Cool! I might have to try this out. I too have a personal Discourse site that I use for all my notes. Mostly I just hid a couple things with css. I do like to see the reply count though, but probably don’t really need it. I also decreased the minimum title and body length. I think the one other thing I would like to get rid of is the blue popover if I paste a duplicate link or type about a similar topic.
Good call. I’ve been meaning to remove the composer popups as they drive me nuts. “Of course I haven’t let anyone else respond yet! No one else is here!”
I should also note that I’ve tweaked a number of settings to make it more conducive to a single person:
I turned off the badge system. - enable badges
Disallow public sign-ups - invite only
Remove anon access - login required
Let me post things however long I want - min post length, min first post length, and min topic title length
Turn off the not enough topics/posts notice - show create topics notice
Let me use as many emoji as I want - max emojis in title
I sometimes use similar titles in different categories/tags - allow duplicate topic titles
Don’t limit topic title - title max word length
I store a lot of code and I’m lazy - autohighlight all code
Let me upload whatever I want - authorized extensions
No need for digests - disable digest emails
Enable all oneboxing - enable inline onebox on all domains
I’m in this a lot so I want more backups - maximum backups to 10 and backup frequency to 1
Remove the bootstrap mode - bootstrap mode min users
Yes to tags - tagging enabled
I like tag boxes - tag style
I’ve also set up the mail-receiver so I can email into the thing as well.
I have actually! It’s a different instance that I built for a podcast I cohost. You can see it at club.bookworm.fm. Every email address runs through Discourse with the mail-receiver. We just create groups for user specific email addresses and shared emails. Works really well.
I was referring to forwarding an email (like from another mailing list) into Discourse in a way so that the email doesn’t get truncated. Is there a workaround for that, besides cut and paste the whole thing into a new topic (which doesn’t work well on mobile)?
In the v2.1 “forwarding long email chain” feature, I also have concerns that random people in that email suddenly get staged accounts. I should probably split this off into a new topic but it’s related here because I often want to forward an email into my project list that I keep in a category.
