Discourse 1.4 Released!

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

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This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: http://blog.discourse.org/2015/09/discourse-1-4-released/

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

As I mentioned in the blog post – special thanks to @tgxworld, @simon, @gwwar, and @gerhard who contributed a bunch of stuff to this release.

We will be reaching out to you directly to send you some goodies

[Cafeine]

Great news… But we were on the dev channel while finishing our new website and jumped right to 1.5 Beta1… Still no proper way to downgrade I guess? Are we in DANGER?

[watchmanmonitor (Allen Hancock)]

Discourse 1.4 represents some Huge Strides to making it the defacto mailing list replacement. I’m excited and encouraged by the development!

[riking (Kane York)]

There haven’t been any database migrations in the new version yet, so you’re safe to switch to the stable or beta channels right now.

[Cafeine]

ok, thanks a lot for the tips. I guess we can go back to stable to be safe. Any pointer I can give to my admin & my dev ? Last time I asked, my dev had no idea about how to do that.

[riking (Kane York)]

Look for the “version” parameter in the app.yml file.

[Cafeine]

Thanks again. I hope it will not break anything

[sebastianh (Rebastion)]

Yea great job! The changelog looks mighty impressive, lots of really good feature additions and fixes. I do like that teaser for guests especially, and the various minor tweaks and optimizations, it feels like a very round release all in all. Keep up the great work!

[laurakalbag]

I’m a little behind here, but thank you for the ability to style embedded sections!

I’ve made a few tiny tweaks to the embedded styles, and now our blog comments fit in perfectly with the rest of our site: https://ind.ie/blog/oh-wont-someone-think-of-the-children/index.html#discourse-comments

[JP_ (Justin Pierce)]

Is there a guide somewhere on how to do this? I didn’t even know this was possible!

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript

Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out Coding Horror’s blog. The blog is run via Ghost but the comments are embedded from his Discourse forum. One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we …

[badr]

Would it be possible for you guys to release the “dark theme” color codes like you show on the article?

[Steven]

You can find this here :

Coming soon to Meta DARKNESS

OK, we fixed a ton of dark bg CSS issues. Back to defaults for now. (any replies to this topic that were 100% addressed with our fixes were deleted, so we’d have a record of just remaining issues, not fixed things.) For posterity the darkness settings we used were [image]