I’ve worked on censoring the most vulgar swear words with regular expressions today. Why regexes? Well, in Finnish and other Uralic languages like Hungarian and Estonian words are inflected. A single swear word could have maybe thousands of mutations, which is why it is awesome to have the ability t…

Discourse Regexes (Watched Words) :mega: To use regular expressions (regex) in watched words you must first turn on the watched words regular expressions site setting. Discourse by default matches all uppercase and lowercase forms of a word entered as a regular expression. That is, thread Thi…

How to use Discourse regexes with watched words?

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Mittineague (Mittineague) April 25, 2017, 12:29am 4

AFAIK, Ruby and Postgres support POSiX

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How to use Discourse regexes with watched words?

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