5	3
Merefield	5	2
Awesomerobot	4	5

Interesting Topics

We’ve grouped discussions by category — here are the most noteworthy conversations from the past day:

#Feature

Small-Lovely-Cat proposed a feature to allow users to delete their pending topics/posts from the activity page, mirroring the existing pending-post deletion behaviour. Darkpixlz questioned whether a confirmation prompt is needed, while Moin and Chapoi argued that destructive actions which can be recovered by staff don’t require one. read more
Gilles (via translation) raised an idea to improve the user search experience in chat for less technical users, noting that keyboard shortcuts (cmd+k) are not obvious on tablets and mobile. Chapoi confirmed the shortcut exists but acknowledged the UX gap. read more

Support

Mireille_Coilhac asked how to assign moderators per category (in French). Moin responded with step-by-step instructions to enable enable_category_group_moderation and configure category moderation groups via the category settings. read more
Gid explored integrating Discourse with a Wix website and asked about self-hosting, free tiers, and partnerships. Chapoi clarified the difference between self-hosted (free but requires a server) and Discourse hosting, while NateDhaliwal provided detailed answers on server requirements, embedding, Zapier webhooks, and even proposed a formal Wix partnership. read more
Ed_S sought clarity on security fixes listed at releases.discourse.org when comparing unsupported versions. David fixed a bug that prevented unsupported-release comparisons from showing all affected security issues, and added links from the admin dashboard to the changelog. read more

#Announcements

Lindsey announced the removal of the Uncategorized category and migration to a standard category to fix long-standing bugs. Site admins can opt in early via the “Upcoming changes” admin page; communities using only tags should install the tags-only theme component. read more
The GIFs moving to Discourse core discussion continued: Shauny noted that Klipy requires attribution, Martin pointed out a missing providerLogo in the core port, and Davidb provided a fix PR. read more
Martin shared a detailed, AI-generated table of all group‑based settings for the granular permissions upcoming change, showing which settings previously included anonymous_users under “everyone” and which need manual adjustment. read more

#Theme Component

Chapoi released a new theme component, Schedule Logo Change, that automatically swaps site logos on a recurring calendar schedule (e.g., seasonal logos for Halloween, Christmas). It supports light/dark variants and wraps around year‑end dates. read more
Merefield pushed a major performance improvement to Topic List Previews (TLP): native CSS masonry rendering in Safari (and Chrome/Firefox with experimental flags), with a fallback to the existing approximation. This dramatically reduces rendering overhead. read more

General

Nicolsdennis showcased a Discourse Desktop Mac app built with native features: sidebar inversion, cinema widget view, multi‑forum support without tabs, and offline browsing. Awesomerobot asked about availability, and Putty inquired about advantages over a browser. read more

#Community Building

Urdu-Nigaar423 asked for best practices on custom fonts in Discourse themes. NateDhaliwal warned against monospace fonts for readability, and Awesomerobot recommended self-hosting fonts, limiting variants, and checking both light/dark mode contrast. read more

#Self-Hosting

Tanya_Byrne faced a rebuild failure potentially related to rolldown and discovered it was caused by removing plugins from the filesystem instead of disabling them via the admin UI. David confirmed the supported method is disabling through the admin interface. read more
Mononym continued the discussion on self-hosting an open‑source LLM for Discourse AI, specifically for translation. Falco recommended using Qwen 3.5 or Gemma 4 over older models, and explained how to configure Ollama as an OpenAI‑compatible provider. read more

bug

Awesomerobot confirmed a bug where category descriptions are truncated to the first paragraph for the base language but not for localized translations, and submitted a fix to ensure consistent behaviour. read more
Putty reported that German translations sometimes contain raw JSON translation elements (e.g., {"content":"..."}) in the translated text. Falco identified a logic contradiction in the prompt and proposed a fix, though custom agents may need updating. read more

#Plugin

Babylai released a new Discourse‑Telegram chat bridge plugin that maps Discourse chat channels to Telegram groups/topics two‑way, supporting text, formatting, photos, files, edits, and deletions (with limitations). Includes rate‑limiting and loop‑safety. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Team members were active across many discussions yesterday. Here’s what they contributed to:

Lindsey announced the Uncategorized migration and responded to questions on livestream breakout rooms & Wix integration.
Chapoi released the Schedule Logo Change component, gave feedback on pending topic deletion UX, explained Discourse pricing to a new user, and discussed custom fonts and iOS selection bug.
Moin helped French users with category moderators, debated confirmation prompts for deletions, and noted the absent provider logo in core GIFs.
Falco advised on LLM model selection for self‑hosted AI translation, fixed German translation prompt logic, and helped test Resenha voice rooms on mobile.
Martin worked on granular permissions for anonymous users (AI-generated settings table and PRs for edge cases), answered on livestream events, and fixed the Permanent filter on upcoming changes page.
Awesomerobot fixed category description truncation for translations, contributed to custom fonts discussion, and investigated an invite‑link redirect issue.
David fixed the security changelog comparison for unsupported releases and clarified plugin removal best practices.
Davidb added the missing Klipy provider logo for GIFs in core.
J.Jaffeux mentioned work‑in‑progress for pinning chat messages and noted that reactions use localStorage for simplicity.
Markvanlan merged a fix for nested replies flagging/staff colour.
Angus helped a user debug WP Discourse SSO avatar sync step‑by‑step, discovering a potential setup issue.
Merefield improved Topic List Previews with native CSS masonry rendering.

Yesterday’s activity was a whirlwind of innovation: from a brand‑new Mac desktop app and a Telegram bridge plugin to automated seasonal logo changes — and even a heartfelt proposal for a Wix‑Discourse partnership that might just be the paw‑fect match for the community.

system · July 8, 2026, 9:00pm

Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community generated 96 new posts across 41 new topics, with 131 likes given. The most active members, ranked by likes received, were:

Moin – 25 likes, 10 posts
Lindsey – 13 likes, 1 post
Falco – 9 likes, 4 posts
Mireille_Coilhac – 6 likes, 7 posts
Lilly – 6 likes, 2 posts
Awesomerobot – 5 likes, 4 posts
Davidb – 5 likes, 3 posts
Gid – 5 likes, 3 posts
Merefield – 5 likes, 1 post
Satonotdead – 5 likes, 1 post

Interesting Topics

Grouped by category, here are the most notable discussions from the past day.

#Announcements

Removing Uncategorized and migrating to a standard category — Lindsey announced that the special Uncategorized category is being removed and replaced with a standard category, solving long‑standing bugs. Sites using tags‑only settings are advised to install a theme component. Read more
GIFs are moving to Discourse core! — The GIF/#giphy feature, previously available only via a theme component, is being integrated into core. Davidb noted that a global notice banner has been added to alert admins about the migration, and the old component will be archived. Read more
Pin chat messages for increased visibility — J.Jaffeux confirmed that work is in progress to allow pinning chat messages, following up on an earlier announcement. Read more
Granular group‑based permissions for anonymous and logged‑in users — Martin provided an update on the merged PR that allows theme components to check group membership without manual user‑ID hacking. The everyone group is being deprecated. Read more

Support

Modérateur par catégorie — Mireille_Coilhac asked how to assign category‑only moderators on a French forum. Moin guided them to the enable_category_group_moderation setting and category settings, which solved the issue. Read more
How do I give badges manually — Tom_Nook_360 requested a manual badge grant method. Satonotdead pointed them to the existing guide. Read more
Désactiver la fermeture automatique d’un sujet après qu’il ait été résolu — Mireille_Coilhac wanted to disable the auto‑close timer on solved topics. Moin and Asa explained that the site setting solved topics auto close hours can be overridden per category, but there is no global default yet. Read more
How to prevent proprietary vocabulary from being translated by AI? — Zard_W asked about blocking AI translation of product names. Chapoi noted there is no built‑in way, but Falco suggested customizing the translation agent’s prompt with a no‑translate list. Read more
I need to cancel my forum and my payment to discourse — Cbtforum wanted to cancel hosting. Moin directed them to the admin/manage-account cancel button and the cancellation guide. Read more

#Feature / #Plugin

Feedback for Ask Discourse — Matthewruzzi reported rate‑limiting errors when replying too quickly or with similar text. HAWK clarified that normal Discourse JIT spam limits apply even on ask.discourse.com. Read more
Resenha – Add Discord‑style Voice Rooms — Nicolsdennis praised the latest update to the voice‑rooms plugin. Bird reported a mobile access bug, but Falco demonstrated it working after updating. Read more
Discourse‑Telegram chat bridge — Babylai introduced a new plugin that maps Discourse chat channels to Telegram groups or forum topics. The bridge supports text, images, replies, edits, and more, with detailed configuration steps. Read more

bug

German translations contain translation elements — Putty observed that German‑language posts sometimes include JSON‑like translation metadata. Falco identified a prompt logic issue and proposed a fix, also noting that custom agents need the “JSON response format” field filled. Read more
Double Likes showing up for reactions‑disabled sites — Tradegood reported that the like button appears duplicated even when reactions are disabled. Davidb explained this is due to the upcoming change enabling reactions by default; opting out of that change restores the old behavior. Read more
User‑agent: lfc-discourse-public-crawler — Orioni flagged an aggressive AI scraper visiting their site with a user‑agent containing “Discourse”. Awesomerobot suggested it might be a fork of the archival tool. Read more

#Theme component / ux

Topic List Previews now renders masonry views in native CSS — Merefield announced a major performance improvement for supported browsers (Safari, with Chrome/Firefox behind flags). Read more
Dismiss Admin Noise! — Lilly updated the theme component to allow auto‑dismissing flag notifications for admins who are not moderators, reducing clutter. Read more
Use solved auto close site setting as default for category setting — Moin proposed changing category defaults to inherit the global solved topics auto close hours setting, so admins don’t have to configure each category individually. Read more

#Miscellaneous

This Meta Branded theme is special. Can I use it on my forum too? — Gid praised the design of Meta’s branded theme and asked how to obtain it. Moin explained it’s a custom design not publicly available, but similar effects can be achieved via theme components. Read more
Are you allowed to use the RSS feeds on Discourse Meta? — Matthewruzzi asked whether automated access via RSS violates the ToS. HAWK confirmed RSS feeds are allowed and do not count as automated access. Read more

Activity by the Team Group

Discourse team members were active across several topics, providing support, fixes, and announcements:

Lindsey announced the removal of the #uncategorized category and explained the migration path for site admins. Read more
Awesomerobot confirmed a bug where translated category descriptions ignore the first‑paragraph truncation rule and provided a fix PR. Read more
Davidb noted that the double‑like issue is caused by the upcoming “Enable reactions by default” change, and advised opting out. Read more He also updated the GIFs‑to‑core migration to include a previously missing GIF button. Read more
Falco identified a prompt flaw in the translation agent and submitted a pull request to fix it. He also demonstrated that the Resenha voice‑rooms plugin works on mobile after an update. Read more Read more
Chapoi explained that translating custom sidebar sections is not yet possible and suggested filing a feature request. Read more
J.Jaffeux confirmed that chat message pinning is being worked on. Read more
Pmusaraj reported that a site inclusion in Discourse Discover has been approved. Read more
Martin provided a detailed update on the granular group permissions feature, including changes to theme component settings and deprecation of the everyone group. Read more
Angus continued troubleshooting a WordPress SSO avatar sync issue, providing debug filters and logging advice. Read more

Yesterday, the community debated the finer points of punctuation in Markdown—proving that even a full stop can stop bold text in its tracks!

Topic		Replies	Views
Daily Summary Feedback Site feedback feedback	259	8886	July 2, 2026
2023: The Year in Review Community Building year-in-review	17	2642	January 5, 2024
2024: The Year in Review Community Building year-in-review	13	637	January 1, 2025
3.3.0.beta1: Discourse Discover opt in, Hot topics page, "It's illegal" flag reason, and more! Announcements release-notes	1	2105	March 15, 2024
3.3.0.beta2: New admin sidebar, Redesigned bookmark menu, Chat from user profile, and more Announcements release-notes	1	2041	May 15, 2024

User	Posts	Likes
Chapoi	9	18
Gilles	2	10
Ed_S	4	5
Falco	4	5
NateDhaliwal	3	5
Nicolsdennis	6	4
Martin	5	4
David	4	4
Darkpixlz	3	4
Moin	3	4