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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 117
  • New Topics: 12

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Support

UX

Installation

Feature

Bug

Theme Component

Plugin

  • Users discussed the status of the Discourse Basic Editor, with clarification that it’s not an official plugin.

accessibility

Community

  • An interesting discussion emerged about what makes users visit topics, including suggestions for improving topic titles and AI’s potential role.

seo

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 78
  • New Topics: 12

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Site feedback

  • tgustilo proposed an interesting Learner Mode feature to help new users understand Discourse functionality through tooltips and documentation links. The suggestion sparked discussion about continuous learning and onboarding approaches.

Support

UX

  • An accessibility improvement was suggested for ARIA announcements when navigating topic lists with keyboard shortcuts.

Feature

Installation

Theme

Bug

Community

General

#Hosting

Plugin

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 56
  • New Topics: 10

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Support

Bug

Installation

#Hosting

  • Query about free VPS options for running Discourse, with recommendations for credit-based hosting solutions.

Plugin

Theme

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 122
  • New Topics: 19

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Bug

UX

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Dev

Installation

Theme

Plugin

  • Updates to the Locations Plugin discussed, including potential improvements for map styling and user location fields.

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 88
  • New Topics: 15
  • Top Users:
    • Saif (14 likes, 5 posts)
    • Don (5 likes, 1 post)
    • hugh (5 likes, 2 posts)
    • Moin (5 likes, 3 posts)
    • ToddZ (4 likes, 3 posts)

Interesting Topics

Announcements

Feature

Support

#SITE MANAGEMENT

Plugin

  • merefield made several improvements to the Discourse Chatbot, including adding support for Chat Threads and fixing Forum Search functionality.

  • The ActivityPub Plugin discussion continued with clarification about version compatibility.

Bug

UX

Community

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • New Posts: 93
  • New Topics: 21
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Interesting Topics

Support

Feature

  • A new sidebar feature was announced with the addition of an Invite link to streamline the invitation process, as shared by tobiaseigen.

Bug

UX

  • An accessibility improvement was suggested for ARIA announcements when navigating topic lists with keyboard shortcuts.

Installation

Dev

#Site Feedback

Marketplace

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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  • New Posts: 121
  • New Topics: 17
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Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • lindsey announced a new feature allowing users to Watch chat threads, enabling notifications and reply tracking for important threaded conversations.

Support

Bug

Feature

UX

#SITE FEEDBACK

Community

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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Interesting Topics

Feature

UX

Announcements

  • The new invite link feature is now available in the sidebar, though some users reported receiving notifications before the update was live.

Support

Bug

Dev

Installation

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 66
  • New Topics: 9

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Support

UX

Installation

#SITE FEEDBACK

Feature

Community

domains

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 49
  • New Topics: 9

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Interesting Topics

Support

UX

Theme

  • Updates were made to the Discourse Central Theme, with users reporting compatibility issues with the latest version.

Plugin

Bug

Announcements

  • Ongoing discussion about the new /about page, with Richie and others providing feedback on missing statistics and public accessibility.

Activity by the @team Group

Lilly was particularly active:

tobiaseigen participated in:

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 111
  • New Topics: 17

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Interesting Topics

Announcements

Bug

Dev

Plugin

Support

UX

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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Interesting Topics

Theme component

  • awesomerobot released a new theme component to add groups to the /about page, allowing admins to showcase additional groups. Users have requested the ability to display group full names instead of slugs.

Community

Feature

Bug

Marketplace

Support

Data & reporting

#SELF-HOSTING

UX

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • Exciting news for Discourse AI features as Saif announced that AI Summarize is now available for Standard, Business, and Free tiers without requiring a 3rd party LLM provider. The feature can be enabled with one click from the What’s New section.

Support

  • TheBaby5 reported an issue with the Customize About Page feature where new text wasn’t properly replacing old content. After investigation by Osama and tobiaseigen, it was determined to be related to locale settings.

  • Jun raised a question about private topic safety, with itsbhanusharma explaining the differences between unlisted topics and truly private ones.

  • connrrr sought help with preventing unicode hearts from converting to emoji, with Lilly and Falco providing several alternative solutions.

  • Shauny asked about effectively banning users with SSO integration, seeking ways to prevent spam account recreation.

Bug

  • scog reported translation issues with Sam’s Simple Theme, which bryce confirmed has been fixed in the latest update.

  • jonasrosland identified an issue with the AI Summarize toggle not appearing for Business plan users, which keegan confirmed has been resolved.

Feature

Dev

Theme

Plugin

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 127
  • New Topics: 20

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Interesting Topics

Bug

  • Users reported an issue with S3 uploads where rebuilds are failing with a “Cannot set dual-stack” error. Don provided a temporary workaround by using an earlier commit.

  • The reply composer remains problematic on Firefox mobile, with users continuing to report issues on the latest stable version.

UX

Feature

Theme

Plugin

  • Updates to the Discourse Calendar plugin were discussed, with users requesting forced event creation in specific categories.

Installation

  • A user encountered update failures related to database migration issues, with pfaffman suggesting potential recovery approaches.

Support

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

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Interesting Topics

Bug

UX

Feature

Support

Dev

Installation

Activity by the @team Group

david was particularly active, providing fixes for multiple issues:

joffreyjaffeux implemented a fix for the chat escape character handling.

sam participated in discussions about:

martin resolved S3 endpoint issues with Minio integration.

keegan implemented a confirmation dialog for admin 2FA disable button.

saquetim fixed an issue with autolinking and doc sidebar.

nat confirmed a fix for development install failures.

danielle provided updates on the Designer Edition webinar recap.

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 68
  • New Topics: 10

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Dev

Support

Bug

UX

Installation

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 56
  • New Topics: 12

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Interesting Topics

Bug

  • A user reported an internal server error occurring when trying to delete toxic posts using the AI moderation system. The error appears when using both “Hide topic” and “Reject and delete post” options.

Feature

Support

Theme Component

Migration

  • warptrust shared CQtoDiscourse, a new migration tool for converting Confluence Questions content to Discourse format.

Marketplace

Plugin

  • Richie reported issues with the Locations plugin when attempting to change location providers in version 3.4.0.beta3-dev.

Activity by the @team Group

Lilly was particularly active today:

joffreyjaffeux contributed technical insight regarding markdown link rendering issues with double parentheses, explaining limitations in the underlying linkify library.

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 89
  • New Topics: 11

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Support

Bug

Dev

UX

Feature

Plugin

wordpress

Theme Component

Marketplace

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 110
  • New Topics: 17

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Bug

Support

Feature

UX

Theme Component

Activity by the @team Group

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Today on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 111
  • New Topics: 24

Top Contributors:

Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • Discourse has launched a new experiment enabling AI search with one click, following their previous one-click AI summarize feature

Bug

Dev

Feature

Plugin

Support

UX

Activity by the @team Group

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