I had topic excerpts working as desired — that is, they observed post_excerpt_maxlength in all cases. I first did this with a plugin (which worked), then learned about SiteSetting.always_include_topic_excerpts = true, so switched to that. Still worked. About two days ago, perhaps after applying 2.4…

[image] louquillio: Not sure if those are official Yes, those are official, but be sure that you’re not using a fork of some sort. Official plugins have a checkmark next to their names in the admin [pluginPage01] and are hosted under https://github.com/discourse/ I just tried both on the …

Another point is that it’s affecting only new topics. Older topics with longer excerpts still have them. Adding a post to such a topic doesn’t shorten the excerpt (unsurprising), but editing the first post does cause the excerpt to newly truncate at 50 chars. So while I haven’t looked (Discourse n…

The plugin you linked to has hard-coded 50: https://github.com/hnb-ku/discourse-topic-excerpt-plugin/blob/master/plugin.rb#L8 You can fork the plugin and put SiteSetting.post_excerpt_maxlength instead of 50, or @Johani can update it for you.

That plugin hasn’t been updated for almost two years now and it predates the addition of the always_include_topic_excerpts setting. You should not be using it at all. I’ve added a deprecation notice and will delete that repository in a week or so. Please remove that outdated plugin, enable the alwa…

[image] Johani: Please remove that outdated plugin, enable the always_include_topic_excerpts setting and report back if you still have the same problem. This seems to work. I had been thrown off because applying the plugin got me the (300 char) excerpts I wanted, where before I had none. I su…

Are these truly interchangeable today? rake posts:rebake bundle exec rake posts:rebake Because the first rake task completed without issue but didn’t regenerate the excerpts. Nevertheless, site was running. Then tried with be. This exited with: rake aborted! PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: Peer auth…

[image] louquillio: Are these truly interchangeable today? Yes, I just tried both $ cd /var/discourse $ ./launcher enter app $ bundle exec rake posts:rebake Rebaking post markdown for 'default' 297 / 297 (100.0%) 297 posts done! -------------------------------------------------- $ cd …

[image] Johani: This implies that you have other problems. Did you follow the supported installation guide when you set your site up? Yes. Installed exactly as stated in INSTALL-cloud.md Only difference is that it’s 19.04. Haven’t updated any gems manually or anything like that. Here’s the …

I can’t say for sure, but I think you might have two separate problems. Try the following to narrow this down a bit more. remove any non-official plugins rebuild the app try safe-mode and see if the app loads Are you seeing any errors in your browser console on the broken pages?

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Johani (Joe) September 9, 2019, 11:22pm 7

You’ll need to rebake the posts in order for the them to follow the new limit. More on that here.

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