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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, Meta saw 200 new posts across 61 new topics, with 240 likes given across the returned activity. The most active contributors were:

User	Posts	Likes
NateDhaliwal	11	22
Scoresby	14	18
Chapoi	12	18
Merefield	10	16
Moin	9	14
Andrew_Rowe	6	11
Nickdb	3	9
Ed_S	9	8
Satonotdead	9	7
Awesomerobot	4	7

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Interesting Topics

#Community Building

• Scoresby floated a bold idea: a forum moderated by money where posting, replying, and upvoting all carry small fees, with visibility ranked by community investment. Nickdb warned about creating a financial divide, Merefield argued that charging people to create content would scare off contributors, and Ed_S pointed to Metafilter’s $5 sign-up fee as evidence that a nominal barrier can encourage civility. The thread evolved into a broader discussion about token economies, spam resistance, and whether “Discoin” could ever work. read more

• Satonotdead shared striking data showing Reddit’s citation share inside ChatGPT collapsed from 3.83% to 0.52% in a matter of days, sparking conversation about what that means for support-forum traffic and the shifting web ecosystem. Merefield summed it up with a . read more

#Announcements

• The unified new view for the topic list continued to draw feedback. Damian_Boon initially thought /latest had changed, but Moin confirmed only /new was affected. Mbauman offered a detailed critique, arguing the merged “new topics + unread replies” view intermingles individual tracking state with global topic creation state, and linked back to the original “new new” experiment that was reverted three years ago. read more

• Chapoi moved AI title suggestions into the composer helper and defended the consolidation in AI title suggestions move to composer helper. Jaroslav.Kovar and Jagster pushed back, noting that the hidden star icon used to be a visual cue and the new flow adds too much friction. Chapoi acknowledged the extra steps, explained the old implementation was noisy and costly, and teased future improvements where users “do not need to click anything at all.” read more

• The redesigned admin dashboard received sysadmin feedback from Skodde, who asked for a selectable main block with classic Version and Backups information that doesn’t require the Docker Manager plugin. Chapoi confirmed something along those lines is already in the works. read more

• Lindsey announced that Zoom webinars can now run as livestream events in the Discourse Events plugin, letting members watch the presentation, RSVP, join via Zoom, and keep chatting in Discourse after the event ends. read more

#Plugin

• NateDhaliwal published the See TL3 Progress plugin, which shows TL2 users a progress bar toward TL3, optional detailed requirement breakdowns, TL3 warnings, and hints about muted topics. Lilly spotted a missing summary in the plugin listing, NateDhaliwal fixed it, and the plugin is now ready for broader use. read more

• In Discourse Workflows, J.Jaffeux shared a JSON workflow example using a data-explorer node to look up user information, and later confirmed the “bump topic” operation lives on the topic node. Patrickemin confirmed everything worked after updating. read more

#Self-hosting

• Ed_S shared detailed ps, free, and vmstat output in Is pitchfork using too much memory?, noting heavy swap usage after 20 days. David explained that it’s normal for one pitchfork worker to take the bulk of the load, memory grows and then settles, and hinted that Pitchfork’s “reforking” feature is being explored to improve memory sharing. read more

• Dennisjbr presented a parallel filesystem operations template to speed up recursive chown/chmod operations during rebuilds on upload-heavy forums. David moved the topic back to Support > Self-hosting, suggested using find directly in the upstream template, and opened a simpler PR that skips chown when permissions already match. read more

• In PostgreSQL 18 update for self-hosters, Chrisr explained that collation mismatch warnings during dump-and-restore are expected after the base image moved from Debian Bookworm to Trixie, and that switching to C.UTF-8 with the builtin provider will prevent future glibc collation issues. Jonathan5 confirmed a successful upgrade. read more

development

• Don documented the process of building a skeleton layout loader for Discourse, including automatically generated selectors, scoring logic for candidate selectors, hidden-element handling, and the hard-won lesson that a skeleton loader should not become a DOM-readiness gate. read more

• Jahan_Gagan asked how to override save() on the composer model in a supported way, and Awesomerobot pointed to existing transformers and events. David went further and proposed a new composer-minimum-post-length value transformer in this PR, giving plugin authors a clean extension point for optional topic bodies. read more

Support

• Soumya_Ranjan_Mishra asked how to configure Discourse AI with an internal OpenAI-compatible gateway. Falco suggested selecting openai as the provider and configuring the URL, Moin recommended checking /logs for more detail, and Satonotdead mentioned DISCOURSE_ALLOWED_INTERNAL_HOSTS for internal IPs. read more

• ThisSource asked whether Discourse can create topics and replies using AI. Darkpixlz noted there is no built-in generator but suggested the topic API, while Moin linked to a previous forum experiment where someone populated a mostly dead Discourse with bots. read more

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Activity by the Team Group

• Chapoi was busy across multiple threads: he gathered feedback on AI title suggestions, discussed notification dismissal options, explained Google’s deindexing behavior, confirmed a fix for the compose dark-mode input background, responded to admin dashboard feedback, and coordinated backports for the iOS PWA reply button and Safari PWA zooming.

• Moin clarified questions about the unified new topic-list view, helped troubleshoot the Discourse AI internal API configuration, answered group mention and notification questions, and posted feedback about repetitive weekly AI summaries.

• David explained pitchfork memory growth, encouraged an upstream fix for slow rebuilds with large upload directories, and proposed a new composer value transformer to support optional topic bodies.

• Martin started a WIP roadmap for making granular anonymous/logged-in group permissions stable, and followed up with fixes for the main permissions topic.

• J.Jaffeux shared workflow examples using data-explorer, answered workflow questions, and confirmed the bump topic operation.

• Zogstrip fixed two bugs with core PRs: invisible 17 elements inside 18 and workflow modals persisting across tabs.

• Lindsey announced Zoom webinars in the Events plugin and answered admin dashboard AMA questions.

• Chrisr answered PostgreSQL 18 upgrade questions, explaining collation warnings and dump-and-restore details.

• Danielle shared news about an upcoming webinar and community office hours in the Community Retention webinar thread.

• Awesomerobot fixed the compose box dark-mode bug, helped diagnose a permission prompt question, and offered composer API extension guidance.

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Whether the community was debating pay-per-upvote economics, chasing memory-hungry pitchfork workers, or watching ChatGPT citations vanish into thin air, yesterday proved once again that there’s never a dull moment on Meta — see you in the next 24 hours!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

Over the last 24 hours, the community produced 47 new topics and 144 new posts, collecting a total of 195 likes across the activity summarized here.

The most active and appreciated contributors were:

User	Likes	Posts
Awesomerobot	18	7
Moin	17	10
Chapoi	14	9
Mbauman	12	3
Ed_S	11	9
Satonotdead	9	10
Ryan_Scott	9	4
Don	9	2
David	8	5
Merefield	8	4

From a full-site calendar outage to a wildly philosophical debate about money-moderated forums, it was a busy and colorful day on Meta.

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Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Introducing the unified new view for the topic list — Mbauman pushed back hard on the redesigned “New” view, arguing it confusingly intermingles new topics with tracked unread topics, and comparing it to an attempt that was reverted three years ago. Petr0 added that heavy forum users miss an easy path to their subscribed topics. Awesomerobot responded with a thoughtful explanation of the naming rationale and shared a proposed mockup showing split counts for “new topics” and “new replies” to address the extra-click complaint. read more

• AI title suggestions move to composer helper — Chapoi acknowledged that moving AI title suggestions into the consolidated composer helper menu adds a click, but defended the change: the old star icon used a fragile plugin outlet, created noise for non-AI users, and was blocking future features. He hinted that the eventual goal is zero clicks, with the AI auto-applying a title when the field is left empty. read more

• Prioritize your recently used tags — Zogstrip announced a new experimental behavior for the tag picker’s empty state: instead of showing site-wide popular tags, it surfaces tags from your own 10 most recent topics first, with tagging permissions and anonymous visitors unaffected. read more

• Zoom webinar livestream in the Events plugin — Lindsey announced that Zoom webinars can now run as livestream events directly inside Discourse, complete with a side chat window, RSVP-to-join flow, and hand-raising, so members never have to leave the community to participate. read more

Support

• Calendar down? The calendar for all my users is down. Pretty big deal — Ryan_Scott reported a full calendar outage for ~1,200 users on awg.osdr.space after their site updated to Discourse 2026.8.0-latest.1. He traced the root cause to the Calendar and Events bundle migrating into core while the discourse post event enabled site setting was left off, resulting in server-side 404s. Awesomerobot confirmed the team identified and applied a fix to prevent it from recurring on other sites. read more

• Some flaky experience when searching — Sk-Or-V1-Contents documented a series of odd search behaviors, including quotes getting normalized and searches for phrases like we don't failing entirely. Awesomerobot clarified that stop words such as “it”, “we”, and “don’t” are excluded from PostgreSQL full-text indexing precisely because they appear too often to be meaningful, and that exact-match searches are further complicated by fancy quote stripping. read more

• Chat and Poll options not working in Firefox and Firefox-related browsers — Deltaandthebannermen reported that on forum.tardis.guide the entire chat UI disappeared and poll checkboxes were no longer clickable in Firefox. After Falco and Moin helped narrow it down, Shauny identified the culprit: Cloudflare’s WebMCP feature conflicts with Discourse and affects some browsers, and he confirmed the fix once WebMCP was switched off. read more

bug

• Discobot broken when I send it a.com, example.com in its tutorial — Sk-Or-V1-Contents found that the Discobot new-user tutorial silently stops replying when users paste links other than the three hard-coded Wikipedia URLs, despite instructing them otherwise. Chapoi located the brittle regex in the narrative bot code, Martin approved the fix, and Chapoi shipped it in PR #42715. read more

#Community Building

• Can money be the only moderator of a forum? — Scoresby defended the idea of a forum where every signal — post, reply, upvote — costs a micro-payment that mostly flows to other users, citing the micropayments “mental transaction costs” argument and pointing to Flattr’s failure as a donation-based cautionary tale. Ed_S countered that real-world wealth disparity would always break the model, while Andrew_Rowe suggested non-monetary in-forum credits as a middle ground and Merefield worried a paywall would cripple engagement for most communities. read more

• Anyone else seeing a drastic drop in community activity for Support forums? — Satonotdead shared data showing Reddit’s citation share in ChatGPT collapsed by 86% in a single day, igniting a wide-ranging discussion about AI models eating forum traffic. Nickdb noted the rising burden of AI-assisted support topics and mused about models training on model-tainted content (“the snake eating itself”), while Merefield wondered aloud about the sheer scale of the shift. read more

#Feature

• Allowing multiple OIDC sources — Digitalities presented a concrete EU research community use case requiring both EU Login and EGI Check-in simultaneously, explaining that the single un-numbered openid_connect_client_id setting namespace makes this impossible today. Hellekin suggested an Authentik federation proxy, the OAuth2 Basic plugin, or the legacy SAML plugin as interim workarounds. read more

• Feedback for Ask Discourse — Ed_S posted a spectacular clip of Ask Discourse “spouting nonsense” mid-upgrade, with hallucinated tool calls and rambling text. Sam apologized and confirmed the upgrade was the cause; after replaying the conversation, Ed_S confirmed the model no longer lost the plot, though it emitted one bit of bad markup, and Falco confirmed link-opening behavior should respect the user’s preferences. read more

development

• Building a Skeleton Layout Loader for Discourse — Don published a deep technical dive into a skeleton loader generated from the actual Discourse UI rather than a hardcoded template. The post covers scoring candidate CSS selectors, handling hidden elements without leaving gaps, and the key navigation insight that the skeleton must not become a “DOM-readiness gate” — it should disappear as soon as real content appears. read more

#Theme component

• Topic Preview Modal — Don added a new open_all_topic_links setting so any topic link anywhere in the UI — post content, notifications, user cards, search results, sidebar — opens in the preview modal instead of navigating away. Satonotdead praised the mobile swipe interaction, though Jagster noted some rough edges when reopening already-read topics. read more

#Self-hosting

• Is pitchfork using too much memory? — Ed_S shared detailed free/swap numbers suggesting a ~1.3GB reclaim after recycling pitchfork workers. David clarified that per-process RSS is misleading because pitchfork shares memory copy-on-write across workers, shared a 7-day production graph showing memory settling under 1.4GB, and hinted that an upcoming “reforking” feature will periodically re-fork workers from a warm mold to keep memory shared. read more

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Activity by the Team Group

• Awesomerobot was at the center of the day’s biggest incident: he identified and applied the calendar outage fix and explained what went wrong for sites updating to 2026.8. He spent considerable effort responding to feedback on the unified topic list, including a mockup to surface counts separately, and also explained stop words in search. He additionally removed broken dark-mode styles in PR #42685 from the Compose input topic and pointed a user toward the Workflows plugin for scheduled AI posts.

• Chapoi shipped two user-facing fixes: the icon-picker search now accepts capital letters and disables auto-capitalization in PR #42714 (see the original report), and the Discobot onebox tutorial now accepts the missing Exotic_Shorthair link in PR #42715. He also defended the AI composer helper move and confirmed backports of the Safari PWA zoom fix to the 2026.7, 2026.6, and 2026.1 release lines.

• David handled infrastructure and API design questions with characteristic thoroughness: he explained pitchfork’s copy-on-write memory sharing, proposed a supported composer-minimum-post-length value transformer API in PR #42686 (in this discussion), and opened discourse_docker PR #1115 to speed up rebuilds by skipping unnecessary chowns in the Rebuilds performance topic.

• Sam stepped in to apologize for the Ask Discourse upgrade glitch and confirmed it was resolved.

• J.Jaffeux answered questions in the Discourse Workflows topic, sharing a JSON workflow that uses a Data Explorer node to look up user information and helping a user locate the new manual “bump topic” operation.

• Zogstrip launched the experimental recently-used-tags picker and invited feedback while it’s behind the “Upcoming changes” admin toggle.

• Lindsey announced the Zoom webinar livestream integration for the Events plugin and answered dashboard refresh/caching questions in the Enterprise AMA.

• Rishabh shared two new admin invite UI improvements with screenshots showing the refined flows.

• Falco clarified that Ask Discourse link behavior honors the user’s “open external links in a new tab” preference.

• Martin confirmed the one-line regex fix for the Discobot tutorial.

• Pfaffman suggested turning the slow chown workaround into an upstream discourse_docker PR, which David then picked up.

• Renato asked tablet users to help reproduce the missing close-chat button so it can be properly fixed.

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Yesterday we learned that 1,200 users can lose their calendars overnight, a forum can (in theory) be moderated by pocket change, and even the AI helper occasionally forgets its lines — proving once again that in the Discourse world, the only predictable thing is a great conversation about the unexpected.

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

Over the past 24 hours, Meta saw 168 new posts across 54 new topics, with 247 likes on the returned posts. Here are the top contributors by likes received:

User	Posts	Likes received
Awesomerobot	7	21
Sam	3	18
Moin	11	17
Lindsey	3	17
Satonotdead	22	16
Zogstrip	1	14
Nickdb	11	13
Mbauman	8	11
Happyhappy	4	10
Rishabh	3	10

Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Lindsey shared a new experimental Likely Crawlers category for the admin dashboard, which separates automated bot traffic from anonymous human visitors using signals like automation user agents, datacenter ASNs, rapid navigation, and session churn. Community members immediately asked whether logged-in users are included and how this will affect monthly pageview limits. read more

• Zogstrip introduced a new upcoming change that prioritizes your recently used tags in the empty tag picker state, based on the tags attached to your 10 most recent topics. Commenters raised concerns about a self-reinforcing personalization loop, and Satonotdead suggested giving users a choice between site-wide and personal suggestions. read more

• Rishabh published the Current Projects — August 2026 newsletter, covering the redesigned admin dashboard, Events plugin livestream + Zoom webinar integration, AI Image Captions v2, improved crawler detection, the new Kanban plugin, Workflows, and the Discourse Helper Bot’s shift from Q&A assistant to local agent. read more

• Sam released detailed admin-only AI logs at /admin/plugins/discourse-ai/ai-logs, with new retention controls, streaming response decoding, and rich filtering to make diagnosing Discourse AI issues much easier. read more

• The unified new view for the topic list continued to draw strong feedback. Petr0 reported that heavy users miss easy access to subscribed topics with updated replies, Mbauman pushed back on the “new replies” naming and behavior, and Awesomerobot shared a possible counter-design with split counts. read more

Support

• Ryan_Scott reported a full calendar outage for ~1,200 users after a Discourse update, then self-resolved it: the discourse post event enabled site setting was off after the Events plugin was bundled into core. Awesomerobot confirmed a fix has been applied so sites won’t hit this during future updates. RGJ clarified that the site is hosted by discourse.org, not Communiteq. read more

• Rbos asked where a “theme or plugin contains code which needs updating” admin notice (discourse.html-safe-helper) was coming from. Pfaffman and Moin helped trace it to the “Versatile Banner” theme and its deprecated .hbs files, reinforcing that themes live in the database rather than the filesystem. read more

• Sk-Or-V1-Contents reported flaky search results with quotes, punctuation, and stop words like “it” or “we don’t.” Awesomerobot explained that stop words are excluded from indexing, and exact-match quotes can fail when posts contain fancy quotes that search strips out. read more

#Community Building

• The long-running thread about drastic drops in support-forum activity turned into a wide-ranging debate about AI’s impact on communities. Nickdb argued deeply technical forums still thrive because AI is bad at nuance; Mbauman noted programming language communities are losing new posters — the most common entry point; and Mevo pushed back on judging AI-assisted content by form rather than substance. read more

• Divinebaboon asked how moderators handle users who run AI bots to automatically reply to threads and gain trust levels. Merefield described AI sock-puppet pairs that compliment each other, Mbauman said it’s often just spam or GEO, and Nickdb shared that an AI-detecting agent screens new/low-trust users with ~95% accuracy. read more

bug

• Sk-Or-V1-Contents found that Discobot breaks when users send links like a.com or example.com during the onebox tutorial. Chapoi traced it to a hard-coded regex that only accepts three specific Wikipedia links, and Martin approved adding Exotic_Shorthair to the fallback. A fix landed in PR #42715. read more

• OxFilla reported that the base Docker image ships brotli_static in discourse.conf but never loads the Brotli module, causing nginx to crash-loop after container restarts. The workaround is adding include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf; to nginx.conf; the report asks whether the base image should include it or drop the directive. read more

#Theme component

• Don released a major update to Topic Preview Modal with a new open_all_topic_links setting that opens any topic link across the UI in the modal. Satonotdead requested separate mobile/desktop behavior, and Jagster reported inconsistent scrolling behavior for already-read topics. read more

ux

• Markersocial flagged confusion in the bulk actions menu: “Delete Topic(s)” claims the action is permanent, even though topics are normally soft-deleted and restorable when can_permanently_delete is false. There is also no easy visual distinction between topic and post search results in bulk select mode. read more

#Translations

• Happyhappy asked for a Basque language interface option and discovered Basque is only ~13% translated. Moin explained that languages need ~50% before being added, and Happyhappy then launched a public call for Basque translators to contribute via Crowdin. read more

Activity by the Team Group

The Team group was highly active in the last 24 hours, jumping between bug fixes, new features, and community feedback:

• Awesomerobot acknowledged the calendar outage and confirmed a fix to prevent it in future updates, explained search stop words and exact-match behavior, and shared a counter-design for the unified new view.
• Lindsey launched the improved crawler detection feature and answered questions about dashboard refresh caching.
• Zogstrip introduced the recently used tags picker experiment.
• Sam shipped detailed admin AI logs, confirmed Gemini and Grok LLM setups, and passed along Ask Discourse feedback about malformed markup.
• Rishabh published the Current Projects August newsletter, and shared new admin invite improvements and email signup progress.
• Chapoi fixed the Discobot onebox tutorial regex, made the icon picker case-insensitive, helped debug Horizon’s floating new-topic button, and investigated Safari PWA zooming.
• Martin confirmed the Discobot link fallback fix.
• Falco confirmed that Ask Discourse respects the “open external links in new tab” preference and checked whether the iOS photo upload issue is still happening.
• David agreed to make the composer’s empty-post validation respect the composer-minimum-post-length transformer in the modifyClass replacement PR.
• Tobiaseigen shared an upload migration runbook and script for moving topics between Discourse instances.
• Renato asked for more details to reproduce the tablet chat close issue.
• RGJ clarified the calendar/events hosting and core bundling situation and confirmed that secure uploads switching to short URLs in public categories is expected behavior.

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Yesterday’s lesson? When an upgrade hides your calendar, your AI starts posting in forums, and your Basque translation is only 13% done — just remember: at least the unlikely crawlers are finally being counted!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

Over the past 24 hours, Meta saw 184 new posts, 54 new topics, and 278 likes.

User	Posts	Likes
Satonotdead	30	28
Lindsey	2	21
Moin	15	20
Sam	2	19
HAWK	8	17
Nickdb	12	16
Mbauman	8	13
Happyhappy	5	13
Chapoi	6	11
Don	4	9

Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Lindsey unveiled improved crawler detection, a new experimental dashboard feature that scores pageviews on behavioral signals to separate “likely crawler” traffic from real anonymous humans. Ted asked whether those pageviews still count toward monthly limits, while Kris.Kotlarek confirmed that logged-in automations — including TL0 users on Meta — are also caught. Read more

• Rishabh shared the August 2026 Current Projects newsletter, covering the redesigned admin dashboard, Zoom webinar livestreams in Events, AI Image Captions v2, and the Workflows preview. Awesomerobot clarified that the Zoom integration and Resenha’s Livekit support are on separate development paths for now. Read more

• Sam released detailed admin AI logs, a new admin-only view with streaming-response decoding, rich filtering, and retention controls to help diagnose Discourse AI issues. Nickdb praised it as a gamechanger for tracking automatic translation and suggested auto-refresh as a next step. Read more

• Falco introduced new chat notification sound packs — five realtime-synthesized packs with distinct message and mention sounds, including retro 8-bit and ethereal glass. Resenha now follows the same sound-pack preference. Read more

#Community Building

• Divinebaboon asked how communities deal with users running AI agents that auto-reply to threads to farm trust levels. Merefield described sock-puppet AI compliment loops, Nickdb shared his AI-detection agent with 95%+ accuracy, Mbauman noted that “trust farming” is often just the new spam, and HAWK argued that the real question is whether the content is valuable to the community. Read more

• The long-running support-forum activity decline discussion got deeper: Mbauman says programming communities are losing new posters, Nickdb defended strict human-content house rules, Mevo challenged whether form matters more than ideas, and HAWK warned that blocking crawlers could starve the data source AI models depend on. Read more

• HAWK launched Show us your Workflows with a delightfully evil weekly-update workflow that applies progressively worse CSS the longer team members delay check-ins. Zogstrip explained the LLM classifier and data-explorer logic behind it, while Nickdb shared a simple workflow that auto-moves topics to the right category based on tags. Read more

#Translations

• Happyhappy asked about adding Basque as a Discourse interface language and was told it needs roughly 50% translation before it can be bundled. Undeterred, they began rallying native speakers and experimenting with DeepL-assisted Crowdin translations across the project’s 100,000+ strings. Read more

Support

• Satonotdead wanted to float the Horizon theme’s “New Topic” button to the bottom-right corner. Chapoi provided a position: fixed CSS snippet, then diagnosed that a position: sticky parent was breaking the stacking context and proposed a z-index fix on .sidebar-wrapper. Read more

• Rbos reported being unable to track down the source of an admin deprecation notice about the htmlSafe helper. Moin traced browser-console warnings to the “Versatile Banner” theme, and Rbos confirmed that updating that theme component from the admin panel cleared the message. Read more

• In 部署必须有邮箱才可以吗, WuBarlynn asked whether a mail server is required for self-hosting. Kddkd and Moin confirmed that SMTP is now optional thanks to Discourse ID login, while NateDhaliwal noted free tiers from Mailgun and Brevo for transactional email. Read more

#Self-hosting

• Danguaitu asked how to accelerate downloads from get.discourse.org for self-installs in mainland China. Darkpixlz suggested the bottleneck is often the hosting provider or ISP rather than Discourse itself, Merefield pointed to the GitHub-releases source, and Awesomerobot explained that the assets feed the pre-compiled JS assets for self-hosters. Read more

bug

• Moin reported that chat reply notifications are missing when threading is disabled: replying to someone’s chat message produces no unread dot on the channel, the header icon, or the channel switcher. The report includes a full reproduction path and expected behavior. Read more

ux

• Satonotdead opened a UX discussion about the profile page having too many tabs, suggesting that Security should merge into Account and that Following could merge with Notifications to reduce clutter for regular users. Share your thoughts

#Plugin

• Falco posted a major Resenha update, adding three AI noise-suppression models, direct calls from user cards, room invites, a WebRTC mesh privacy warning, opt-in live subtitles powered by WebGPU, and transcription-to-draft support. Read more

Activity by the Team Group

• Lindsey posted the crawler detection announcement and followed up on pageview-limit questions.

• Sam shipped the detailed admin AI logs and confirmed Gemini 3.7 Flash and Grok now work in the Discourse LLM setup discussion.

• Rishabh published the August 2026 Current Projects newsletter.

• Kris.Kotlarek answered questions about logged-in crawler detection and explained why likely crawlers often use legitimate user agents in the detection thread.

• Awesomerobot clarified Zoom/Livekit separation in Current Projects, confirmed the existing search-filter autocompletion options, pointed testers to the right channel for the composer redesign, and linked precompiled assets in the China download thread.

• Chapoi helped debug the Horizon New Topic button, played along with the ugliest Workflow theme ever, and recommended the Blocks API for custom homepages.

• Zogstrip explained the internals of the weekly-update Workflow and landed a fix for missing bulk delete actions.

• Falco introduced the new chat sound packs, checked in on the iOS 16.7 upload issue, and delivered the big Resenha update with AI noise suppression, direct calls, and live subtitles.

• HAWK kicked off Show us your Workflows, warned about AI data-starvation in the support-forum decline thread, and answered a dashboard-refresh question in Ask me anything about the new admin dashboard.

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If yesterday proved anything, it’s that even the robots need to watch their step on Meta — one missed weekly update and your screen will float away while the chat plays an 8-bit remix of your regrets.

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Daily summary covering activity from 21–22 August 2026.

Key Stats

• 114 new posts and 46 new topics were created in the last 24 hours.

• 139 likes were given across those posts.

• Top users by activity and likes:

  • Moin — 19 likes, 15 posts
  • HAWK — 18 likes, 6 posts
  • Falco — 17 likes, 4 posts
  • NateDhaliwal — 11 likes, 7 posts
  • Don — 11 likes, 4 posts
  • Awesomerobot — 8 likes, 4 posts
  • Satonotdead — 7 likes, 17 posts
  • Darkpixlz — 7 likes, 7 posts

Interesting Topics

#Community Building

• HAWK kicked off Show us your Workflows with a hilarious take on automating weekly team check-ins — the longer a teammate goes without posting an update, the more progressively awful CSS they receive. Zogstrip then broke down the underlying Workflows logic, including an LLM classifier and data explorer queries, while NateDhaliwal asked if the intentionally terrible theme could be shared.

• A lively debate continued in How do you guys deal with users that use AI to automatically reply to threads so they can gain trust level?, where HAWK suggested going back to first principles and asking whether the content is valuable, while Satonotdead shared plans for a custom quest-based trust system. Mbauman pushed back, noting AI-generated spam can still burn community goodwill when OP later drops a link.

• The long-running discussion about Anyone else seeing a drastic drop in community activity for Support forums? evolved into a philosophical exchange about AI training, human-generated content, and whether closing forums would starve future models.

#Announcements

• New folks exploring the free plan found answers in You’re invited to try the Discourse Free plan beta!. Awesomerobot clarified that the Starter plan has been removed, confirmed you can name your categories freely, and explained what a Discourse Hosted LLM is for newcomers like Dowlass.

• Falco announced New chat notification sound packs, featuring five synthesized sound packs — from soft marimba to retro 8-bit — with separate sounds for regular messages and mentions.

• In Improving how we detect and flag likely crawlers in your traffic data, Kris.Kotlarek confirmed that logged-in automation is also being detected, and explained why “likely crawlers” often use legitimate-looking user agents.

• Testers of the redesign got an update in Help Us Test the Composer Redesign, with Awesomerobot noting the experiment is best tested on the latest release channel. Darkpixlz later confirmed a previously reported text input issue appears to be fixed.

#Plugin

• Falco shared a major update to Resenha — Add Discord-style Video and Voice Rooms to Your Community, including AI noise suppression models, direct calls, room invites, Android camera switching, live subtitles, and transcription backed to topic drafts.

• A Workflows question came up in Discourse Workflows, where Patrickemin asked whether the “new user” trigger can filter for activated users only, to avoid bots.

#Theme component

• Don shipped several updates to Topic Preview Modal, adding nested view support, fixing a reported issue, and introducing a mobile/desktop switch option.

• Big update from Don on Guest Gate Theme Component too: a new analytics system with GTM support, custom events for modal views and clicks, and privacy-friendly tracking without PII.

Support

• Dowlass asked practical questions about invite-only communities in Configuring Discourse for a closed or private community, and Moin explained how invite links work, where to find them, and how admins can manage invites.

• In How can I see AI-translated posts?, Jagster figured out why translated content disappeared after changing interface languages — the fix was removing Finnish from their “content languages” preference, with helpful screenshots from Moin.

bug

• Moin reported Chat notifications not showing for replies in chat channels with a full reproduction path, noting that replies to your messages are often less visible than ordinary new posts when threading is disabled.

• A critical bug report surfaced in [discourse-animated-avatars] All avatar uploads failing - key not found: “resize_animated”, with Akanora sharing logs showing the plugin crashing the entire UploadCreator pipeline on the latest version.

Activity by the Team Group

• HAWK started the conversation with Show us your Workflows, shared the team’s CSS-based weekly update reminder, and offered a first-principles perspective on AI-generated content in How do you guys deal with users that use AI….

• Falco delivered two big announcements: a comprehensive Resenha update with AI noise suppression and live subtitles, and the brand-new chat notification sound packs.

• Awesomerobot answered free plan questions in You’re invited to try the Discourse Free plan beta!, pointed testers to the latest release channel in Help Us Test the Composer Redesign, and highlighted existing search filter autocompletion in Add search filter autocompletion.

• Zogstrip explained the inner workings of the weekly update workflow in Show us your Workflows and noted that bulk “Delete Topics” is part of ongoing improvements in Bulk actions confusion - Delete Topics.

• Chapoi shared the deliberately ugly CSS story in Show us your Workflows and recommended the Blocks API for anyone trying to recreate the Meta homepage in How to move category boxes to the top.

• Kris.Kotlarek joined the crawler discussion in Improving how we detect and flag likely crawlers in your traffic data, confirming that even logged-in TL0 scanning users can be flagged.

• Nat asked for clarification in Conversational AI Search coming to Discourse AI after Satonotdead reported the feature not working.

From progressively worse CSS to AI noise suppression and a very timely resize_animated bug, yesterday proved once again that Discourse communities never run out of creative — and occasionally chaotic — ways to keep things interesting.

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Covering the last 24 hours of community activity across Meta.

Key Stats

The last 24 hours brought a steady stream of activity: 97 new posts were published across 42 new topics, earning 74 likes in total.

Top contributors by posts and likes received:

• Jagster — 11 posts · 9 likes
• Moin — 7 posts · 9 likes
• NateDhaliwal — 5 posts · 8 likes
• Merefield — 3 posts · 5 likes
• Alltiagocom — 10 posts · 4 likes
• Satonotdead — 9 posts · 4 likes
• Darkpixlz — 4 posts · 4 likes
• Don — 2 posts · 4 likes
• Andrew_Rowe — 3 posts · 3 likes
• Falco — 3 posts · 3 likes

Interesting Topics

#Self-hosting

• Alltiagocom shared their decision to stick with a single-container Discourse setup for now, prompting Jagster and Merefield to advocate for the two-container approach — with Merefield noting that bootstrapping a replacement web container while the site stays online is much less stressful. Satonotdead asked for clear guidance on when to rebuild each container, Mcdanlj offered a nuanced take on the trade-offs for experienced vs. newer admins, and Andrew_Rowe cautioned that web-based updates aren’t always sufficient, citing the recent database version update read more.

• ALinux asked whether the 429 rate limit errors on their self-hosted instance affect everyone or just one client; after testing from a second network, they confirmed the limits are per-client, and NateDhaliwal pointed them to the global rate limit documentation read more.

Support

• Jagster was puzzled when AI-translated posts stopped appearing after switching interface languages, but Moin quickly diagnosed it: Discourse respects the content languages you claim to understand, so removing FI from the list restored English translations read more.

• Joshua8600 reported that auto-bumped topics no longer show an unread indicator after upgrading to the July 2026 release, making bumps easy to miss for moderators and support helpers. Moin linked the change to a broader shift in how small action posts are tracked, referencing a related unanswered question on small post actions and the earlier solved-notification discussion read more.

• Cazadividendos delivered a deep-dive analysis of a Patreon sync failure, identifying that the plugin’s API v2 extraction reads emails only from related user objects, while Patreon now returns them on the member objects themselves — leaving new patrons unassigned despite a successful sync read more.

#Plugin

• Jimmy0017 found that the See TL3 Progress plugin could throw a permission error when regular users viewed another member’s profile, and went straight to the source by opening a pull request — which plugin author NateDhaliwal promptly reviewed and merged read more.

• Soul introduced a brand-new Discourse IndexNow plugin that instantly notifies Bing, Yandex, and other IndexNow-participating search engines when topics are created or edited, complete with historical backfill, manual submission, key rotation support, and an admin UI available in English and Simplified Chinese read more.

ux

• Darkpixlz flagged that the notification you get when your reply is selected as the solution looks identical to a generic “topic solved” notification, which is confusing when you’re watching multiple threads; Moin pointed out the “notify on solved topics” preference exists, but it’s a nuclear option since it also disables the satisfying “your reply was selected” notification read more.

• Satonotdead questioned the pill-style display of subcategory links, arguing that #community-building:praise is overly verbose. Orioni raised a valid counterpoint about identical subcategory names, while Mcwumbly agreed the links could be more concise and linked a related feature request read more.

#Theme Component

• Joo reported that the Topic Preview Modal breaks when Horizon’s “topic card high context” is enabled, and that opening a preview from related topics fails to navigate when clicking “Open full topic.” Satonotdead confirmed the issue, and Don shipped fixes — moving the plugin outlet and patching the navigation bug — along with a question about how category-scoped settings should behave read more.

• Don announced a new analytics tracking system for the Guest Gate theme component with full Google Tag Manager support, custom browser events for third-party tools like Matomo or Plausible, and a strict no-PII data policy read more.

bug

• Alltiagocom revived a ten-year-old issue: tags on unlisted topics still count toward the visible tag counts shown to regular users and guests, even though the unlisted topics themselves are invisible to them. Falco confirmed it’s a duplicate of the original report read more.

• Akanora reported that the discourse-animated-avatars plugin is completely breaking avatar uploads on v2026.8.0-latest.1, with a key not found: "resize_animated" error crashing the image optimization pipeline for all upload types — the same issue was also reported on the main Animated Avatar plugin topic read more.

#Feature

• Satonotdead proposed a new sub-admin role that would sit between moderators and full admins, with scoped access to community management tools like sentiment models, translations, and badges — but not to sensitive areas like instance updates, theme components, email settings, or API keys. Andrew_Rowe noted that moderation and review can already be handled through trust levels and groups, while agreeing that scoped customization translations would help international communities grow read more.

#Announcements

• The Discourse Free plan beta thread continued with Dowlass working through the basics, from learning what an LLM is to wondering how trust levels apply to a closed, invite-only community; Moin and NateDhaliwal provided patient explanations and pointed to the detailed trust level guide read more.

Activity by the Team Group

• Moin had a busy day lending a hand across Meta: he diagnosed a missing AI translations issue as a content-language preference problem, explained notification preferences in the solved topic UX discussion, walked a user through invite-only community setup, traced an auto-bump regression to small action post tracking changes, and demystified trust levels and groups in the Free plan beta thread.

• Falco confirmed that chat notification sound packs play a preview when selected in New chat notification sound packs, verified an unlisted-tag count issue as a duplicate in Tags on unlisted topic should not count, and clarified that 1-to-1 calls in the Resenha plugin are disabled by default, requiring explicit group assignment to enable.

• Nat asked for more details in Conversational AI Search coming to Discourse AI to help a user whose AI search feature wasn’t returning results, requesting their settings and further context.

• Mcwumbly joined the subcategory pills UX discussion, agreeing that inline links to subcategories should be made more concise, and shared a thought-provoking NYT interview with Priya Parker on the value of constructive conflict in community building.

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That’s a wrap on a day of container conundrums, translation tangles, and plugin PRs — keep your rate limits close and your content languages closer, and we’ll see you all on Meta tomorrow!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

The last 24 hours on Meta brought 144 new posts across 55 topics, with a healthy dose of migrations, theme-component releases, calendar-event regressions, and one very full conntrack table.

Key Stats

Metric	Count
New posts	144
New topics	55
Likes given in returned posts	169

Top users in returned posts:

• Andrew_Bond — 5 posts, 19 likes
• Andrew_Rowe — 5 posts, 12 likes
• Moin — 8 posts, 11 likes
• NateDhaliwal — 5 posts, 11 likes
• RGJ — 3 posts, 10 likes
• Pacharanero — 4 posts, 9 likes
• Jagster — 8 posts, 8 likes
• Satonotdead — 11 posts, 7 likes
• Chapoi — 4 posts, 7 likes
• Merefield — 4 posts, 7 likes

Interesting Topics

#Community Building

• Andrew_Bond shared his successful Xenforo migration of a 750k-post forum to Discourse, explaining how the fresh UI, frequent updates, and vastly easier admin experience won him over. HAWK later walked through the permission inheritance design trade-offs, noting that sub-categories are intentionally independent for safety.

• In “Can money be the only moderator of a forum?”, Rosiesherry described her forum’s pay-to-post model with an annual membership fee, and Satonotdead linked a 1999 essay on micropayments and mental transaction costs as a thought-provoking companion piece.

#Self-Hosting

• Alltiagocom worked through the maintenance-page workaround thread, weighing single-container versus two-container Discourse. Jagster, Merefield, Andrew_Rowe, Lilly, and Mcdanlj shared upgrade workflows, bootstrapping tips, and the safety advantages of keeping the data container separate.

• ALinux diagnosed intermittent 429 errors after discovering all users appeared to share one IP behind HestiaCP and Cloudflare. Adding set_real_ip_from and real_ip_header to nginx eventually exposed correct client IPs, though Pfaffman warned that a reverse proxy can make the problem worse before it gets better.

#Theme Component

• Pacharanero introduced Custom Post Button, a new alpha theme component that turns [wrap] links into styled buttons, with configurable colours, explanatory text, and even a /new-message PM use case. Moin pointed him to the Theme_Authors group and Chapoi moved the topic into the right category.

• Don shipped fixes for Topic Preview Modal, resolving compatibility issues with Horizon’s “topic card high context” setting, fixing “Open full topic” navigation from suggested topics, and patching the component for Reddit-ish theme users.

#Plugin

• Aurora reported Calendar and Events regressions, including broken fourth-Thursday recurring meetings and a replaced New Topic button. Davidb confirmed the investigation and RGJ linked the intentional commit behind the button change, while questioning why it wasn’t behind a setting.

• Jimmy0017 found a permission popup when regular users viewed profiles with the See TL3 Progress plugin installed, and opened a pull request which NateDhaliwal quickly merged.

• Soul published discourse-indexnow, a plugin that automatically notifies Bing, Yandex, and other IndexNow-supporting engines when topics are created or edited, complete with historical backfill, rate-limit handling, key rotation, and submission logs.

• J.Jaffeux answered Workflows questions, demonstrating how to configure user.approved without drag-and-drop and explaining that automatically closing a topic when a specific user replies via email is not yet supported with the current trigger/action combinations.

development

• Satonotdead kicked off a discussion about the lack of standardised guidelines for theme-component CSS and JavaScript, asking how to avoid clashes between Horizon, Foundation, and other components. Andrew_Rowe shared the official theme skeleton and NateDhaliwal linked to further reading.

ux

• Martin demonstrated a hover-expand idea for making inline subcategory links more concise, while Awesomerobot suggested a tooltip on focus or hover instead to avoid the text reflow and repaint issues that come with expanding links inline.

bug

• RGJ uncovered a silent failure where event descriptions longer than 1,000 characters simply do not render in the event card, or show the previous description when edited. Pacharanero reproduced the issue and called for visible validation, and Lou added that any solution without a warning would still be insufficient.

#Feature

• Satonotdead proposed a new sub-admin role with partial access to /admin, separating technical administration from community management duties such as translations, badges, and moderation tools. Andrew_Rowe noted that many of those tasks can already be handled with groups and trust levels, but agreed the broader idea deserves discussion.

Support

• Joshua8600 asked whether auto-bump should still mark topics unread after a recent update removed the visual indicator. Jagster questioned whether a small-action bump should appear as unread to everyone, while Moin suggested the new Workflows plugin could provide a normal-reply alternative.

Activity by the Team Group

• HAWK explained Discourse’s category-permission inheritance approach in the Xenforo migration thread, clarifying why child categories cannot be less restrictive than their parents and how the safety net prevents accidental content leaks.

• Chapoi moved the Custom Post Button theme component into the correct category, helped hide the Air theme category banner on mobile with a simple CSS snippet, and welcomed the composer toolbar customisation idea.

• Davidb confirmed the Calendar & Events regressions, started an internal investigation into the recurring-meeting bug, and clarified that the “New Event” button is only shown to users with event creation permissions.

• J.Jaffeux walked through setting up 6 in Workflows and explained the missing trigger/action combination for email replies.

• Sam confirmed the Markdown solution display issue is fixed, checked several AI translation bugs, and asked about CSV escaping in staff logs.

• Rishabh announced a fix for email-code signups and clarified the Free plan beta usage-limit references.

• Martin shared a UX preview for inline subcategory links and Awesomerobot suggested a tooltip-based alternative.

• Mcwumbly agreed that subcategory links need a nicer treatment.

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With 144 posts, 55 topics, and at least one forum migrating 750k posts in 37 hours, yesterday’s Meta was proof that when Discourse says “you’ll want a bigger boat”, it usually means a bigger nf_conntrack_max.

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Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, Meta saw:

Stat	Count
New posts	131
New topics	57
Likes on returned posts	189

Top users in returned posts

User	Posts	Likes
Sam	10	17
Tgxworld	1	16
Pacharanero	4	12
RGJ	3	12
Moin	6	10
Martin	3	9
Andrew_Bond	6	8
Chapoi	4	8
Awesomerobot	4	7
Rishabh	3	6

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Interesting Topics

#Announcements

Tgxworld introduced the new admin-only Site Traffic Explorer for the redesigned admin dashboard, letting admins filter pageviews by URL, referrer, country, network, browser and IP address, with the underlying event limit configurable up to 1,000,000 pageviews – read more. Commenters also asked whether custom track events could be displayed and why badge URLs seem so prominent in the top traffic list.

Sam announced Discourse MCP v0.3, which now ships 131 tools compared to 25 previously, along with a new “toolsets” system that lets MCP clients access workflows, administration, analytics and theme creation features when explicitly enabled – read more.

Loic published changelogs for the 2026.8 monthly release, plus patch releases for 2026.7.2, 2026.6.3 and 2026.1.8 – read more.

Rishabh announced that staff can now suspend or silence users directly from the review queue, using the same modal as in other queues, with active penalty indicators shown on the reviewable user card – read more.

On the easier email-code signup feature, Rishabh responded to community reports with confirmation that a fix will be merged very soon – read more.

Support

Awesomerobot confirmed that auto-bumps no longer producing an unread indicator is intentional, explaining that small actions aren’t treated as new content anymore, and shared a Workflows-based example that can replicate the old “bump with a real reply” behavior for sites that want it – read more.

A self-hoster wrestling with 429 rate limits discovered every user was sharing one internal IP behind HestiaCP and Cloudflare; after adding real-IP forwarding they began seeing correct addresses, with Pfaffman and NateDhaliwal recommending the official cloudflare.template.yml as a safer route – read more.

Chapoi shared a small CSS snippet to hide the Air theme category banner on mobile, which Vanish confirmed solved the problem – read more.

bug

RGJ filed a detailed bug showing that events silently fail when the description exceeds 1000 characters, caused by a hard character varying(1000) database limit; Pacharanero reproduced the issue on latest, and Davidb began investigating what looks like a recent regression – read more.

Satonotdead reported being trapped inside fullscreen chat and AI bot conversations, with both back buttons failing to return to the forum; Awesomerobot asked for reproduction steps and settings details – read more.

#Theme component

Pacharanero released an alpha Custom Post Button theme component that turns links into styled buttons using [wrap=custom-button], with support for custom colors, explanatory text, and even a PM-opening shortcut; Chapoi welcomed him into Theme_Authors and moved the topic into the component category – read more.

#Community Building

In a long-running debate about whether money can be the only moderator of a forum, Rosiesherry described her successful pay-to-post community that funds employees from annual membership fees, while Satonotdead mused about an automated crypto tipping and leaderboard reward system – read more.

Andrew_Bond shared lessons from migrating a Xenforo site, including a request for permission inheritance from parent to child categories; HAWK explained that Discourse intentionally prevents sub-categories from being less restrictive than their parents to avoid accidentally leaking private content – read more.

#Feature

Awesomerobot added a value transformer to make it easier to hide third-level categories on the categories homepage without breaking the layout, and released a theme component that lets sites control how many subcategory levels display – read more.

The long-requested avatar cropping feature resurfaced as Alltiagocom asked for built-in crop and drag-and-drop upload, with Canapin linking related topics like “Centre your avatar!” to consolidate feedback – read more.

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Activity by the Team Group

Sam announced Discourse MCP v0.3, then did some bug housekeeping: he confirmed the localized content showing raw HTML/JSON is no longer an issue, checked that the AI share-conversation button is fixed in source, and resolved the Markdown/HTML disappearing from solution report.

Tgxworld released the Site Traffic Explorer for the redesigned admin dashboard, a new admin-only tool for exploring the most recent pageviews by URL, referrer, country, network, browser and IP.

Chapoi moved the Custom Post Button component into the correct category after accepting Pacharanero into Theme_Authors, gave Air theme mobile CSS advice, and responded to composer redesign feedback about the possibility of toolbar customisation in the future.

Awesomerobot explained the auto-bump behavior change and built a Workflows-based alternative, added a value transformer for subcategory depth, and asked for more details on the chatbot back-navigation report.

Rishabh announced suspend/silence actions in the review queue and confirmed an upcoming fix for email-code signup.

Davidb dug into calendar and events issues, including a possible regression affecting recurring “fourth Thursday” meetings and the new “New Event” button behavior, while also acknowledging the silent event-description failure.

J.Jaffeux answered questions on Discourse Workflows, clarifying how to use the user.approved trigger and noting what data is still missing for email-triggered workflows.

Loic posted the August 2026 monthly release changelog along with patch releases for all supported versions.

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Yesterday gave us a new 131-tool AI server, a valiant fight with thousand-character event cards, and a fresh crop of avatar dreams — if only every Discourse mystery could be solved with a custom button and a cheerful [wrap].

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• Total new posts: 105
• Total new topics: 37
• Total likes: 188
• Top users by likes and posts:
  • Tgxworld — 24 likes, 2 posts
  • Sam — 14 likes, 1 post
  • Satonotdead — 11 likes, 11 posts
  • Lindsey — 10 likes, 1 post
  • Alltiagocom — 7 likes, 6 posts
  • Loic — 7 likes, 1 post
  • Falco — 6 likes, 4 posts
  • Nickdb — 6 likes, 4 posts
  • NateDhaliwal — 6 likes, 3 posts
  • Awesomerobot — 6 likes, 2 posts

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Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Tgxworld announced the new admin-only Site Traffic Explorer for the redesigned admin dashboard, giving admins deeper insight into traffic patterns with filters for URLs, referrers, countries, networks, browsers, and IP addresses, configurable up to 1,000,000 pageviews via site_traffic_explorer_event_limit. In the discussion, Asa asked whether event tracking like Umami was planned, EricGT wondered why badge URLs dominate top-traffic lists (they’re bots with a 100% bounce rate, per Tgxworld), and Nickdb couldn’t see the feature until Tgxworld deployed it to their hosted site (read more).

• Sam announced the next iteration of Discourse MCP, version 0.3, which now ships 131 tools (up from 25) and introduces the concept of “toolsets” to selectively expose everything from administration to theme creation and analytics (read more). Fuse asked about practical use cases in genuine curiosity, and Falco pointed to the original announcement video (discussion).

• Lindsey announced that Discourse Calendar is now Discourse Events, renaming the plugin to better reflect its growing feature set, available on Business and Enterprise plans. Recent improvements include category event creation, more flexible RSVPs for recurring events, and Zoom webinar support for Livestream events (learn more). Meanwhile, in the plugin topic, Gilles asked why event creators aren’t automatically registered as attendees, with Andrew_Rowe noting that admins often post events they don’t attend and Satonotdead suggesting a pre-checked opt-out tick (read more).

• Loic published the August 2026 monthly release — version 2026.8.0 — along with patch releases for 2026.7.2, 2026.6.3, and 2026.1.8 (read more).

• Rishabh announced that staff can now suspend or silence users directly from the review queue, covering both “User Needs Approval” and “queued-post” reviewables, with the same modal as other review queues, staff-log entries, and hidden modal options to avoid dead-end errors. The feature also surfaces active actions on the reviewable user card for at-a-glance clarity (read more).

• The PostgreSQL 18 update for self-hosters continues to cause friction: Saiano reported a bootstrap failure where /etc/postgresql/15/main/postgresql.conf is missing, and Ethsim2 diagnosed that the new base image installs PostgreSQL 18 while the holdback template still assumes PostgreSQL 15 packages are present. Ethsim2 opened a fix PR to restore the intended upgrade path (read more).

#Extras

• Pacharanero shared dsc, a comprehensive Admin CLI for managing multiple Discourses, built for self-hosters who run fleets. It can perform command-line updates over SSH, pull and push entire categories as Markdown files, and is designed to pair well with LLM coding harnesses via AGENTS.md — with a caveat to use the standard git pull; ./launcher rebuild app path during the current PostgreSQL upgrade (read more).

#Feature

• A nearly decade-old request for avatar cropping was revived by Alltiagocom, who argued that most modern platforms let users crop before uploading and that image pre-editing adds unnecessary friction. Canapin pointed to related requests like Centre your avatar, and Alltiagocom sketched a square crop interaction with zoom and drag, plus drag-and-drop upload (read more).

General

• Nicolsdennis returned to show that the Sysaru social mobile & desktop client project is alive and well, with reworked per-forum push notifications, a complete radio-powered rewrite of the audio rooms featuring live reactions, Discourse Events integration, and a redesigned Explore Directory for discovering communities by region and category. Satonotdead called it the native app project they see the most future for and offered to help test (read more).

#Plugin

• The Animated Avatar plugin saw a flurry of bug reports on Discourse v2026.8: Alteras quickly pushed a fix for the resize_animated key error, but Akanora then hit a malformed --crop argument (missing the height component) when updating profile pictures, and Satonotdead reported animated webp uploads still rendering as static PNG (read more).

• The Discourse Workflows topic gained momentum: Patrickemin asked about filtering on user.approved and what “sample pinned data” means, AJ_Quick described an ambitious scheduled workflow for re-engaging stale topics with AI summaries and follow-up posts, and J.Jaffeux clarified the sample pinned data output (read more). Ethsim2 also opened a PR adding Event open/close actions to Workflows (read more).

#Self-hosting

• Haris reported a missing Update button and a 404 “page doesn’t exist or is private” error on /admin/upgrade. Falco asked whether the Docker install includes the docker-manager plugin, while Pfaffman noted the location may have moved recently and that the PostgreSQL update likely requires a command-line upgrade first (read more).

#Site feedback

• Alltiagocom noticed that posting a reply or PM on meta now often flashes the Discourse logo before reloading, and asked whether it’s a new feature. Zogstrip explained that meta deploys very frequently during monthly release mode, and each deploy invalidates caches, which forces a browser refresh when navigating or posting (read more).

#Theme component

• The Topic Preview Modal sparked a UX debate: Don added a draggable footer grip instead of swipe-to-close, worried that swipe gestures would conflict with native mobile navigation, while Damian_Boon demoed a one-handed swipe approach and defended it after a week of use. Asa cautioned that iOS Safari hijacks the swipe gesture to navigate back a page, sending the discussion “back to the drawing board” (read more).

ux

• On making inline links to subcategories more concise, Mcwumbly floated the idea of a “user card” for categories — showing full name, description, access, and recent activity metrics — so shorter inline mentions could be used unconditionally. Martin loved the idea and said he’d give it a shot, potentially extending it to hashtags, chat channels, and more (read more).

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Activity by the Team Group

• Tgxworld launched the Site Traffic Explorer and followed up on feedback, clarifying that badge-heavy URLs are bot traffic with a 100% bounce rate, that event tracking isn’t currently planned, and that the feature was being deployed live to Nickdb's hosted site (read more).

• Sam announced Discourse MCP v0.3 with 131 tools and the new toolsets concept, encouraging the community to share feedback under the mcp tag (read more).

• Lindsey rebranded the calendar plugin as Discourse Events, summarizing recent feature work including improved RSVPs, category event creation, and Zoom webinars for Livestream events (read more).

• Loic posted the August 2026 monthly release announcement with links to the full changelog and patch releases for all supported versions (read more).

• Rishabh shipped the ability to suspend or silence users from the review queue, with quality-of-life improvements to modal options and the reviewable user card (read more).

• Zogstrip responded to the logo-flash report on meta, explaining that frequent deploys during monthly release mode invalidate caches and force browser refreshes (read more).

• Chapoi revealed a redesigned system section in the admin dashboard, visible by default to self-hosters at the bottom of the dashboard, with the option to move it up via the configure menu (read more).

• Awesomerobot confirmed the auto-bump visual indication change is intentional — the feature was meant to be “bump to the top of activity-sorted lists” — and shared an importable Workflows example that bumps stale topics with a real System reply, noting the change aligns with the small actions announcement. They also clarified that a route for topics in muted categories doesn’t exist yet and would be a new feature (read more).

• J.Jaffeux answered workflow questions in the Discourse Workflows topic, explaining where “sample pinned data” lives in the output configuration (read more).

• Mcwumbly proposed category “user cards” in the inline subcategory links topic, and Martin agreed to explore the idea, possibly extending it to hashtags and chat channels (read more).

• HAWK responded in the Xenforo migration topic, noting that improvements to the subscriptions plugin aren’t on the immediate roadmap, and steered the “money as moderator” discussion back to the original first-post explanation (read more).

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From resurrecting a decade-old avatar crop request to wrestling PostgreSQL 18 through the upgrade tunnel, yesterday proved that even the bots are busy bouncing on meta — so go deploy something and watch the traffic explorer light up!

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Key Stats

In the past 24 hours, the community added 134 new posts and opened 52 new topics, while returned posts collected 179 likes.

Top Users	Posts	Likes
Satonotdead	19	16
Lindsey	1	11
Gilles	7	10
Don	8	9
Moin	7	8
Awesomerobot	4	7
Chapoi	3	7
Akanora	4	6
RGJ	3	6
Nicolsdennis	1	6

Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Discourse Calendar is now Discourse Events! Lindsey announced that Discourse Calendar has been renamed to Discourse Events, now available on Business and Enterprise plans. The post rounds up recent improvements to event creation, RSVPs, recurring events, Livestream, and Zoom webinar support. read more

• Better insights into your community with the redesigned admin dashboard picked up steam as Chapoi unveiled a newly redesigned system section, placed by default at the bottom of the dashboard for self-hosters. The thread also included Sren-1's feedback on the /admin/update page after upgrading. read more

• In Site traffic explorer for new admin dashboard, Tgxworld addressed community questions about event tracking, explained that badge-related URLs look like bot traffic, and confirmed the feature had been deployed to a hosted site. read more

#Theme Component

• The Topic Preview Modal saw serious iteration as Don redesigned mobile dismiss behaviour with three configurable options — None, Grip, and Gesture — including support for the native Back gesture. This follows feedback from Damian_Boon and Asa about swipe conflicts on iOS, while Jagster and Satonotdead tested the new behaviour on iPad and Android. read more

• Featured Topics needed rapid compatibility fixes: RGJ reported breakage on the 2026.1 ESR build, and Manuel adjusted the component’s compatibility ceiling to 2026.4.999 after discovering discourse/ui-kit/* imports only landed in 2026.5.0. read more

General

• Nicolsdennis shared a substantial update to A Social Mobile & Desktop Client for Communities, including reworked push notifications, a complete rewrite of the audio rooms as a radio-powered app, live reactions, Discourse Events integration, and a redesigned Explore Directory. The rollout is expected before September. read more

#Feature

• Gilles opened a request for alphabetical sorting of topic titles by category, explaining that filters change the default tile view and are too cumbersome for everyday users. RGJ supported the idea for lesson-style categories, Satonotdead said they already force local A-Z rendering for glossaries, and Chapoi asked about the underlying use case. read more

Support

• Problem with Foundation template compatibility (v2026.6) saw FabienL report visual regressions after an upgrade. Moin pointed to the upcoming “modernizing Foundation” change, and Awesomerobot explained the font-smoothing difference and shared a CSS snippet to restore the previous look. read more

• Routing Group mentions to a single email instead of notifying every member individually generated practical advice for a clinical staff group. Welsh_Selkie described using a collector account and shared mailbox, and Pfaffman suggested renaming the group and creating a user with the group’s name to absorb notifications. read more

• Starred chats disappear if user is in more than 100 chats was a well-documented bug report from ARK-Helena. Zogstrip responded quickly by opening PR #42975 to fetch starred channels independently from the regular public-channel query, while still leaving the 100 limit per type. read more

#Community Building

• Show us your Workflows featured AJ_Quick's three-phase AI re-engagement system that locates stale topics, asks an AI agent whether they should be revived, and then bumps them or posts a follow-up during slow periods. Mcwumbly also shared three reusable weekly report workflows for moderation, site settings, and trust-level changes. read more

#Self-hosting

• In Need help with dual container — LetsEncrypt issues, Alltiagocom described a frustrating certificate renewal loop after moving from a single-container to a dual-container setup, including the missing _ecc directory and rate-limit blocks. Pfaffman confirmed the site was reachable and suggested adding another domain to get a fresh certificate quota. read more

#Plugin

• Animated Avatar activity focused on upload failures introduced after recent Discourse versions. Akanora and Satonotdead reported different fatal errors, Alteras fixed a hidden --crop bug and noted animated WebP/APNG are not supported yet, and both testers confirmed GIF uploads are working again. read more

• Discourse Workflows continued evolving as Ethsim2 opened a PR adding Event → Open event and Event → Close event actions, while Putty asked about auto-tagging responses from an AI agent. J.Jaffeux also explained where custom JSON output data can be defined. read more

#Site Feedback

• Search icon covers search input on Meta was reported by Moin. Awesomerobot explained that Meta is running on a development branch and that the overlap affects users who have Enable AI search discoveries unchecked, as well as logged-out visitors — with a fix on the way. read more

Activity by the Team Group

• Lindsey announced the rebrand of Discourse Calendar to Discourse Events, linking to updated plugin documentation and recent feature work. She also pointed to the Discourse Events plugin topic for more details. read more

• Chapoi shared the redesigned system section in the admin dashboard for self-hosters and confirmed that AI summaries are intentionally not shown in Horizon because Horizon doesn’t use outlets.

• Awesomerobot was all over the place: he explained and began fixing the header search icon overlap, shared a CSS fix for Foundation’s font smoothing, documented a supported override for hiding third-level categories while preserving layout, and noted that allowing authors to interact in moved TL-gated threads would require major work because Discourse doesn’t have topic-level permissions.

• Zogstrip triaged and fixed the 100-chat starred-channels bug with a PR that loads starred channels independently from the regular followed-channel list.

• Tgxworld answered community questions about the Site Traffic Explorer, confirmed there are no plans for event tracking, and deployed the feature to a hosted site.

• Martin opened a small PR to make Discourse AI respect the “everyone” group, addressing a long-standing bug in AI bot group checks.

• Mcwumbly shared three reusable workflow exports for weekly moderation reports, site setting changes, and trust-level summaries.

• J.Jaffeux helped workflow builders by explaining how to define custom JSON data in output nodes.

• Mae responded to a request for German promotional material, pointing to Discourse’s AI translation feature and newly published YouTube videos and blog posts.

• Tobiaseigen contributed to the ongoing multisite configuration discussion, sharing an example of what his multisite setup looks like for multiple Discourse communities on one server.

From renaming Calendar to Events to teaching modals a better grip, yesterday proved that even a community with 100 starred chats can find its way back — as long as the Back gesture doesn’t swipe it away first!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• 118 new posts were created across 51 topics in the last 24 hours.
• 169 likes were given on those posts.
• Top users by likes and posts:

User	Likes	Posts
Lindsey	25	3
ErespawN	16	3
Don	13	8
J.Jaffeux	11	4
Gilles	10	9
Moin	6	9
Putty	5	5
Awesomerobot	5	3
Satonotdead	5	3
Typed-Sigterm	5	2

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Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Lindsey announced new drag-and-drop behaviors for custom sidebar sections, making it possible to drag links into existing sections, create new sections by dropping at the bottom, and reorder links instantly. The Categories and Tags sections are excluded from this behavior. read more

• The redesigned admin dashboard gained deeper engagement drill-downs: activity-by-category counts now link to filtered topic lists, and the “Who’s posting?” section supports comparing additional groups via /admin/reports/posters_by_member_type. read more

#Plugin

• In the Discourse Workflows topic, J.Jaffeux confirmed an Event node is coming next week, while Ethsim2 implemented a draft “Event → Set attendance” operation so workflows can automatically register an event author as Going. read more

• Overgrow introduced Discourse Bounce Guard, a new plugin that detects hard email delivery failures, stops retries to dead addresses, and can optionally deactivate affected users so they can verify a working email. read more

#Theme component

• Don released Guest Gate v2.0, a major update with new triggers (page views, time, scroll depth, lightbox), configurable repeat behavior, improved modal customization, optional privacy-friendly analytics, and automatic migration for existing settings. read more

• Don also shipped new configurable dismiss gestures and haptic feedback for the Topic Preview Modal, including native mobile Back support that closes the modal instead of leaving the topic list. read more

#Theme

• Don published a detailed FKB Pro v2 changelog covering improved responsive layouts, topic list performance, better FKB Panel caching, accessibility improvements, and a more modular codebase, with Gilles testing category heading wrapping fixes on mobile. read more

development

• Martin announced the deprecation of currentUser.groups/user.groups in favor of visibleGroups, explaining that hidden group memberships make client-side permission checks unreliable, and offered safer server-side patterns for plugins and theme settings. read more

• In the RFC for a new Discourse versioning strategy, Mcwumbly and Featheredtoast clarified how ESR security patches and dependency upgrades are handled, including a case-by-case policy for backporting dependency changes. read more

Support

• Gryzor reported posts appearing twice on the homepage with the Horizon theme; Moin identified the cause as an incompatibility with the Topic List Previews component, and Merefield noted TLP is modular while Horizon is monolithic. read more

• Welsh_Selkie struggled to find tag synonyms and merge controls, and Moin pointed to the hidden admin location. The topic also included a suggestion to give this area a UX refresh to match the updated design. read more

ux

• Typed-Sigterm proposed removing the confusing 🚫Closed label from group cards, noting it reads like “archived” in some translations; Awesomerobot agreed “invite only” might be a clearer label. read more

#Site feedback

• A suggestion to add a dedicated workflows category was discussed; Mcwumbly called the idea reasonable and recommended incubating workflows in #customization/extras with the #workflows tag, while J.Jaffeux confirmed plugins like chat, assign, topic voting, and AI already use the workflows plugin API. read more

• Darkpixlz noticed AI topic summaries being cut short, and Falco regenerated the truncated summary while noting it may be an LLM or plugin issue. read more

#Community Building

• ErespawN shared an enthusiastic thank-you to the Discourse development team, showing off a Turkish community built with Discord-style user cards, custom themes, a cosmetics store, and a marketplace — and heard encouragement to open-source the plugins. read more

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Activity by the Team Group

• Lindsey shared two major #Announcements: the drag-and-drop sidebar management feature and new admin dashboard engagement drill-downs. read more · read more

• J.Jaffeux previewed an upcoming Event node in Discourse Workflows and confirmed the workflows plugin API already supports custom nodes across chat, assign, topic voting, and AI. read more · read more

• Martin documented the user.groups deprecation with migration guidance for themes and plugins, and confirmed a dismiss-button navigation change on mobile became permanent. read more · read more

• Mcwumbly clarified ESR security-patch support and offered a path for incubating a workflows category via tags before promoting it. read more · read more

• Awesomerobot suggested renaming the 🚫Closed group label to “invite only” and helped users understand trust-level requirements. read more · read more

• Chrisr merged the PostgreSQL 18 fix, allowing self-hosters to retry their upgrades successfully. read more

• Renato intends to merge a PR this week that addresses the tablet chat close issue. read more

• Featheredtoast explained that dependency upgrades for ESR versions are handled on a case-by-case basis. read more

• Falco regenerated a truncated AI topic summary and helped investigate a composer display issue in embeds. read more · read more

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From dragging sidebar links into place to guarding against email bounces and teaching trust levels to read a few more posts, it was a day of small moves that keep communities moving — may your summaries never be cut short and your closed groups read a little friendlier.

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

It was a busy 24 hours on Meta, with a heartwarming thank-you, a sneak peek at conversational AI search, and a wave of theme and plugin releases. Here’s the roundup of 81 new posts across 31 new topics, earning 121 likes along the way.

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Key Stats

• 81 new posts and 31 new topics were created in the last 24 hours, collecting a total of 121 likes.

• Top contributors by likes and posts:

  • ErespawN — 27 likes, 7 posts
  • Don — 16 likes, 8 posts
  • Gilles — 9 likes, 7 posts
  • Merefield — 9 likes, 3 posts
  • NateDhaliwal — 8 likes, 6 posts
  • Falco — 8 likes, 3 posts
  • J127 — 4 likes, 3 posts
  • Satonotdead — 4 likes, 2 posts
  • Lilly — 3 likes, 2 posts
  • Eisammy — 3 likes, 1 post

Interesting Topics

#Community Building

• ErespawN, a Turkish forum owner and developer, wrote a heartfelt thank-you to the Discourse team, showing off a community featuring Discord-style user cards, a cosmetics store, and a marketplace plugin. Gilles praised the user cards and suggested they could benefit the wider Discourse community, while NateDhaliwal marveled at how far Discourse customization can go.

#Plugin

• Merefield suggested expanding the See TL3 Progress component into a broader “Trust Level Progress Meter” for all trust levels. NateDhaliwal agreed it was feasible, and EricGT noted the timing is excellent as TL3 work nears completion.

• Overgrow released Discourse Bounce Guard, a plugin that detects hard email delivery failures, stops retries to dead addresses, and can deactivate affected users so they can verify a working email and recover their accounts. It’s a clever answer to a long-standing pain point for self-hosters, and discussion of the problem has come up here before.

• Ethsim2 implemented a new “Event → Set attendance” workflow operation for Discourse Workflows, enabling Gilles's original use case of automatically marking event authors as “Going” — much to Gilles's delight.

#Theme

• Don announced the release of FKB Pro v2, a substantial update featuring improved responsive behavior, performance optimizations, user-specific caching, accessibility fixes, and a modular codebase. Gilles reported a mobile display issue with long category names, and Don offered a grid-based CSS solution.

#Theme component

• Don updated the Topic Preview Modal with a new timeline modal and skeleton loader. Damian_Boon then reported a stuck reload bug when replying in nested view, which Don couldn’t reproduce — so the investigation continues.

• Don released Guest Gate v2.0, a major rewrite introducing multiple trigger types (page views, time, scroll depth, lightbox), new repeat behaviours, richer modal customization, optional privacy-conscious analytics, and automatic settings migration from older versions.

• Merefield showcased a new “Carousel” featured images presentation for Topic List Previews, with a live demo on starzen.space and a PR available on GitHub.

#Site feedback

• NateDhaliwal spotted a redesigned Search page on Meta, and Falco revealed it’s “v2 of our Conversational AI Search coming to Discourse AI,” with an official announcement planned next week.

• The proposal for a dedicated workflows category gained traction, with Mcwumbly suggesting incubating ideas through #workflows tags in #customization/extras as a path toward a full category. J.Jaffeux confirmed that chat, assign, topic voting, and AI already use the workflows plugin API.

• Darkpixlz flagged that an auto-generated topic summary was cut short; Falco quickly regenerated it, raising the question of whether users should be able to flag or request summary regeneration themselves.

Support

• Mireille_Coilhac asked about encrypting private messages in French, noting that the Discourse Encrypt plugin is now obsolete. Moin clarified that Discourse deliberately calls them “personal messages” rather than “private messages,” and Canapin pointed to the “Log personal message views” setting for admins who want to audit PM access.

• Carlo ran into a “display: none” bug when replying in the Full App Embed, then shared a theme JS workaround that forces the composer visible in embed mode. Falco noted it doesn’t reproduce on the Discourse blog, suggesting it may be site-specific.

#Announcements

• The Composer Redesign testing thread continued to collect feedback: Lou reported mobile issues that led them to disable the feature for now, while J127 raised accessibility concerns about low-contrast borders on active inputs.

#Feature

• J127 struggled to lock down anonymous search against a bot scraping usernames and content at massive volume, and shared a Cloudflare redirect rule as a stopgap after the forum sustained tens of thousands of bot hits in a single day.

Activity by the Team Group

The Team group was actively helping, building, and sharing across Meta in the last 24 hours:

• Falco revealed that the new Search page is the upcoming v2 of Conversational AI Search, regenerated a truncated topic summary, and investigated an embed composer bug.
• Gilles cheered on a new community’s Discord-style user cards, debugged a mobile layout issue in FKB Pro, and thanked @Ethsim2 for the new workflows attendance operation.
• Merefield proposed expanding TL3 Progress to cover all trust levels, rolled out a Carousel feature for Topic List Previews, and opened a big PR adding Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI support to Discourse Chatbot.
• J.Jaffeux confirmed the summarize node covers aggregate workflow needs and clarified that chat, assign, voting, and AI already use the workflows plugin API.
• Mcwumbly supported creating a workflows category, suggesting tags as an incubation path and pointing users toward the “Show us your workflows” thread.
• Awesomerobot helped a new user understand Trust Level 1 requirements, noting they were just one more topic entry away from reaching TL1.
• Lilly confirmed smooth PostgreSQL 18 upgrades on dual-container servers and updated the Group Sidebar Menus component to use the new icon object type setting.
• Canapin explained the “Log personal message views” setting for admins auditing PM access.
• Renato announced a PR merge to fix the tablet chat-closing issue.
• Ethsim2 implemented the new “Event → Set attendance” workflow node requested by the community.

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From a Turkish forum owner’s Discord-inspired avatars to a French admin’s quest for encrypted PMs, yesterday’s activity proved that Discourse communities speak every language — and build in all of them!

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Here’s what happened on Meta during the last 24 hours — from project management experiments and AI search reveals to resumable backup downloads and very opinionated naming debates.

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, meta saw 116 new posts across 40 new topics, with 159 likes in those posts.

Top users by post count and likes:

User	Posts	Likes
Mcwumbly	8	31
NateDhaliwal	7	11
Don	4	8
ErespawN	4	7
Sam	3	7
Falco	2	7
J.Jaffeux	2	7
Aurora	1	7
Darkpixlz	2	6
Thomas_Rother	2	6

Interesting Topics

#announcements

• Current Projects – Last Issue — Mcwumbly announced the final Current Projects digest, as Discourse moves to individual project topics in Contribute > Projects with a kanban board view. Darkpixlz worried it will be harder to track everything at a glance, but Mcwumbly said release notes and announcements should fill the gap. Read more.

• PostgreSQL 18 update for self-hosters — users traded upgrade tips, including Eviepayne recommending --link in pg_upgrade to hardlink data and save disk space, and Lilly updating her guidance for dual-container setups. Read more.

#projects

• Kanban v2 — Mcwumbly asked the community to help name the new boards feature. Jenmck warned that “boards” could confuse forum users accustomed to “message boards,” while Satonotdead suggested names like To-do, Task, Status, and Activity and shared a detailed wishlist around drag-and-drop, due dates, and filters. Read more.

Community Building

• Show us your Workflows — Aurora shared an impressive set of community workflows: personalized onboarding, 24-hour event reminders, videoconference onboarding, and group-specific notifications. She also floated the idea of attaching .ics calendar files to “Going” RSVPs; Sam flagged it for J.Jaffeux and colleagues, and J.Jaffeux confirmed event workflow features are coming this week. See the Discourse Workflows plugin topic and a related recurring events feature request. Read more.

• Promotional material für Discourse in de_DE — Thomas_Rother asked for German-language videos and printed leaflets for events like re:publica, arguing that stickers alone won’t convince decision-makers. Tobiaseigen offered to bring a large sticker collection to Berlin events, and Mcwumbly floated the idea of downloadable PDF leaflets in multiple languages. See also the Discourse stickers thread. Read more.

development

• Skills for authoring themes and blocks — Manuel explained that agents using the new Blocks API announcement can generate custom blocks, and clarified that blocks are not yet in core but can be added via themes and theme components. Read more.

• Deprecating user.groups in JavaScript — Martin confirmed that the user.groups deprecation PR has been merged and explained the long runway before removal. A similar JavaScript deprecation was also spotted in DEPRECATION NOTICE: Getting timezone property of user object. Read more.

#developer-guides

• The UI kit of shared Discourse components, helpers, and modifiers — A new guide documents the d- prefixed building blocks in ui-kit, how to import them, and why you should avoid reaching into -internals. It’s a useful map for plugin and theme authors who want to build with stable, public primitives. Read more.

#theme-component

• Topic Preview Modal — Don shipped a new timeline modal and swipe-hint settings, while Damian_Boon tracked down a nested-reply reload bug that appears browser-related, including in Duck Duck Go. Read more.

#site-feedback

• When was this new Search page added? — NateDhaliwal spotted the redesigned Search page, and Falco revealed it is v2 of Conversational AI Search coming to Discourse AI, with a full announcement expected next week. Read more.

#plugin

• See TL3 Progress — NateDhaliwal and EricGT discussed expanding trust-level progress visibility beyond TL3 candidates, potentially helping TL0 users understand what they need to advance. Read more.

• Dumbcourse – Old-browser friendly UI at /dumb — TripleU revealed that nine separate plugin modules were merged into one package, including phantom reactions, mini-mod tools, translator tweaks, and a Telegram-bridged team chat. For more on chat-style posting, see also Idea: Chat Posts. Read more.

#self-hosting

• Backup download cannot resume — Ethsim2 traced a Safari/iOS resumable-download failure to the one-use emailed backup token being consumed before the transfer completes, then submitted a PR with a bounded resume authorization. See the earlier backup download issue. Read more.

• What to know before upgrading from v3.4.0 to v2026.7.2 — Corywright asked for a safe upgrade path after a 2.5-year pause. Merefield recommended spinning up a fresh server and restoring a backup to sidestep the PostgreSQL 18 major upgrade. Read more.

bug

• Expanded markdown tables can’t be interacted with — Sam linked the fix to PR #43036 and noted it may resolve additional related issues. Read more.

Activity by the Team Group

The Team group was active across announcements, plugins, and community discussions.

• Mcwumbly wrapped up the Current Projects era, answered naming and feature questions in Kanban v2, and floated the idea of downloadable promotional PDFs.

• Sam highlighted Aurora's .ics workflow idea in Show us your Workflows, confirmed the markdown table fix, and triaged the mobile HTML pasting bug.

• J.Jaffeux told the community that event-driven workflows are on the way in Show us your Workflows, and answered that Discourse Workflows does not yet support manual retries.

• Falco unveiled the new AI-powered Search page and advised moving the WordPress nested-replies request into a proper feature topic.

• Martin announced that the 8 deprecation is merged.

• Renato is actively working on an Android/Chromium workaround for the HTML pasting bug.

• Mae offered to send Discourse stickers while helping with German promotional materials.

• Tobiaseigen shared plans to attend Berlin events with a “vast” sticker collection and encouraged promoting Discourse at European community gatherings.

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Whether it was resurrecting interrupted backup downloads or deciding whether a board by any other name would kan-ban as sweet, yesterday proved the Discourse community always keeps the cards moving.

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, 134 posts were shared across 52 topics, with 251 likes given on those posts. Here are the top active users by posts and likes received:

User	Posts	Likes
Mcwumbly	11	40
Falco	5	37
Nat	3	20
Rishabh	3	16
Merefield	4	11
Lindsey	2	11
Putty	5	10
Don	6	9
Satonotdead	10	8
J.Jaffeux	3	8

Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Falco announced that Resenha has graduated into a bundled core plugin now called Voice, bringing Discord-style voice and video rooms, direct calls, live subtitles, background blur, and optional LiveKit routing to every Discourse install. Read the announcement.

• Nat unveiled Ask AI, a new natural-language search experience that rewrites queries for indexed and semantic search, synthesises answers, and prompts users to create a topic when no good results exist. It is enabled by default for new hosted sites. Read more.

• Rishabh introduced the new Admin Design Wizard, which helps admins pick themes, color palettes, fonts, landing pages, layout, and search options in just a few clicks after setup. Existing sites on core themes can also re-run it. Read more.

• Mcwumbly shared the final planned Current Projects digest, directing the community to individual project topics in Contribute > Projects and a live Kanban board view for status tracking. Read more.

• Lindsey announced that the Signups, New Contributors, and Accepted Solutions reports now show the specific users, topics, and categories behind the numbers. Read more.

• Lindsey also shared that Data Explorer queries can now grant group access during query creation, making it easier to share community data with non-admin stakeholders. Read more.

#Projects

• Mcwumbly invited feedback on Kanban v2, the new boards plugin now running on meta. Discussion covered naming options like “boards” vs “kanban,” drag-and-drop between columns, task assignment, due dates, and a possible board-wide activity stream. Read more.

#Plugin

• In Discourse Workflows, users asked about retrying workflows, triggers for newly created tags, and calendar/RSVP integrations. J.Jaffeux confirmed workflow event support for events is coming soon and noted some retry functionality is not yet available. Read more.

• Osama reviewed a community fork of the Discourse Newsletter Integration plugin and invited the author to open a PR with the reasonable additions so they could be merged into the official plugin. Read more.

#Theme component

• Gilles reported several display issues in the FKB Pro - Social theme, and Don quickly shipped fixes for tablet category descriptions, nested reply avatars, and a toggle for the right-side panel. Read more.

#Self-hosting

• Corywright asked for guidance before upgrading a long-neglected Docker install from v3.4.0 to v2026.7.2. Merefield recommended a fresh-server-and-restore path to sidestep the PostgreSQL 18 upgrade. Read more.

Support

• Hobbes was locked out of a free Discourse-hosted site; Rishabh investigated, and HAWK explained the account had been restricted due to a recurring illegal-content warning on a post containing pirate links and an attached PDF. Read more.

bug

• RGJ filed a detailed bug showing that the chunked backup uploader fails when Discourse returns HTTP 429 rate-limit responses, because the uploader does not retry or honor Retry-After. Read more.

• Sam confirmed a fix for expanded markdown tables becoming non-interactive, linking to a core PR that should resolve the issue. Read more.

#Feature

• Hugh revived the request to auto-hide old replies in documentation categories, and Mcwumbly pointed to the existing docs “simple mode” that collapses comments behind a reveal button. Read more.

Activity by the Team Group

• Falco celebrated the launch of Voice in core, reassured self-hosters that a rebuild is all that’s needed, redirected Resenha users to the new plugin, and suggested turning a Discourse Connect + nested replies question into a feature request.

• Mcwumbly drove the Kanban v2 discussion, closed out the Current Projects digest series, and highlighted the docs simple mode for collapsing old replies in documentation categories.

• Nat announced Ask AI and answered follow-up questions about token costs, usage monitoring, and the AI ask AI related count setting.

• Rishabh launched the new Admin Design Wizard and helped free hosted users with read-only mode and login access inquiries.

• Lindsey shipped improvements to admin report drill-downs and group access controls in Data Explorer.

• Sam brainstormed workflow and calendar integration ideas, confirmed a fix for expanded markdown tables, and noted a mobile HTML-paste bug is on @renato’s list.

• J.Jaffeux responded to workflow feedback, outlined upcoming event-related workflow features, and answered questions about workflow retries and new-tag triggers.

• Martin clarified the contextual dismiss states in the unified new topic-list view, checked in on Discourse BCC, and announced that user.groups in the JavaScript User model is now officially deprecated.

• Tgxworld added OAuth token support for Zendesk authentication and updated the Zendesk plugin guide, while also checking whether group-based visibility of Zendesk buttons is still needed in the Discourse Zendesk plugin.

• Renato investigated the Android Chromium bug around pasting HTML into the mobile markdown composer and is pushing a workaround this week.

• Mae and Tobiaseigen discussed promotional materials for German-speaking communities and offered stickers for on-the-ground events, with Tobiaseigen noting he’ll be at Berlin FediDay and Nextcloud conferences with physical swag.

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With Voice rooms now bundled in core, yesterday’s community literally had a new Watercooler to talk in — just remember to mute your mic before joining the video grid!

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Today on meta.discourse.org…

Covering the 24 hours of September 1–2, 2026

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, Meta saw 195 new posts and 64 new topics, with 338 likes given across those posts.

Top Users	Posts	Likes
Falco	6	63
Mcwumbly	11	39
Rishabh	6	25
Nat	3	20
Lindsey	3	19
Sam	9	14
Gilles	10	9
Don	8	9
NateDhaliwal	5	9
Merefield	2	9

Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Voice is now a core plugin. Falco announced that the Resenha experiment is now Voice, bringing Discord-style voice and video rooms directly into Discourse with P2P WebRTC, optional LiveKit routing, background blur, noise suppression, and live subtitles. Community members were quick to celebrate, with several calling it a major step toward replacing Discord-style communities read more.

• Ask AI arrives for better search. Nat introduced Ask AI, a new search experience that rewrites user queries, runs both keyword and semantic search, and synthesizes the best results. Nat also confirmed that usage does incur token costs, and admins can monitor usage per feature read more.

• A new Admin Design Wizard. Rishabh shared the new design wizard, which walks new admins through theme selection, color palettes, fonts, landing pages, layout, and search options after setup. For existing sites, the wizard can be re-run from Themes & components if the site still uses only core themes read more.

• Admin reports now show the who and what. Lindsey announced that the Signups, New Contributors, and Accepted Solutions reports now display the specific users, topics, and solutions behind the numbers. Commenters quickly requested even more detail, from email addresses to drilldowns on traffic spikes read more.

• Boards is here for roadmaps and collaboration. Mcwumbly launched Discourse Boards, a bundled kanban-style plugin with topic-backed cards, standalone floater cards, drag-and-drop columns, per-board ACLs, and real-time sync. The feature is included on Business and Enterprise hosting plans read more.

• Automatically generated llms.txt is coming. Sam shared the planned default 0 for all sites, designed as a minimal map for AI agents and pointing at the Discourse MCP server rather than an exhaustive index read more.

#Plugin

• Workflows grows new triggers. In the Discourse Workflows topic, Joo asked for a trigger when a new tag is created, so new tags can be auto-added to a tag group. J.Jaffeux replied that he would add a tag-created trigger and an add-tag-to-tag-group node, and then shared the implementation read more.

• ActivityPub load-order fix. After Thoka reported a migration problem with the ActivityPub plugin, RGJ pointed to the plugin’s load-order code. Pmusaraj then opened a pull request to fix it, and the discussion continued on whether moving code inside after_initialize is the right approach read more.

#Self-hosting

• A GitHub-side issue broke self-hosted rebuilds and admin pages. Several self-hosters hit Fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com' during ./launcher rebuild read more. Arkshine pointed to a GitHub-side investigation and suggested git config --global http.version HTTP/1.1 as a workaround. On other sites, logged-in admin requests began timing out because DiscourseUpdates calls were hanging on git; Ed_S found that disabling version_checks could restore service read more.

Support

• Read-only mode on an inactive free site. Christophk couldn’t disable read-only mode on their discourse.group site, and support directed them to Meta. Rishabh confirmed the site had gone inactive and extended the inactivity check until the end of November read more.

#Feature

• Granular permissions for cameras and screen sharing. Luna_Mora suggested separating camera and screen-sharing permissions from a global toggle, making them group-based like other Voice permissions read more. Falco asked for confirmation that group-based site settings are what’s needed read more.

• Split “See” into first post and replies. Jonathan5 proposed splitting the category See permission into “see first post” and “see replies” so anonymous visitors can read the first post without seeing replies, potentially lowering the barrier for lurkers read more. Satonotdead noted that a similar use case exists with the Discourse Category Lockdown plugin read more.

#Projects

• A built-in MCP server is on the way. Mcwumbly shared the Built-in MCP server project, which would add a core /mcp endpoint for permission-aware AI assistant access, replacing the current client-side MCP and enabling cloud harnesses read more.

• New site admin experience. Rishabh described the ongoing effort to improve onboarding for new Discourse admins, including the new design wizard, improved invites, an expanded Admin Assistant, and a more cohesive ID-based signup experience read more.

bug

• Gemini regressions after upgrading to 2026.8.0. RBoy reported that AI search broke when using Gemini Flash Latest 3.7 after the upgrade, due to an unsupported function role in the legacy API. Sam suggested moving to the non-legacy endpoints. A second topic covered a separate Gemini Flash Lite with thinking regression with the same upgrade trigger read more.

Activity by the Team Group

The Team group had a very busy 24 hours on Meta:

• Falco answered setup questions on the new Voice plugin, confirmed the Resenha-to-Voice transition, and discussed granular camera and screen-sharing permissions.

• Nat launched Ask AI, explained token usage monitoring, and participated in the Gemini model compatibility discussion.

• Rishabh introduced the Admin Design Wizard, shared the new site admin experience roadmap, and helped a free-plan site by extending its inactivity grace period.

• Lindsey announced drilldowns for admin reports and group access while creating Data Explorer queries.

• Mcwumbly launched Boards, shared the Boards documentation, outlined the built-in MCP server, and clarified group-owner permissions for category moderators.

• Sam detailed automatically generated llms.txt and stressed the security importance of regular upgrades while discussing Gemini regressions.

• Martin explained the context-dependent Dismiss buttons in the unified New view and clarified that users can’t enable or disable upcoming features individually read more.

• J.Jaffeux added new Workflow triggers for tag creation and tag-group assignment.

• Pmusaraj opened a fix for the ActivityPub plugin and responded to the LiveKit serializer feature request.

• Tgxworld added Zendesk OAuth support and asked about group-based Zendesk button visibility.

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Yesterday Meta went from text-only to “talk to your forum” in a single day — and GitHub even tried to join the conversation by hanging up on everyone first.

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Daily summary for September 2–3, 2026

Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community produced 228 posts across 76 topics, with 259 likes given on those posts.

Top users in returned posts:

User	Posts	Likes received
Mcwumbly	12	39
Falco	17	28
Sam	9	15
Rishabh	5	15
Gilles	10	12
Satonotdead	13	11
Jagster	12	11
Ed_S	13	10
J.Jaffeux	3	9
Luna_Mora	2	9

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Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Mcwumbly unveiled the new Boards feature, a kanban-style system built into Discourse core that lets you organize topics and standalone cards on configurable boards with per-board access control. It’s rolling out on Business and Enterprise plans, and the team sees it as a natural evolution of the old Kanban theme component. read more

• Sam announced that Discourse will soon ship a default 0 for every site, giving AI agents a conservative map of public endpoints and pointing them at the Discourse MCP server. Site owners can still upload their own custom file if they prefer. read more

• The Voice plugin continues to generate discussion: Pmusaraj confirmed it can be restricted by group, Gilles asked about mobile UI, and Satonotdead showed how voice rooms appear inside the chat interface. read more

• Lindsey introduced drill-down details in admin reports, letting admins see the actual users and topics behind numbers like signups, new contributors, and accepted solutions. read more

#Feature

• Luna_Mora requested separate, group-based permissions for cameras and screen sharing in Voice rooms, moving away from an all-or-nothing toggle. Falco quickly confirmed the intent, and the discussion is now a tidy roadmap item. read more

• Gilles suggested adding a swipe gesture to open the chat sidebar on mobile. Mcwumbly said there are no current plans, and Awesomerobot pointed out that left/right swipes can collide with the browser’s back/forward gesture. read more

• Jonathan5 proposed splitting the “See” category permission so the first post can be visible while replies remain gated, which could help convert lurkers and limit AI scraping. read more

#Plugin

• In the Discourse Workflows topic, Joo asked for automatic tag-group assignment based on AI classification, and J.Jaffeux delivered: new tag created triggers and add tag to tag group nodes were added to the workflow toolbox. read more

• Mcwumbly also published the Discourse Boards plugin documentation, covering use cases like roadmaps, team collaboration, standalone task lists, drag-and-drop, and per-board ACLs. read more

#Projects

• Rishabh shared the new site admin experience, an ongoing effort to improve onboarding for new community admins. Already shipped: a new design wizard and improved admin invites; next up is a third onboarding step and an expanded Admin Assistant. read more

• Mcwumbly announced that a built-in MCP server is coming to Discourse core, served at /mcp. It aims to replace the client-side MCP and give admins a single place to control what different users and groups can do with AI assistants. read more

Support

• Jeanas reported that logged-in users on his Discourse forum hit an error page while anonymous visitors were fine. The culprit turned out to be a git hang during “new features” checks, triggered by a GitHub outage. Falco eventually merged a fix to stop per-process git calls from blocking admin requests. read more

• Jagster ran into fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com' during a rebuild, and others confirmed the same. A suggested workaround was to force HTTP/1.1 for git: git config --global http.version HTTP/1.1, then rebuild. read more

• Jagster also hit a confusing PG::UndefinedTable: relation "voice_rooms" does not exist during upgrade. Nat identified a migration version conflict with the old Resenha plugin and provided a safe SQL rename script to get the database back in sync. read more

• RBoy reported that Disco Bot / AI Search broke with Gemini after Discourse 2026.8.0, due to Google’s legacy endpoint rejecting the function role. Sam suggested moving to the non-legacy endpoints and noted that long-term the Interactions API is where Google is headed. read more

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Activity by the Team Group

The Team group was extremely busy yesterday, both fixing regressions and shipping new features:

• Mcwumbly led the launch of Boards, shared the plugin documentation, and participated in discussions about swipe gestures in chat, category moderator permissions, admin report drill-downs, and the built-in MCP server.

• Falco diagnosed the GitHub-outage admin lockout, merged a fix, discussed LiveKit status exposure, clarified camera and screen-sharing permissions, and pointed several old voice/video requests to the now-core Voice feature.

• Sam announced the new default 7, helped with Gemini + Disco Bot troubleshooting, and offered guidance on the Gemini regression topic.

• Rishabh shared the new site admin experience, introduced the Discourse Admin Assistant, and answered questions about inactive sites and discoursemail.com domains.

• J.Jaffeux added workflow triggers for tag creation and tag-group assignment based on community feedback.

• Pmusaraj investigated an ActivityPub plugin migration issue, responded to LiveKit feature requests, and posted a complete integrating Discourse Voice with LiveKit guide.

• Martin worked on concise subcategory links, improved the unified new view, and clarified Upcoming Changes notifications.

• Nat diagnosed the voice_rooms migration conflict and provided a safe SQL workaround for affected self-hosters.

• Awesomerobot explained the browser gesture constraints around swipe navigation in chat.

• David asked clarifying questions about the LiveKit status API request.

• Lindsey announced admin report drill-downs and asked for feedback on the new granular details.

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GitHub may have briefly turned into a pumpkin, but the Discourse team turned it into a chance to make the platform more resilient — and somewhere in all that, a roadmap literally became a board you can drag around.

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Key Stats

Over the past 24 hours, the community produced 155 posts across 51 new topics, with 136 likes given on returned posts.

Top users by posts and likes:

• Falco — 16 posts, 23 likes
• Nicolsdennis — 6 posts, 9 likes
• Ed_S — 6 posts, 8 likes
• Rishabh — 1 post, 8 likes
• Satonotdead — 11 posts, 7 likes
• Per1234 — 1 post, 7 likes
• Mcwumbly — 5 posts, 6 likes
• Nat — 5 posts, 6 likes
• Jagster — 9 posts, 5 likes
• Ethsim2 — 8 posts, 5 likes

Interesting Topics

#Announcements

• Satonotdead walked users through enabling and finding the new bundled Voice rooms, with Newkid praising the feature for their real estate community and Jagster asking whether admins can delete rooms — which Satonotdead confirmed, adding that room titles, slugs, and group limits can also be managed in the Voice announcement topic.

• Rishabh unveiled the Discourse Admin Assistant, an LLM-powered chat helper for hosted sites that can answer documentation questions, change settings with an approve/cancel prompt, assist with moderation, and explain hosting plan details to admins.

• Gilles praised the new Workflows feature preview as powerful and intuitive, and suggested creating a dedicated space for workflow sharing; Eviepayne pointed to an open request for such a category.

Support

• Ed_S reported growing numbers of pitchfork worker timeouts linked to the GitHub outage, while Satonotdead confirmed Git authentication failures; Falco traced it to an over-eager feature check and merged a fix, after Jeanas noted that a GitHub outage should never take down a Discourse forum in the first place.

• Apidevlab asked for help with a fresh Hetzner VPS install failing during bootstrap, posting memory and disk diagnostics but no full log; Jagster and Ed_S advised scrolling up for the real error before anyone could diagnose the failure.

• BOUCUR shared a community report about post and topic links no longer appearing under Badges, such as “Nice Reply” and “Nice Topic,” and confirmed the same issue exists here on Meta.

#Self-hosting

• Jagster hit PG::UndefinedTable errors for 0 after upgrading a two-container install; Nat identified leftover Resenha plugin migration conflicts and supplied a SQL script to rename the old tables, which resolved the issue.

• Peter_Backgren and Lunikon described GitHub-caused 1 hangs and locked-out admins on self-hosted forums; Taste-OF-IT confirmed a retry eventually rebuilt and brought the site back online.

• Fabien_1015 reported persistent Error 500s after upgrading to v2026.9.0 on users.scala-lang.org, with the problem temporarily solved by deleting the _t cookie; Merefield asked for the actual backtrace from /logs before offering a fix.

#Feature

• Opcourdis pushed for archiving completed recurring event topics and creating successor topics, and Ethsim2 responded with an opt-in 4 PR that preserves the completed occurrence while advancing the series.

• Mcwumbly revived the request for logged-in-only search after noting the pain anonymous search abuse causes; Nat agreed and opened a PR adding allow_anonymous_search while keeping group-based internal search logic manageable.

bug

• HBP reported a regression in the signup flow caused by a new 10-per-minute IP rate limit on /u/check_username.json, which can block legitimate users who edit or correct their username while creating an account.

• Ethsim2 investigated the wrong +1h Outlook ICS export with TZID=Europe/Berlin and opened a PR adding VTIMEZONE definitions so Outlook can interpret daylight-saving rules correctly.

#Integrations

• Pmusaraj published a detailed guide to integrating Discourse Voice with LiveKit, covering room policies, mesh fallback, webhooks, and LiveKit Egress recording settings.

#Community Building

• Per1234 shared an importable Discourse Update Notifier workflow in the “Show us your Workflows” topic, complete with a JSON download and a live demonstration on Arduino’s forum.

Activity by the Team Group

The Team group had a full day of fixes, guidance, and shipping.

• Falco merged a fix for the GitHub-caused pitchfork and login hang, explaining that the issue was triggered by an over-eager feature check while GitHub was down.

• Falco closed out several older requests by pointing to the new bundled Voice plugin, including HIRING: Voice Chat/Call Feature, Discourse Group Voice Chat, and Video Conference Call.

• Falco helped a developer use rooms.json to check LiveKit transport status and confirmed expected_transport is the intended field for distinguishing LiveKit from mesh rooms, then shared a PR for granular camera and screen permissions.

• Nat diagnosed the upgrade dead-end caused by Voice plugin migrations conflicting with leftover Resenha plugin versions, and provided a SQL rename script for affected self-hosters.

• Nat proposed 9 to let sites disable anonymous search while preserving search for logged-in users, after Mcwumbly raised the anonymous-search griefing problem.

• Nat traced blank Ask AI responses to a 20-second request deadline being exceeded by a slow LLM response, advising Karthik_K1 to test with a faster provider.

• Martin opened a draft PR for more concise inline subcategory links with hover cards, then updated the thread after Mcwumbly suggested showing the full parent path only in the card.

• Martin fixed an issue in the unified New view topic list after it was announced.

• Martin confirmed a fix for recurring event weekday selection issues, with follow-up investigation planned by Davidb next week.

• Pmusaraj published the LiveKit integration guide, explaining how to configure voice_livekit_room_policy, webhooks, and recording settings step by step.

• Rishabh announced the Discourse Admin Assistant, describing its moderation actions, site setting changes, and hosting plan awareness for hosted admins.

Yesterday the forum learned that even GitHub can stumble, but with a little pitchfork wrangling and a fresh set of voice rooms, Discourse is still standing — and now it can talk about it too!

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Key Stats

In the last 24 hours, the community produced 106 new posts across 33 new topics, collecting 85 likes along the way. The top contributors by likes were:

• Ed_S — 9 likes, 5 posts
• Nicolsdennis — 8 likes, 3 posts
• Per1234 — 7 likes, 2 posts
• Lilly — 5 likes, 9 posts
• Moin — 5 likes, 3 posts
• Nat — 5 likes, 2 posts
• Falco — 5 likes, 1 post
• Jagster — 4 likes, 6 posts
• Ethsim2 — 3 likes, 11 posts
• Satonotdead — 3 likes, 6 posts

Interesting Topics

Support

Apidevlab shared a frustrating Hetzner VPS bootstrap failure after successful installs on Layer7, and Lilly, Ed_S, and Jagster all asked for the full error log, with Lilly noting that unsupported Podman installs will be hard to get help for. read more

In a more niche integration thread, Nicolsdennis explained how he exposed LiveKit status in a client app, building on earlier design comments from Pmusaraj and Falco. read more

General

Nicolsdennis showed off new native voice support in the “mesh” client and a companion app for live-streaming Discourse Voice conversations, complete with screenshots of the voice rooms and LiveKit integration. read more

#Community Building

Per1234 shared a ready-to-import Discourse Update Notifier workflow that automatically posts about new Discourse versions, giving members more transparency about UI changes. read more

In a more philosophical thread, Eisammy celebrated Discourse and the Fediverse as alternatives to attention-driven social media, hoping to still be communicating the same way in ten years. read more

#Feature

Emilio asked for a less painful way to permanently delete topics, and Ethsim2 delivered a full implementation: a per-admin opt-in setting that permanently deletes the topic and all replies, with the PR now ready for review. read more

Happyhappy received a helpful pointer from Heliosurge to the Category Restrictor plugin as a possible way to let category moderators manage user membership without full admin powers. read more

#Announcements

The new bundled Voice rooms continued to generate excitement, with Jagster finally figuring out that rooms are deleted from the settings tab rather than the forum GUI. read more

A discussion about end dates for recurring calendar events led MiniForum to a related feature request: adding recurrence to the per-topic calendar workflow, not just separate Events. read more

Thisisjoshjones asked whether the new email-code signup flow could also be used on the invitations landing page, calling it a big barrier-lowering improvement for communities. read more

bug

Ethsim2 opened a PR and shared a detailed screen recording showing how event date edits should update the topic title correctly.

Stephen reported that expanded markdown tables only allow one checkbox interaction after expansion, flagging the regression for Sam. read more

#Plugin

ProxyTracer announced a new beta with CAPTCHA challenges, independent clearance tokens, and visual analytics for blocking or challenging proxy and VPN traffic. read more

#Sysadmins

Simonk corrected the AWS SES setup guide, warning that raw message delivery must be disabled for SNS bounce notifications to pass Discourse’s validation checks. read more

development

NateDhaliwal asked how to preset a value for FormKit’s composer field, then discovered that using @data={{hash content=...}} on the <Form> component solves it. read more

Activity by the Team Group

Members of the Team group were active across a wide range of threads:

• Moin helped with a spam user attack thread by asking Ed_S about the moderators_view_ips and moderators_view_emails site settings, then pointed to the hard-coded 24-hour deletion limit in a separate feature request. He also clarified when Discourse Boards appears for self-hosted instances based on the 2026.9 development timeline.

• Martin confirmed that a fix for Discourse Events recurrence was already merged via PR #42852, and noted that hover cards for subcategory hashtags were next in Can we make inline links to subcategories more concise?.

• Mcwumbly supported the anonymous search control PR and confirmed that the old admin dashboard will disappear completely once the new dashboard is permanent in Introducing Upcoming Changes.

• Nat proposed and implemented a PR for allow_anonymous_search in Option to enable search for logged in users only?, and also helped diagnose blank Ask AI responses by pointing at timeout issues.

• Southpaw thanked HBP for a thorough report and confirmed that a fix is in the works for the check_username rate-limit signup regression.

• Falco shared a ready PR for granular permissions for cameras and screen sharing in Voice rooms.

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From fighting spam bots to making permanent deletion one click easier, the community came out swinging yesterday — just don’t ask us to delete this summary!