Hi, We are trying to replace the default Topic term with Question. In the admin settings, I see we can customize any of the text on the forum, but there are too many item contains the term topic. Is there a way to batch find and replace?

Could you create a “Questions” category and install this plugin to use for those topics? [image] Discourse Solved Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Solved lets topic authors and staff members mark a reply as the topic’s solution. open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. While Discourse Solved can be used in a variety of use cases, this documentation is focused on the primary use case of a support or Q&A category. discourse2 Note: Discourse Solved is not available on the Free plan. Setting up a support cat…

[image] j3ang: but there are too many item contains the term topic. That’s why it’s probably not a good idea. You can look at https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/config/locales/client.en.yml to see all of them, so you could then fix them in the ux but the name of the thing you want to customize. You might do it in a plugin if you’re self hosted, or maybe contrive to do it with the API. But maybe your users won’t be confused by the word topic and you can avoid doing that.

yes, we are self-hosted. How do you suggest we write in the plugin? Should I just overwrite the locale?

I’m not sure if you can just include the things you want to override on the plugin’s locale it if you’d need to explicitly overwrite them.

Why would you want to do this? Like Jay says it is really not recommended.

Makes sense for a Q&A based forum …?

It might, but I think that there are hundreds of sites that are primarily question/answer that haven’t done that. And you’re not going to have any topics anywhere that aren’t questions? There are 652 occurrences of topic in the locale, but close to half are likely in the names of the strings. And what are you doing to do about “Private Topics”. And then how are you going to explain the path of questions being /t/-/123? But I quickly added a locale to a plugin and it did override core in a quick test on my development system, so technically, it’s pretty simple.

[image] pfaffman: It might, but Always a good start .. :wink: [image] pfaffman: it’s pretty simple Hundreds of Q&A forums will love you. [image] pfaffman: And then how are you going to explain the path of questions being /t/-/123 ? 2 days in the ‘sin bin’ for asking Admin awkward questions or I could link to this topic/question. I was hoping “question” translated to a word beginning with ‘T’ in one world language … but no … [Anthony Anderson Abc GIF by HULU] Question in Different Languages. Translate, Listen, and Learn Explore our list for saying question in different languages. Learn 100+ ways to say question in other languages, expand your skills and connect across cultures.

[image] geoff777: Hundreds of Q&A forums will love you. Well, if even one of them wants to love me with money I’ll create the plugin. :slight_smile: Too bad there isn’t a question word that starts with t. :crying_cat_face:

[image] pfaffman: Well, if even one of them wants to love me with money I’ll create the plugin. :slight_smile: [michael torpey money GIF by paidoff]

[image] pfaffman: And then how are you going to explain the path of questions being /t/-/123 ? That’s easy one. There is no need to explain, because mostly nobody sees or cares what is URL. I don’t see URL of this topic :wink: All others, especially the money, are much harder ones :rofl: (Actually no one cares if it is topic instead question)

How to replace the discourse `Topic` with `Question` instead?

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jordan.vidrine (Jordan Vidrine) March 22, 2022, 10:26pm 18

I think that might be confusing to your users.

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