Our error log consists mostly of dozens of messages similar to this: Deprecation notice: SiteSetting.enable_personal_messages has been deprecated. Please use SiteSetting.personal_message_enabled_groups instead. (removal in Discourse 3.0) At /var/www/discourse/lib/site_setting_extension.rb:211:in p…

These notices are caused by plugins. They’re not going to go away, the plugins are going to stop working / break your install at some point in time instead. So you should find out which plugin is causing these notices and contact the plugin author and ask them to update the plugin.

I see. The only plugin I have is docker_manager. Wouldn’t disabling that be a bad idea?

:thinking: A theme component maybe? BTW I never recommended you to disable any plugin?

Maybe you started with an ancient version of Discourse and somehow on upgrades the old setting was never converted to the new. This is just a wild guess. What’s your value for personal message enabled groups?

We got this too: Deprecation notice: SiteSetting.secure_media has been deprecated. Please use SiteSetting.secure_uploads instead. (removal in Discourse 3.0) At /var/www/discourse/lib/site_setting_extension.rb:211:in public_send

I have lots of both of these warnings too (just checked!)

Thanks for clarify this :relaxed:

[image] Jonathan5: What’s your value for personal message enabled groups? trust_level_1 is the setting I see.

[image] Falco: Deprecation notices are for developers, so unless you are a developer there isn’t much for you to do with it. Yes but all I see in the Error Lo g is dozens or repetitions of these messages, and it’s very hard to find what I want. for example, mail bounce log items. I see I am n…

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Falco (Falco) January 8, 2023, 2:20pm 7

Deprecation notices are for developers, so unless you are a developer there isn’t much for you to do with it.

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