# Dashboard advice regarding Patreon persists after issue is fixed
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** patreon, fixed, bug
**Created:** [November 27, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807 "2025-11-27T10:15:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@markschmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markschmucker)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807/1 "2025-11-27T10:15:13Z")
There was this advice on my dashboard:
## Some advice based on your current site settings
- Patreon Creator’s access and refresh token values are incorrect. You must copy-paste new tokens from [Patreon website](https://www.patreon.com/platform/documentation/clients) to [site settings](https://forum.example.com/admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=patreon).
So I followed the advice, and synched Patreon both manually (via the button in the plugin settings) and also by kicking the PatreonSyncPatronsToGroups job in sidekiq- both of those indicated success. But the advice remains.
It does give me the option to dismiss the advice. But shouldn’t the advice get updated to reflect the current status? Is it really fixed? I’ve done a hard refresh.
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### Author:  [@markschmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markschmucker)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807/2 "2025-12-15T09:22:24Z")
The sync to Patreon is working- I tested it. But the advice remains. I’ve dismissed the advice, but whatever triggered the advice in the first place should run periodically and auto-dismiss the advice.
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### Author:  [@Gunnar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gunnar)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807/3 "2026-08-04T21:18:04Z")
I have the same issue. I even created new Patreon tokens, but the warning still persists. Clicking “Refresh” on the warning in the Discourse Admin Dashboard does nothing.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807/4 "2026-08-04T21:52:53Z")
Thanks for the report! I can confirm the issue and we’re working on a fix — once this is :git_merged: merged it will be available on your next Discourse update
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> Reported here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-p…ersists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807/
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> A 401 response from the Patreon plugin permanently sets a dashboard warning that can not be cleared. This removes the message the next time the API has a successful response. The spec for this also couldn't fail, so that has been corrected.
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### Author:  [@ted](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ted)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807/5 "2026-08-05T02:40:40Z")
Hello, @Gunnar! :waving_hand:
> [@Gunnar](#):
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> Clicking “Refresh” on the warning in the Discourse Admin Dashboard does nothing.
Ah. Yes. The refresh button is a bit redundant. It is essentially the same as refreshing the whole page.
Are you also missing the Dismiss option on the notice itself, like OP reported? @awesomerobot’s change will make it so the notice is cleared the next time the call to Patreon succeeds, but the missing button sounds like another, separate issue.
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### Author:  [@Gunnar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gunnar)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-advice-regarding-patreon-persists-after-issue-is-fixed/389807/6 "2026-08-05T21:21:05Z")
Confirmed fixed! I rebuilt, and after that the notice went away from /admin without me having to do anything.
Thanks!